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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: From California With Love

Read "From California With Love" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


From California With Love is one shining example of how tragedy can bring out the best in people. When Japan was devastated by a massive earthquake (and subsequent tsunami) on March 11, 2011, it caused a chain reaction of destruction and death throughout the region. In an effort to help raise money for relief efforts, a ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Paul McCartney and Wings, "Live and Let Die" (1973)

One Track Mind: Paul McCartney and Wings, "Live and Let Die" (1973)

By Tom Johnson Let's look beyond the goofy flutes and whatnot—and the oddly aggressive nature of the song, because it's just so out of character for the nice man. Paul McCartney screwed up “Live And Let Die" in a huge way in my book because of a horrible grammar mistake. It's no wonder the song's so ...

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Liane Carroll: Up And Down

Read "Up And Down" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Liane Carroll is a much-admired British singer and pianist, winner of accolades including Musician Of The Year at the 2008 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. She has worked with musicians as varied as Sir Paul McCartney and Charlie Haden, while on this album her invited guests include tenor saxophonists Kirk Whalum and Julian Siegel, and Kenny Wheeler on ...

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Patti Austin: Sound Advice

Read "Sound Advice" reviewed by Jeff Winbush


Sound Advice is Patti Austin's first pure pop album in ten years and, as a vocalist, Austin has always moved easily between genres. Austin excels when she's paired with a producer who can bring out her strengths and the material matches her ability. The Real Me (Qwest, 1988) was an example, where the singer and the ...

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Jane Stuart: Don't Look Back

Read "Don't Look Back" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


From the opening bars of “I Just Found Out About Love," Jane Stuart takes control of this sophisticated collection of tunes with a voice that oozes style, confidence and emotional strength. Don't Look Back brings Stuart together with an empathic group of musicians, the arrangements are always interesting and at times inspired, and the conclusion is ...

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USPS & Concord's Valentines Day CD 'Love Notes'

USPS & Concord's Valentines Day CD 'Love Notes'

US Postal Service® & Concord Music Group Celebrate Valentine's Day with Holiday-themed CD Love Notes Includes classic love ballads by Paul McCartney, Diana Krall, Ray Charles, Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole, James Taylor duet with Carole King and more! CD available now at select U.S. post offices throughout the country Los Angeles, CA: Concord Music Group is ...

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Article: Interview

Brian Rasic: The Life of Brian

Read "Brian Rasic: The Life of Brian" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Good photography can say more than a thousand words--it captures the moment and immortalizes it. Known for his brilliant photography, Serbian-born, London-based photographer Brian Branislav Rasić is known for producing some of rock's most memorable images. For more than three decades, Rasić has photographed the greatest artists in the music world and beyond. Rasić took his ...

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Bettye LaVette: Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook

Read "Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Cross Nina Simone with Tina Turner and you get Bettye LaVette. Finally receiving the attention she deserves, LaVette finds herself on a most receptive world stage. LaVette appeared at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors, in tribute to The Who's Peter Townsend and Roger Daltrey, singing “Love Reign O'er Me," from Quadrophenia (Polydor, 1979). Video of the ...

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Steve Gadd's "Live at Voce" (Deluxe Edition)

Steve Gadd's "Live at Voce" (Deluxe Edition)

One of the most recorded drummers of all time, Steve Gadd has worked with everyone from Chick Corea to Paul Simon, Maynard Ferguson to Eric Clapton. When it comes to his own projects, Gadd loves to play good-time groove music that has the danceable qualities and bluesiness of the best R&B along with the adventurous solos ...

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Concord Music & U.S Postal Service Holiday Album 'Let it Snow'

Concord Music & U.S Postal Service Holiday Album 'Let it Snow'

Following up on the success of Letters to Santa during the 2009 holiday season, Concord Music Group is once again partnering with the US Postal Service (USPS) and released their second holiday-themed collection, Let It Snow, on November 1. The compilation will be displayed—alongside a DVD of the perennial holiday TV classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—at ...


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