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Crowdfunding: Allison Tartalia - Sweet and Vicious EP (2011)
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Photo by Vicki BlankenshipBy Mark Saleski The phenomenon of crowdfunding is not entirely new, but it appears to be gaining momentum. I first became aware of it a few years ago when jazz artists such as Cuong Vu, Jim Hall, and Maria Schneider created projects through artistShare. The concept is quite simple: the musician needs funding to bring a musical vision to completion, the fan wants to become a part of this process. An intermediary facilitates this connect, where the ...
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Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues (2011)
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By Nick DeRiso You can't fault Gregg Allman his nostalgia on Low Country Blues. Legendarily restless, he's still a man, and the leader of a band, that's been through a great deal. Just as importantly, this record's hat-tips to blues, R&B, gospel and jazz only underscore how each provided uniquely American spices in the Allman Brothers Band's bubbling Southern-rock synthesis. Still, listening to Allman's first solo outing since 1997's Searching for Simplicity, you're stuck by how much Low Country Blues ...
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Melvin Gibbs' latest free download highlights Afro-Cuban song and rhythm
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Melvin Gibbs
Melvin Gibbs' free music series Phree-dem Downloads enters its ninth and penultimate week with a composition based around the singing and rhythm of the Lukumi of Cuba. “Talkin' to the Queen" features John Medeski, Graham Haynes and Alex Harding performing live with Melvin Gibbs' Liberation Theology band. This track is built around a traditional song for the African spiritual entities known as Orishas performed by a three person group featuring Alex Rodriguez on lead vocals.This song also includes Felix Sanabria ...
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Jane Ira Bloom - Wingwalker (2011)
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By Pico In preparing to assess Jane Ira Bloom's brand new CD Wingwalker, I pulled out the prior one, the excellent Mental Weather from 2008. The striking comparison between the two became obvious before I even pulled the CD from the sleeve; I quickly noticed that both of the CD covers featured Bloom performing in motion, the photos both blurred to illustrate her soprano sax moving from side to side. It makes several statements about this artist: one, she moves ...
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Listen up Preview: Big Head Blues Club, Featuring B.B. King, "Crossroads Blues" (2010)
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By Nick DeRiso Robert Johnson's “Crossroads Blues" remains one of the most terrifying, wonder-filled songs, even if you don't know the oft-told tale of how the doomed Mississippi bluesman became so proficient so quickly at playing his guitar. It's one of the reasons that, despite the brevity of his time on this earth—born about 1910 and dead by 1938, likely poisoned by a lover's jealous mate after recording just 29 tunes—Johnson is still a touchstone for artists as diverse as ...
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Joe Taylor, Sean O'Bryan Smith, Tony "Thunder" Smith collaborate on new jazz project
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Sean O'Bryan Smith
Moonwatcher Music Announces Taylor, Smith, and Thunder New York based Independent label Moonwatcher Music is proud to announce the collaboration of Taylor, Smith, and Thunder. The trio consists of Grammy nominated guitarist/producer Joe Taylor, Internationally acclaimed bassist/solo artist Sean O'Bryan Smith, and the legendary drummer Tony “Thunder" Smith,. Taylor, Smith, and Thunder will be compiling their decades of experience and virtuosity for a contemporary jazz release sure to be tentatively released later in 2011. With each members extensive background working ...
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World Saxophone Quartet - Yes We Can (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Entering their fourth decade as a progressive musical force, the WSQ present a very exciting live album recorded in March of 2009 in Berlin. Hamiet Bluiett on baritone sax and clarinet and David Murray on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet are the only holdovers from the original lineup, but they are more than ably joined by Kidd Jordan on alto saxophone and James Carter on tenor and soprano saxophones. High energy excitement is the order of the day here, inspired ...
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