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Chicago Bass Clarinetist Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore Releases Third CD "Three Kinds of Happiness," on Not Two Records - November 30, 2010
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Fully Altered Media
Featuring Jason Roebke (bass) and Michael Pride (drums) There are many who embrace tradition, and jazz's recent history is replete with acolytes of a certain era or style. Bass clarinetist Jason Stein is cut from a very different cloth however, and Three Kinds of Happiness, the new album by his trio, Locksmith Isidore, demonstrates just how deeply and completely he has assimilated the past—his own and that of the music—while maintaining his own voice, as a composer and as a ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Alex Hirsch - Naturally (2009)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso In a time of buttoned-down, procedural rock records, Alex Hirsch is still admirably working toward one of those old-school Grand Statements that defies category. Hirsch, whose dad is television and Broadway star Judd Hirsch of “Taxi" fame, brilliantly races through musical subgenres—and personas—on Naturally. That makes for an album that's simultaneously brash and vulnerable. Hirsch lets somebody else make the classifications, though, preferring to remain somewhere between. “What's it to you?" he sings at one point, simultaneously ...
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From the Stacks: Pico's 2010 Stacks, Volume 5
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Something Else!
By Pico This bundle extracted from The Stacks is a real mish-mash of jazz styles: whack (of course), third stream, rock fusion, ethnic fusion and more. Established vets showing us how it was done in the old days and open minded newcomers infusing new ideas. Heck, there's even older guys trying out new ideas. That's what is so great about jazz, the performers come in all stripes, approach their music from all different angles and have formed different conceptions about ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Clearly I have been spending an awful lot of time with Darkness on the Edge of Town this week. Too much time maybe? What does that mean? It's an interesting question and, as it turns out, it doesn't have meaning...at least not for me. Last weekend, me and TheWife were out running our usual errands with Darkness playing on the car stereo. We were talking about how strange it was to hear the not-quite-finished versions of some ...
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Jeremiah Johnson - The new face of Mississippi River Blues
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Cheryl Hughey Promotions
Don't be fooled by the baby boy good looks. With lyrics like “I was born in a tavern on the banks of the Mississippi" and a horn section that hammers the groove, Jeremiah Johnson is the new face of Mississippi River blues.Walk into a gin joint in St. Louis and you'll likely hear the familiar “blues" sound that made the area famous. It's lyrics about the struggles of daily living with the hallmark blues style guitar that rips at your ...
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Bruce Springsteen: The Promise: Houston '78 Bootleg (2010)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski The Darkness on the Edge of Town tour has taken on a sort of mythic quality, mostly because there has been scant video evidence. This “bootleg" tape unearthed by Camp Springsteen confirms what fans lucky enough to have seen one of the shows have known all along: this was the E Street Band at a fever pitch. As Max related in the Making Of documentary, they had a take no prisoners attitude. What a relief it must ...
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Check out the LJC Listening Center with a Free MP3 Download from Nelson Riveros!
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
The internet has made it easier than ever to discover new music—whatever your interests, you can always find something that you haven't heard. There's a difference between finding random music in the vast wild of the internet and getting a suggestion from a trusted source though. Hopefully LJC provides some of that guidance for the Latin Jazz world, sorting out the top material amongst the wide variety of choice available today. Then again, there's a difference between reading about something ...
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Charles Gayle - Our Souls (Nobusiness, 2009)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Free jazz saxophonist and pianist Charles Gayle has had a fascinating career moving from busking in subways to playing live around the world. This album is a well played trio outing that is very free, but well controlled, with Gayle focusing on alto saxophone and piano improvising with Dominic Duval on bass and Arkadijus Gotesmanas on drums and percussion. The lengthy performance of “Hearts Cry" opens the album with raw saxophone and drums reaching deep. Duval gets a bass interlude ...
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