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Article: Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream

Read "In a Dream" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Gretchen Parlato grew up in a musical household, the daughter of bassist/guitarist Dave Parlato (who worked with Don Ellis, Warne Marsh, Gil Melle and Frank Zappa, among others). She won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition and released her debut CD on her own label the following year; In a Dream is her long awaited ...

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Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars

Read "Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars" reviewed by John Kelman


It's hard to imagine vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in his seventies. Not only does he look and sound like a man 10 years (or more) his junior, but a quick look at the projects he's been involved in over the past few years sound like anything but a septuagenarian resting on his not inconsiderable laurels.

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Article: Film Review

Little Feat: Skin It Back: Live in Germany

Read "Little Feat: Skin It Back: Live in Germany" reviewed by Doug Collette


Little Feat Skin It Back: Live in Germany Eagle Vison 2009 When the original four-man lineup of Little Feat splintered, founding members guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Lowell George, keyboardist/vocalist Bill Payne and drummer/vocalist Richie Hayward enlisted percussionistSam Clayton, bassist Kenny Gradney (from Delaney and Bonnie's band) and guitarist Paul Barrere, at the same ...

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The Grand Wazoo

Label: Rykodisc
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Grand Wazoo; For Calvin (and his next two hitchhikers); Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus; Eat That Question; Blessed Relief.

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Further Modifications

Label: Hoffman Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Big Swifty; Sleep Dirt; Eat That Question; Mr. Green Genes; King Kong; Chunga´s Revenge; Mr. Green Genes;

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Philly '76

Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 2009

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In The 1960s

Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 2009

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Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz

Read "Accomplish Jazz" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


The lineage of guitarists with a lyrical bent is staggering. From Charlie Christian to Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitarists have often been praised not only for their technical skills, but also for their ability to sculpt finely woven lines of melody. Beauty, however, is a strange thing and there is also another school of guitarists to which belongs ...

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Mike Keneally: Scambot 1

Read "Scambot 1" reviewed by John Kelman


If there's anyone carrying on Frank Zappa's legacy today, it's Mike Keneally. A monster guitarist, capable of shredding with the best of them, for many that would be enough. Keneally may have played in Zappa's last touring group before the legendary satirist/composer/guitarist died, too young, in 1993--sharing an equally eclectic, unfettered and label-less view of what ...


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