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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Texas Flood: 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition

Read "Texas Flood: 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 9, 2013

Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn's ascendancy into the mainstream in 1983 via his debut album launched more than a blues revival. The release of Texas Flood, now available in a 2CD edition, signaled a paradigm shift where coexisting demographics (such as the MTV ephemera of the time) fought for audiences.As noted in the extremely informative, ...

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Kat Gang: Kat Gang

Read "Kat Gang" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 9, 2013

Vocalist Kat Gang must have been thinking of the old show business adage, “always leave them wanting more," when she conceived of and recorded this four-song EP; this sub-sixteen-minute musical appetizer whets the appetite, as Gang inhabits each song with a world-wise voice and delivery, and certainly leaves room for a larger portion to fill the ...

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The Discordian Trio: Hazlos Manzanos

Read "Hazlos Manzanos" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 9, 2013

The Discordian Trio formed in Edinburgh in 2008. releasing its eponymous debut on Fabrikant Records the same year. Hazlos Manzanos is the band's third album, a varied and fascinating collection with an eccentric edge. The album title refers to recording engineer Manzano Linares: a well-deserved accolade, for Linares has done a fine job in capturing the ...

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Cave Women: Cave Women

Read "Cave Women" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 9, 2013

Scarcely the most appropriate name. There's nothing primitive or brutal about this five-woman outfit from Sacramento, California. Cave Women's debut is a gentle, dreamy mix of original compositions influenced primarily by bossa nova and Celtic folk. Antonio Carlos Jobim meets Loreena McKennit? There are even--thanks to Emily Messick's accordion--occasional echoes of French chanson. ...

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Dan Phillips BKK Trio: Bangkok Edge

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by Dan Bilawsky
February 8, 2013

Thailand isn't exactly known the world over as a jazz mecca, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its fair share of talent in this department; one need look no further than the back cover of guitarist Dan Phillips' Bangok Edge to discover the names of some of the movers and shakers on the Thai jazz ...

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Jeremy Woolhouse: The Persistence of Dreaming

Read "The Persistence of Dreaming" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 8, 2013

The translation of melancholy into music can be a beautiful thing in any genre. Jazz, with its focus, on improvisation (to varying degrees), allows an artist to explore the nuances of mood. A framework that gives way to in-the-moment rumination or flights of fancy can make for the most evocative of sounds.Melbourne, Australia-based pianist ...

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Luis Muñoz: Luz

by James Nadal
February 8, 2013

Akin to wind and rain, music can no longer be confined or characterized by geography; it knows no borders and wanders free. In the case of Latin America, music has gone full circle in that jazz musicians initially sought inspiration and ideas from the United States, but are now realizing that their own regional cultures can ...

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Emy Tseng: Sonho

Read "Sonho" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
February 8, 2013

Fifty-plus years after saxophonist Stan Getz and singer/guitarist Astrud Gilberto captured composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and served up bossa nova for popular consumption, musicians continue to eagerly return to Brazilian classics. Logically, the integration of attractive bossa textures with the Great American Songbook has been another phenomenon. Thus, the bossa nova resource has been incredibly robust ...

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Carlos Alves Zingaro – Jean-Luc Cappozzo – Jérôme Bourdellon – Nicolas Lelièvre: Live at Total Meeting

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 8, 2013

Questo notevole live realizzato nel dicembre 2010 al Petit Faucheux di Tours nel corso del Total Meeting Festival vede all'opera uno sfolgorante quartetto impegnato lungo tre ampie “composizioni istantanee" (da notare che, in copertina, i tempi della seconda e della terza sono invertiti) nate dalla pura e semplice sinergia tra le forze in campo. Detto così ...

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Pasquale Innarella Quartet: Uomini di terra

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 8, 2013

Uomini di terra è disco verace, sincero, popolare nel significato alto del termine, in poche parole militante, come sempre più raramente ci capita di ascoltare. Non solo perché Uomini di terra è disco dedicato a Giuseppe Di Vittorio, parlamentare e sindacalista illuminato, che sulla coscienza e sui diritti dei lavoratori, sull'orgogliosa appartenenza al territorio ha incentrato ...