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Mike Pride's from Bacteria to Boys - Betweenwhile (Aum Fidelity, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
October 20, 2010

I had grown to enjoy drummer Mike Pride's playing in hell-for-leather duet settings with saxophonist Jon Irabagon like the wonderful I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues, but I wasn't prepared for the subtle nature of his approach to this album with his new group From Bacteria to Boys. The band on Betweenwhile is: Mike Pride: drums and compositions, Darius Jones: alto sax, Peter Bitenc: bass and Alexis Marcelo: piano. Pride plays drums, often quiet brushes and a number of ...

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Deep Cuts; Styx "Miss America" (1977)

Source: Something Else!
October 20, 2010

By Pico Love 'em or hate 'em, Styx was part of many an American boy's soundtrack of the late 70s and early 80s. When I think of arena rock, the first two bands I think of are Journey and Styx; both bands encapsulated everything that was good and not so good about that style of rock. Chicago-based Styx hit it's stride slightly before the Bay Area band Journey, when guitarist Tommy Shaw's entry into the band in 1976 added another ...

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Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band: Unreleased Live Album and Reissue

Source: JamBase
October 20, 2010

NEWLY REMASTERED AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL OUT NOVEMBER 16 Before the Grateful Dead, the Warlocks, and even Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, Jerry Garcia played in the Black Mountain Boys, a band he formed in the early 1960s with the exceptionally talented Sandy Rothman and David Nelson. Together only a short time, they played the kind of bluegrass, country, gospel, and old-time music that swept through coffeehouses coast-to-coast in the post-Beat, pre-Beatles era that Garcia called: “the folk scare." The ...

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"Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows!"

Source: Boss Sounds
October 19, 2010

Bandleader Chandler Travis and His Nonet Present a Party of an Album, “Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows!" Released Oct. 12 on Sonic Trout New York, NY—From TV appearances on “The Tonight Show," “The Midnight Special," and Dick Cavett, to sharing stages with Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and the late great comic George Carlin, Chandler Travis has had a long and storied musical career. Now he's assembled his nine-piece Philharmonic for a new album, an altogether irreverent affair titled “Chandler Travis Philharmonic ...

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Owl Studios Readies Headhunters CD Featuring Snoop Dogg, George Clinton

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 19, 2010

As New Owl Studios CD Featuring Snoop Dogg, George Clinton & Others is Readied, The Legendary Headhunters Announce U.S. Tour “A true fusion of Hip Hop, Jazz, Rap, Salsa, Rock, New Orleans, African rhythm and its classical forms" Jazz/funk/fusion legends THE HEADHUNTERS have announced a U.S. tour for November, with stops in NY, VT, MA, PA, ME, VA and NC. The seminal band is currently finalizing tracks for a compelling new CD, 'Platinum,' which will be released early next year ...

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One Track Mind: Jimmy Rushing, "Good Morning Blues" (1937)

Source: Something Else!
October 19, 2010

By Nick Deriso Every so often, a singer gets so dispirited, laid so low, that he's simply got to talk back to the blues. I love those songs. Think Billie Holiday's “Good Morning Heartache," and this one—recorded by Jimmy Rushing with a sizzling early edition of the Count Basie Orchestra. Included on the Decca date are Lester Young on trumpet, Buck Clayton on trumpet, Freddie Green on guitar, Walter Page (with whom Rushing had an early association in the Blue ...

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Howard Wiley and the Angola Project - 12 Gates to the City (2010)

Source: Something Else!
October 19, 2010

By Pico Howard Wiley's The Angola Project (2007) created a lot of buzz and put his name firmly on the jazz map. It wasn't so much for the tenor saxophonist's playing or inventing a whole new style of jazz. Rather, the acclaim came from the attention he brought to the spirituals of Louisiana's state prison at Angola, and their harsh lives there. More than just being a relayer, Wiley interpreted these songs in a way that amplified the emotions of ...

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Vincent Herring, "Morning Star" (CD Review)

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
October 19, 2010

I recently reviewed alto saxophonist Vincent Herring's Morning Star for Jazz Times. Click here to go directly to the review, which appeared in the magazine's September issue, or read the full text below. Vincent Herring & Earth Jazz, Morning Star (Challenge) Shades of the Headhunters, Weather Report, the Crusaders and, not surprisingly, Cannonball Adderley's electric-jazz releases color the sound of Vincent Herring's Earth Jazz Agents (here, minus the “Agents"), the gifted alto saxophonist's working funk and fusion quartet. Yes, it ...

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