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News: Education

Saint Blues Guitar Workshop

MEMPHIS, TN: Saint Blues Guitar Workshop announced the suspension of their Korean imported Pro Series, and that they are moving their USA made Workshop Series and Custom production back to Memphis where the brand started in 1984. There are two main reasons for these moves: the desire to focus on production in the US, and the ...

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Clapton

By Eric Clapton

Label: Reprise
Released: 2010

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News: Performance / Tour

Roomful of Blues Celebrates New Release in Sellersville

"Excellent...marvelous wall-to-wall grooves—between the wicked guitar work and the brassy horn section, things never stop swinging."—USA TODAY The horn-fueled, jumping, swinging, award-winning band Roomful of Blues, touring in support of their new Alligator CD Hook, Line & Sinker, will perform live at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Friday, January 21, 2011. Roomful of Blues, according ...

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Article: Album Review

Ed Puddick Big Band: Guys and Dolls

Read "Guys and Dolls" reviewed by Robert J. Robbins

by Robert J. Robbins

In the hands of the twenty-something bandleader and arranger Ed Puddick and his equally young, London-based seventeen-piece ensemble, Frank Loesser's classic Broadway score joins the ranks of those which have been adapted for big band (Stan Kenton's West Side Story, Les Brown's South Pacific, and Ted Heath's The Sound of Music all come to mind). Puddick's ...

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Article: Interview

Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection

Read "Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Barry Cleveland

Read "Take Five With Barry Cleveland" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Barry Cleveland: Barry Cleveland's guitar playing is rooted in progressive and psychedelic rock, branching into ambient, experimental, funk, and various ethnic styles--enhanced by cutting-edge electronics and unorthodox playing techniques. He's also a deft engineer and producer with an iconoclastic approach to recording and mixing. Cleveland released his first commercial album--Mythos--on Larry Fast's ...

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Article: Film Review

Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010

Read "Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Eric ClaptonCrossroads Guitar Festival 2010Rhino2010 The latest in a series of festivals created, in part, to gather funds to subsidize the rehab center guitarist Eric Clapton founded in 2004, Crossroads 2010 may not have had the longest roster or the most varied list of participants, but most ...

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News: Award / Grant

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Nominated For Best Contemporary Blues Album

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Nominated For Best Contemporary Blues Album

Congratulations to the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, who last night received a GRAMMY nomination in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category for recent release, LIVE! In Chicago. The announcement also marks Roadrunner Records imprint, Loud & Proud Records, first GRAMMY nomination. This is Kenny's 5th GRAMMY nomination. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd band is honored to be ...

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Article: Interview

Barry Cleveland: Beyond Convention

Read "Barry Cleveland: Beyond Convention" reviewed by Anil Prasad

by Anil Prasad

The personal is the political for guitarist and composer Barry Cleveland. That perspective is evident on Hologramatron (MoonJune, 2010), his new album featuring songs that serve as a response to the socio-political and religious narratives woven by the voices dominating today's 24-hour news cycles. Cleveland is unafraid of telling it exactly as he sees it, with ...

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Article: Film Review

Rory Gallagher: Ghost Blues & The Beat Club Sessions: The Story Of Rory Gallagher

Read "Rory Gallagher: Ghost Blues & The Beat Club Sessions: The Story Of Rory Gallagher" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Rory Gallagher Ghost Blues & The Beat Club Sessions: The Story of Rory Gallagher Eagle Video 2010 Guitarist Rory Gallagher never wanted to be a star. He only wanted to make music on his own terms and have the opportunity to play that music for an audience ...


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