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Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'In Session' in Top 5 Billboard Blues Catalog Chart, to be Carried at Starbucks February 15
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conqueroo
Seen nationwide as a PBS special, CD/DVD combo reaps critical praise LOS ANGELES, Calif.—If blues legends Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan were still alive, they'd be blown away by the reaction to their 28-year-old live collaboration. The 1983 performance, shot in Hamilton, Ontario for the TV series In Session, has sold an astounding 360,000 units as both an audio CD and combined CD/DVD, according to Nielson Soundscan. The deluxe CD/DVD twofer, released on November 9, 2010 on Stax Records ...
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Jeremy Pelt - The Talented Mr. Pelt (High Note, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has established himself as one of the go-to musicians on trumpet and flugelhorn in the modern mainstream jazz scene. His yearly albums from the High Note label are postcards of classy hard bop played with great facility and style. On this album he is accompanied by J.D. Allen on tenor saxophone, Danny Grissett on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. They take off at a medium tempo on the opening “Pandora's Box" echoing ...
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Adele - 21 (2011)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Adele is one of those things that I should like more than I actually do. See, she's got the chops. Just not the material. So, pairing her with Rick Rubin seemed like a canny idea. I'm still trying to find her Johnny Cash moment, though. “Rolling in the Deep," the opener and lead single, had me going at first. Adele's sultry croak is matched with a moonshine-swilling country-blues stomp, and she positively glows in this new light. ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: The Black Keys - Brothers (2010)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski I have no doubt that a lot of Bob Dylan fans will be incensed at what I'm about to admit, but here we go: if you don't count his first Greatest Hits collection (which I inherited from my sister), the first Dylan album I bought was At Budokan. My “has to be heavy" phase surely had a lot to do with this. Dylan brings his own kind of heavy, but for a long time, it just wasn't ...
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Pearl Jam: Vs. and Vitalogy Deluxe Reissues out 3/29
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JamBase
PEARL JAM'S CLASSIC ALBUMS VS. AND VITALOGY TO BE RELEASED IN NEWLY- RESTORED AND EXPANDED EDITIONS ON TUESDAY, MARCH 29 Epic Records and Legacy Recordings celebrate Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary with the release of newly restored and expanded editions of Vs. and Vitalogy, the second and third albums from Pearl Jam which broke all initial SoundScan records and secured the band's reputation as a preeminent force in American rock music. Vs. and Vitalogy will be available in new Expanded Editions ...
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Red Garland and Lockjaw Davis
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Some jazz contemporaries were perfect for each other but never recorded. Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, for example, in the early '50s. Or Art Tatum and Benny Goodman in the '40s. In other cases, some dynamic duos did wind up in a studio together—but strangely didn't record nearly enough. One prime example is Red Garland [pictured] and Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis. The tender blues pianist and tough tenor were paired only once—on an album called Moodsville, Vol. 1, recorded for Prestige ...
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Tommy Guerrero Releases "Lifeboats & Follies," San Francisco Release Party February 5
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Press Junkie PR
Tommy Guerrero's Lifeboats & Follies out now on Galaxia Records; San Francisco Release Party February 5 at Cafe du Nord Raised on the colorful and gritty streets of San Francisco and steeped in the dark brew formed by the perfect cultural storm where skateboarding, music and art smashed right into each other, Tommy Guerrero was destined for greatness of the soulful sort. Adapting to his hilly local environs with speed and style, TG was a bonafied pioneer of modern street ...
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Delmark Records New Jazz and Blues Releases for 2011
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Kevin Johnson
Magic Sam: West Side Soul (Delmark DE 615) One of the greatest blues albums of all time, West Side Soul was chosen by Living Blues magazine as one of it's top ten Desert Island Blues Discs. The new Digipak case contains previously unissued photos and 1960's pluggers (promoting west side gigs) from the private collection of Bill Lindemann. The source material for the CD is the original 1967 analog stereo mix by Stu Black who recorded many of Delmark's classic ...
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