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24 Hours of Umbria Jazz 2010
by Sara Villa
Imagine traveling by car for hours in the summer heat of Italy's July 2010. At last it is early evening, and you reach the borders of a breathtaking medieval town. A soft breeze blows around you while you walk through the steep slopes which lead you to the centre. You follow the sounds you so eagerly ...
Bettye Lavette: Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Bettye Lavette Interpretations: The British Rock SongbookAnti- Records2010 Perennial also-ran Bettye Lavette, among the many very good 1960s Detroit soul singers not signed to Motown--others include Barbara Lewis, Deon Jackson and Edwin Starr--offers a concept album of sorts. An interesting concept, too: R&B covers of classic British rock ...
EMI to Release Lennon Collectors Set
EMI Music will commemorate the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth Oct. 5 with a flight of new releases, including a stripped-down remix of the late ex-Beatle's bestselling album, a hits compilation, a themed four-CD box and a comprehensive 11-CD collectors set. Overseen by Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, so-called “Gimme Some Truth" campaign (named after his ...
Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project
by John Kelman
Intersecting with the pop world is nothing new to Herbie Hancock. Collaborating with legendary trumpeter Miles Davis on the early nexus of jazz and rock, In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969), the keyboardist scored his own fusion hit with the funkified Head Hunters (Columbia) in 1973) and, a decade later, was on the cutting edge of ...
Lennon Lyrics Fetch $1.2m at NYC Auction
John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the final song on the classic Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were purchased by an American collector on Friday for $1.2 million. The winning bid for “A Day in the Life" was placed by phone at Sotheby's auction house, which declined to identify the collector further. The ...
Paris Troika: Paris Troika
by C. Michael Bailey
Paris Troika Paris Troika Self Produced 2010 The horizon of hip jazz keyboard trios is littered with the likes of The Bad Plus, Medeski, Martin, Woods, the Big Apple Trio and Soulive. Too cool for school. Because in jazz, contrary to Duke Ellington's supposition that there are only two types ...
Handwritten Lennon Lyrics to be Auctioned
One side of a handwritten, autographed manuscript by the late John Lennon is shown. The document, with the lyrics to “A Day in the Life," will be offered at auction by Sotheby's in New York on Friday, June 18. For the right price, some lucky Beatlemaniac will be able to own the lyrics to the final ...
John Lennon Museum to Close
The world's only authorised John Lennon Museum, on the outskirts of Tokyo, will close its doors in September when a deal with his widow Yoko Ono ends, the operator said Thursday. The museum dedicated to the former Beatle opened in Saitama north of Tokyo in 2000 on the 60th anniversary of Lennon's birth and displays about ...
George Colligan: Come Together
by Edward Blanco
Pianist/composer/educator George Colligan decided to record Come Together after a successful ten-day tour of Japan in October 2008. Receiving an invitation for 2009, the hope was to return with a document of the trio's music. With much in-demand bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Donald Edwards, Colligan presents slices of funk, blues, bebop, fusion and light classical-tinged ...
John Lennon: "Nowhere Boy" Original Soundtrack
Sony Music is pleased to announce the CD and digital download release of the soundtrack album of the year, Nowhere Boy - the critically acclaimed film biopic about John Lennon's teenage years that led to his music career from the Quarrymen, to his early relationship with Paul McCartney and the Beatles' first trip to Hamburg. To ...
