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Sony Music's Popmarket.com Releases Complete Albums Collections By Jazz Masters Stanley Clarke & George Duke
Stanley Clarke—The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection and The George Duke Band—The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection Both titles available for pre-order at Popmarket.com in advance of January 24, 2012, release date The Ultimate Jazz Festival continues as Sony Music's PopMarket.com presents Complete Albums Collections from the Epic Records archives by two of the greatest names ...
Stan Kenton-NOVA Jazz Orchestra / Baker's Dozen Big Band / Danny D'Imperio and the Bloviators
by Jack Bowers
Stan Kenton Orchestra / NOVA Jazz OrchestraDouble Feature, Vol. 2Tantara Productions2012 One of the more difficult aspects of reviewing Tantara's series of impressive salutes to Stan Kenton and his music is knowing where to begin. As on Volume 1 of the label's Double Feature (with Volume 3 ...
Phish: Hampton/Winston-Salem '97
by Doug Collette
Less than halfway through Phish's Hampton/Winston-Salem '97, it's very clear what distinguishes these shows, documented in this seven-CD box, as singular entries in the band's pantheon of concert performances. The funk pervading this music makes a consistent backdrop for lengthy improvisations, the likes of which merely sprawled earlier in the group's career. Entries like ...
Penguin In Bondage / The Little Known History Of The Mothers Of Invention - EP
By Frank Zappa
Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 2011
Central Bucks Jazz Presents "The Music of Frank Zappa" with Ed Palermo on January 11
The Central Bucks Music Department would like to invite you and your students to an exciting event happening on Wednesday, January 11, 2012. The CB East, South, and West Jazz Ensembles will be hosting New York jazz artist Ed Palermo, founder of the Frank Zappa Big Band. The concert will feature Mr. Palermo's (fantastic) big band ...
Stefano Bollani: And Now For Something Completely Different
by Ian Patterson
Impersonating singer Paolo Conte and other Italian cultural icons comes as naturally to pianist Stefano Bollani as interpreting the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Michael Jackson, Brian Wilson, or Maurice Ravel--or indeed, writing novels. To say that Bollani is multitalented is a bit like saying Art Tatum could play the piano a bit. Oh, and Bollani ...
Mats/Morgan Band: Live
by Glenn Astarita
In their teens, drummer Morgan Ågren and keyboardist Mats Öberg were invited to perform with Frank Zappa and, as the story goes, the Swedish duo formed this phenomenal ensemble that exercised a jaw-dropping mode of execution within the progressive-rock schema, amid some Zappa and jazz-centric influences. Revered for its otherworldly approach to the genre and superior ...
"If You Like The Beatles..." (Backbeat Books)
"Pollock is perhaps the most important scholar of American pop music." —Greg Shaw, Bomp Bookshelf The Beatles are arguably the most influential cultural phenomena of the 20th century. They inspired countless bands that followed in their wake. But who inspired the Beatles? Author Bruce Pollock tackled that question in his latest book, If You Like The ...
