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Laurent Medelgi project ~ Live in The Village ~ Available Today
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Laurent Medelgi
Remastered and mixed by Medelgi himself, Live in The Village features extended and revisited versions of original compositions first released on Diverses. Laurent composed for a ten piece band, but only eight band members were featured on the bill: Yutaka Uchida drums Danny Zanker Upright Bass Bartosz haddala Piano Adrianna Mollelo Violin Will Martina Cello Benjamin Drazen Tenor Sax Les rogers Trumpet An unusual line up provides for ...
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Frank Macchia Grammy Nominated For Third Time and New CD!
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Frank Macchia
Grammy nominated Composer/arranger Frank Macchia has received his third nomination for a Grammy for his interpretation of the classic American folk song “Skip To My Lou," in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category. The song is from his recent jazz CD Folk Songs for Jazzers, where he reinterprets traditional American folk songs. He also is releasing a follow up to that CD, SON of Folk Songs for Jazzers, which features a top-notch cast of Los Angeles jazz musicians, including Peter Erskine, ...
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Singer Tony Adamo's Funky Hip Eleanor Rigby
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Kl Ma
This very fresh take on the Beatles' symphonically infused downer reemerges here in Adamo's arrangement as decidedly less depressive but certainly no less enticing. The melancholy of the original comes through less so in Adamo's phrasings but is threaded throughout by the plaintiveness of the organ. The sadness of McCartney's voice has been leeched out here but miraculously not so much prettified by Adamo as hepped up by his jazz inflections and flavorings. The tempo's faster and the crispness of ...
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Joe Farrell CTI Classics Now on CD
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
During the 1960s, reed player Joe Farrell (born Joseph Carl Firrantello) had logged many hours and waxed many sides with Maynard Ferguson, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and Elvin Jones, with whom he had the greatest opportunity to prove his mettle as a fine soloist. Still, despite these notable associations, hardly anyone outside of New York music circles knew who he was. Farrell (1937-86) had also made the rounds as a New York studio musician in ...
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The Lee Shaw Trio - Live at Art Gallery Reutlingen (ARC, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
I have fond memories of seeing pianist Lee Shaw many times when I was living in upstate New York, so I was excited to see that she was still playing well and releasing two albums this year, this one from a German jazz festival and another from Albany with her one time student John Medeski. On this album she is joined by her long-time trio mates, Rich Syracuse on bass and Jeff Siegel on drums, and two alternating saxophonists, Johannes ...
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Leila Adu finds Harmony with the Voiceless In "Ode To the Unknown Factory Worker" Album Release
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4961 Polemics
Leila Adu celebrates global CD release on Rai Trade/Tracce, the Italian National Radio label New York, NY—Leila Adu reemerges to the international music scene on January 18th with her powerful new album “Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker." The 11 song CD is a raw musical travelogue of uncertainty and triumph in the exciting nomadic life of the popular New Zealand/Ghanaian singer-composer-multi-instrumentalist. Touring the globe solo and with band throughout 2009-2010 in support of her Steve Albini produced “Dark Joan" ...
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Richard X Heyman Readies 'Tries/and Other Stories,' Two Separate Albums Packaged Together
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conqueroo
April 19 releases are next step in the evolution of what RollingStone.com called “hooks galore and ebullient melodies" NEW YORK, N.Y.—Richard X. Heyman's ambitious new release, Tiers/And Other Stories, affirms what his longtime admirers have known for years: the veteran singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and DIY recording pioneer is a world-class artist whose effortless mastery of popular music idioms is matched by his uncanny knack for infusing classic styles with timeless emotional truths. Those abilities have won Heyman a fiercely loyal ...
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