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News: Recording

Grand Pianoramax: New Album and Tour

August 17, 2010

After two years on the road including a 10-city tour in the US opening for Maceo Parker and concerts from Istanbul to Mumbai, Grand Pianoramax again teams up with underground hiphop heroes Mike Ladd, Black Cracker and for the first time electronic/tabla player Karsh Kale for a brand new album due out this fall on ObliqSound. ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Have You Ever Wanted to Give Another Living Creature a Second Chance at Life?

August 16, 2010

From All About Jazz Senior Editor Chris M. Slawecki “It's one of the most challenging things I've ever done, but certainly one of the most rewarding," words spoken by an adopter of a puppy mill breeder dog in one of many journeys shared through Puppy Mill Dogs SPEAK! Happy Stories and Helpful Advice, written by Christine ...

News: Event

Isaac Hayes Highway Renaming Ceremony

August 16, 2010

Please join us for a special graveside ceremony to commemmorate the renaming of a stretch of I-40 the “Isaac Hayes Memorial Highway." Friday, August 20, 2010, 10am Memorial Park Funeral Home & Cemetery 5668 Poplar Avenue | Memphis, TN Speakers will include Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, David Porter, Kirk Whalum, and others. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Pianist / Vocalist Marcia Ball to Perform in Camden

August 13, 2010

"A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist...where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet."—USA TODAY Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball, touring in support of her Grammy-nominated CD Peace, Love & BBQ, will perform at the Camden Waterfront Backyard BBQ in Camden on Sunday, September 5, 2010. Ball's groove-laden New Orleans R&B, heart-wrenching ballads and driving Gulf Coast ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Oreka TX: Once Endangered, Now on Tour

August 13, 2010

Oreka TX, North American Tour It can be a game, a friendly duel. It's a dialogue, where it's just as important to listen modestly as to make a bold statement. It can be made of wood, ice, stone. The answer to this riddle: a Basque percussion instrument, the txalaparta, wooden planks laid over trestles and struck ...

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News: Recording

New Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Live in Chicago Out September 28

August 10, 2010

Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records is excited to announce that latest signing Kenny Wayne Shepherd is releasing Live in Chicago, available on 9/28/10. Recorded in Chicago's House of Blues during the critically acclaimed 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads tour, Live in Chicago showcases Kenny and his band, Noah Hunt, Chris Layton, Scott Nelson and Riley ...

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News: Festival

Major Music Programming at 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Includes Special Performance by Pianist Vijay Iyer

August 10, 2010

The 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival will feature its first large-scale music programming this year with three major musical presentations. Jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer whose acclaimed album Historicity topped 2009 critics' lists, will offer a special performance at Eastern State Penitentiary on Saturday, September 11 where he will play within the art installation Release, ...

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News: Recording

NPR Music Advance Streams New Albums from Ray LaMontagne & Esperanza Spalding

August 9, 2010

NPR MUSIC STREAMS ENTIRE ALBUMS FROM RAY LAMONTAGNE AND ESPERANZA SPALDING: “FIRST LISTENS" AVAILABLE AT NPR.ORG/MUSIC NPR Music offers advance album streams of new albums by Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs and Esperanza Spalding. Both are available for free, on-demand listening now until their release on August 17 at www.npr.org/music as part of the site's ...

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News: Recording

Jacques Schwarz-Bart Featuring Stephanie McKay: 'Rise Above' on Dreyfus Jazz August 31

August 6, 2010

Soulful sax man Jacques Schwarz-Bart makes his Dreyfus Jazz recording debut with Rise Above, an eclectic blend of jazz and neo-soul featuring the stirring vocal stylings of former Brooklyn Funk Essentials singer Stephanie McKay. Rise Above is an epic culmination of this son of a Black Guadeloupean mother and a French Jewish father's diverse experiences. “The ...

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News: Recording

Rahim AlHaj & the Little Earth Orchestra Find a Global Voice for Peace

August 6, 2010

Asylum in New Mexican Maqam: Rahim AlHaj and the Little Earth Orchestra Find a Global Voice for Peace Via Iraqi Sounds In the dry mountains of New Mexico, an Iraqi oud (lute) master raises homing pigeons. Persecuted for a single potent song, he fled his native land, only to be deprived of his beloved instruments at ...