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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Walking With Giants

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by Dennis Cook

Walking With Giants Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Hyena Records 2004 They are content to be where they are, talking or not talking.Their breaths together feed someone whom we do not know. Poet Robert Bly talks of a “third body" shared in common, an “other" that ...

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Frank Vignola/Joe Ascione: 33 1/3: The Frank & Joe Show

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by Mitchell Seidel

Guitarist Frank Vignola and drummer/percussionist Joe Ascione recently marked their one-year anniversary of Sunday night gigs at New York's Sweet Rhythm with the release of this wonderfully quirky album that defies definition. How else can you describe a recording that features the theme from an old cartoon show, a rock era pop tune, Cole Porter and ...

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Frank Vignola and Joe Ascione: 33 1/3: The Frank & Joe Show

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by J. Robert Bragonier

If you were in New York City some Sunday night and you should chance to wander by the nightclub Sweet Rhythm, you would experience a musical happening of ever-increasing proportions. There, guitarist Frank Vignola, percussionist Joe Ascione, and “their merry band of music makers" hold court for an ever-expanding group of devotees. What makes these events ...

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Skip Heller: Fakebook

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by Chris M. Slawecki

When you read that youngblood guitarist Skip Heller has played with a wide range of musicians, it means a wide range of musicians – Todd Rundgren to Yma Sumac to Big Jay McNeely to Susanna Hoffs to NRBQ and more. On Fakebook , Heller leads John Wicks on drums, Robert Drasnin on flute, ...

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Skip Heller: Fakebook

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by C. Michael Bailey

Skip Heller FakebookHyena Records2004Ever since I heard of Career Suicide and Homegoing , I have enthusiastically anticipated the next Skip Heller release. In 2003, Mr. Heller continued his organ trio investigations that began with Homegoing with the well-received live recording Battle in Seattle , where he hooked up ...

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James Blood Ulmer: No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions

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by David Vance

James Blood Ulmer's raw, aggressive guitar work with Ornette Coleman, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and others established him as one of the brightest lights in contemporary jazz. By adapting elements of rock (particularly Jimi Hendrix) and blues to Coleman's melodic language and incorporating bizarre alternate tunings, Ulmer, along with Sonny Sharrock and Derek Bailey, was one of ...

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Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom

By Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Label: Collectables
Released: 2003
Track listing: Passion Dance; My One And Only Love; Rahspeak #1; Fly Town Nose Blues; Volunteered Slavery; Rahspeak #2; Bright Moments; Old Rugged Cross; Blacknuss; Freaks For The Festivals; Rahspeak #3.

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No Escape From the Blues

By James Blood Ulmer

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Goin

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James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From The Blues

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by Charlie B. Dahan

While best known for his work with Ornette Coleman and in the modern jazz world, James “Blood" Ulmer has recorded two fantastic blues records recently. His follow up to Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions is the equally provocative and musically exciting work No Escape From The Blues. 2003 was declared the year of ...

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James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From the Blues

Read "No Escape From the Blues" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Jazz Raconteur James Blood Ulmer began his blues march with the release of 2001’s Memphis Blood . On that release Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, convinced that Ulmer was one of the last great blues singers, wanted to record the iconoclast in Memphis at the famed Sun Studios. The result was a collection of blues standards presented ...


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