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Recent Listening: Russell Malone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Russell Malone, Triple Play (MaxJazz). The warmth, conversational phrasing and lack of hurry in Malone's guitar work find space and congeniality in the spare background of David Wong's bass and Montez Coleman's drums. In the absence of another chording instrument to collaborate or contend with, Malone is free to make harmonic choices without concern for clash or collision. As the guitarist observes in his liner comments, Wong abets him with “great notes...""good time" and taste. Coleman's snare drum accents and ...
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Swedish Prog Legends PR Lindh Project Featuring Starcastle Vocalist Release New CD
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Sweden—For those in the progressive rock community Pr Lindh is considered a keyboard wizard so much so that he was chosen to play keys for the reunion of the legendary Nice (a prestigious position only held by keyboard visionary Keith Emerson) With the release of several highly acclaimed albums, the Pr Lindh Project band has garnered worldwide acclaim. After original lead vocalist Magdalena Hagberg sadly passed away in 2007, and a subsequent hiatus by the band, Pr felt the time ...
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Gimme Five: King Crimson's Adrian Belew
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso His credentials are as deep as his records are extraordinary: Adrian Belew, after all, has had stints with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, the Talking Heads, King Crimson and Nine Inch Nails. But, try as he might with pop outfits like the Bears, Belew—bless him—has never swerved out into the mainstream. His impulses are too idiosyncratic, his guitar experiments too eccentric, his voice sometimes unearthly peculiar. There have been, no surprise, a series of missteps, false starts, things ...
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Gimme Five: Favorites, Forgotten Gems from Peter Gabriel
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Something Else!
By Something Else Reviews Anybody who names his first four solo recordings after himself is going to require some deciphering, right? We're here to help with a five-song spin through Peter Gabriel's solo career, featuring both charting favorites and a few forgotten gems. “HERE COMES THE FLOOD" (PETER GABRIEL 1/CAR, 1977) By Tom Johnson With Gabriel's first solo album, “Here Comes the Flood" arrived bearing the weight of a full band, then shed most of the instrumentation for another appearance ...
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Paul Simon: New Album
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JamBase
SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT OUT APRIL 12 Paul Simon will release his new record, So Beautiful or So What, on April 12, 2011 via Concord Music Group. The release marks his first album of new material since 2006's Surprise. Check out the video for “Getting Ready for Christmas Day" below, and click here to listen to “The Afterlife." So Beautiful or So What Track List:Getting Ready For Christmas Day 4:06The Afterlife 3:40Dazzling Blue 4:32Rewrite 3:49Love and Hard Times 4:09Love ...
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Pianist/Composer Soren Moller Releases New CD "Christian X Variations" on Audial Records.
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Two for the Show Media
Some jazz musicians do one thing well, but that one thing is all that they do. Not Soren Moller. Flexibility is the driving force that motivates this Danish-born pianist-composer to continually explore. Moller is as comfortable playing his original compositions in a duo or quartet configuration as he is interpreting the work of Miles Davis or Rachmaninoff in a trio format or leading a big band. Nor does Moller believe in surrounding himself solely with collaborators who share similar backgrounds ...
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Acclaimed U.K. harpist Ruby Paul releases '70s-styled album of coffeehouse jazz and folk
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Lauren Rogers
Ruby Paul is a harpist with an angel's voice. Based in Yorkshire, England, Paul is a classically trained professional harpist but her latest album, Forbidden Fruit, is firmly planted in another genre. Paul's tender vocal delivery, often compared to that of the late Karen Carpenter, is perfectly suited for the album's soothing blend of coffeehouse jazz and acoustic folk. On Leon Russell's “This Masquerade," Paul doesn't attempt to cop George Benson's soulful rendition, possibly the most well-known version of the ...
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Secret Stash Records to Release "Peña 2" February 22
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Press Junkie PR
Minneapolis based musician/producer Cory Wong is on a mission to spread the music of Peru's coast as far and wide as possible. Last April, he traveled to Lima and assembled an ensemble to help document Afro-Peruvian music. The group was called Peña (a meeting place or grouping of artists/musicians) and their first album was released in October '10 on Wong's Secret Stash Records imprint. The self-titled effort was a collection of 17 tracks that eloquently displayed the different styles within ...
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