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Brenda Earle Stokes: Right About Now
by Dan Bilawsky
Is Brenda Earle Stokes primarily a vocalist, a composer, or a pianist? That's an unanswerable question if ever there was one. The marketplace typically forces artists to list their chief credential first, making it easier to categorize and pigeonhole them, but that's a problem for Stokes; she's equally talented in all three areas, as demonstrated throughout ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot!
by Dave Wayne
I've been too busy enjoying the music of Mostly Other People Do The Killing (MOPTDK) to realize how controversial they've become. If you doubt their ability to rile the jazz world, all you have to do is post one of their videos on your Facebook page and wait for the ensuing kerfuffle to begin. The core ...
Leslie Lewis: Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen in New York
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Leslie Lewis' previous recording, Midnight Sun (Self Produced, 2012), revealed a a thoughtful and well-managed talent able to imbue her music with a dark pathos. Not dark in any negative sense of the word, but rich and romantic. Her followup, Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen in New York, made with her husband/pianist, distills Lewis' talent ...
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss Curate 3-CD Set for 50th anniversary of A&M Records
It’s an archetypal story of the modern record business – two guys with a dream running their nascent label out of a West Hollywood garage in the summer of 1962. The label quickly gains momentum and eventually becomes one of the most important record companies the world has ever seen. The two guys were Herb Alpert ...
One Track Mind: Joe Jackson Trio "Sunday Papers" (Live, 2011)
Most of the time, good timing is a matter of being lucky instead of being good. For Joe Jackson's very first album Look Sharp! (1979), he wrote and recorded a ditty “Sunday Papers," blasting the British tabloid press with lethal doses of sarcasm. He and his Rain trio (Graham Maby, bass; Dave Houghton, drums) included this ...
Joe Jackson - Volume 4 (2003)
By Mark Saleski Warning: Listening to the Joe Jackson Band's 2003 release Volume 4 may give you a strong urge to dig out your skinny tie (c'mon, you know you wore one!) from the back of the closet. You may find yourself heading to the hair salon for no apparent reason. You will, of course, realize ...
Joe Jackson: Live Music
JOE JACKSON ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF LIVE MUSIC ON JUNE 7; CONFIRMED TO PERFORM WITH THE ROOTS ON JIMMY FALLON JUNE 8; Razor & Tie is excited to announce the release of Joe Jackson's Live Music on June 7, 2011. The record is a document of the fantastic European tour from 2010. While 2003's Volume 4 ...
