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Abbey Lincoln's Style Influences New Set of Recordings

Source: AAJ Staff
August 28, 2010

In jazz, as in any music, a voice can sometimes stop you in your tracks. Abbey Lincoln, who died this month at 80, possessed that kind of voice: taut and insistent, ablaze with authority. It was a gift, and by no means her only one. Ms. Lincoln was also an arresting physical presence, on screen as onstage, and she proved herself an intuitive songwriter and a figure of unyielding social conscience. Her evolution was a part of her art. All ...

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Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town Box Set

Source: JamBase
August 28, 2010

MASSIVE EXAMINATION OF LANDMARK ALBUM ARRIVES IN NOVEMBER Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen's The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story on November 16. The Deluxe Package comprises over six hours of film and more than two hours of audio across 3 CDs and 3 DVDs. The media contents are packaged within an 80-page notebook containing facsimiles of Springsteen's original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes in ...

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Phil Schaap: Charlie Parker (PT. 5)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 29, 2010

Every great story has turning points, and the life of Charlie Parker is no exception. Among the many events that helped shape the direction of Parker and jazz in the late 1940s was the departure of Miles Davis from Parker's quintet in December 1948 and Parker's recording of Charlie Parker With Strings in November 1949. After Davis gave notice, his replacement, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, became a force and Davis' experimentation and influence on jazz in the early 1950s expanded. As ...

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Joshua Panda's "Incredibly Soulful" CD Earns Raves; "Ultragifted"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 28, 2010

Rave Early Reviews for Joshua Panda' Americana/Soul/Country/Folk CD Early reviews have described 25-year old phenom Joshua Panda's eponymous Americana/Soul/Country/Folk CD as “incredibly soulful" and “straight-up awesome," and have praised the singer's combustible on-stage presence, buzzing “the energy of his performances clearly is something he can't help, rather than something he inserts." “His delivery ranges from the most quiet of whispering lament to the energy of a preacher after a heavy swig of communion wine..." Drawing upon varied influences, from Kris ...

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A Legendary Bass Sings With A New Flamenco Inspired Soul

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
August 27, 2010

From Granada Caves and New York Clubs: The Collaboration of Flamenco Guitarist Pepe Habichuela & Jazz Bassist Dave Holland Parallel lives, parallel movements: through the streets of Wolverhampton, England and the jazz clubs of New York, the caves of Granada and the flamenco bars of Madrid. Over strings and oceans and language barriers, masterful jazz bassist Dave Holland and Spanish guitar legend Pepe Habichuela have come together to unfold the beauty of flamenco on Hands (Dare2 Records; October 5, 2010), ...

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Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun (1968)

Source: Something Else!
August 27, 2010

By Pico Note: This is a slightly abridged version of the inaugural article in the long-running “Whack Jazz" series, first appearing on July 11, 2006 in the forerunner site to Something Else Reviews, Da Blog by Daslob. Machine Gun remains to me the gold standard for all thrash-jazz records, one that all other such albums are measured against. Peter Brötzmann himself have made plenty of great records since then but never completely recaptured the magic of these sesssions (although F*ck ...

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Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook up - Actionspeak (2010)

Source: Something Else!
August 27, 2010

By Mark Saleski Many years ago, while stuck in traffic during the evening commute, I heard a radio segment on microtonal composer Easely Blackwood. I had read about things like microtones, 24-note equal tunings, and the like, but somehow none of the music had ever made it's way into my ears. Some of the pieces played that evening were so striking to my ears, so otherworldly, that I almost had to pull over onto the side of the road to ...

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David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (2009)

Source: Something Else!
August 27, 2010

By Tom Johnson I have two amazing young daughters who constantly remind me of the distance in age between them and me. The youngest is too young to ask much, but is plenty busy with toys and books, and being the family comedian. My older daughter, however, she is full of questions and I, while not necessarily full of answers, have seen enough of the world to have a feeling or two about how things go most of the time. ...

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