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Forgotten Series: Melvin Taylor - Dirty Pool (1997)
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Something Else!
By Pico Electric blues guitarist Melvin Taylor had been sporadically recording solo albums for 20 years when Dirty Pool arrived—and was somehow just beginning to find fame. Already a hit in Europe, it had taken a steady run of performing in Chicago's famed blues clubs to slowly earn Taylor a well-deserved reputation as an equal talent among the giants before him, such as Otis Rush, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. While early records like Melvin Taylor Plays the Blues ...
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Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
The spirit of the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus looms large over these recordings, no small feat for a scrappy band of musicians trying to record large scale music in a difficult economic environment. The powerful and well integrated group consists of Lane on bass, Avram Fefer on alto saxophone, David Bindman and Matt Bauder on tenor saxophone, Igal Foni on drums, Reut Regev and Tim Vaughn on trombone and Taylor Ho Bynun on trumpet. It's a compact and ...
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The Best of 2010, Part 5: Whack Jazz
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Something Else!
Each of the year's four Satoko Fujii records made our Best Of 2010 List. By Pico With the more accessible types of jazz out of the way in Part 3 and Part 4, this Best of 2010 series concludes with the least accessible stuff, the experimental and avant-garde stuff that I affectionately call whack jazz. With a whole two dozen plus whack jazz are records considered exemplary, it's not hard to figure out which style of music has been getting ...
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History of the Christmas Song
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Dick LaPalm is a record promoter who worked closely with Nat King Cole on all of his releases for Capitol in the '50s and '60s. He sent along the following note regarding the history of The Christmas Song: “In early May of 1946, the King Cole Trio, with guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller, was appearing at The Trocadero in Hollywood. One night after the last set, a then 21-year-old Mel Torme came up to the bandstand and told ...
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Netherlands-born singer/songwriter Elisabeth Geel releases new Joni Mitchell-influenced CD
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Lauren Rogers
The siren call of Elisabeth Geel is no myth. It is rooted in the waking world of reality even though its ethereal beauty transcends the mundane existence of everyday living. On her latest release, Preface to a Dream, the Netherlands-born singer/songwriter finds poetry in the art of jazz and romance in the dimly-lit skies of heartache. It is told from the eyes of a woman who has been wounded yet still perseveres, always questioning the situations around her but holding ...
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Walter Smith III - Iii (Criss Cross, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Walter Smith III is a rock solid tenor saxophonist with a nice modern-mainstream conception of the music, making him a fine fit for the Dutch label Criss-Cross and their hard bop centered aesthetic. He is supported on this album by a nice cross section of hard-hitting talent: Jason Moran on piano, Joe Sanders on bass and Eric Harland on drums. Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire sits on on several tunes as well. “Working Title" and “Highschoolish" come out swinging with the band ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Last year, after a couple of trips to the hardware store, it appeared that we had enough hooks to decorate our Christmas tree. True to form, shortly after stocking up we managed to find the “lost" hooks and now have enough to hang stuff on a tree suitable for Rockefeller Center. Also last year, I said that it felt very strange going through these activities with neither of my parents around. In fact, it still feels that ...
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Al Di Meola: Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody
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JamBase
NEW ALBUM OUT MARCH 15, 2011 Legendary guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola's latest outing Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody is out March 15 on Telarc International, a division of Concord Music Group. Working with accordionist Fausto Beccalossi, second guitarist Kevin Seddiki, bassist Victor Miranda, drummer Peter Kazsas and percussionist Gumbi Ortiz, Di Meola has created a collection of 15 entrancing tracks that highlight his unparalleled technique on both acoustic and electric guitar. Percussionist Mino Cinelu, Hungary's Sturcz String Quartet and former ...
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