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Sunday Spin: McCartney

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2008

OUR WEEKLY SALUTE TO GREAT ALBUMS DIPS INTO SOME POST-BEATLES CONTENTMENT

This week in 1970, Paul McCartney's first solo album, the simply titled McCartney, began a three week residence atop the U.S. charts. Mostly recorded at his home studio (with a few sessions at Abbey Road under the pseudonym “Billy Martin"), his first Lennon-less effort is a paean to domesticity and simple pleasures. With the mood of a more barebones White Album without an editor, ...

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Xavier Rudd Gets Blue

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2008

NEW ALBUM FROM BELOVED AUSTRALIAN IMPORT ARRIVES IN AUGUST

Dark Shades of Blue Best-selling Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd is set to release his seventh album, Dark Shades of Blue, on August 19. Confirmed appearances at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass and Bumbershoot festivals in August and the Austin City Limits festival in September will bookend a headlining tour that will find Rudd bringing his live performance to cities across the U.S.

Dark Shades of Blue is dusky and cool, ...

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Jim Hobbs, Joe Morris, Luther Gray - The Story of Mankind (Not Two, 2008) ****

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2008

Saxophonist Jim Hobbs is probably best known as the leader of the insufficiently known Fully Celebrated Orchestra, his quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum, Timo Shanko and Django Corranza, a band that is funky, free and often hard-driving as a rock band.On “The Story Of Mankind", Hobbs joins forces with Joe Morris on bass and Luter Gray on drums, for a slightly but not entirely different approach. The music is still rhythmic and free, but a lot more expressive ...

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John Densmore's Jazz Education

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2008

John Densmore, the former drummer for the Doors offers an essay describing the infinite musical knowledge gleaned from his club-hopping days well before he ever met Jim Morrison. THE GREAT jazz drummer Elvin Jones carried on a constant musical conversation with John Coltrane. It inspired me to have that kind of dialogue with Jim Morrison. Not that I was in Elvin's league, but his courage gave me the “huevos" to stop the steady rhythm on the Doors' “When the Music's ...

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Minus the Bear:planet of Ice

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2008

By: Chase Sewell

Spin this disc for the first time and it's clear “she's gone across the border, man." And no, your CD isn't skipping; the strategic glitches are part of the magic. Be it math rock, indie rock or experimental rock, by trying to pigeonhole this band into tidy little genres you end up putting the pin in the butterfly instead of just letting it fly free. Though the music is certainly elusive to define, trying to locate influences ...

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Happy Birthday Bob Dylan!

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2008

DYLAN TURNS 67 CELEBRANTS SALUTE HIM FROM WATCHTOWER

Born May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, Bob Dylan continues to age like great whiskey, gaining flavor and smoothness with every passing year. The great man (why stop at musician or songwriter with this guy?) is living proof that the phrase “golden years" can mean something entirely different if one remains active and engaged with the world.

For those wanting to wallow in a Dylan-y pile today we point ...

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Marc Ducret and Benoit Delbecq - Bleu Sur Sca NE (Sans Bruit, 2008) ****

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2008

French guitarist Marc Ducret is best known for his collaborations with Tim Berne, but he already has close to a dozen own releases. French pianist Benoit Delbecq has played with numerous musicians, including Evan Parker, Franois Houle, with the French Kartet, recently with Poolplayers, and he has of course also released several own CDs. I think Ducret and Delbecq played only once together on a record and that is on Ducret's “Qui Parle". This duo recording is a live performance ...

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American Popular Song and World War II: Part 2

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2008

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