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Corinne Bailey Rae - The Love EP (2011)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Corinne Bailey Rae isn't the same singer, maybe isn't even the same person, that she was at the time of her celebrated 2007 debut. Three Grammy nominations, including one for best new artist, couldn't shield her from this world's knifing truths: Her husband, 31-year-old saxophonist Jason Rae, would be dead of an overdose just a year later. But whereas Bailey Rae's most recent longplayer, The Sea, was framed as a catharsis in the wake of that shattering ...
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John Williams or John Williams?
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
An old bit of confusion revived for a time this week when Mosaic Records announced a Stan Getz box set to be issued next spring. The electronic news release about the 1950s Getz quintet recordings for Norman Granz's Norgran label mentioned Getz, Bob Brookmeyer and “pianist Johnny Williams (who later became film composer John Williams)." After several people hopped on the web with corrections, Mosaic commander-in-chief Michael Cuscuna explained, “Earlier version of the write-up got pasted in by mistake." Mosaic ...
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"Global Kiss" by Contemporary Guitarist/Vocalist Steve Oliver A Top Favorite on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Chart
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Los Angeles—The timeless compositions and sultry sounds of Contemporary Guitarist/Vocalist Steve Oliver rise to the top once again with his new single release “Global Kiss" as it currently hails the No.1 most added song on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Chart. Oliver's sparkling guitar signature style commands immediate responsiveness that takes you on a musical journey offering pure mixes of global tone effects that speak volumes to its' well deserved song title. “Global Kiss" delivers that creative, energetic, thick rhythm and ...
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Funky Musical Family CD Lets Kids Groove And Learn About Instruments; Features Top L.A. Musicians
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Beth Blenz-Clucas
Los Angeles—It's old school meets new school on the get-down CD from Groove Kid Nation: The Wheels on the Bus. Aimed at young children who like a groove thing, and adults who want a little funk in their lives, this is music meant to get everyone moving and thinking about music. It's multi-dimensional, multi-racial music for the whole family. Groove Kid Nation is the brainchild of Los Angeles based keyboardist Rodney Lee, who has more than 20 years of experience ...
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Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Blue Note, 1964)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Like a hothouse orchid, trumpeter Lee Morgan reveled in the competitive Philadelphia jazz scene of the 1940's and 50's developing a prodigious talent that saw him hitting the road professionally at a mere eighteen years of age. Morgan's career had some down points and an undeniably tragic end, but when he was on and in sympathetic company he stood shoulder to shoulder with Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Booker Little and the rest of the trumpeters that were evolving out of ...
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Nathaniel Smith - Nathaniel Smith Quartet (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico Missoula, Montana's own Nathaniel Smith career as a jazz drummer and composer took him from a mountain valley in the Rockies eastward to Appleton, Wisconsin's Lawrence University (where Smith got to perform with the visiting Dave Holland and Maria Schneider), briefly west to San Francisco to study with percussionist Michael Spiro, and finally to New York City, where he undertook his graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music. Though Smith later got to work with luminaries like ...
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One Track Mind: Mavis Staples, "Last Train" (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Over the course of a remarkable career, both with her family band the Staple Singers and as a solo artist, gospel-soul icon Mavis Staples has bravely explored the frustrations, sorrows and then joys of the African-American freedom fight. But, lest we forget, she can still rock it. “Last Train," from Staples' most recent album, proves the point. The song (originally the opener on Allen Toussaint's signature 1975 recording Southern Nights) is part of a diverse mixture of ...
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UMG to Release out-of-Print CDs Via Createspace
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Universal Music Group has partnered with CreateSpace, an Amazon.com company, to release classic out-of-print CDs using their disc on demand service. Titles featured will be recordings by artists such as B.B. King, Loretta Lynn, Patti LaBelle, Judy Garland, the Mamas & the Papas, Louis Armstrong, and Chuck Berry. Now, all four major labels are now using CreateSpace to make their catalogs available. This allows them to bring their content to market with little risk. Soon, over 3,000 UMG titles will be made ...
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