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Rod Stewart: Vegas Residency

Source: JamBase
October 5, 2010

CLASSIC ROCKER AND MOM BELOVED STANDARDS DUDE HITS SIN CITY Rod Stewart announced that he will play eight performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, November 6-21. These performances follow a record-breaking summer tour with 33 sold out shows including dates in the UK, Ireland, Europe and as far reaching as Moscow, Dubai and Tel Aviv. For the first time ever, Stewart will play all of his greatest hits spanning his career of five decades in an ...

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CD: Irene Kral

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 5, 2010

Irene Kral, Second Chance (Jazzed Media). Kral's stock in trade was perfection—of intonation, time, feeling, diction and lyric interpretation. She sang with little movement, no show biz mannerisms, nothing resembling schtick. She was so good at 25 that in 1957 Maynard Ferguson hired her on the spot after hearing one song. Alan Broadbent became Kral's piano accompanist in 1974. Until her death four years later, they performed together on a plane of empathy rarely achieved in any genre of music. ...

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Cameo-Parkway Reissues Feature the Dovells, Dee Dee Sharp and Zacherle

Source: conqueroo
October 4, 2010

Legendary Philadelphia label reflects on hitmaking vocal group, early soul star and horror novelty artist. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Collectors' Choice Music in conjunction with ABKCO Music & Records continues their rollout of Cameo Parkway reissues on November 23, 2010 with the release of three CD double albums: The Dovells' For Your Hully Gully Party/You Can't Sit Down, Dee Dee Sharp's It's Mashed Potato Time/Do The Bird, John Zacherle's Monster Mash/Scary Tales and the compilation Cameo-Parkway Holiday Hits. In June 2010, Collectors' ...

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Sean Jefferson - Releases "Dreamworks" on Bluesback Records

Source: Michael Ricci
October 18, 2010

Visionary drummer/composer Sean Jefferson is proud to announce the September 20th release of Dreamworks, his sprawling new album on Wycliffe Gordon's Bluesback Records. You may already know Sean from his full-time gig as the hard-grooving drummer in Grammy- nominated organ trio Paradigm Shift, but Dreamworks, Jefferson's second album as a leader, announces his arrival in grand fashion. Consisting mostly of original compositions by Sean, Dreamworks captures him truly coming into his own as a composer. With Dreamworks, Jefferson was striving ...

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String Theory in Action with Random Touch's "Reverberating Apparatus"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
October 4, 2010

Algonquin, IL—Reverberating Apparatus, the groups' fourteenth release, is dominated by a revisit to the fusion of their teenage years, heard through the lens of four decades of musical exploration. String Theory suggests a universe comprised of music, of vibration itself. And serendipity seems a natural outcome of quantum mechanics. If there are eleven dimensions as M Theory proposes, then four or more of them play a role in the uncompromising and naked improvisation of this remarkable and serendipitous group. “To ...

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Joe Louis Walker - Blues Conspiracy: Live on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise (Stony Plain, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
October 4, 2010

Guitarist and singer Joe Louis Walker has been a mainstay on the blues scene for many years, and this live album draws on the many friendships he has developed throughout his career. This album has several guest artists sitting in, but remains firmly Walker's show, and the high energy soulful blues is quite well done. Leading off with “Slow Down GTO" the group moves as fast as Walker's tale of a wild car out of control, until he abruptly shifts ...

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Junior Wells and the Aces - Live in Boston 1966 (Delmark, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
October 4, 2010

Harmonica ace and singer Junior Wells had recently recorded his classic blues LP Hoodoo Man Blueswhen this live set was recorded (possibly originally a bootleg or radio broadcast) featuring him with the crack band known as The Aces: Louis Myers on guitar, Dave Myers bass, and Fred Below on drums. These musicians were very familiar with each other and it shows throughout the performance, as they are tight as can be. Highlights of the album include “Man Downstairs" where they ...

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Axis Trio - Anthem (2010)

Source: Something Else!
October 4, 2010

By Pico This past July the Axis Trio released Anthem, and it's one of those defining records for this young and fledgling jazz threesome. The Axis Trio is comprised of pianist Amino Belyamani, bassist Sam Miniae and drummer and percussionist Qasim Naqvi. Belyamani is from Morocco, while Miniae is Iranian-American and Naqvi is Pakistani-American. Though the three all have strong Middle Eastern heritages, they cite influences as diverse as from Debussy and Shostakovich, to Coltrane and the Aphex Twins. When ...

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