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Peter Gabriel’s Iconic "So" Album Remastered And Expanded For 25th Anniversary Edition To Be Released In Multiple Configurations

October 8, 2012

Peter Gabriel to Tour Across North America, Performing So in its Entirety Hollywood, CA: One of the most successful and iconic music releases of the Eighties, Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album, So, has been digitally remastered for a special 25th Anniversary Edition to be released October 23rd (October 22nd internationally) by Real World Records/EMI in multiple physical ...

Article: Big Band Caravan

Bob Mintzer Big Band / Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band / Joe Chambers Moving Pictures Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
October 7, 2012

Bob Mintzer Big BandFor the MomentMCG Jazz2012 Anyone who has followed Bob Mintzer's career knows that the multi-talented saxophonist / educator has always had a special place in his heart for music from south of the border (he even recorded a big-band album, Latin from Manhattan, back in ...

Article: Album Review

Ken Silverman: Visionaries

Read "Visionaries" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
October 7, 2012

Multi-string instrumentalist Ken Silverman's first solo outing, Visionaries, is a collection of intimate sketches dedicated to those musicians (and other artists) who have inspired him. Silverman penned these abstract, tonal portraits first, and then named them after these iconic individuals. The result is the ultimate homage to eleven trailblazers. Each piece has, within ...

Article: Album Review

Yusef Lateef: Roots Run Deep

Read "Roots Run Deep" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 7, 2012

Roots Run Deep forms a further installment in the ongoing strand of investigation into the marriage of words and music, which has found a home on the Paris-based Rogue Art label, that also includes Maison Hantee (2009). It's unusual in that though issued under the name of veteran multi instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, the work was actually ...

Article: Extended Analysis

I Carry Your Heart: Alexis Cole Sings Pepper Adams

by Larry Taylor
October 7, 2012

Alexis ColeI Carry Your Heart; Alexis Cole Sings Pepper AdamsMotema Music2012I Carry Your Heart; Alexis Cole Sings Pepper Adams is a stunning piece of work. The lyrics, pure poetry; the music, cerebral and swinging. This creation is even more amazing when seen as part of a five-volume production ...

Article: Live Review

The Offspring with Neon Trees and Dead Sara: Huntington, NY, September 20, 2012

by Mike Perciaccante
October 7, 2012

The Offspring with Neon Trees and Dead Sara The Paramount Huntington, New York September 20, 2012 On a pleasant late-September evening, the Offspring set Long Island's Paramount concert hall on fire with its metal-influenced punk rock brand of musical mayhem. The Southern California band performed a set mostly comprised of ...

Article: Live Review

Donald Harrison & Quantum Leap: New York City, NY, September 20, 2012

by Ernest Barteldes
October 6, 2012

Donald Harrison & Quantum LeapThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkSeptember 20, 2012New Orleans-based saxophonist Donald Harrison kicked off the evening's first set with a shuffle-based groove, immediately starting with an improvised solo. The quintet, rounded out by pianist Zaccai Curtis, bassist Max Moran, drummer Joe Dyson and electric guitarist Detroit ...

Article: Live Review

The J. Geils Band: Westbury, NY, September 12, 2012

by Mike Perciaccante
October 6, 2012

The J. Geils Band North Fork Theatre at Westbury Westbury, New York September 12, 2012 To quote a phrase made famous by Peter Wolf and the members of the J. Geils Band, it was “nothing but a house party." The latest incarnation of the J. Geils Band rolled (literally--the band ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Formanek: Small Places

Read "Small Places" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 5, 2012

It's no secret that pathological fans view every artist discovered as a new branch on an endlessly growing musical tree. It should come as no surprise, then, that labels--at least, those run by folks as pathological as the fans they hope to attract--operate with the same eye to discovery and expansion. ECM has, in its forty-plus ...

Article: Book Review

Carolyn Burke: No Regrets - The Life of Edith Piaf

by C. Michael Bailey
October 5, 2012

No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf Carolyn Burke 304 Pages ISBN: 0307268012 Alfred A. Knopf 2011In the 20th century, France produced two celebrities for which the New World has no equal: Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) was in international entertainment polymath who had his thumb ...