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Article: Record Label Profile

Dreyfus Records: Crossing Continents with Music

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 26, 2010

Music, at its best, has the ability to reach across boundaries of nationality, gender and age. If there's a message in music, it's about communication, and about getting to the essence of everything: the beating pulse of a human heart. In an increasingly commercial market, where it has become more important to make music that opens ...

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News: Obituary

Francis Dreyfus: 1940 - 2010

June 28, 2010

Music publisher and record producer Francis Dreyfus died Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the age of 70. Through his labels Disques Motors and Dreyfus Records, Francis Dreyfus launched the careers of prominent artists, including Christophe and Jean Michel Jarre. His love of jazz led to the creation of the Dreyfus Jazz label which brought together such ...

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Article: Album Review

Richard Galliano: Tangaria

by Chris May
April 9, 2010

A little accordion can go a long way. Its sound is a knife edge away from a dolorous monotone, and stubbornly resists modulation. It is no accident that Argentinian tango, the style indelibly associated with the instrument, typically deals with loss and bad luck. Few accordionists are able to cast off this baggage, but Richard Galliano ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Cheek / Victor Prieto: Rollo Coaster

Read "Rollo Coaster" reviewed by Martin Gladu

by Martin Gladu
March 17, 2010

Chances are you have never heard the accordion played the way Victor Prieto plays it. Indeed, much like Toots Thielemans established the harmonica in the jazz lore huffing and puffing bop lines through his teeth, Prieto breaks the glass ceiling hovering above the crown of Cyrillus Demian's patented invention, squeezing improvised airs with a technical assurance ...

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Paris Concert - Live at the Théâtre du Châtelet

By Richard Galliano

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Chat pitre; 02. Gnossienne N.1; 03. Gnossienne N.2; 04. Sertao; 05. Sheng; 06. Bagatelle; 07. La Javanaise; 08. Caruso; 09. New York Tango; 10. ‘Round Midnight; 11. Oblivion; 12. Aria.

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Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions

By Richard Galliano

Label: Milan Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Aurore; Bonjour!; Birds; Hymne; Mister J; Love Day; Apple Pie; Serenite; Pourquoi?; Poeme; Aria; Crepuscule.

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From Billie Holiday To Edith Piaf: Live In Marciac

By Richard Galliano

Label: Rampart Street Records (2)
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD; La Foule; Them There Eyes; Padam... Padam; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; Billie; Sailboat In The Moonlight; L'homme A La Moto; Strange Fruit; La Vie En Rose; DVD; La Foule; Them There Eyes; Padam... Padam; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; Billie; Sailboat In The Moonlight; L'homme A La Moto; Strange Fruit; La Vie En Rose;

Article: Album Review

Richard Galliano: Paris Concert - Live at the Théâtre du Châtelet

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 16, 2009

Ma quanti CD incide Richard Galliano? Uno è già pronto (From Billie Holliday to Edit Piaf) e lo ha visto dialogare col Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Un altro paio ce l'ha in testa (e forse già nelle sue preziose dita). Da un lato un riscrittura di Bach (L'arte della fuga), dall'altro un progetto con Kurt Elling (dopo ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2009

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...