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Shout! Factory to Reissue Two Acclaimed Donny Hathaway Live Albums July 17
Shout! Factory has announced plans to celebrate renowned soul artist Donny Hathaway with a new 2-Disc reissue titled Donny Hathaway Live + In Performance, to be released on July 17. The set features 2 albums of live material produced by Jerry Wexler & Arif Mardin, including the critically acclaimed Donny Hathaway Live album on Disc 1, ...
Guitarist Kyle Walz Exhilarates With Collection Of Jazz And R&B Covers
There is a double meaning in the title of guitarist Kyle Walz's latest album, Lifted Standards. On one hand, it's a reference to the fact that the record is a collection of covers; in other words, these songs are 'lifted' from other artists. But in a subjective sense the music can really lift the spirits. Until ...
Interview: Roberta Flack
You haven't lived until you hear Roberta Flack sing Feel Like Makin' Love over the phone. Her folk-soul voice is still so warm and rich. In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about Roberta's new Beatles album, Let It Be Roberta. This CD isn't your typical pop-tribute album. Instead, It's a bold, revisionist interpretation ...
Tina Richerson Trio explores groundbreaking textures on new album
The outer limits of jazz is where saxophonist Tina Richerson resides, a world in which experimentalism becomes the unifying thread. On the latest album from the Tina Richerson Trio, Up Against the Rail!, traditional jazz is given a slap, flirting with dissonant or uneasy textures. In other words, it actually tosses jazz back into the groundbreaking ...
MCG Jazz Remembers John Levy, Our Friend
John Levy, manager to countless jazz luminaries, dies at age 99. John Levy, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and renowned personal manager for many jazz greats, died on January 20th, less than three months shy of his 100th birthday. His wife, Devra Hall Levy said he was sleeping peacefully in her arms at ...
Smooth jazz takes a romantic turn on saxophonist Sébastien James' new album
With the onset of winter, the long distance to the arrival of Valentine's Day becomes gradually closer. The Internet offers countless selections when it comes to soundtracks for the day of lovers, but few offer the stylish sheen and emotional pull of saxophonist Sébastien James' new album, Jazz & Lounge. The title of the record promises ...
"Children's Song" by Roberta Flack
This song has always been one of my very favorites. “Children's Song" is a little-known tune from Roberta Flack's little-known soundtrack to the little-known Richard Pryor/Cicely Tyson film Bustin' Loose (1981). This touching film, suggested by a story from Richard Pryor himself, finds ex-con and parole violator Joe Braxton (Pryor) hired by a school teacher, Vivian ...
The Unexpected Grammy Contender
GRAMMY Nomination Shines Light on an Untold Story: Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon's Soul Call Creates a Community “Totally Lost" in Song When the GRAMMY nominations were announced earlier this month, a light shined on the untold story of a singer little-known in the music scene. This is the tale of a woman who scoured every corner of ...
Terry Silverlight: Diamond In The Riff
by Douglas Payne
Drummer Terry Silverlight's interesting and varied career dates back to his first session on brother Barry Miles' highly-regarded album White Heat (Mainstream, 1971), when he was only 14. He's since gone on to frequently high-profile gigs with Mel Torme, George Benson, David Matthews, Phil Woods, Tom Jones, Roberta Flack and many others as well as appearances ...
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