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Sarah Vaughan "Divine: The Jazz Albums 1954-1958" On Verve Select

Sarah Vaughan "Divine: The Jazz Albums 1954-1958" On Verve Select

Sarah Vaughan: Divine: The Jazz Albums 1954-1958 Sarah Vaughan was already considered one of the greatest singers of her era when she signed with Mercury Records in 1954. She was given the charge to record jazz for the subsidiary EmArcy, pop for the main label Mercury, though the assignments sometimes overlapped. No matter the imprint, during ...

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Allan Holdsworth's "FLATTire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie" on CD & Digital Download

Allan Holdsworth's "FLATTire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie" on CD & Digital Download

MoonJune Records is once again proud to re-release another classic Allan Holdsworth album, FLATTire. The album is subtitled Music From A Non-Existent Movie, and easily qualifies as one of his most mysterious, yet introspective works. Originally released in 2001, the album had a small print run, received little notice and no fanfare. Comprised predominantly of performances ...

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Koby Israelite Balkanizes the Blues (and Vice Versa) on "Blues from Elsewhere"

Koby Israelite Balkanizes the Blues (and Vice Versa) on "Blues from Elsewhere"

If Jimmy Page played accordion, and if Taraf de Haidouks sang the blues, they’d be partying along side Israeli-born, London-based multi-instrumentalist Koby Israelite. With devil-may-care daring, the Balkan and blues-loving maverick brings together the coolest sounds of gritty roots, hard-hitting rock, and the joyous mayhem of a good East European wedding band on Blues from Elsewhere ...

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Lenny White Dips Into Archives for "Lenny White Live"

Lenny White Dips Into Archives for "Lenny White Live"

Grammy Award-winning artist Lenny White, an influential drummer and longtime member of the fusion supergroup Return To Forever as well as a prolific producer, has delved deep into his own past and come up with another gem in Lenny White Live. A document of a tour of Japan in 1997, this powerful funk-fusion outing features an ...

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Turntables on Las Rambles

When Nickodemus and Mariano started the Turntables on the Hudson (TOTH) parties in 1998 it was one of the first late night outdoor events in NYC. With the addition of Groove Collective founding member Nappy G on percussion, the party became an adventurous, young, free-spirited community known worldwide for its eclectic musical blend. In the past ...

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Pianist Eldar Djangirov Tandem Releases: New Jazz Trio Opus Plus Solo Classical Debut

Pianist Eldar Djangirov Tandem Releases: New Jazz Trio Opus Plus Solo Classical Debut

Few artists could record two albums over the course of one week in different musical genres, with disparate personnel, and at separate studios. Yet New York City-based pianist Eldar Djangirov has done just that, and proven himself musically ambidextrous as evidenced by two remarkable, self-produced recordings for his debut on the maverick, multi-Grammy® nominated Motéma Music ...

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Kaleidoscope Jukebox Releases "Infinite Reflections" on Rhythm & Culture

Kaleidoscope Jukebox Releases "Infinite Reflections" on Rhythm & Culture

Rhythm & Culture’s newest signing is Kaleidoscope Jukebox, the multi instrumentalist electronic Indiana native Clint Carty, a producer of global downtempo music. Clint started out DJ'ing and producing at the turn of the century and has slowly but surely chipped away to form the sculpture that is now “his sound.” Infinite Reflection showcases Kaleidscopes Jukebox’s diverse ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Easy Star All-Stars: Thrillah

Read "Easy Star All-Stars: Thrillah" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Ten years ago, the Easy Star All-Stars began a series of albums that transformed landmarks of pop musical culture into thick and easy flowing reggae. They started with Dub Side of the Moon (2003, Easy Star Records) (from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon), continued through Radiodread (2006, Easy Star) (from Radiohead's OK Computer) and ...

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Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Read "Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Volume 2 in Legacy's Bootleg Series features Miles Davis' “great lost band" with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, keyboardist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette, recorded in July and November 1969. This band, sometimes called Davis' “third great quintet," never recorded as a standalone ensemble, although it served as the core of the larger group ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Burks: Show of Strength

Read "Show of Strength" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Michael “Iron Man" Burks grew up playing guitar. A quick study, he soon began leading the blues, rhythm and blues and soul house bands that backed O.V. Wright, Johnnie Taylor and other stars as they passed through the R&B circuit near his Arkansas hometown. Then, Burks put his own career aside for two decades to make ...


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