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Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz: Days 4-6, July 13-15, 2009

by Michael J. West
July 20, 2009

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-10 The next three days of the Umbria Jazz began with two concert series that promised to be intriguing. American vibraphonist Joe Locke performed three times with Italian pianist Dado Moroni and saxophonist Rosario Giuliani at the very small Oratorio Santa Cecilia church. The trio is recording an ...

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Article: Film Review

Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden

by Doug Collette
July 18, 2009

Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood Live From Madison Square Garden Reprise Records 2009 The garish pseudo psychedelic cover graphics of guitarist Eric Clapton and keyboard player and guitarist Steve Winwood's Live From Madison Square Garden package mislead. These recordings taken from a three night run at the hallowed venue in ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs

Read "The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 28, 2009

Despite decidedly left-of-center beginnings--on his own ECM discs Rambler (1985) and Lookout for Hope (1988), and in collaboration with artists including Jan Garbarek and John Zorn--guitarist Bill Frisell has always been a melodist at heart. Even at his most outré--his oblique yet stunningly constructed solo on “Next Love," from clarinetist Don Byron's minor classic, Tuskegee Experiment ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

A Brief History of the Blues

by Ed Kopp
August 16, 2005

When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond ...

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Article: Book Review

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

by C. Michael Bailey
February 9, 2005

Elijah Wald Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Amistad Press ISBN: 0-06-052427-8 2004 per · spec · tive ( noun ) (From Dictionary.com with elaborations by the author) (a) The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

The Telarc Blues Project

by C. Michael Bailey
November 5, 2003

Telarc International has slowly and quietly been populating its jazz and blues rosters with some of the foremost talent performing and recording today. The jazz roles boast the late Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Monty Alexander, Geoff Keezer, Benny Green, Russell Malone, Tierney Sutton, and McCoy Tyner. Th blues stables are just as impressive with Bob Margolin, ...

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