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Eddie Higgins: Christmas Songs
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Every year at this time I choose a favorite jazz Christmas album to share with you. My annual selection has nothing to do with new releases or hot new artists. My criterion simply is beauty, which isn't so easy, since a great Christmas album is hard to find. For me, most tend to be too solemn or sticky sweet. Just right is a fine line in this genre. To make the cut, a holiday jazz album needs to be uplifting ...
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Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads week 4 features guitarist Jeff Parker
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Real-Life Guitar Hero Is Bringing the Music Back To Town
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Macon, GA—Joey Stuckey is vying to bring back the era of the guitar hero...a coveted time when names like Clapton, Page and Stevie-Ray adorned the pages of every rock magazine on the planet. The Macon, Georgia native releases his new album, entitled The Shadow Sound, which promises to deliver a penetrating mix of blues, rock, pop and jazz, bringing back to the forefront a time when it was the music that really mattered. Music fans should mark their calendars for ...
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Roscoe Mitchell/the Note Factory - Far Side (ECM 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Saxophonist and composer Roscoe Mitchell has had a long and productive career with has included long stints in the AACM and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, along with an ambitious schedule of solo works. This album reunites him with his octet The Note Factory consisting Mitchell on saxophones and flutes, Corey Wilkes on trumpet and flugelhorn, Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer on piano, Jaribu Shahid on bass, Harrison Bankhead on bass and cello and Tani Tabbal and Vincent Davis on ...
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One Track Mind: Tony Joe White, "Tell Me Why" (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso While much of Tony Joe White's new recording “The Shine" feels so bare-bones as to be undercooked, the muscular “Tell Me Why" bubbles up with the rough moral drama of a storyteller's yarn. Still standing, despite years unjustly spent outside fame's spotlight, White hasn't stopped believing in himself, and in his work: “It's all about the song, keeping it simple," he sings. “You gotta have passion, gotta have soul." The Oak Grove, Louisiana product's time-worn baritone has ...
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The Black Keys - Brothers (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso I wasn't sure what to make of this album when it came out earlier this summer. Was Brothers a smart pivot back to the Black Keys' creative strengths, after some time spent noodling around with only partially successful side projects? Or was it a calculated, and maybe unsatisfying, cash-in retrenchment? I've decided it's the first. Singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney return, in many ways, to their template—the blue-eyed soul ("She's Long Gone"), the lo-fi atmospherics—but ...
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Steve Erwin, with Danny Gatton - Was It Like This (1988)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso It takes a complex, genre-bending singer to fend off the distracting brilliance of fabled guitar-playing Danny Gatton. Maine-based Steve Erwin, who made his name playing around Washington, D.C., pulls it off on the newly re-released Was It Like This. Originally recorded in December 1988 with Gatton, the album is best described by the guitarist himself—who likened his playing to “redneck jazz." The opener “Sweet Boy," a tangy amalgam of rockabilly, country, swing and blues, sets the album's ...
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Eddie Gomez and Cesarius Alvim - Forever (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico As much of a transformational figure as he was, Scott LaFaro wasn't the only brilliant bassist who had played in Bill Evans' trio; Eddie Gomez held that esteemed seat for longer than anybody, from 1966 to 1977. Like LaFaro, Gomez was virtually an equal harmonically as the legendary pianist, and shared Evans' passion for rich melodicism, a passion that has carried on in his post-Evans works, like for Steps Ahead, Chick Corea and his own projects as a ...
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