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Derek & the Dominos’ "Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs" Turns 40
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Chris M. Slawecki
Derek & the Dominos' Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs Turns 40! One of Eric Clapton's Defining Albums Marks its 40th Anniversary on March 29th with Deluxe Multi-format Edition Featuring New and Long-Unavailable Music and Never-Seen Photos In the world of rock there are recordings that truly resonate in historical importance and continue to cast an enduring shadow of influence. Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs is one of the most steadfastly revered musical treasures of its era. Its famous ...
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Pianist Monika Herzig Invites You on a Journey with New CD/DVD Release “Come with Me”
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Cheryl Hughey Promotions
Indianapolis, IN—Pianist Monika Herzig will present her second Owl Studios release entitled “Come with Me" in March 2011. The CD/DVD combo reflects a unique partnership between musicians, the Owl Studios label and award-winning documentary filmmaker Susanne Schwibs. The journey comes to life with a 30-minute documentary that includes a variety of visuals, concert footage, and interviews, as well as special features of live performances. In addition the package includes a full-length CD with originals as well as unique arrangements of ...
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Generation Bass Presents "Transnational Dubstep"
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Press Junkie PR
Transnational Dubstep is the first major compilation to document the fusion of dubstep and global roots music. It has been conceptualized & compiled by co-owner/editor & the driving force behind the Generation Bass blog, DJ Umb in cooperation with Six Degrees Records. The record pulls together some of the most exciting new producers in electronic music who are incorporating sounds from around the planet with the bass bin shaking thump of dubstep. By utilizing influences from Cumbia to Balkan—Chinese to ...
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Dave Grusin "A Dry White Season"
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
More than twenty years following the release of the 1989 film A Dry White Season and on the 21st anniversary of the release of political prisoner Nelson Mandela—which signaled the end of South African Apartheid—the film-music specialists, Kritzerland, have issued the first-ever soundtrack to the riveting 1989 film that starred Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon and Marlon Brando (in a terrifically understated performance that was his first film appearance since 1980's The Formula). This film, along with many musical outpourings from ...
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Led Bib - Bring Your Own (Cuneiform, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Led Bib is an exciting London based quintet made up of Mark Holub on drums, Pete Grogan on alto saxophone, Chris Williams on alto saxophone, Liran Donin on bass and Toby McLaren on keyboards. They play an agile brand of music that is a mixture of jazz, fusion and progressive rock that is never pretentious, but fun and exciting to listen to. This band's forward looking mix of jazz and rock 'n' roll makes it unsurprising that they were nominated ...
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Gimme Five: Favorites from 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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One Track Mind: Shawn Bell Quintet, "Requiem for Lovers" (2010)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron The young trombonist Shawn Bell didn't attend one of those big name prestigious music schools in the Northeast, nor is a player in the hustle and bustle of New York City's intense jazz scene, but just listen to his debut album from last year Things Yet Unknown and you could easily be fooled into thinking so. Likewise, he didn't make an album full of golden jazz standards—-only two of the seven cuts are covers—-but again, Bell ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Pablo Embon - Second Chances (2011)
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Something Else!
From Pablo Embon's MySpace pageBy Nick DeRiso Experimental, yet very approachable, Argentina-born Pablo Embon's Second Chances is an ear-friendly blend of the best elements of straight-ahead jazz, classical, fusion and free jazz forms. That means thrilling runs on the acoustic piano, skidding throwback synthesizer, interesting polyrhythms and gutsy turns on the saxophone, often all within the confines of one track. Take “Off the Edge," a rambunctious jazz experiment that plays in layered contrast. On the one hand, there are these ...
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