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Eddie Henderson - For All We Know (Furthermore, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Trumpeter Eddie Henderson first made his mark in jazz playing Miles Davis influenced fusion with Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band and then on his own early recordings as a leader. During the last several years he has returned to a more or less mainstream straight ahead jazz format. Joining him on this album are John Scofield on guitar, Doug Weiss on bass and Billy Drummond on drums. Opening with the Fats Waller classic “Jitterbug Waltz" they develop the music in a ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Christina Gaudet - Solid (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick Deriso For all of her wandering, Allen Toussaint remains this touchstone for New Orleans-born vocalist Christina Gaudet. But Gaudet doesn't let her lasting affinity for a hometown soul legend pigeonhole her wider ambitions on Solid, though it's subtitled “Featuring new songs by Allen Toussaint." She's particularly adept at engrossing Cocteau Twins-inspired dream pop, an ethereal landscape that couldn't be further away from the aromatic musical gumbo of the Big Easy's famous French Quarter. If anything, Toussaint's trio of ...
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Ross Barbour Said It
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
"In August 1955, we began rehearsing the Five Trombones charts during the day. Those songs were very difficult for us. We were not used to doing the charts as they were written, and we weren't free to change these. Some of his chords were written so our notes fit in among the notes played by the trombones. The chords in many cases were not the ones we would have chosen. Don [Barbour] let it bug him so much that he ...
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Eric Clapton's "Crossroads 2010" Coming Soon to Blu-Ray and DVD
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Just Roots PR
The hottest concert of the summer is shipping November 9th. Over the summer, Eric Clapton gathered a veritable Who's Who of the world's most talented guitar players at the third Crossroads Guitar Festival, an 11-hour celebration of the six-string that attracted a sold-out crowd of more than 27,000 music fans to Chicago's Toyota Park. All profits from this daylong display of guitar virtuosity benefited The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility Clapton founded to help people suffering ...
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Maria Schneider "The Eastman Recordings"
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Clay Wilson
Maria Schneider's latest collaboration with ArtistShare allows fans to access recordings from early on in Maria's journey to becoming one of the most distinctive voices in big band composition. The three pieces; “Espino," “Samba Solstice," and “Last Season" exhibit traces of the same lush harmonies and captivating rhythms that listeners love about Maria's recent recordings. Fan's of Maria should not miss this exclusive preview! To access this streaming audio from Maria simply redeem your certificate log in number (1-1158513646-80277) by ...
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Making a New Record? Help Us Out...
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Gotta love those digi-packs, you know the ones... the environmentally-friendly CD packages that are generally 3-fold cardboard packs with a plastic housing to hold the disc; still others of the more... ahem... low-budget (skimpy) mode are akin to miniature Lp covers, with a simple front & back and a slot for the CD. The problem with digi-packs is they seem to encourage artists and companies to skip a lot of essential information, and do away with the CD booklet as ...
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Henry Threadgill's "This Brings Us To, vol. 2" Out Now
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Pi Recordings
October 26th Henry Threadgill's This Brings Us To, vol. 2 comes out. 2009's This Brings Us To, vol. 1 received across-the-board accolades as one of the best releases of 2009, coming in at #4 in the Down Beat Critics Poll, #4 in the Jazz Times Poll, and #2 in the Village Voice Jazz Poll, as well as numerous mentions in year end journalists lists appearing in dailys such as the New York Times among others. Far from a release of ...
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New Strings X Three
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
There's been an explosion of new CD releases this fall, with local jazz artists no exception—Wendy Zaro, Tyler Anderson, Sophia Shorai, and tonight (10/28), Lee Engele. And there's more on the horizon, with three new ones coming from local guitar heroes: Guitarist Joel Shapira and his quartet have been previewing Open Lines, a spirited set that brings together an outstanding bop and beyond ensemble with saxophonist Pete Whitman, bassist Tom Lewis and drummer Dave Schmalenberger. They aired some of these ...
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