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Song For My Father

Album: Certitude
By Dena Taylor
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Duration: 4:35

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Article: Album Review

Bill McBirnie: Mercy

Read "Mercy" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Bill McBirnie weaves a magic spell as he embarks on a musical journey that stops at 12 vantage points. McBirnie has established an enviable reputation as a flautist, with a particular emphasis on Latin jazz. Here, he goes way beyond that calling as he plays bebop, swing, Dixieland, bossa nova, and rock 'n' roll by way ...

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Prana Trio: The Singing Image of Fire

Read "The Singing Image of Fire" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

One of the great fallacies of modern education is that it chooses to ignore much of the past--especially when it comes to cultures alien to the one that is subscribed to. This cultural insularity has prevented the enjoyment of some centuries-old art that is particularly poignant in today's turbulent and finite times. Fortunately ...

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Thomas Lorenzo: Spanish Breeze

Read "Spanish Breeze" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Guitarist Thomas Lorenzo moved to Barcelona, Spain in 2003 and has since produced four solo albums, including the very charming Spanish Breeze. The son of Spanish immigrants, who fled Franco's Spain and settled in Lorenzo's birth place of Australia, Lorenzo never really forgot his Spanish ancestry, learning to weave traditional Spanish music within the Australian rock ...

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Frank Butrey: Malicious Delicious

Read "Malicious Delicious" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

The versatile Frank Butrey lends a psychedelic rock-infused flavor to the jazz repertoire in Malicious Delicious. The Philadelphia-based guitarist displays his wares through these original compositions (some co-written), performed with some of his favorite musicians including members of bassist Warren Oree's Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble (Butrey is a working member), who flavor the tracks in various ways. ...

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James Zoller: Zollar System

Read "Zollar System" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

James Zollar is a musical treasure hidden in plain sight. He has played and recorded as a sideman for a variety of artists, including Cecil McBee, Tom Harrell, Weldon Irving and Sam Rivers, as a member of Wynton Marsalis' brass section in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and several of Don Byron's ...

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Assaf Hakimi: Some Other Day

Read "Some Other Day" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Bassist Assaf Hakimi recorded Some Other Day at the end of a seven-year stint in New York, just prior to his return to Israel. During that time he studied at the New School with such esteemed teachers as Junior Mance, Doug Weiss, Jane Ira Bloom and Billy Harper. For his debut, Hakimi summons some of his ...

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Lin McPhillips: My Shining Hour

Read "My Shining Hour" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

San Francisco jazz singer Lin McPhillips throws elbows and says, “I'm here now" on My Shining Hour, her self-produced recording debut. McPhillips returns to performing after a nearly 20-year hiatus, following in the creative footsteps of other notable West Coast jazz musicians (Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Ed Reed, and Hadley Caliman), without the attendant harrowing reasons ...

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Nancy Harms: In the Indigo

Read "In the Indigo" reviewed by Bridget A. Arnwine

by Bridget A. Arnwine

Jazz vocalist Nancy Harms presents In the Indigo, a sultry yet intelligent offering of old standards, original material, and the occasional pop cover. She sings like a woman who's sure of herself. Whether singing John Mayer's “Great Indoors" or Irving Berlin's “Blue Skies" she has a way of making even the simplest lyric sound like a ...

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Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy

Read "Blue Soliloquy" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

The soprano saxophone is one mean mistress; temperamental, demanding, and unforgiving. Few have mastered her, with Sidney Bechet, John Coltrane, and Steve Lacy coming to mind. Saxophonist Sam Newsome,late of the Terence Blanchard Quintet, has stepped up to provide his Das Wohltemperierte Klavier of the instrument in Soliloquy--Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone. Strongly recalling Bobby Watson's ...


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