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Article: Interview

John Scofield: Peaceful Pursuits

Read "John Scofield: Peaceful Pursuits" reviewed by John Kelman


Sometimes a recording comes together easily, with a minimum of muss or fuss. Other times, life seems to conspire against it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't get done, or that it suffers as a result. Sometimes, in fact, it can make the end result even better. For John Scofield-- one-third of a power trifecta ...

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Article: Film Review

Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74

Read "Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74" reviewed by Doug Collette


Rory GallagherIrish Tour '74Eagle Video2011 However much acclaim he received during his lifetime, and to whatever extent his legacy has grown posthumously since his untimely death in 1995, guitarist Rory Gallagher will be best remembered for the feverish abandon of his live performances. Assembled with the same ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Roger Chong

Read "Take Five With Roger Chong" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Roger Chong: Classic jazz guitar-playing with a youthful edge--that;s what jazz guitarist Roger Chong does. A graduate of music from York University in Toronto, Canada, Roger has a solid musical know-how courtesy of his mentors--jazz musicians and educators Roy Patterson, Matt Brubeck, Casey Soko, and Mike Cado. While there, he honed his guitar ...

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Article: Album Review

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather

Read "Couldn't Stand the Weather" reviewed by Jim Santella


Couldn't Stand the Weather is a great album which has been reissued before. But this time, there are considerable extras in the package that make it jump out and shout. Each of the two discs runs for nearly 80 minutes: disc one includes the original album and plenty of bonus tracks; while disc two contains a ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia

Read "Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Aretha FranklinTake a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on ColumbiaColumbia2011 Were we to limit our musical intelligence gathering to banal “classic rock" radio, we would believe that singer Aretha Franklin's career began in 1967, that she only recorded one song, Otis Redding's “Respect," and recorded for a single ...

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Take Five With Mike Rood

Read "Take Five With Mike Rood" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Mike Rood:Born into a musical family, Mike has always been immersed in music. He has been playing guitar since he was seven, and his early influences include Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix. Mike also studied classical piano for 13 years, performing in dozens of recitals and competitions. He won the Nicolas Flagello ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Roomful of Blues Celebrates New Release in Sellersville

"Excellent...marvelous wall-to-wall grooves—between the wicked guitar work and the brassy horn section, things never stop swinging."—USA TODAY The horn-fueled, jumping, swinging, award-winning band Roomful of Blues, touring in support of their new Alligator CD Hook, Line & Sinker, will perform live at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Friday, January 21, 2011. Roomful of Blues, according ...

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News: Award / Grant

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Nominated For Best Contemporary Blues Album

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Nominated For Best Contemporary Blues Album

Congratulations to the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, who last night received a GRAMMY nomination in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category for recent release, LIVE! In Chicago. The announcement also marks Roadrunner Records imprint, Loud & Proud Records, first GRAMMY nomination. This is Kenny's 5th GRAMMY nomination. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd band is honored to be ...

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Article: Album Review

Philippe Quint: Paganini arr. Kreisler: La campanella - Le Streghe - La Cenerentola and Tancredi Variations

Read "Paganini arr. Kreisler: La campanella - Le Streghe - La Cenerentola and Tancredi Variations" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A modern parallel to the Romantic period relationship of Nicolo Paganini and Fritz Kreisler might be guitarists Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The younger men of the pairs arranged and played the music of the older musicians, adding their own shine to the compositions. Everyone in the quartet was a showman in the extreme. But ...

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News: Technology

Sat Eye Candy: Stevie Ray Vaughan

Sat Eye Candy: Stevie Ray Vaughan

BLUES ROCK GIANT GONE 20 YEARS Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely death, but so overstuffed with life is the music he left behind that it hardly seems possible that he's gone. Texas born Vaughn exuded red hot passion and a grabbing, exciting gusto to get into it, whatever “it" might be. ...


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