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Radio Bevort with Marcelo Nisinman: Perfect Organization

by Ian Patterson
September 22, 2011

Radio Bevort with Marcelo Nisinman Perfect Organization Gateway Music 2011 Multi reed player/composer/vocalist Pernille Bévort 's last outing as leader was in 2007, on the impressive Playground 1 (Calibrated), with pianist Marie Louise Schmidt. Bevort, however, hasn't been idle, participating in several big band recordings and performing in ...

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Chick Corea / Eddie Gomez / Paul Motian: Further Explorations

by John Kelman
September 21, 2011

Chick Corea / Eddie Gomez / Paul Motian Further Explorations Universal Classics and Jazz Japan 2011 Three still-living jazz icons team up on Further Explorations, an album inspired by another legend whose influence remains unequivocal, 30 years after passing away, age 51, in 1980. Gaining initial exposure as a member of ...

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Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967 - The Bootleg Series Vol. 1

by Doug Collette
September 20, 2011

The Miles Davis Quintet Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1Legacy Recordings2011 With the compact disc in its waning stages of dominance as a medium for music, The Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967--The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 restates the case for the archiving ...

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Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: MTO Plays Sly

by Chris May
September 15, 2011

Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory OrchestraMTO Plays SlyThe Royal Potato Family2011 The Sly Stone songbook is a solid gold thing, and it is strange that it is so rarely revisited. Then again, repertory tributes are generally paid to artists who have passed. Stone is still with us, although, ...

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Eddie Vedder: Ukulele Songs

by Kevin Davis
September 11, 2011

Eddie Vedder Ukulele Songs Monkey Wrench 2011 The ballad “More Than You Know" was written by Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu in 1929, a souvenir from a long gone era that a romantic might be tempted to posit represented “simpler times." Insofar as it's unlikely that anyone reading this ...

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SFJAZZ Collective: Live in New York Season 8 - Music of Stevie Wonder

by John Kelman
September 7, 2011

SFJAZZ Collective Live in New York Season 8: Music of Stevie Wonder SFJAZZ 2011 One old adage says, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But another says, “Change is good." For the first time in its eight touring seasons, the SFJAZZ Collective has found a way to manage ...

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Randy Brecker with DR Big Band: The Jazz Ballad Song Book

by Andrew J. Sammut
September 7, 2011

Randy Brecker with DR Big Band The Jazz Ballad Song Book HalfNote Records 2011 On The Jazz Ballad Song Book, trumpeter Randy Brecker, the Danish Radio Big Band and Danish National Chamber Orchestra approach the slow, wistful side of this repertoire as one dimension among others. They expand their view ...

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Charles Lloyd / Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert

by John Kelman
September 6, 2011

When ECM enticed him back into action in 1989, who knew that reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Charles Lloyd's career wouldn't just kick-start, it would signal a period of ascendancy that's moved from one creative height to another ever since? Two decades later, his stable quartet of young Americans rivals the stellar group responsible for Atlantic megahits including 1966's ...

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Various Artists: The New Universe Music Festival 2010 - Abstract Logix Live!

by Ian Patterson
September 1, 2011

Various Artists The New Universe Music Festival 2010: Abstract Logix Live! Abstract Logix 2011 On November 20-21 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina became the destination for fans of cutting edge fusion/improvised music, drawn from all over the world by the embarrassment of riches that the New Universe Music festival offered in tribute ...

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Dawda Jobarteh: Northern Light Gambian Night

by Chris May
August 31, 2011

Dawda JobartehNorthern Light Gambian NightSterns Music2011 As the Gaddafis, Assads, Kim Jongs and other poisoned bloodlines (how long have you got?) remind us, dynastic succession is usually bad news. But in African music, bloodlines are benign: from childhood, a musician learns his art from a family elder ...