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Levon Helm
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He saw the birth of rock and roll and though he's too much of a gentleman to say it, his role in helping to keep that rebellious child healthy is more than just instrumental. On May 26, 1940, Mark Lavon Helm was the second of four children born to Nell and Diamond Helm in Elaine, Arkansas. Diamond was a cotton farmer who entertained occasionally as a musician. The Helm's loved music and often sang together. They listened to The Grand Ole Opry and Sonny Boy Williamson and his King Biscuit Entertainers regularly on the radio. A favorite family pastime was attending traveling music shows in the area
Tom "Bones" Malone: Amazing Career That's One In A Million, Part 1
by Matthew Alec
Part 1 | Part 2 World-famous trombonist and multi-instrumentalist Tom “Bones" Malone talks about his incredible career spanning Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers, Gil Evans, Frank Zappa, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, The Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Late Show with David Letterman, and so much more with All About Jazz contributor and saxophonist Matthew ...
Stage Fright 50th Anniversary Edition 2CD
Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1:The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show; The Shape I'm In; Daniel And The Sacred Harp; Stage Fright; The
Rumor; Time To Kill; Just Another Whistle Stop; All La Glory; Strawberry Wine; Sleeping; Strawberry Wine;
Sleeping ; Get Up Jake (#1); Get Up Jake (#2); The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show; Rockin' Pneumonia And The
Boogie Woogie Flu; Calgary Blues. CD 2:The Shape I'm In; Time To Kill; The Weight; King Harvest (Has
Surely Come); Strawberry Wine; Rockin' Chair; Look Out Cleveland; I Shall Be Released; Stage Fright; Up On
Cripple Creek; The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show; We Can Talk; Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever; The Night
They Drove Old Dixie Down; Across the Great Divide; The Unfaithful Servant; Don't Do It; The Genetic
Method; Chest Fever; Rag Mama Rag.
Summer 2021
by Doug Collette
Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. Mike Younger Burning The Bigtop Down Self Produced 2021 The backstory of an album is ...
Michael Brecker, Steven Bernstein and the Art of Jazz-Hacking the Pop World - Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
This is the second part of our exploration of Michael Brecker's and Steven Bernstein's work as first-call musicians in the world of high-end pop productions. Their capacity to adapt to the demands of these productions while remaining true to their jazz roots has offered millions of listeners that might have looked at jazz with ...
The Band: The Band: 50th Anniversary Edition (2CD)
by Doug Collette
If ever there was an album so complete unto itself it did not call for, but rather forfended, an expanded remaster, The Band's eponymous album of 1969 is it. Yet this double-CD is the second such release and stands on its own, apart from the larger 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set (Capitol/UMe, 2019). The first ...
Clarence Clemons: Who Do I Think I Am?
by Gareth Thompson
Clarence Clemons Who Do I Think I Am? MVD/Virgil Films 2019 Everyone probably has their favourite Clarence Clemons saxophone solo. Take that fiery blast at the close of Bruce Springsteen's “Thunder Road," for example, where Clemons blows a divine howl like some avenging angel. Clemons's life is documented in this ...
The Road Goes on Forever: Fifty Years of The Allman Brothers Band Music (1969-2019)
by Doug Collette
The Road Goes on Forever: Fifty Years of The Allman Brothers Band Music (1969-2019) Michael Buffalo Smith 352 Pages ISBN: # 978-0881467123 Mercer University Press 2019 In approaching Michael Buffalo Smith's book The Road Goes On Forever, it is absolutely essential to take the subtitle literally. In Fifty ...
Tom Pierson: Last Works
by Doug Hall
As musicians make choices and pursue a passion for music which also directs their musical orbit, looking at jazz composer, arranger and pianist Tom Pierson's resume, it is clear that a creative search for originality and exploration was paramount, from the very beginning. Gifted at the start, Pierson was a piano prodigy and a soloist with ...
Ten Artists: June 2019
by C. Michael Bailey
Polly Gibbons All I Can Do Resonance Records 2019 Polly Gibbons's 2017 Resonance release, Is It Me...? was positively received by All About Jazz and other outlets when it appeared. That recording featured a crack trio augmented with soloists, establishing Gibbons as a sensitive yet muscular interpreter of the American ...
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