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The Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate Records, 2010)

Source: Michael Ricci
August 31, 2010

Melodic, hooky, complex, witty, entrancing, passionate: Mood Music for Time Travellers is the E/O's first new album since 2005, and will introduce this 25 year old band to a new audience. Undeniably jazz, challenging and thought-provoking, the vividness and clarity of the writing and playing cuts across genre lines and the expectations of the listener and makes a deep impression on the wider audience as well as jazz cognoscenti. Mood Music contains ten new originals by leader Russ Gershon, bassist ...

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One Track Mind: Little River Band "It's a Long Way There" (1975)

Source: Something Else!
August 31, 2010

By Pico Lush strings, rich three part vocal harmonies, blending acoustic guitars and an almost non-stop lead guitar, all stretched out to nearly nine minutes. That's a hell of a way of a band to introduce themselves on the radio, but the then-infant Australian troupe The Little River Band did just that to break into the American market with “It's A Long Way There" in post-Watergate 1976. Formed just a year earlier, the Little River Band was founded by musicians ...

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Benny Golson: Big City Sounds

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 31, 2010

When saxophonist Benny Golson and trumpeter Art Farmer decided to form a sextet in late 1959 with trombonist Curtis Fuller, they were stuck for a name. So Benny asked Fuller if they could use “Jazztet," a name the trombonist had come up with for a Savoy album date he led in August. Fuller agreed, and the first album the group recorded in February 1960 was Meet the Jazztet, a powerful outing that included Benny's I Remember Clifford, Blues March, Park ...

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Hitmaking Pianist Tom Grant Serves a Musical Feast with Delicioso

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
August 30, 2010

Nu-Wrinkle Records is proud to announce the CD release of “Delicioso" ("Dee-lish-e-oso") by pianist Tom Grant. The single, “Cute New Car," will be going for adds to radio on August 30, 2010. Since 1983, Tom's records have repeatedly topped the contemporary jazz charts. Radio fans will remember his previous releases with labels like Windam Hill, Verve, Shanachie. Keyboard Magazine declared, ..."he dishes out a pop-flavored jazz that goes down easy and gives discerning listeners plenty to chew on." Through the ...

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"Poured Gently" by Aimua Eghobamien - Official Album Release October 19

Source: Michael Ricci
August 30, 2010

AIMUA EGHOBAMIEN | POURED GENTLY (QUAESITOR MUSIC) QML001 Poured Gently the debut album of Aimua Eghobamien combines fresh and unusual arrangements of jazz and pop standards, haunting and melodic original compositions and thoughtful lyrics to produce a concept that sets a definite mood, entertains and quietly tells a story. Not least in this mix are collaborations with New York-based pianist, composer and arranger Glafkos Kontemeniotis. Recorded and mixed at Avatar Studios in New York and at Strongroom and AIR Studios ...

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Nu Shooz Orchestra Opens "Pandora's Box" - New Full-Length CD Aug. 1, 2010

Source: Cyber PR
August 30, 2010

Classic '80s band is back with shimmering new album—perfect for summertime PORTLAND, OR—Portland Oregon's NU SHOOZ returns with PANDORA'S BOX, a CD recorded in their latest incarnation as the NU SHOOZ Orchestra. The album,the band's first full-length release in more than 20 years, will be available beginning Aug. 1 at NU SHOOZ Music (http://store.nushoozmusic.com/) or iTunes. PANDORA'S BOX is the latest stop in the continuing journey of bandleaders Valerie Day and John Smith. Lyrical and dreamlike, playful and sublime, PANDORA'S ...

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The Trio of Oz: New CD by Omar Hakim and Rachel Z Debuts September 7

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
August 30, 2010

Legendary drummer Omar Hakim (Weather Report, Sting, Miles Davis, David Bowie, et al.) has teamed up with pianist extraordinaire Rachel Z, whose work with Wayne Shorter, Steps Ahead, and Peter Gabriel has earned her international recognition and acclaim from her peers and fans alike. This musical partnership features the tasteful virtuosity and sensitivity of these Grammy Awarded musicians as they take you on an exciting journey performing some of the most creative and unique arrangements of chart-topping rock hits from ...

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Vijay Iyer - Solo (2010)

Source: Something Else!
August 30, 2010

By Pico When a great, small combo jazz pianist makes a solo record, it usually doesn't signal that pianist's arrival, it means he's solidifying his legacy. We witnessed this with Art Tatum's Solo Masterpieces recordings made at the end of his life. The same goes with Bill Evans' Alone recorded several years after his Village Vanguard apex. Chick Corea's first solo piano recordings were made before Return To Forever but after his signature Now He Sings, Now He Sobs album, ...

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