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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew Live to be Released February 2011
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Michael Ricci
Four decades later, it remains the great game changer, the genre- bending, barrier-smashing double LP that would become Miles Davis' first RIAA gold album, and influence two—three! (so far)—generations of jazz and rock musicians to come. Released in April of 1970, Bitches Brew refracted the chaos and beauty of a society stretched (and stressed) to its breaking point, the penultimate creation of Miles' career. BITCHES BREW LIVE adds yet another dimension to the album's prismatic reputation. Its nine rare live ...
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Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green - Apex (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico Maybe it hasn't been talked about that much, but in spite of all the advances in the mastery the instrument led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, the development and evolution of the jazz saxophone didn't end with those guys. Many of the sax players play a modern style that's more intricately articulated, cerebral, sophisticated and, yes, even funkier than most from the prior generations. The progression from Johnny Griffin to, say, Steve Coleman didn't happen instantaneously, however. ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Mark "Pocket" Goldberg - Off the Alleyway (2010)
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By Nick DeRiso Mark “Pocket" Goldberg's Off the Alleyway, a rootsy Americana recording with the flickering neon-soul of a blues joint, stays well away from the beaten path. His sound is as eclectic as the country's rolling byways, bringing in low-country pedal steel, back-pew harmonizing, the nostalgic wheeze of an accordion, and crunchy late-night guitar growls. Rumbling this musical gumbo up to a boil is Goldberg's bone-deep baritone. The Los Angeles resident is known for his cat-gut doghouse bass work, ...
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Chandler Travis Philharmonic - Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows! (2010)
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By Mark Saleski When I was a little kid, we used to take vacations out on Cape Cod. Back then there was a target ship anchored out in the bay, the SS James Longstreet. There was something both creepy and majestic about that ship. Of course, the boy in me wanted to walk out there at low tide. Me & my cousins tried it once, but when the water became waist deep we gave up. What the heck. It was ...
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Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology
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JamBase
INCLUDES 111 TRACKS, 200 PAGE BOOK OF ESSAYS, TRACK ANNOTATIONS AND HISTORICAL PHOTOS Seven years in the making, JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology will be released by Smithsonian Folkways on March 29, 2011. The six-CD box set traces the turning points of this 20th-century tale through its legendary innovators and exemplary exponents: Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Parker, Gillespie, Davis, Hancock, Corea, Coltrane and many more. The set opens with Scott Joplin's 1899 “Maple Leaf Rag" and spans the entire century, closing with ...
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Melvin Gibbs' free music download series enters third week
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Melvin Gibbs
Phree-dem Downloads, Melvin Gibbs' free music series continues into its third week with the composition “Ra's Mirror." This track features multi-instrumentalist Casey Benjamin (Kanye West, Mos Def, Stefon Harris) on three different instruments: flute, keyboards and EWI (electronic wind instrument). Bassist/producer Gibbs showcases Mr Benjamin on a track created for 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 ...
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Hot Club of Cowtown's New CD Salutes Bob Wills
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Michael Ricci
Recorded live and overdub-free, new release captures genre's fiery energy and jazzy improvisations. Band to appear at SXSW and on NPR's Mountain Stage. AUSTIN, Texas—Bob Wills has always been a core inspiration for the Hot Club of Cowtown's sound, but it has taken the Texas-based trio a dozen years to fully honor the King of Western swing. A fortuitous tour in England last spring led the band to London's Specific Sound studio, where they spent two days recording a 14-song ...
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Lapis Luna's "Snowbond." A New Holiday Classic!
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Shawn Aileen Clark
Lapis Luna's new album, featuring jazz vocalist Shawn Aileen Clark, will surely keep you in a festive mood through the holiday season—and all winter long! The newly released album presents Christmas classics and little known gems such as the swinging opening track 'Warm December' and radio darling 'Christmas Island.' So get out your martini shakers, hang that mistletoe, and pop in 'Snowbound' to keep those spirits bright! Download on iTunes and CDBaby.com! UPCOMING SHOWS: Every Thursday Evening, December 9, 16, ...
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