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Eliane Amherd: Now And From Now On
by Bruce Lindsay
Eliane Amherd creates bright and cheery, easy to listen to; jazz music that's a perfect soundtrack to sunny summer days. She also writes and performs material with a harder edge, darker and raunchier. She's blessed with a strong voice that's capable of intimate romance and bluesy hollers, and she is a fine guitarist, with touches of ...
Jeff Bridges Signs With Blue Note; Album Produced By T-Bone Burnett
Jeff Bridges Signs With Blue Note Records/Emi Music Group Oscar-Winning Actor And Musician Is Recording His Major-Label Debut Album With Oscar- And Grammy-Award Winning Producer And Crazy Heart Collaborator T-Bone Burnett New York, NY—Having earned an Academy Award for “Best Actor" for his portrayal of a grizzled former country music legend in the 2009 film Crazy ...
Rebekka Bakken: Dusseldorf, Germany, March 17, 2011
by Phillip Woolever
Rebekka BakkenZakkDusseldorf, GermanyMarch 17, 2011 After singer Rebekka Bakken ignited an intimate evening before a comfortably snug, sold out gathering of 303 counted customers, it seemed that--promotionally at least---she's been characterized with too soft an edge. Bakken may, indeed, be marketed too gently. On recording covers and ...
Hot Club of Cowntown Ventures to Philadelphia on April 4
Bob Wills has always been a core inspiration for the Hot Club of Cowtown's sound, but it has taken the Texas-based trio a dozen years to fully honor the King of Western swing. A fortuitous tour in England last spring led the band to London's Specific Sound studio, where they spent two days recording a 14-song ...
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live (2009)
By Mark Saleski You don't have to look very hard to find all sorts of writing about Tom Waits. Much of it wanders around in the area of Waits' past, his hard living, the drinking, smoking, the decayed hotel rooms. Some of that stuff is true, and some of it is about as useful as that ...
Tom Moon: From Musician to Critic--And Back Again
by R.J. DeLuke
Award-winning writer Tom Moon spent about three years doing research for a book that recommends recordings people should listen to at some point, well, before they die. It's a well-considered and valuable book, and it champions a great way to fill leisure time while enlightening oneself. It guides readers into musical areas they may otherwise not ...
Colin Stetson: New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Colin Stetson's New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges evokes the quote by cowboy philosopher and former US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also ...
Charlie Musselwhite Celebrates New Release with Performances in Wilmington & Sellersville
Harmonicist/vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Charlie Musselwhite will give live performances at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington on Sunday, February 13 and at the Sellersville Theatre in Sellersville on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, playing as part of “Hot Tuna Blues on Tour" featuring Musselwhite along with Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Jim Lauderdale. Musselwhite will be performing ...
Northern Ireland: Jazz is on the Rise
by Bruce Lindsay
In geographical terms, the island of Ireland is small: just 300 miles by 175 miles, with a population of around 6.2 million. Northern Ireland is smaller still: 1.8 million people in six counties in the north-east of the island. In the wide world of jazz the country rarely rates a mention. But Northern Ireland's jazz scene ...
