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Julia Dollison and Kerry Marsh: Raising Their Voices
by R.J. DeLuke
It's nice when people of similar interest and ambitions come together. Nicer still, when those things form the basis of a personal relationship; a partnership that results in the ultimate collaboration--marriage. For Julia Dollison and Kerry Marsh--singers who are also heavily involved in education, heightened by their successful operation of the jazz vocal program at California ...
Arild Andersen: Green Into Blue - Early Quartets
by John Kelman
He's one of Norway's “Big Four"—a group of artists who, with the assistance of the emerging ECM label in the early 1970s, kick-started international focus on the music from a country that, despite its relatively small population, has become a truly vital force in the evolution of jazz over the past 40 years. Alongside saxophonist Jan ...
Zbigniew Seifert: Man of the Light
by John Kelman
If ever a title was in need of the wider exposure it eluded when first released, it's Polish violinist Zbigniew Seifert's unparalleled Man of the Light--finally seeing the light of day thanks to Promising Music's ongoing series of remastered re-releases from the German MPS label of the 1960s and '70s. Seifert's death from complications from cancer ...
Take Five With Bob Albanese
by AAJ Staff
Meet Bob Albanese: Bob Albanese was born in Newark, N.J. in 1957. Growing up and the Jersey shore, he began practicing the piano at age 8. At age 15, he won top honors in the Garden State Talent Expo which culminated in a solo performance at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. This was ...
CODONA: The CODONA Trilogy
by Jeff Stockton
CODONA The CODONA Trilogy ECM Records 2009 Somewhere along the way “world music" became a suspect term. Mixed up with the concept of “new age," it makes you think more about hemp clothing, crystal therapy and holistic healing than the sort of basic elemental sounds trumpeter Don Cherry pioneered in ...
Jon Hassell: Fourth World and Balancing the North and South of You
by John Kelman
He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music—he calls it Fourth World music—has affected musicians around the globe, ranging from now friend/co-conspirator Brian Eno, British post-rock crooner ...
Lyle Mays
By Lyle Mays
Label: Geffen Records
Released: 1986
Track listing: Highland Aire; Teiko; Slink; Mirror of the Heart; Alaskan Suite: Northern Lights; Alaskan Suite: Invocation; Alaskan Suite: Ascent; Close to Home.
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