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Teresa Salgueiro: O Misterio

by Nenad Georgievski
June 29, 2012

Teresa SalgueiroO MisterioClepsidra2012 When Portuguese singer Teresa Salgueiro sings, there is hardly anything more beautiful to experience; it's not necessary to speak the language to understand the scope and the power of the emotions she conveys. She has a voice with a naturally sensual glide that is simply ...

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Loose Tubes: Sad Afrika

by John Kelman
June 28, 2012

Loose TubesSäd AfrikaLost Marble2012With virtually none of its discography available on CD--and the only one, Open Letter (EG, 1988), shamefully out-of-print--it's no mean accomplishment that Britain's Loose Tubes has remained, if not exactly legendary, then at least firmly etched into the minds of those aware of them. Of ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers

by Mark Redlefsen
June 25, 2012

Wadada Leo SmithTen Freedom SummersCuneiform Records2012Jazz music and the Civil Rights Movement in America have moved on parallel tracks from the 20th century up until the present. Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958) by saxophonist Sonny Rollins, We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Candid, 1960) by drummer Max Roach ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: Live - Everybody's Talkin'

by Doug Collette
June 24, 2012

Tedeschi Trucks Band Live: Everybody's Talkin' Sony Masterworks 2012 Back in 2009, vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks formed a band they dubbed Soul Stew Revival, devoted almost exclusively to vintage r&b material. The presence of cover material on Live Everybody's Talkin' hearkens to that side project which, in the ...

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Sonny Landreth: Elemental Journey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 23, 2012

Sonny Landreth Elemental Journey Landfall Records 2012 How did we arrive at the phenomenon that is guitarist Sonny Landreth? In his autobiography, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Press, 1969), African American composer W. C. Handy detailed his experience of sleeping on the train platform in ...

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Arild Andersen: Celebration

by John Kelman
June 20, 2012

Arild Andersen Celebration ECM Records 2012 With all the activities surrounding the 40th anniversary of ECM Records in 2009--from a three-day festival-within-a-festival at that year's Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany, and the budget-priced Touchstone Series reissue of forty essential ECM titles, to the publication of an all-German book of commissioned ...

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The Thing with Barry Guy: Metal!

by John Sharpe
June 19, 2012

The Thing with Barry GuyMetal!No Business Records2012In science, a substance which causes an increase in the rate of a chemical reaction is called a catalyst. In musical combinations, the inclusion (or sometimes even subtraction) of one player can have a similar result, often completely altering the regular dynamic. ...

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The Mothership Returns

by John Kelman
June 19, 2012

When keyboardist Chick Corea announced--following a successful world tour of his reunited 1970s-era fusion juggernaut Return to Forever, which, featuring guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White, included a high octane 2008 performance that was one of the best-attended in the Ottawa International Jazz Festival's three-decade history--that he'd be reuniting the earlier ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 18, 2012

Wadada Leo SmithTen Freedom SummersCuneiform Records2012Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers is four and a half hours of music, spread over four compact discs. The mind struggles to make coherent sense of so large an undertaking. Smith has said that there are no recurring musical ...

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Spirits Up Above - The Atlantic Years 1965-1976

by Chris May
June 14, 2012

Rahsaan Roland KirkSpirits Up Above: The Atlantic Years 1965-1976Warner Jazz2012He was as funky as singer James Brown. With three horns in his mouth, he sounded like the entire JB reed section. And onstage, with a truckload of instruments around his neck, he was the hardest working man in ...