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One Track Mind: The Low Anthem, "This God Damn House" (2007)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski I have attempted to describe this before (and I even referred to it in a recent preview of The Low Anthem's Smart Flesh), but the sensation is a difficult one to get at. Without any sort of documentation, the best I've ever been able to come up with is having an out of body experience. I've also heard it described as “forgetting who you are." That's getting closer. So yesterday I stumbled onto a video of the ...
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"Trust": New CD from Bassist/Composer Sean Smith's Quartet Due March 1
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Jazz bassist/composer Sean Smith makes a welcome return to recording with Trust—his third album as a leader, his first since 2001, and the debut release for his own imprint, Smithereen Records. Smith's swinging, finely attuned quartet, which consists of guitarist John Hart, saxophonist John Ellis, and drummer Russell Meissner, is dedicated to exploring Smith's original compositions. “Trust is such a big part of what we do," Smith says. “I trust that these guys are going to interpret my pieces without ...
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Pianist Roberta Piket releases "Sides, Colors" on Thirteenth Note Records
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Michael Ricci
Thirteenth Note Records is pleased to announce the March 2011 release of pianist Roberta Piket's seventh CD. On Sides, Colors, Roberta's intriguing arrangements enhance the piano trio with strings, reeds, brass, percussion and organ. As Piket says, I wanted to maintain the intimacy of the trio. At the same time I love the colors and textures that the other instruments add. While Sides, Colors is not just another piano trio album, it is the trio of Roberta, bassist Johannes Weidenmueller ...
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"Things Are Getting Better", New CD by Luther Hughes & the Cannonball-Coltrane Project
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
"It all started as I was sitting around one day listening to The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, a landmark album recorded in 1959. This album was the only time Cannonball and Coltrane appeared together on record other than their work with Miles Davis. As I was listening to this album I thought it might be fun to re-create and perform the original arrangements. While I was mulling over this idea, two dear friends came to mind—Glenn Cashman and Bruce ...
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Bay Area Vocalist Mary Jenson Releases Second Album “Beyond”
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Sheryl Lynn Thomas
"Beyond" is a beautiful contemporary jazz recording. Mary Jenson has a winner that's sure to please all vocal jazz lovers." —Wayne Wallace, Arranger, composer, musician “ Gorgeous and inspirational east-west jazz blend...pure enjoyment!!!" —Shambhu “I knew this was a serious jazz singer who had something to sing about." —L. Pierce Carson, Napa Valley Register Born on an Air Force base in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mary Jenson is the 6th of 8 children. Her childhood as a military brat was a nomadic ...
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Inside Silence, New Album by Wahid (Dimitris Mahlis (Oud) and Chris Wabich (Frame Drums) Released
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
WAHID is the duo of Dimitris Mahlis (oud) and Chris Wabich (frame drums). WAHID (meaning “one") is a new union of instruments and music from the East and West. The primary instruments for WAHID are oud and frame drums, each of which has an ancient history, as found on clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. A duo combination of oud and frames has never been explored or codified, even though the two instruments have complimented each other in classical ensembles for ...
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Sean Sullivan breaks onto the scene with "Square One"
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Andy Beam
New York local Sean Sullivan doesn't believe in limitations. Mastering the genres of blues, folk, jazz, latin and swing Sean Sullivan has befriended and worked with some of the greatest musicians around such as Jon Hendricks of the jazz trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, tenor sax legend David “Fathead" Newman, and late pianist/singer Teri Thornton. The list goes on and on to include Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, Oscar Brown Jr., and Abbey Lincoln and many more. Those great ...
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Short Takes
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Matt Blostein/Vinnie Sperrazza Band—Paraphrase (Yeah-Yeah, 2011) This is an interesting young quartet with a lineup of Blostein on alto saxophone, Sperrazza on drums, Jacob Garchick on trombone and Geoff Kraly on electric bass. The rather unique setting gets an interesting sound with the saxophone and trombone on the front line without piano or guitar to support them. Kraly's electric bass does that duty along with locking in with the drums to keep the beat moving. The up-tempo tracks like “One ...
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