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Ubiquitous Ace Session Guitarist/Producer Louie Shelton Interviewed at AAJ

Ubiquitous Ace Session Guitarist/Producer Louie Shelton Interviewed at AAJ

Hundreds of millions of people have heard him play without having heard of him. A veteran session guitarist, Louie Shelton played on a slew of million-selling records during his three decades in Los Angeles. His credits include female vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Whitney Houston; ...

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Louie Shelton: In Session

Read "Louie Shelton: In Session" reviewed by Alan Bryson


Hundreds of millions of people have heard him play without having heard of him. A veteran session guitarist, Louie Shelton played on a slew of million-selling records during his three decades in Los Angeles. His credits include female vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Whitney Houston; ...

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Petra van Nuis / Andy Brown: Far Away Places

Read "Far Away Places" reviewed by Jack Huntley


The combination of a female vocalist backed by a solo guitar is not a heavily- exploited instrumentation, and there's a reason for that--it's very hard to pull off. While Ella Fitzgerald's recordings with Joe Pass are a perhaps the gold standard, overwhelmingly the piano is the stand-alone accompaniment instrument of choice for singers. But vocalist Petra ...

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Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues

Read "Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that ...

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Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood

Read "Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Ella Fitzgerald Twelve Nights in Hollywood Verve Music Group 2009 Ella Fitzgerald needs no introduction to most jazz fans because the “First Lady of Swing" had a remarkably productive recording and performing career that spanned from the mid '30s until around 1990, when multiple health problems forced her ...

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Vicki Burns: Live at Anna's Jazz Island

Read "Live at Anna's Jazz Island" reviewed by Jeff Winbush


Is it possible to love jazz and not possess the restless spirit of discovery? Probably not. Jazz is a restless art forum and, while it respects it's rich and varied history, it always welcomes talented young bloods to renew and replenish the pool of talent.Vicki Burns isn't a widely known jazz singer--yet. Some honcho ...

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Classic

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2009

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Golden Voices Collection

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2009

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Ella Fitzgerald Mildred Bailey Legendary Radio Broadcasts

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Ella Fitzgerald: A Tisket, A Tasket; Traffic Jam; A Lover Is Blue; Dodgin' the Blues; 'Taint What You Do; Confessin'; Blue Lou; What's The Matter With Me?; I Want the Waiter; Let's Get Together; A-Tisket, A Tasket; Limehouse Blues; This Changing World; Oh; Johnny; Oh!; Diga Diga Do; Thank Your Stars; Take It From the Top; Vagabond Dreams; Break 'Em Down; Let's Get Together. Mildred Bailey: Hold On; It Had To Be You; Summertime; Sleighride in July; The Sheik of Araby; Swing Low; Sweet Chariot; Enchantment; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Which of the Great 48; Hold On; Hold On; I'm Beginning To See the Light; Trummin' On A Riff; I Didn't Know About You; Bugle Call Rag; He's Funny That Way; Night Music; Rosetta; St. Louis Blues; I'm Gonna See My Baby; Hold On; Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child; At Home With A Gnome; Stompin' At the Savoy; Evalina; Hold On.

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Newport Jazz Festival Live At Carnegie Hall

Label: Sony Records Int'l
Released: 2009
Track listing: I've Gotta Be Me; Good Morning Heartache; Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today); Medley: Don't Worry 'Bout Me / These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You); Any Old Blues; A-Tisket A-Tasket; Indian Summer; Smooth Sailing; You Turned The Tables On Me; Nice Work If You Can Get It; I've Got A Crush On You; Medley: I Can't Get Started / The Young Man With The Horn / 'Round Midnight; Star Dust; C Jam Blues; Medley: Taking A Chance On Love / I'm In The Mood For Love; Lemon Drop; Some Of These Days; People;


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