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Foolish Me

By Skip Heller

Label: Weatherbird
Released: 2012

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Article: Album Review

John Hartford: Aereo Plain/Morning Bugle: The Complete Warner Brothers Recordings

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by Skip Heller

This 1971 album was to the emerging newgrass movement approximately was Bill Evans' Village Vanguard recordings were to jazz piano trios: the flexible blueprint for the genre. Evans and singer/multi-instrumentalist John Hartford both successfully found ways to dissolve the “soloist and his enablers" tyranny, working instead towards the integrated ensemble as the musical engine.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Skip Heller: Fakebook II - That’s Entertainment

Read "Skip Heller: Fakebook II - That’s Entertainment" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Skip HellerFakebook II: That's EntertainmentWeatherbird Records2012 Fred Steven “Skip" Heller is one of those musicians with a gravity great enough to create his own universe. He is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, bandleader, producer and writer with an all-encompassing musical knowledge, interest and vision that is readily witnessed ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Louis Armstrong & The All Stars: Satchmo At Symphony Hall - The Complete Performances

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by Skip Heller

Louis Armstrong & The All StarsSatchmo At Symphony Hall: 65th Anniversary The Complete PerformancesVerve 2012 Writing about trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong is difficult. In the most literal sense, he is the watershed of jazz. He was neither the first acknowledged genius of the music (soprano saxophonist Sidney ...

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Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams For Beginners

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by Skip Heller

Fifty years after his death, Ernie Kovacs is de rigueur. Mainstream, even. His angular, imaginative approach to humor was impossible to imitate, but his influence on television-specifically television comedy-is intractable. He's the Thelonious Monk of the small screen. And just trying to play in a Monkish style always points out that Monk is Monk and nobody ...

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Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Frank M. Young and David Lasky: The Carter Family - Don't Forget This Song

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by Skip Heller

Frank M. Young and David Lasky The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song 192 pages ISBN 978081988361 Abrams ComicArts 2012 In recent years, the music biography has turned notable corners. The post-punk generation, coming largely from the world of fanzines and urban weekly newspapers, has become a big chunk ...

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Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Your Past Will Come Back To Haunt You: Omnivore and Dust To Digital - Two Record Labels That Matter

Read "Your Past Will Come Back To Haunt You:  Omnivore and Dust To Digital - Two Record Labels That Matter" reviewed by Skip Heller

by Skip Heller

When I was growing up, a great many labels actually worked hard at having an identity. Blue Note meant something, as did Stiff, Rounder, Sugar Hill, Fania and many more (even some of the majors). Music fans actually bought stuff with a sense of trust for the people who put it out. Packaging, production style, taste, ...

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Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Crimejazz: The Sound of Noir

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by Skip Heller

Crimejazz! In 1923, Caroll John Daly wrote Knights of the Open Palm. Published June of that same year in the pulp magazine Black Mask, its protagonist was Race Williams, an acerbic private eye. This was the first hardboiled crime story, and it touched off a world of crime fiction. That same year, trumpeter Louis ...

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Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Los Lobos: Kiko - 20th Anniversary Edition

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by Skip Heller

Los Lobos Kiko: 20th Anniversary Edition Shout! Factory 2012 Looking over the punk-era rise of Los Angeles roots rock, reveals an embarrassment of musical riches. The prototypical outfit was The Blasters, a literate working class rockabilly-tinged barband whose songs (written by Dave Alvin) were knowing, compassionate stories of real American life, ...

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Platform Expansion and the AAJ Road Show

Read "Platform Expansion and the AAJ Road Show" reviewed by Michael Ricci

by Michael Ricci

Dear fellow contributor, I have some news to share about the various improvements to the All About Jazz platform and the status of the Jazz Near You project. Please read on...Index 1. It's All About the Platform2. Breaking Up All About Jazz3. AAJ Road ...


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