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For Sale: Five Million Cash & The Music

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David Haney & Julian Priester For Sale: Five Million Cash Cadence Jazz Records 2006 David Haney Trio The Music CIMP 2006 Two new releases feature the inspired ...

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Mambo Maniacs: Live in Buenos Aires, The Bible, Brazil

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Stone Alliance Live in Buenos Aires Mambo Maniacs 2006 Stone Alliance The Bible Mambo Maniacs 2006 Marcio Montarroyos Featuring Stone Alliance Brazil Mambo Maniacs 2006

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Sabir Mateen: Prophecies Come to Pass

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Prophecies Come to Pass is the debut recording of Sabir Mateen's compositions by his group The Shapes, Textures, and Sound Ensemble. Recorded live in Brooklyn in September 2005, the CD was edited by Mateen and Swell and mastered under Mateen's direction. It's dedicated to the late great Raphe Malik, who at one time played with the ...

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Dom Minasi: The Vampire's Revenge

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Dom Minasi's magnum opus, The Vampire's Revenge, is a rich feast of music featuring no less than 22 of contemporary jazz's strongest players. Inspired by Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, songs like “Who's Your Dentist? and “Just One More Bite show Minasi clearly enjoying the vampire myth--but make no mistake, this two-CD set is a serious project, ...

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Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music

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Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music Jeannie Cheatham Hardcover; 416 pages ISBN: 0292712936 University of Texas Press 2006 Jeannie Cheatham's recently released autobiography Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music is the exuberant tale of one of ...

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Engine Studies: New Orleans Suite and Three Fifths

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Andrew Lamb Trio New Orleans Suite Engine Studios 2006 Paul Steinbeck Quintet Three Fifths Engine Studios 2005 New Orleans Suite was recorded by the Andrew Lamb Trio ...

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Ursel Schlicht: Einstein's Dreams & Photosphere

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Ursel Schlicht is a unique talent, a pianist whose gifts shine out over many fields. She explores jazz, improvised and new music, and she has composed for dance theatre and improvised for silent films. All this, plus her PhD, her years as a music teacher and her strong interest in intercultural musical exchange, make Schlicht a ...

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Daniel Carter / William Parker / Federico Ughi: The Dream

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577 Records is putting out some of the most interesting improvised music today, and The Dream is yet another high quality offering. Featuring the trio of Daniel Carter, William Parker and Federico Ughi, the CD is an embarrassment of riches, bursting with music of great imagination played with the highest skill and intention. Carter ...

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Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen

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Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz QueenBill EganHardcover; 368 pagesISBN: 0-8108-5007-9Scarecrow Press2006 Singer Florence Mills (1896-1927) is known to most jazz fans as a name in the footnotes, the woman who inspired Duke Ellington's marvelous composition “Black Beauty." Mills' obscurity is due mostly to the ...

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Miles Davis: The Complete Concert 1964 / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Other Valentines

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Miles Davis The Complete Concert 1964 Sony 2005 On February 12th, 1964, Miles Davis played a benefit concert at Lincoln Center to help register black voters in Louisiana and Mississippi. Davis and his luminous sidemen--George Coleman on tenor sax, Ron Carter on bass, Herbie Hancock on piano and eighteen-year-old Tony ...


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