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Kathy Sanborn's "Blues for Breakfast" CD Releases March 2011
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Kathy Sanborn
Blues for Breakfast, the highly anticipated new jazz album from sultry pianist/vocalist Kathy Sanborn, releases March 8, 2011 through the Pacific Coast Jazz label, with digital downloads available February 1st. The album also features GRAMMY® nominee Scott Petito's distinctive bass, Chris Carey's sizzling drums and Wayne Ricci's soulful trumpet. The red-hot title track, “Blues For Breakfast," showcases Sanborn's love of jazz history and her affection for the famed musicians of the 1930s-50s who performed on New York's 52nd Street. Sanborn ...
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Forgotten Series: Tab Benoit - Wetlands (2002)
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Something Else!
By Pico Ten years before Wetlands, a young Cajun kid from Baton Rouge walked into a Houston studio and produced some of the most refreshingly honest rock-tinged swamp blues ever heard. Yet, one worried that Benoit would go the way of may bluesmen who've tasted success and eventually dilute the pure sound of 1992's Nice And Warm until he becomes just another rock axe grinder miscast as a bloozer. We needn't have. Six albums later, Tab's sound was even more ...
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Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Kinds of Happiness (Nottwo, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Locksmith Isidore if bass clarinetist Jason Stein's trio with Jason Roebke on bass and Mike Pride on drums, playing a classy thoughtful blend of free jazz and more mainstream improvisation, music that would fit in well at a jazz club or art-house performance space. Stein has a strong woody tone that permeates the recording, while Roebke and Pride create a shifting and continually moving foundation that simultaneously supports and challenges the leader. They play with a light touch that keeps ...
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One Track Mind: Nancy Wilson, "What Are You Doing New Year's?" (1963)
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By Nick DeRiso A lot of singers have sung this one, from Nat “King" Cole and Johnny Mathis to Diana Krall and the Orioles, the post-war R&B vocal quartet. For me, though, Nancy Wilson's has always been the definitive reading. She nails the sense of hopeful anxiety that surrounds Dec. 31 every year, even while continuing to display a hushed longing—like a more contemplative Dinah Washington. As her sleek, knowing vocal cuts through this 1963 side, it's no surprise that ...
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One Track Mind: Kellylee Evans, "I Loves You Porgy" (2010)
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By Nick DeRiso Taking on Nina Simone, a singer of dusky persuasiveness, might be foolhardy enough. Remaking this song, a Top 20 pop hit off Simone's celebrated 1958 debut Little Girl Blue seemed like the worst idea of all. But Canadian singer Kellylee Evans finds a new light, even if it's only a small sliver, within this dark tale from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Simone—a classically trained pianist born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina—fully explored a ...
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2010'S Top Unsigned Acts - Well, OK, Some of Them, Anyway
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By Nick DeRiso Let's get this admission out of the way: Picking the best of 2010's unsigned treasures is like trying to determine your favorite grain of sand. There are far too many, really, to make any reasonable guess—and the whole time you're walking around with a bucket in an attempt to actually decide, you keep finding more, you know, sand. So, we're going to call this the best of the unsigned that I came across over the last calendar ...
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Debora Petrina - In Doma (2010)
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By Mark Saleski After years of writing reviews, I have now stumbled into what must be the most embarrassing way to discover music: via a tumblr photo blog. I can't even remember what I'd been writing at the time, but I had googled the word “geek" and ended up on a site full of pictures of geeky women. Now of course, I'm not against this sort of thing, because there really are some cool and romantic photos to be found ...
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