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Elton John / Leon Russell: The Union
by C. Michael Bailey
Elton John and Leon Russell are not so unlikely musical colleagues. Russell is slightly the elder, at 68 to John's 63, and within the age difference of two brothers. Both emerged in the early '70s, that fertile period nurtured by Woodstock the year before, and the rise of album-oriented-rock FM radio after. Both are pianists and ...
Beale Street Music Festival 2010
by C. Michael Bailey
Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis in May 2010 Tom Lee Park, FedEx Blues Tent, Memphis, Tennessee May 2, 2010 April, indeed, may be the cruelest of months, but I doubt that a blue-blood like Thomas Sterns Eliot ever spent the sweaty seasons in Hell that are Spring and Summer in the cultural ...
Louie Shelton: In Session
by Alan Bryson
Hundreds of millions of people have heard him play without having heard of him. A veteran session guitarist, Louie Shelton played on a slew of million-selling records during his three decades in Los Angeles. His credits include female vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Whitney Houston; ...
Joe Cocker and the Grease Band: Live at Woodstock
by C. Michael Bailey
Great Britain taught America to be proud of her musical heritage by importing it, transforming it, and sending it back to her. The American South between 1920 and 1960 was a hothouse for all of America's great musical offerings: blues, R&B, country, jazz, and rock and roll. All of these genres germinated in the United States, ...
Bruce Hornsby: The Master of Levitation
by Mark F. Turner
For more than 20 years, singer/songwriter, pianist/composer, and band-leader Bruce Hornsby, has proven to be a survivor in an ever changing music environment. From winning multiple awards including a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1987 for the multi-platinum album The Way It Is (RCA, 1986) with his band The Range, to dual releases in 2007 ...
Jason Hainsworth Big Band / DePaul University Jazz Ensemble / Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica Citta di Verona / Howard University Jazz Ensemble
by Jack Bowers
Jason Hainsworth Jazz Orchestra Kaleidoscope DW Jazz 2009 On his first turn at bat, composer / arranger / tenor saxophonist Jason Hainsworth has not only slammed one out of the park with Kaleidoscope but has produced a viable entrant in the big-band Record of the Year sweepstakes. The ...
Signature Songs / Guitar Blues
By Leon Russell
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Signature Songs: A Song For You; Magic Mirror; This Masquerade; One More Love Song; Tightrope; Stranger In A Strange Land; Hummingbird; Back To The Island; Out In The Woods; Lady Blue; Delta Lady.
Guitar Blues: Ways Of A Woman; House Of Blues; Rip Van Winkle; This Love I Have Inside For You; Lost Inside The Blues; Dark Carousel; Its Impossible; Strange Power Of Love; Make Everything Alright; Same Old Song; End Of The Road.
Leon Russell: Signature Songs / Guitar Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Leon Russell is an American National Treasure. He should be protected at all costs. Leon Russell entered my consciousness when I saw the movie and later purchased the soundtrack for Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. He was this larger-than-life figure, acting as sidekick to the great white Ray Charles. Russell had an immediately identifiable piano ...
