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Lorraine Feather: The Girl With the Lazy Eye

Read "Lorraine Feather: The Girl With the Lazy Eye" reviewed by Carl L. Hager


While writing the tune “Scrabble" for her recently released CD Ages (Jazzed Media, 2010), lyricist and singer Lorraine Feather's songwriting partner, Dick Hyman, had an unusual request that bordered on a dare: could she work the name of the venerable pianist/composer's family friend Dushka into the lyrics? After all, the middle section of his stride composition ...

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Article: Live Review

31st Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland

Read "31st Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland" reviewed by Matt Marshall


31st Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio April 15-25, 2010 In its 31st offing, the Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland followed a familiar yet engaging formula. One that, over the years, has made it the largest music festival in Ohio and the largest educational jazz festival in the country. The clinics and workshops for ...

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Take Five with Joel Fairstein

Read "Take Five with Joel Fairstein" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Joel Fairstein: Hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, Joel Fairstein has earned critical praise as jazz pianist, composer, producer, and studio musician. His first album, Umbra, an LP recorded at age 24 with eighteen sidemen has since become a sought-after collectors item.Joel graduated from Berklee college in 1983 and freelanced regularly in Boston ...

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Ultimate Mancini

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. The Pink Panther Theme 2. Charade 3. Two for the Road 4. Moon River 5. Moment to Moment 6. Days of Wine and Roses 7. Peter Gunn Theme 8. Dreamsville 9. Dear Heart 10. The Thorn Birds Theme 11. Anywhere the Heart Goes 12. Mr. Lucky 13. Whistling in the Dark 14. Life in the Looking Glass 15. Crazy World 16. It?s Easy to Say 17. Music on the Way

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Monica Mancini, et. al.: Ultimate Mancini

Read "Ultimate Mancini" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan


Henry Mancini is without a doubt one of the most prolific and award-winning composers of our time. With Ultimate Mancini Concord Records celebrates “The Year of Mancini by recording a tribute to some of his best-known repertoire. Tributes are a hard nut to crack, as they are usually poorly thought out attempts to make some quick ...

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Cinema Paradiso

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Cinema Paradiso, film score Cinema Paradiso (Remember), Composed by Ennio Morricone 2. Black Orpheus, film score A Day in the Life of a Fool, Composed by Luiz Bonfa 3. The Summer of '42, film score The Summer Knows, Composed by Michel Legrand 4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, film score A Love Before Time, Composed by Dun Tan 5. Soldier in the Rain, film score Soldier in the Rain, Composed by Henry Mancini 6. Alfie (for the film score "Alfie"), Composed by Burt Bacharach 7. Royal Wedding, musical Too Late Now, Composed by Burton Lane 8. The Sandpiper, film score The Shadow of Your Smile, Composed by Johnny Alfred Mandel 9. Baby Mine (for Disney's "Dumbo"), Composed by Frank Churchill 10. Ghost Ship, film score Senza Fine, Composed by John Frizzell 11. The Promise, film score I'll Never Say Goodbye, Composed by David Shire 12. The Wizard of Oz, film score Over the Rainbow, Composed by Harold Arlen

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Monica Mancini: Cinema Paradiso

Read "Cinema Paradiso" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Monica Mancini, the daughter of the legendary Henry Mancini, grew up with an affinity for themes and scores. On her sophomore Concord release, she builds on a theme while settling the score regarding her own place in the Jazz vocalist pantheon. Opening with the English translation of Ennio Morricone’s lovely theme from the titular film, Mancini ...

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Cinema Paradiso

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: Cinema Paradiso (Remember); A Day in the Life of a Fool; The Summer Knows; A Love Before Time; Solder in the Rain; Alfie; Too Late Now; The Shadow of Your Smile; Baby Mine; Senza Fine; I

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Monica Mancini: Cinema Paradiso

Read "Cinema Paradiso" reviewed by Jim Santella


The cinema has given us many memorable ballads. Monica Mancini has selected chestnuts that represent a cross-section of film songs: each of them a timeless beauty that we’ll always remember. It’s music for our generation. Mancini interprets them with the wallpaper of a string orchestra in support that allows the passion in her delivery to remain ...

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The Dreams Of Johnny Mercer

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; Something Tells Me; Skylark; The Weekend of a Private Secretary; With My Lover Beside Me; When October Goes; On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe; When the Meadow was Bloomin


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