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Beck: Live at Moca; Record Club News and Remix Work
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JamBase
BECK PERFORMS WITH DEVENDRA BANHART & CAETANO VELOSO; REMIX WORK FOR LYKKE LI; RECORD CLUB ALBUM COMING On November 13, Beck performed alongside Devendra Banhart and Tropicalia legend Caetano Veloso at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, for an event by artist Doug Aitken. Check out the footage from the event below. With the success of Beck's Record Club project, fans now have the chance to vote for their 10 favorite songs that will form the first Record ...
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Barry Galbraith: Guitar and the Wind
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over the course of his career, guitarist Barry Galbraith appeared on 594 recording sessions. Yet he made only one album as a featured leader—Guitar and the Wind. The album was recorded over three days in January 1958 for Decca. The fact that Galbraith didn't record more extensively as a featured soloist for Decca and other labels is unfortunate. There are only two possible explanations for Galbraith's lack of spotlight time: Either he was too busy as an East Coast sideman ...
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The Dave Liebman Group - Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Veteran saxophonist and flautist Dave Liebman is most well known for his interpretations of the music of John Coltrane and his former employer Miles Davis. This album covers the music of free jazz saxophone pioneer Ornette Coleman, and Liebman and his group with Vic Juris on guitar, Tony Marino on bass and Marko Marcinko on drums and percussion take a fresh approach to Coleman's music, one that is quite successful. Most of the songs on this collection come from Coleman's ...
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Randy Weston - Mosaic Select 4 (Mosaic, 2004)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Pianist and composer Randy Weston is still going strong, with a new album and biographyin 2010. This collection is an interesting selection of early music enveloping trio, quartet and a large ensemble with vocalists. Disc one consists of the sextet and quintet albums Little Niles and Live at the Five Spot, showcasing Weston's Thelonious Monk influenced piano and his arrangements for small group especially on his standards-to-be “Hi-Fly" and “Little Niles." The live album is particularly exciting for the addition ...
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One Track Mind: Gino Vannelli "People Gotta Move" (1974)
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Something Else!
By Pico “If that guy hits you, I'm not stopping to help you!" “Come on, people, MOVE!!!" “Get your @#$% out of my way!" My wife, God love her, gets a little impatient with her fellow motorists and often has these one-sided conversations with them from behind the wheel. We sometimes joke that she needs some sort of a remote controlled megaphone attached to the hood of her car so that they can hear her dispense driving advice to them. ...
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Roman Miroshnichenko has been featured in The Musical Nation Project
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Roman Miroshnichenko
Virtuoso guitarist and 9th Annual Independent Music Awards winner Roman Miroshnichenko has been featured in The Musical Nation Project—the international project of world-famous percussion player Frank Colon and arranger Daniel Figueiredo (a Latin Grammy nominee). Roman recorded guitar tracks on the “Xekere" track and put it into “Temptation"—his solo album. The new album was recorded with a number of musicians gathered from around the globe including jazz saxophonist Clive Stevens (member of Manfred Mann) and Spanish pianist Michael Grossman. The ...
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Melvin Gibbs' free download series stirs a "Bitches Brew" in week six
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Melvin Gibbs
The Phree-dem Downloads free music series presented by bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs continues into its' sixth week with the composition “HeruGlyphic." Gibbs features keyboard player Onaje Allan Gumbs on this track from his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project This project, which takes the music of the Miles Davis' album Bitches Brew as it's starting point, is based on a production technique Melvin calls “infrapolation." “HeruGlyphic" also features Alex Harding on bass clarinet and the beatboxing of Napoleon Maddox of the ...
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HGM Jazzorkestar Zagreb Presents New CD: HGM Plays "Our Songs"
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Michael Ricci
By Neven Franges HGM Jazz Orchestra today is an excellent big band, ready to meet any challenge, commissioning arrangements from world famous arrangers and performing with famous soloists. Their success is even more significant if we consider the fact that the orchestra was established at a time in history that did not favor such great enterprises, as was the formation of a big band. Special credit in that matter goes to the Jeunesses Musicales Croatia (HGM) which recognized the significance ...
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