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Jazz Musician of the Day: Andy Summers

Jazz Musician of the Day: Andy Summers

All About Jazz is celebrating Andy Summers' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Andy SummersIn the summer of 97, millions of people were beguiled by an Andy Summers guitar lick, just as they were regularly in the decade previous. A single by a certain rap impresario copped the ...

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First You Build A Cloud...

Label: R.A.R.E.
Released: 2007
Track listing: First You Build a Cloud; Skywalking Woman; Fez; Bring on the Night; World Piece; Love in the Time Of; Now I'm Free; Stone Town; Fingertips on Earth; The Girl from Reykjavik; Flow; Sarabande.

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Splendid Brazil

Label: Indie Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Chovendo Na Roseira; Fotografia; Casa Forte; Retrato Em Branco E Preto; Vento Bravo; As Rosas Nào Falam; Campina Grande; Inútil Paisagem; Brasiliance; Lamento; O Ôvo.

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Earth + Sky

Label: Golden Wire
Released: 2003
Track listing: Above The World; Now I'm Free; The Diva Station; Return; Earth & Sky; Parallels; Circus; Roseville; Red Stiletto; I Choose You.

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The Last Dance of Mr X.

Label: BMG
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Big Thing 2. Three Marias 3. Strange Earth 4. Afro Blue 5. Last Dance of Mr. X 6. Lonely Woman 7. We See 8. Rumpelstiltskin 9. Somnabulist 10. Footprints 11. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

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Article: Album Review

Andy Summers: The Last Dance of Mr X.

Read "The Last Dance of Mr X." reviewed by AAJ Staff


Though perhaps best (or at least better) known for his work with The Police, guitarist Andy Summers seems to be doing rather well for himself these days. He may not be filling arenas and attracting screaming teenage girls, but their mothers can scream pretty loud as well, and as it is to them that Mr. Summers ...

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Andy Summers: Peggy's Blue Skylight

Read "Peggy's Blue Skylight" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins


The former Police guitarist assays the multifaceted works of Charles Mingus on this compelling disc, offering updates of the temperamental bassist’s timeless compositions. Summers previously tackled solid material by Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk and other jazzmen on his 1997 project The Last Dance of Mr. X, with bassist Tony Levin and drummer Gregg Bissonette. Peggy’s ...

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Peggy's Blue Skylight

Label: RCA Victor
Released: 2000
Track listing: Boogie Stop Shuffle; Tonight At Noon; Reincanation Of A Lovebird; Opus Three; Cumbia Jazz Fusion; Remember Rockefeller At Attica; Peggy's Blue Skylight; Weird Nightmare; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Where Can A Man Find Peace?; Free Cell Block F; Self Portrait In Three Colors; Myself When I Am Real.

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Green Chimneys

Label: RCA Records
Released: 1999

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Article: Album Review

Andy Summers: Green Chimneys

Read "Green Chimneys" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Although I don’t mean to sound as though I’m damning with faint praise, Green Chimneys is better than I thought it might be. Guitarist Andy Summers, best known for his work with the rock group the Police, is, as it turns out, a longtime fan of Thelonious Monk, hence this well–meaning if not always riveting tribute ...


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