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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Verve's admirable, no frills, reissue series, "Originals," includes a mixture of masterpieces and also-rans from its own and its associated labels' archives. This trio of albums from the September 2009 batch includes one near masterpiece, saxophonist {{Gato Barbieri = 3627}}'s Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata; an outstanding blowing session, saxophonists {{Gerry Mulligan = 9681}} and {{Paul...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just released! Bassist Miles Brown's first solo album! Featuring his father, Steve Brown, and drummer Rich Thompson, Share My Life is a straight-ahead jazz guitar trio record in the style of Jim Hall, Joe Pass, and Wes Montgomery...
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Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
When we're younger we have less respect for hard work and dedication and more appreciation of the cliched and showy. We make grand pronouncements when we're young about what's great in this area, what's great in that and through it all hold fast that our youthful convictions are not only accurate and correct but always will be. As a parent to four children ranging in age from 8 to 20 I've seen the...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
"Any time I get a phone call, it doesn't come up as a normal number; it's like a five-digit code. I'm like, 'What kind of spy organization is this?' I've never seen that before. I've had phone calls from people in the government, and they don't have that. Marvel is some crazy underground world."— Natalie Portman on being contacted by Marvel for her role in Thor [WENN via Contact 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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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) | 11/11/2009
Kettle Quartet: Matthew T. Forster (tenor sax), Dan Byrne - McCullough (guitar), Matt Browell (electric bass) & Chris Geehan (drums) & guests. Last night's session simmered nicely and on occasion threatened to boil over as the boys on the stand (where's the girls, guys') worked up a head of steam running through a choice selection of tunes to a small but appreciative audience. Tenor man Forster...
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Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By his teens, the Israeli-born Noy had already internalized the styles of guitar legends Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. By the age of 24, he had firmly established himself as an accomplished session player in his home country. Since his arrival in New York in 1996, Noy has performed, toured and recorded with the likes of Richard Bona, Chris Botti, Phoebe Snow, and Gavin... This...
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soulchoonz Y2K album reviews (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Michael Olatjua is a new name to me, but is a very fresh musical talent out of good old London Town bringing together many names of the great and the good to offer us an album of sassy, jazzy and funky soul. I heartily recommend the opening track for some gorgeous acoustic madness featuring the talented Lynden David Hall in full flow, and this really is different and a step to the left. I so, so LOVE...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Macon, GA - You can't travel down south without hearing someone rave about guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, radio and TV personality Joey Stuckey, who holds the distinction of being the Official Ambassador of Music for Macon, Georgia (home of the 'southern sound'). Joey Stuckey is an award-winning blind guitarist, songwriter, singer, composer, producer, radio and TV personality, music columnist, inspirational...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
I don’t rely on TIME much—for example, they list what they say are the 10 greatest electric guitar player of all time, and actually list 11. But Charlie Christian, who certainly should be close to the top of the list, is missing. They did get Les Paul, but what about Wes Montgomery? Chet Atkins? [...]
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Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
"Ar" wants to know who they are. When I was young I studied guitar for seven years (multiple styles), so it's an area I've long had an interest in. I was never very good but I learned a lot about...
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with both hands (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
I have six music discs in the console of my Malibu. The Rascals Greatest Hits Essential Frank Sinatra The Best of Sam Cooke John Roothaan and Terry Sullivan" (Acapulco Stomp) Kinks - Vol.1 & 2 Errol Garner Concert by the Sea Long road stretches get the Rascals and the Kinks. Traffic gets the sobering and soothing sounds of vocalists Cooke,Sinatra, Miss Terry Sullivan and especially the piano...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The world of jazz guitar has long been filled with some of the most storied names in jazz history. Artists such as {{Charlie Christian = 5699}}, {{Johnny Smith = 4434}}, {{Wes Montgomery = 9528}}, {{Pat Metheny = 9350}} and {{John Scofield = 4151}} have all become recognized as some of jazz's greatest innovators and most prolific performers...
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