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Celebrating 66 Years of Jamaica's Reggae King Bob Marley
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JamaicaMusic Offbeat
Bob Marley was the Third World's first pop superstar. He was the man who introduced the world to the mystic power of reggae. He was a true rocker at heart, and as a songwriter, he brought the lyrical force of Bob Dylan, the personal charisma of John Lennon, and the essential vocal stylings of Smokey Robinson into one voice.— says Jann Wenner, at Marley's 1994 posthumous introduction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1999 Time magazine chose ...
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Greta Panettieri - Brazilian Nigths Live at Zinc Bar
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Michael Ricci
Brazilian Nights Live at Zinc Bar is the result of over a year collaboration with legendary Brazilian pianist Cidinho Teixeira, bassist Itaiguara Brandao, drummer Mauricio Zottarelli and vocalist Greta Panettieri. With every show the idea of making a record grew stronger in the band till it finally came to life. This album is a comp of three magical shows that took place at Zinc Bar in the core of NYC West Village. The repertoire ranges from classic Brazilian hits like ...
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Koby Hayon Trio - Gemini (Kobyhahonmusic, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Guitarist Koby Hayon is another of the many excellent musicians to emerge from Israel over the past decade. This album shows him in a modern jazz guitar trio setting, performing with Kermit Driscoll on bass and Jerome Morris on drums. Although Driscoll is one of Bill Frisell's regular collaborators, Hayon has developed his own sound that shows knowledge of past masters while developing his own voice on both electric and acoustic guitars. The trio plays together with great cohesion, with ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Don't Ask - Nothing (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Seattle-based folk-rockers Don't Ask have a fondness for the comfy sounds of 1970s pop, though they are careful not to get too caught up in nostalgia. They simply use that era's singer-songwriter-inspired prose, its soaring symphonic pop structure and its feel-good ethos as a springboard. In fact, the album-closing “My Memories" might have made a better title track, since its writerly notions of rebirth through fond backward glances so perfectly fit the tone of Nothing. Chicago-born Todd ...
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One Track Mind: John Coltrane, "Like Sonny" (1961)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso “Like Sonny," reportedly based on an element of a Sonny Rollins solo—perhaps during “My Old Flame," from Kenny Dorham's 1957 Jazz Contrasts record?—illustrates the remarkable attention to detail that still makes John Coltrane's music not just interesting but important. He wasn't a stylist, or someone attempting to mimic someone else. Coltrane was trying to make his own way, to construct his own sound. He did it, at least at first, by incorporating elements of key mentors (like ...
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"VIA" - the new recording by the Storms/Nocturnes Trio: Tim Garland, Geoffrey Keezer, Joe Locke
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Nadja von Massow
With VIA the third album by the Storms/Nocturnes Trio, celebrated British saxophonist Tim Garland, world leading vibraphone virtuoso Joe Locke and recent Grammy nominee, pianist Geoffrey Keezer, create a unique three way dialogue of captivating, immersive music. This enduring international alliance of three jazz giants is celebrating its tenth anniversary with this album, released on Seattle-based Origin Records on April 19th 2011. After two successful recordings—Storms/Nocturnes (2001) and Rising Tide (2003, both Sirocco Music)—and a gap of seven years busy ...
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Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Brothers, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Iron & Wine, originally a pseudonym for singer songwriter Sam Beam began as a solo project for guitar and voice and Beam's spectral and haunting songs. Over the years it has grown into a full band, and this years album features a full rock 'n' roll ensemble that help flesh out the music but still never get in the way of the narrative energy of the songs. There is sort of a time warp feeling here, as if one were ...
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Peter Hum - A Boy's Journey (2010)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron Peter Hum is, in a few ways, like me. We're a couple of middle-aged guys who both love jazz, love to write about jazz and critique jazz records, and post our reviews on the internet. I've been an admirer of Hum's jazz blog of the online version of the Ottawa Citizen for several years, now. He not only reviews jazz records, but manages to come up with interesting topics about jazz: one of my favorites was ...
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