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The Friday Morning Listen: Regina Spektor - Far (2009)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Lots of review sites have already posted their best-of lists for 2010. We here at SomethingElse! are still in heavy consideration mode. Every single evening for the past couple of weeks we have been locking ourselves into the SomethingElse!Study with our slippers, smoking jackets, top-shelf brandy, and sharpened pencils. Now don't you laugh...Nick looks absolutely swank in that jacket! Besides, it's quite important to get cozy because this is no easy work. A ton of music has ...
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Recent Listening: Randy Weston, McNeil/McHenry Quartet
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Randy Weston, The Storyteller (Motéma). This is the latest chapter in the 84-year-old pianist's long-running love story about Africa. Weston's African Rhythms Sextet includes the greattrombonist Benny Powell in one of his last recordings, alto saxophonist T.K. Blue, bassist Alex Blake, drummer Lewis Nash and conga specialist Neil Clarke. He made the album almost exactly a year ago in performance at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in New York. With the rhythm section generating heat near combustion levels, some of the ...
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A Special Blossom Dearie Combo for the Holidays
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Jim Smith
Blossom Dearie with good friend and mentor Mike Renzi created two beautiful recordings. Featuring Blossom Dearie on solo vocals and piano(Erroll Garner's Steinway, no less)with arrangements and additional keyboards from Mike Renzi, Daffodil Records is proud to offer Christmas Spice So Very Nice and Tweedledum & Tweedledee. Christmas Spice So Very Nice is a perennial treasure that will fill your home with joy and warmth through the holidays and year. A special collection of Christmas love songs, not the over-played ...
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Saxophonist Erica Von Kleist Releases Second Recording "Erica Von Kleist & No Exceptions"
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Jennifer Kramer
Erica von Kleist's sophomore album entitled Erica von Kleist & No Exceptions is an eclectic collection of new arrangements and compositions, mirroring both jazz and pop influences. Her song list weaves the listener through funky, R&B-tinged titles such as “E's Boogaloo" and “The Eraser," Latin-jazz numbers like “Erica with a C" and “Thriller," Brazilian-themed pieces as in “Summer Soft" and “Monday Drivers," and of course a stirring rendition of “Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael, and Erica's award-winning original composition “Dirty Martini." ...
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True Vibe Records Releases Red Hot New Trailblazine Single "Give It All U Got"
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Creativity in Music
By Urban Voices Collective Affiliated Artists Plus 2 Great Bonus Tracks! True Vibe Records has reached a new milestone, as it releases its newest and hottest single yet, titled “Give It All U Got!" It will be the lead track of the album “Give It All U Got!" which will be available next year. This will be a third in a series of CDs, following the highly-acclaimed “Paradise Presents Jazz Funk Hip HoPoetry" and “Jazz Funk Hip HoPoetry—Phaze 2." Two ...
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Various Artists - CTI: The Cool Revolution (Sony, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
After helping to form the Verve and Impulse! labels, jazz producer Creed Taylor struck out on his own, lending his initials to his new label, and signing some of the most commercially viable jazz talent of the day. This four disc retrospective mostly covers CTI's years as an independent company during the 1970's. CTI was well known at the time for heavily produced music often employing extra percussion and string arrangements to make it more palatable to the general public. ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Tony Savarino - Guitaring (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso The worry, with any rock-guitar virtuoso's recording, is that it will quickly devolve into onanistic noodling. But Tony Savarino's Guitaring adroitly sidesteps the problem with a keen eye for variety, and a welcome sense of unselfishness in the studio. The Boston-bred musician is a dabbler, with a finger in everything from rock to funk, from soul to country, from pop to reggae. He's literally all over the map. That's led to a head-scratchingly diverse series of sideman ...
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Jason Robinson - The Two Faces of Janus (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico I've always had a hard time distinguishing West Coast jazz from East Coast jazz by ear. I mean. I know it's supposed to be a more smoothed-out “cooler" variant of the vigorous, sometimes jarring jazz that comes out of NYC and I know that guys like Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Bud Shank are closely associated with it, but are the differences really that significant? Jason Robinson, for one, doesn't think so. The saxophonist, flautist and composer blurs ...
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