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PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
Any fan of the jazz bass needs to invest in this indispensable dissertation on one of the craft’s true masters. Bassist Scott LaFaro was only six years into his professional jazz career before dying at age 25 in a fatal car crash in upstate New York two days after accompanying Stan Getz at his legendary 1961 Newport Jazz Festival appearance. In that short span of time, which saw him play on Ornette...
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BrainBlog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The web feed for the continued brain slicing of Patient H.M. suggests that, to the music of Stan Getz, "Primary visual cortex has surfaced. The end is in sight!" :-) If you have not yet watched some of the web stream, give it a look at this time! http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php Thank you Brain Observatory for providing this live feed of an historic couple of days in neuroscience...
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Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
I never met Chris D and I’m not using his full name here because I’m not even sure it’s OK to do that. What I can tell you about Chris is that he died of cancer a few weeks ago in a hospice, aged (I believe) in his mid-forties. Before the hospice, he’d lived in a housing association flat, [...]
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Bebel Gilberto is the daughter of bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto and Brazilian singer Miúcha, but the 43-year-old New Yorker has slowly come into her own over the years, recording albums that fuse classic Brazilian pop styles with thoroughly modern, electronic instrumentation. Her new record, All in One , mixes sumptuous traditional tunes, like a cover of her father’s “Bim...
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Nokia S60V3/5 Apps, Games, Themes (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
*Liquid Air Lab's Arrow Player v1.10 S60v3 SymbianOS9.x Signed {Rock,Jazz & CAZ Music}* Image: http://i45.tinypic.com/qyhlaw.jpg This Nokia app of Arrow entertains you with 3 streams: Arrow...
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sOmEThiNg foR thE wEEkenD, SIR? (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
From the LP "Moshi" by Barney Willen and friends on the French "Saravah" label. 80's I think but not sure. Tracks are- 1. Balandji In Bobo 2. Sannu ne Gheniyo 3. El Hadji Seems that Barney and friends went to live and travel in Africa in the late sixties after hearing some music by a pygmy tribe. He stayed in Algeria and travelled accross the Sahara to Senegal and Mali long befor...
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andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, James Brown and the Doors are among the songs that have been named as the 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame, reports rollingstone.com. Twenty-five recordings from various genres will be added to the Hall, which currently includes 851 songs altogether. Songs are eligible 25 years after [...]
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Bob Marley,
Charlie Byrd,
Count Basie,
Duke Ellington,
Gene Kelly,
George Carlin,
James Brown,
James Brown,
Janis Joplin,
Jazz,
Jelly Roll Morton,
Judy Garland,
King Oliver,
Music,
Reggae,
Soul,
Sports,
The Beach Boys,
The Isley Brothers
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Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Photo: Wyman/WireImage.com; Walter/WireImage.com Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, the Doors, James Brown and Janis Joplin have been named as 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Twenty-five recordings from a variety of genres will be added to the Grammy Hall, which currently includes 851 titles altogether (songs are eligible 25 years after release [...]
Explore : Billie Holiday,
Bob Marley,
Charlie Byrd,
Count Basie,
Duke Ellington,
Gene Kelly,
George Carlin,
James Brown,
James Brown,
Janis Joplin,
Jazz,
Jelly Roll Morton,
Judy Garland,
King Oliver,
Music,
Reggae,
Soul,
Sports,
The Beach Boys,
The Isley Brothers
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Music News: Satchmo tunes jazz up 2010 roster -- The Recording Academy announced 25 additions to its Grammy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, adding to a roster of timeless tunes that now includes 851 titles.
Explore : Billie Holiday,
Charlie Byrd,
Count Basie,
Duke Ellington,
Gene Kelly,
George Carlin,
James Brown,
Janis Joplin,
Jazz,
Jelly Roll Morton,
Judy Garland,
King Oliver,
Music
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett,...
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Chet Baker,
Dave Brubeck,
Isaac Hayes,
Jazz,
John Coltrane,
Miles Davis,
Music,
Ray Charles,
Sarah Vaughan,
Soul,
Tony Bennett,
Wes Montgomery
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late 1950s became a winning formula for jazz in the spring of 1962. With Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd's Jazz Samba LP racing up the charts, many established jazz saxophonists took a shot at the new beat with great...
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kingblind (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
While Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar have had their share of differences since the acrimonious breakup of Uncle Tupelo, at least they now have one rather remarkable thing in common -- they've both had the opportunity to collaborate with a noted American writer who happened to be dead. In 1998, Tweedy's group Wilco joined forces with Billy Bragg on the album Mermaid Avenue, in which they set a handful of...
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bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Vasilis Xenopoulos (ten), Paul Edis (pno), Mick Shoulder (bs), Adam Sinclair (dms). Vasy (Xeno? Mr X?) is one of those players you remember come what may. The sound is warm without being hot, cool without being cold. Tonight It captured the Blaydon audience f rom the opening notes of "Gone With The Wind" to the closing bars of "Wee" (a.k.a. "Allen's Alley") this is what...
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bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Thanks to Facebook Friends I've enjoyed some video of the 1958 Cannes Jazz Festival. Dizzy, Lucky Thompson, Ella, Bechet, Eldridge, Coleman's Hawkins and Bill, Stan Getz and more. Sadly the Getz clip, which features 5 tenors - Getz, Hawkins, Byas, Barney Wilen and my personal favourite Guy Lafitte - playing "Indiana", cuts out after Getz's solo. Click here for Ella singing "Just Squeeze...
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