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Beyond The Blue Horizon
Label: CTI Masterworks
Released: 2011
Track listing: So What; The Gentle Rain; All Clear; Ode To A Kudu; Somewhere In The East; All Clear (Alternate Take); Ode To A Kudu (Alternate Take); Somewhere In The East (Alternate Take).
Body Talk
Label: CTI Masterworks
Released: 2011
Track listing: Dance; When Love Has Grown; Plum; Body Talk; Top Of The World; Body Talk (Alternate Take).
White Rabbit
Label: CTI Masterworks
Released: 2011
Track listing: White Rabbit; Theme from "Summer of '42"; Little Train; California Dreaming; El
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Randy Johnston: People Music
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Perhaps more than any other musical instrument, the guitarists of today come drenched in the music of highly diverse musical genres. The instrument has been a fulcrum of expression, from folk, country and blues to jazz and rock--with a smidgen of classical thrown into the mix as well. Thinking about it, the task of developing as ...
George Benson: Guitar Man
by Jeff Winbush
At some point George Benson morphed from a guitarist who occasionally sang into a singer who occasionally played guitar. Benson's Breezin' (Warner Bros, 1976) launched his career trajectory to new heights based upon “This Masquerade," his only vocal turn on the album.But oh, what a vocal “This Masquerade" was. It propelled Breezin' to Number ...
Erik Soderlind: Happening
by Chris Mosey
The sounds on Happening hark back nearly two decades before its creator, Swedish guitarist Erik Söderlind was born--in 1981. They stem from the mid-1960s, when Jimmy Smith revolutionized the way the Hammond B3 electric organ was played and created a new genre of hard bop featuring the Hammond with guitar as second instrument. ...
CTI Celebrates Kudu Legacy: Lonnie Smith, Johnny Hammond, Hank Crawford, Esther Phillips
by Chris May
CTI Masterworks' 40th anniversary reissue program has, until now, focused on producer Creed Taylor's primary label. Two multi-disc sets and 24 single discs have made available on CD cherished CTI LPs by artists such as trumpeters Chet Baker and Freddie Hubbard, saxophonists Paul Desmond and Stanley Turrentine, guitarists George Benson and Kenny Burrell, vibraphonist Milt Jackson ...
George Benson Returns with "Guitar Man" - Concert Dates at Keswick Theater, Mayo Performing Arts Center and Town Hall
October 20th Mayo Performing Arts Center Morristown, NJ 8:00pm. October 21st The Town Hall New York, NY 8:00pm. October 23rd Keswick Theatre Glenside, PA Tickets 8:00pm. National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and Grammy-winning legend ...
Take Five With Paris Toon
by AAJ Staff
Meet Paris Toon: The man behind the music is Paris Toon: producer, lyricist, composer and driving force of all that he engages in. Paris ritualistically defaults to his “gut" when the time comes to gather musicians and give birth to new songs. This is the method to his rarely observed madness. Since Mothers Favorite ...
JC Stylles: Exhilaration And Other States
by Edward Blanco
The debut album from New York guitarist JC Stylles, Exhilaration and Other States, swings through a varied selection of music running the gamut from Wayne Shorter and Billie Holiday to Cole Porter and Stevie Wonder. Reminiscent of early organ trios, the Australian-born Stylles features an impressive trifecta of his own with drummer Lawrence Leathers, and Hammond ...
