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North Mississippi Allstars: New Album in February
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JamBase
FIRST NEW STUDIO WORK IN TWO YEARS North Mississippi Allstars have announced the release of its first studio album in two years. Keys to the Kingdom arrives February 1, 2011. Last year, Luther and Cody Dickinson lost their father, Memphis music legend Jim Dickinson, only months before Luther became one. Jim had always told them, “You need to be playing music together. You are better together than you will ever be apart." Coincidentally, the Dickinson brothers were not together when ...
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New Christmas Music From PJ Parker to Benefit Humane Society of the United States
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Bill Bowman
Celebrate this Christmas with PJ Parker's brand new original Christmas songs, “CHRISTMAS DAY" and “JINGLE DOWN THE CHRISTMAS TREE." Both songs, as well as her first original Christmas song, “NOT BENEATH THE TREE," are available to listen to on the Music Page of her web site and download on its Purchase Page. PJ will donate 50% of all proceeds from the sale of these Christmas songs to benefit animals helped by the Humane Society of the United States, the nation's ...
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James Kinds - Love You from the Top (Delmark, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Journeyman blues guitarist and singer James Kinds has played all over the upper Midwest USA, cutting a few sides for small labels over the years. Getting a chance to record for the venerable Chicago label Delmark, he makes the best of it by producing a fine album filled with strong singing and excellent musicianship. Kinds has a fleet fingered guitar style that is exciting to listen to along with a deep and passionate voice steeped in gospel and soul. He ...
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Curtis Clark Trio - Taagi (No Business, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Pianist Curtis Clark has been under the radar a bit despite a distinguished pedigree, having studied with the great pianist and composer Horace Tapscott and played with eclectic saxophonist David Murray. After living in Europe for a number of years, Clark returned to the U.S. and cut this dynamic trio set with Aaron Gonzalez on bass and Stephan Gonzalez on drums. These men have a fine pedigree of their own, being the sons of the great Dallas trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez. ...
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Bizingas - Bizingas (2010)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski See, I just knew I was going to like this album. About twenty seconds into the first listen and the whole “Is it jazz?/Is it rock?/What the hell is it?" issue popped up—almost always a recipe for a good time. Heck, I knew even before that because their name is so much fun to say. Oh, you might think I'm cracking wise here but let's face it, some jazz groups are too uptight to let loose and ...
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Pete Robbins - Silent Z Live (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico Jazz that's hard to categorize is usually the kind of jazz that's also hard to describe adequately with words but also the kind of jazz I prefer. And if it swings and grooves, so much the better. Alto saxophonist Pete Robbins' music has all those qualities and then some. We delighted in the unpredictable, nearly uncategorizable funk-rock-avant-jazz of his Do The Hate Laugh Shimmy from 2008. To follow up Hate Laugh, Robbins wanted to capture the immediacy of ...
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Markus Reuter releases digital download of his contemporary classical composition "Todmorden 513"
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Lori Hehr Public Relations
Producer, musician, composer and sound designer Markus Reuter has just released the first performance of his contemporary classical piece 'Todmorden 513.' The piece is an algorithmic composition for live instruments and electronics. This recording of the piece is available for digital download (and on CD, see below) at markusreuter.com. 'Todmorden 513' is an hour-long composition based on a cycle of 513 evenly spaced chords that were strictly derived from systematic combinations of pitches and recursive definition (i.e. the repeated application ...
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Kind Greetings One/All on the AUM Community elist!
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Chris Rich
As years come to a close, there is a looking back to reflect on what has happened in the previous 11+ months of life, what one has done, created, been. I'll admit it's been really hard to do so this year as recently has been a particularly busy period working on the AUM releases of 2011; then planning, strategizing, and running up and down cost vs. benefit analyses, flow charts, etc. with our dedicated team of marketing masters, accountants and ...
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