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Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town

Read "Night Town" reviewed by Jay Deshpande


The Hot Club of Detroit will without a doubt soon be among the most popular bands playing in the gypsy tradition of jazz manouche. Django Reinhardt's band, the Hot Club de France, first brought the fiery, flamenco-infused sound to the realm of jazz. In homage to and elaboration of the tradition, the HCOD presents its sophomore ...

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Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town

Read "Night Town" reviewed by Matthew Warnock


The Hot Club of Detroit's Night Town is a tour de force full of hard-swinging, toe-tapping arrangements of gypsy jazz standards and original compositions penned by members of the ensemble. Having won four Detroit Music Awards, Shannon Wade (bass), Carl Cafagna (clarinet), Evan Perri (guitar), Julien Labro (accordion) and Paul Brady (guitar) are setting their sites ...

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Sean Jones: The Search Within

Read "The Search Within" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


No longer standing in the shadows of the greats, trumpeter Sean Jones has been coming into his own since his well received debut, Eternal Journey (Mack Avenue Records, 2004). His trajectory has coursed through four previous releases, exploring, maturing, and progressing into one of today's shining voices with The Search Within. Incorporating the ...

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Kenny Garrett: Sketches of MD - Live at The Iridium

Read "Sketches of MD - Live at The Iridium" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il saxofonista Keny Garrett decide di non smarcarsi dalle due influenze più importanti che caratterizzano la sua ottima carriera. L'ombra di Miles e quella di Coltrane continuano infatti ad essere evocate senza sotterfugi, con la consapevolezza che queste influenze rappresentano un background meravigliosamente fecondo, come i fanghi rigogliosi lasciati dalle piene del Nilo. In questo bell'album ...

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State Of Nature

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: A Place in Space; All Blues; Forest Garden; Insensatez (How Insensitive); Andante from Mozart

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Sketches of MD: Live At The Iridium

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Ring; Intro To Africa; Sketches Of MD; Wayne's Thang; Happy People.

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Night Town

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: I Want To Be Happy; J'Attendrai; Valse a Rosenthal; Seven Steps to Heaven; Speevy; Coquette; Sweet Substitute; Blues Up and Down; Pour Parler; Melodie Au Crepuscule, Two Weeks; Tzigane; Django's Monkey; Night Town; Swing 05.

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Get Ready

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: La Shea's Walk; Get Ready; Inner City Blues; Desperate Desire; Alternative Thoughts; Summer (The Sweet Goodbye); Preference of Conviction; A Heart Enflamed, A Soul Enchanted; We Fall Down; Now Silence.

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Stanley Jordan: State of Nature

Read "State of Nature" reviewed by John Barron


Guitarist Stanley Jordan has been dazzling audiences since the mid-1980s with his innovative, two-hand tapping approach. His 1985 Blue Note Records debut, Magic Touch achieved commercial success and secured his position in the music industry as a bona fide guitar hero. On State of Nature, Jordan's debut for the Detroit-based Mack Avenue Records, Jordan, along with ...

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Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town

Read "Night Town" reviewed by Ken Dryden


The Hot Club of Detroit is one of many bands that have been inspired by the work of Django Reinhardt with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, though leader and guitarist Evan Perri's group omits the violin, instead utilizing accordion and saxophone. Yet the band's second CD doesn't exclusively stick to Gypsy jazz and ...


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