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Recent Listening: Tarbaby
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Orrin Evans, Eric Revis, Nasheet Waits & Guests, Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-tone). Pianist Evans, bassist Revis and drummer Waits comprise a leaderless or cooperative trio who live up to the album's subtitle. They are not afraid to go wacky, nearly unhinged, in two free pieces, “Heads"—featuring trumpeter Nicholas Payton at his most liberated and chancy—and “Tails," with the avant-garde alto saxophonist Oliver Lake sitting in. Payton and Lake rein in their wildness for the melody choruses in a ...
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Kevin Eubanks - Zen Food (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico Millions of people know him as an affable, guitar-wielding long-time bandleader of the most popular late night show in television history. Now that Kevin Eubanks has left his eighteen year stint as Jay Leno's musician sidekick on The Tonight Show, it's time to become acquainted with the Kevin Eubanks that's been around for nearly twice as long: the seriously good progressive jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks. Myself, I got to know this side of Eubanks as a fan of ...
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The Orb Featuring David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso The Orb's signature sound—gorgeous but not quite ambient, hypnotic but typically not much more rhythmic than a chill-out room—always seemed to cry out for the guitar stylings of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. The band copped to the underlying influence on its debut album, 1991's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, the artwork of which prominently featured the Battersea Power station—echoing the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 recording Animals. The Orb's Alex Patterson then remixed two different versions of Floyd ...
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New Susan Werner CD Set For Release March 1st
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Muse Media
Called the empress of the unexpected by NPR, singer-songwriter Susan Werner turns another corner in her multifaceted musical career with her vibrant new album, Kicking the Beehive. It's an 11-song collection of provocative, poignant, lyrical originals that are infused with the rustic roots of American folk, blues and country music. Produced by Rodney Crowell, recorded in Nashville and featuring such all-star guests as Vince Gill, Keb' Mo' and Paul Franklin, Kicking the Beehive is a personal project where Werner intuitively ...
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New Label BFM JAZZ Releases Bob Sheppard's "Close Your Eyes," A Masterful Effort by the Saxophonist
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Amanda Nagle
LOS ANGELES—November 23, 2010—Bob Sheppard has long been one of the top reed players based in Southern California. Constantly in demand for record sessions, club dates, concerts, soundtracks, and an enormous amount of projects, he has the ability to sound both creative and comfortable on a variety of instruments, no matter what the setting. Now, Sheppard moves onto the next chapter in his long career, with the release of Close Your Eyes on BFM JAZZ. The album will be available ...
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Shauli Einav's Opus One at iTunes
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Rolling Thunder PR
Israeli Saxophonist-Composer Shauli Einav Makes Impressive Debut with Opus One on Plus Loin Music Stateside release on French label due out on January 11, 2011 and currently available at iTunes Catch Shauli Einav Quartet at Small's Dec 3 Opus One marks the emergence of a promising new talent on the jazz scene, saxophonist-composer-arranger and bandleader Shauli Einav. On his startling debut, to be released on the French Plus Loin Music label on January 11th, ...
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Decoy and Joe McPhee - Oto (Bo' Weevil, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Saxophonist and sometime trumpeter Joe McPhee has been on quite a roll lately playing around the world in many contexts. The is one of the most unusual and interesting, a freely improvising group anchored by the Hammond B3 organ of Alexander Hawkins along with John Edwards on bass and Steve Noble on drums and percussion. Pioneers like Larry Young and Alice Coltrane brought the organ into free jazz from its “grits 'n' gravy" roots and Hawkins continues their experiments, getting ...
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The Rolling Stones - Singles Collection: The London Years (Abkco, 1991)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
I have been reading the Keith Richards biography Life so I thought it would be a good idea to go back and listen to some of the Rolling Stones formative early music. This three disc set covers the singles and B-Sides that the group released from their formation in 1962 until 1971. In Richards' book (which I'll cover in depth after I finish it) the Stones really wanted to be a blues band, and like many of the British Invasion ...
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