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Now Here This

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Released: 2013
Track listing: Trancefusion; Riff Raff; Echos From Then; Wonderfall; Call and Answer; Not Here Not There; Guitar Love; Take it or Leave It.

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Neal Schon and Jan Hammer Albums "Untold Passion" & "Here to Stay" Available for Download

Neal Schon and Jan Hammer Albums "Untold Passion" & "Here to Stay" Available for Download

In 1981, when keyboardist and drummer extraordinaire Jan Hammer and guitar wizard Neal Schon were each enjoying massive success in their own careers — Hammer for his work with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, as a solo artist, founder of his eponymous Jan Hammer Group and frequent collaborator with Jeff Beck, and Schon for a decade's worth ...

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Guitarist Allen Weber Making Jazz Fusion Accessible

Guitarist Allen Weber Making Jazz Fusion Accessible

Jacksonville FL – Sine the early 1970's when Miles Davis put out his album Bitch's Brew, John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra released their hard fusion, Chick Corea released his jazz fusion saying the word “Jazz” makes most people shiver in fright. They have been afraid of the term “Jazz”. Their eyes glaze over, and they think ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Tubby Hayes: Seven Steps to Heaven - Live at the Hopbine 1972

Read "Tubby Hayes: Seven Steps to Heaven - Live at the Hopbine 1972" reviewed by Roger Farbey


This set from the late saxophonist and flautist Tubby Hayes was extraordinary for several reasons. It featured along with his regular pianist of the time, Mike Pyne, two other virtuoso musicians, drummer Tony Oxley who repeatedly topped the Melody Maker British section jazz polls and the relatively less well known Daryl Runswick--primarily a classically trained musician ...

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Randy Brecker: A Fusion Legacy

Read "Randy Brecker:  A Fusion Legacy" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


On stage at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland last July, the ubiquitous trumpeter Randy Brecker lowered his horn after playing two joyous and funky numbers on the stage that is one of the festivals largest venues, serving as a hockey arena during the appropriate season. There were throngs of people, sitting and standing, gleefully ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Herbie Hancock: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection 1972-1988

Read "Herbie Hancock: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection 1972-1988" reviewed by John Kelman


As Legacy Records slowly works its way through complete album collection boxes for artists ranging from Stanley Clarke and The Brecker Brothers to the massive Miles Davis and Johnny Cash boxes, one of the notable absences has been keyboardist Herbie Hancock. While he was not a Columbia artist for as long as either Cash or Davis, ...

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Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

Read "Miles Davis: In a Silent Way" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


"Miles' audience isn't where it used to be but neither is his music" was used to market the new releases of Miles Davis' indefatigably changing music in the late 60's that caused seismic shifts in the world of jazz and completely had redirected it into new and fresh territories. In a career that stretched five decades ...

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The Avengers: On A Mission

Read "The Avengers: On A Mission" reviewed by Dave Wayne


If there's such as thing as good old basic, meat-and-potatoes straight ahead jazz, then The Avengers' new album On A Mission could fairly be characterized as good old basic meat-and-potatoes jazz-rock fusion. Largely--but not completely--devoid of avant-garde, metal, or prog-rock stylings, On A Mission is a straight-ahead fusion album somewhat along the lines of recent offerings ...

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Slobber Pup: Black Aces

Read "Black Aces" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Keyboardist Jamie Saft, guitarist Joe Morris, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi bring merciless new meaning to the phrase “heavy rock quartet." Saft and Morris first met at the New England Conservatory twenty years ago; Saft and Pani are bandmates in Metallic Taste of Blood; and Saft has worked with Dunn on several projects led ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Six Stops Around the Whirled

Read "Six Stops Around the Whirled" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Fort Knox Five 10 Years of The Fort Knox Five Fort Knox Recordings 2013 “All good things come in five, baby...You can't get around no prime number, you dig?" Some music just makes you feel good. You can't explain it but some music makes you feel like life's a ...


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