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Article: Live Review

TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: June 23-25, 2011

by Alain Londes
July 2, 2011

TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2011Toronto, CanadaJune 24-July 3, 2011 2011 marked the 25th anniversary for a festival that is a key stopping point for artists coming to Canada. Organizers always have to strike the right balance when booking top names and other talented international artists. A key change from previous ...

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Article: Album Review

Club d'Elf: Electric Moroccoland / So Below

Read "Electric Moroccoland / So Below" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 13, 2011

Even in our far-reaching and cluttered modern musical culture, it seems safe to suggest that there is no other band quite like Club d'Elf, a floating riverboat gamble with a fluid cast of contributors--keyboardist John Medeski, guitarists Reeves Gabrels and Duke Levin, Mat Maneri on electric viola, turntablist Mister Rourke, and many others among them--steered by ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Voices Instrumental in Jazz

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 10, 2011

Natacha AtlasMounqalibaSix Degrees Records2010 Vocalist Natacha Atlas seems to embody the modern musical millennia: She was born in Brussels and raised in one of its Moroccan suburbs; her compositions and singing reach into and crisscross storied European and Arabic musical traditions. Primarily co-written ...

News: Performance / Tour

Shemekia Copeland to Perform in Blue Bell on April 2

March 20, 2011

Shemekia Copeland to Perform in Blue Bell: Touring in Support of the New Alligator Records best-of CD Deluxe Edition “Copeland delivers a gutsy collection of bluesy tunes steeped in Memphis soul and Muscle Shoals. She is a singer with fervor and funk, power, chops and range."—USA Today Grammy-nominated and Harlem-bred vocalist Shemekia Copeland will perform at ...

News: Recording

Alligator Records Begins 40th Anniversary Celebration with New Shemekia Copeland & Roomful of Blues

January 4, 2011

As 2011 kicks off, Alligator Records, the company The Washington Post calls “the premiere blues label in the United States," celebrates its 40th anniversary. The celebration kicks off with the January 18 release of Hook, Line & Sinker from the kings of horn-driven swing, jump blues and early rock 'n' roll, Roomful of Blues, and Deluxe ...

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Article: Live Review

Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2010: December 1-3, 2010

by John Kelman
December 15, 2010

Dutch Jazz & World MeetingAmsterdam, The NetherlandsDecember 1-3, 2010 As difficult as it can sometimes be to appreciate how far jazz has evolved since making its first infant steps in the United States at the beginning of the 20th Century, it's equally remarkable to consider the scene in Europe. Beginning as a relative ...

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Article: Album Review

Mads Tolling: The Playmaker

Read "The Playmaker" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 24, 2009

He's been around for a few years as a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, but for some he's best known for his work on Stanley Clarke's welcome return to fusion, The Toys of Men (Heads Up, 2007). Either way, The Playmaker isn't the violinist's first release as a leader--that would be Speed of Light (Self ...

Album

Nudge It Up A Notch

By Steve Cropper

Label: Stax Records
Released: 2008

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News: Recording

Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere Summit Album Coming On Stax Records, July 29

May 16, 2008

Joined on Nashville sessions with bassist Shake Anderson and drummer Chester Thompson, with co-producer Jon Tiven NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- What would happen if you combined Steve Cropper, the Memphis- weaned Stax guitar powerhouse who also wrote and co-wrote many soul classics, with Felix Cavaliere, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist whose soulful voice and songs helped form ...