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CDs of Note - Short Takes...

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
October 18, 2010

Luciano Troja, At Home With Zindars (self-produced) This labor of love spotlights the composer, good friend and perhaps musical twin of Bill Evans. It is long overdue, because the late Earl Zindars had far more impact on Evans than he has generally been credited with. Their relationship dated to their Army days in the early1950s. Italian pianist Luciano Troja corrects that oversight with his lavishly produced solo piano CD of 15 Zindars jazz compositions (he was a classical composer and ...

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Matta Gawa - Ba (2010)

Source: Something Else!
October 17, 2010

By Pico Washington, D.C.'s Matta Gawa's self-described “cinematic chunks of post-hardcore improvised sound" is, however else you might describe it, standing apart from the main body of whack jazz. Sounds created from more than forty guitar pedals creating loops, sample, octave altering, various synthesized noise effects created and layered all at once and rounded out by some mad drumming create a dark, dense sonic explosion that confronts your ears. Yes, that's what I'm talking about: good, wholesome fresh strange and ...

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Norah Jones: Collaborations Collected on New Album

Source: JamBase
October 16, 2010

FOO FIGHTERS, TALIB KWELI, RYAN ADAMS & MORE TAP SINGER On November 16th, Norah Jones will release ...Featuring, an album of collaborations from the past decade. The 18 songs include duets with OutKast, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli and more. “A lot of the people on this record are people I've worshiped since I was a kid, and some of them are younger and more my contemporaries," says Jones. “Even though the musicians are so varied, the vibe of the songs makes ...

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Keyboard Legend Don Preston Releases New Download Only Album On Norway's Zonic Entertainment

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
October 18, 2010

Norway—Considered the greatest synthesizer practitioner in the world by many, original Mothers of Invention and keyboard music legend Don Preston, has released a modern masterpiece in electronic music. Now available as a download-only album from Norway's Zonic Entertainment, Don Preston's 'Colliding Galaxys' is an epic electronic tone poem, for the most part, created on classic analogue Moog synthesizers. “The new CD is about the time when the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies will collide in about 50 million years ...

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The Beast and Nnenna Freelon Present Freedom Suite, Hosted by 9th Wonder + MP3

Source: Giant Step
October 18, 2010

The Beast, a hip-hop quartet featuring emcee Pierce Freelon brings multi Grammy nominee jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon into the group for Freedom Suite, a collection of original songs, classic interpretations and interviews reflecting on jazz and hip-hop today. The entire album will be available for free download on October 26th, via The Revivalist, Okayplayer's new jazz site. The music of Freedom Suite combines a live jazz aesthetic with a electronic, sample-based hip-hop aesthetic and features artists like 9th Wonder, Geechi ...

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Pianist Susanna Lindeborg Releases Third Solo CD

Source: Michael Ricci
October 24, 2010

Excursions presents the third solo CD of Susanna Lindeborg in sparkling personal piano improvisations. A couple of tracks combined with electro acoustical back grounds. What you first think of together with Susanna Lindeborg is her virtuouso play on the piano mixed with electronic instruments, which has been known most of all through the group Mwendo Dawa. Susanna has been successfully touring internationally in Europe, North and South America and China performing successfully at festivals like Montreux, North Sea and Montreal. ...

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New Solo CD by Ove Johansson (Coast LJ Records, LJCD5251)

Source: Michael Ricci
October 24, 2010

This fifth solo CD by Ove Johansson is a follow up to the previous CD Music from Steninge. Here he uses sound combinations as chords changes or mixed with electro acoustic sound design, all in the spirit of improvisation. EWI (Electric Wind Instrument) is used with 24 tones in an octave and in some chord improvisations. Previous solo CDs by Ove Johansson has been payed attention to internationally and resulted in many interesting concert scenes. Ove Johansson “solo" LJ Records ...

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Richard Thompson - Dream Attic (Shout Factory, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
October 15, 2010

Recording an album full of new material in front of a live audience is something of a gamble, but it has paid off handsomely for veteran guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, his new album captures the energy of his always potent live performance and combines it was an excellent set of new songs to very good effect. He has a tight backing band consisting of Pete Zorn on guitars, flute, saxophone and mandolin, Michael Jerome on drums, Taras Prodaniuk bass, ...

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