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Chet Baker: Sesjun Radio Shows

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 30, 2010

Chet Baker's recording career divides neatly into two broad categories: the helpless romantic of the '50s and life's punching bag of the mid-'70s and '80s. By now you're certainly familiar with the charmer of the '50s—a West Coast natural trumpeter and singer whose look of youthful vulnerability and confusion was adapted by James Dean, Montgomery Clift and Elvis Presley. The rouged-up, bruised Baker of the latter period, however, is another matter. Now a new two-CD set—Chet Baker: The Sesjun Radio ...

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Dave Douglas & Greenleaf Music: Bundle Up and Save up to 50%!

Source: Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Music
November 29, 2010

Greenleaf Music announces deep discounts on new and catalog albums. Check out all the 6 Bundles up for sale now. Sheet Music, Downloads, CDs and LPs. It's all there. Also, we launched our Record Of The Day deal. $8 CD, $7 FLAC, $6 MP3. The first in this series is the newest Dave Douglas title, Spark Of Being; Expand. And as a bonus for your vinyl lovers, purchase the LP and receive a free download of the Spark Of Being; ...

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Matt Dickey's "Try This at Home" CD Release Party at the Williamsburg Music Center on December 16

Source: alexander borsody
November 29, 2010

After a production process of nearly four years, Matt Dickey brings you Try This At Home, a collection of original, instrumental jazz/funk infused with latin, african, hip-hop and electronic flavors. Larger sized ensemble arrangements and rhythm section improvisations round out more than 73 minutes of tasty, funky grooves. The recording was done 99% in his basement home studio and he wrote, arranged, produced and engineered it using a laptop. Featuring some of NYC's finest musicians, listeners might find parallels to ...

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Unsigned Treasures: Erwilian - Midwinter's Night (2010)

Source: Something Else!
November 29, 2010

By Nick DeRiso At once neo-renaissance, new age and something akin to blissed-out bluegrass, Erwilian's holiday-themed concert recording Midwinter's Night neatly sidesteps the pre-conceived notion of sickly sweet Yuletide fare. Midwinter's Night, instead, is a concert souvenir from warm night of remembrance, affection and camaraderie—sparked by these friendly-as-family band members, who frequently interact. This cozy framework, coupled with an adroit musical inventiveness, unbinds the album from convention. Erwilian is free to reference rock star Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame, ...

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Recent Listening: Brad Goode

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 29, 2010

Brad Goode, Tight Like This (Delmark). During his Chicago days, Goode worked through his influences, notably Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, into early individuality. He has a Gillespie moment during his muted solo on the exotic 1942 Xavier Cugat song “Nightingale," but it's a rare example of his playing a direct quote. Goode has serious fun exercising his trumpet virtuosity. Creativity and taste balance his technical skill so that hissmears, swoops, glissandos, flawless interval leaps and notes in the stratosphere ...

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Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads Week 2 features Pete Cosey and John Medeski

Source: Melvin Gibbs
November 29, 2010

The Phree-dem Downloads free music series continues into its' second week with the composition “Pete's Mojo." Bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs features Miles Davis (Get Up With It, Dark Magus, Agartha) alumni Pete Cosey on guitar and John Medeski on organ and electric piano on this track from 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 Melvin calls “infrapolation." “Pete's ...

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One Track Mind: The Carpenters, "We've Only Just Begun" (1970)

Source: Something Else!
November 28, 2010

By Pico Since I'm on the topic of singles from 1970, here's another one that was in the family household record rotation forty years ago, but a much more somber and a lot less obscure. It began as a ditty for a local bank seeking to attract newlywed customers and within a year turned into a big hit for soft rock titans The Carpenters. Released as a single in August 1970 and later a #2 Pop hit and Adult Contemporary ...

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