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Rush - Roll the Bones (Audio Fidelity Remaster) (1991, 2011 Reissue)
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson I have owned four copies of this album—that is to say, three versions of it four times. The first time was the day it came out, September 3, 1991, bought shortly after a college class got out, and then I drove quickly to a friend's place where she put up with me giving it a quick listen. And then, just a couple songs into it, the power went out. Time ticked by as we waited for some ...
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Frank Foster R.I.P.
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
The great composer, band leader, educator, humanitarian and reed player Frank Foster, died today of complications from kidney failure at his home in Chesapeake, Virginia. He was 82. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 23, 1928, Frank Benjamin Foster took up the clarinet at age 11, switching to alto saxophone two years later. He became so proficient on the alto sax that he was playing professionally at age 14 and leading his own 12-piece band while still a senior in ...
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Frank Foster, 1928-2011
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Frank Foster died today following a long period of ill health. He was 82.Foster was important to the Count Basie band as a tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger for more than a decade beginning in 1953. In the reed section, he and Frank Wess teamed up as one of the best-known tenor sax tandems in jazz. Foster later also distinguished himself as a bandleader in his own right and as an educator. He moved beyond his hard bop essence as ...
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Breaking: Amy Winehouse Found Dead...
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Digital Music News
Amy Winehouse was found dead this morning in London, according to information now confirmed by local, MetropolitanPolice. Medics apparently responded to an emergency call during the early-morning hours, only to find the singer unresponsive at her residence. Winehouse may have been pronounced dead just ahead of 4 am, local time. The exact reasons for the death are unclear, though drug-related complications are likely. Results of an autopsy are expected over the next day or so. The dire warning signs were ...
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R.I.P. Amy Winehouse
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JamBase
27-YEARS OLD SINGING SENSATION PASSES Gifted but deeply troubled pop-soul singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home today. At this stage, the police are calling her death “unexplained" and an investigation is underway. After making a critical splash with her 2003 debut, Frank, in the U.K., Winehouse became a worldwide sensation with 2006's Back To Black, catapulted to omnipresence by her hit “Rehab." Her record label, Universal, released a statement today that read in part, “We are ...
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Alex Steinweiss (1917-2011)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For those who grew up in the LP era, the jazz album cover had special meaning. Back when record stores dotted the urban and suburban landscape, you could spend hours flipping through the cardboard squares admiring the cover artwork before flipping them over to read the liner notes. The cover was always the big thrill, the juicer that led to the purchase. One of the earliest pioneers of the art-marketing genre was Alex Steinweiss, who died on July 17 at ...
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Bob Flanigan
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
More than one Rifftides reader has taken me to task for posting nothing about the death of Bob Flanigan, the original lead singer of the vocal-instrumental group The Four Freshmen. Flanigan died on May 15 at his home in Las Vegas. He was 84. As if to validate the group, many of his obituaries dwelled on Flanigan's and the Freshmens' influence on the Beach Boys and other pop performers of the '60s and '70s. The Freshmen validated themselves through excellence ...
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R.I.P. Clarence Clemons
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JamBase
THE BIG MAN IS GONE On the cover of 1975's Born To Run, it is saxophonist Clarence Clemons that Bruce Springsteen leans on, the pair caught in a moment of laughing camaraderie. For decades, Clarence was the rock, at least subtly & psychologically, the entire E Street Band set their foot upon, a presence as much spiritual as it was musical, a rock 'n' roll shaman for one of the genre's great tribes. Clemons suffered a massive stroke on June ...
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