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Amy London Set To Soar with "Let's Fly"
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Vocalist's Second Motèma Music CD Drops Today, 1 -11 11 Let's Fly, the much anticipated follow-up to Amy London's acclaimed 2008 Motéma debut, When I Look in Your Eyes, is a swinging and sensual affair, replete with jazz and Brazilian standards, tasty re-imaginings of songs by Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro, and rare gems by bop legends Charles Mingus and Elmo Hope. London's considerable talents, developed through her many years as a first-call New York City jazz, Broadway and big ...
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Just Jazz!
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
Like many “lost" jazz albums, there is a convoluted story behind this album. But the result, certainly as presented on this Jazz Beat CD, is worth the telling. The Audio Fidelity label had helped revolutionize stereophonic recordings in 1957. By April 1962, the label commissioned the great Benny Golson, who was then at the helm of The Jazztet with Art Farmer, to arrange a recording combining a jazz group playing jazz standards, counteracted with strings and horns playing “pop" versions ...
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Rock 'N' Roll Roundup
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Music and More by Tim Niland
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion—Dirty Shirt Rock 'n' Roll (Shout Factory, 2010) The Explosion isn't a blues band per se, but an indie/punk rock band steeped in the blues and other American roots music. This compilation covers their records released in the preceding ten years, a fascinating combination of snarling punk like the live version of “F—- S—- Up"which shows the dynamism of their live shows. Blasting rock 'n' roll is also the order of the day with the up-tempo ...
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The Dave Liebman Group - Turnaround, the Music of Ornette Coleman (2010)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Harmolodics. It's not difficult to find decently-written descriptions of Ornette Coleman's musical philosophy. A general understanding of his concept can lead the listener to a deeper appreciation of the music. I thought I understood what Ornette was getting at...until having the opportunity to see him play live in Boston after the release of Tone Dialing. There were times during that show when I was absolutely certain that the group had completely lost track of what they were ...
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Scanner and the Post Modern Jazz Quartet - Blink of an Eye
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski The area of electro-acoustic music encompasses so many different sounds and constructions that the label itself is nearly meaningless. As the name implies, it is music created with both acoustic and electronic instruments. On my list of favorites are the Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum collaboration featuring synthesizers and contrabass clarinet, and Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting In A Room. This pairing is instructive if only to illustrate that the two musics sound nothing like each other. The first ...
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One Track Mind: Gregg Allman, "I Can't Be Satisfied" (2011)
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Something Else!
By Pico I know no one will believe it, but a couple of weeks ago I heard Muddy Waters' 1948 classic recording of his first hit “I Can't Be Satisfied" for the first time in a while and decided then and there that it needed the One Track Mind treatment. Really, I was going to do it. That is, until I heard Gregg Allman's cover of it on his upcoming new record, Low Country Blues, slated for release January 18. ...
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Marty Sheller and Joe Magnarelli
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The history of the jazz trumpet backed by strings probably dates back to Louis Armstrong and the Song of the Islands in 1930. But in those days, strings meant a clutch of violins that sounded more like fiddles than an orchestral backdrop. Harry James began including a full string section starting in 1941, but the effect was more drama and movie soundtrack than hip accompaniment. Bebop musicians avoided longhair strings until Charlie Parker's Just Friends and April in Paris became ...
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Frank Sinatra: Best of Vegas Showcases Brilliant Live Performances Along the Strip by the Chairman of the Board
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conqueroo
Fourteen-song collection available February 15, 2011 from Concord Records LOS ANGELES, Calif. —In the span of a few years, Las Vegas refueled Frank Sinatra's career and Sinatra in turn became the lead figure in the city's ascendance. It was a synergistic relationship that has since become legendary in the annals of 20th century entertainment. Some of the finest moments in that legendary symbiosis are captured in Frank Sinatra: Best of Vegas, a series of live recordings set for release on ...
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