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Jazz Near You Imports GigPress Events for Jazz Musicians
Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin. Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website. If you are a jazz musician ...
Carole King to Reissue Four Classic Albums on Concord
Carole King will release reissues of four classic albums—Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King (1980), Touch the Sky (1979), Welcome Home (1978), and Simple Things (1977)—on February 28 via her own Rockingale Records label and Concord Music Group. Each includes the original photography and album notes and, aside from Pearls, has never been previously released on ...
Jack DeJohnette: Time and Space
by John Kelman
It begins with the sound of a resonating bell, followed by a gently cascading piano solo that gradually assumes shape and form, hovering around two chords and creating an inviting ambiance that resolves with another ringing of the bell, segueing gently into the groove-heavy “Salsa for Luisito." The track is “Enter Here," and the album is ...
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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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).
Guitar Man
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2011
Track listing: Tenderly; I Want To Hold Your Hand; My Cherie Amour; Naima; Tequila; Don't Know Why; The Lady In My Life; My One and Only Love; Paper Moon; Danny Boy; Since I Fell For You; Fingerlero.
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).
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. ...
