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Intuitive instruments for improvisers
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All About Jazz
improvise.free.fr asks the question what makes the piano so hard for improvisers and what can be done about it? By way of reply the site offers click-and-play models of alternative keyboards, such as the Janko and Bosanquet designs, as well as chromatic accordeons, plus discussions of what makes a good instrument for improvising as if you were singing in the bath. Other interactive goodies include an atlas of tonespace (everything you ever wanted to know about microtones), guitar chord/arpeggio dictionary ...
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Drum&Bass Meeets Ambient Jazz as E.S.P.RIENS creates new Club Vibe--Free Sample
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All About Jazz
Clare Teal album sells out on first day of website launch
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All About Jazz
The UK's hottest jazz singer Clare Teal was said to be “totally stunned" when she was told that all copies of her very first album “Nice Work" had sold out on the first day that she launched her website. www.clareteal.co.uk
Teal, who released her debut album “That's The Way It Is" for Candid Records last year, said:
“Nice Work" was an album I did ages ago, before I got signed to Candid. It didn't do very ...
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Lou Donaldson's "Lou Takes Off" 45 rpm
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All About Jazz
Hello Blue Note fans, I just thought I’d let you know that there has been a remastered vinyl reissue of Lou Donaldson’s “Lou Takes Off”. A collection of four 12” single sided lp’s set on 45 rpm. These are in fact issued on Quiex Super Vinyl, so you know what that means audiophile's. Both the sound from the original stereo master tape plus the performances are true, swinging perfection on this 1959 production. Sidemen include Blue Note regulars such as ...
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