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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Give three imaginative artists a yearlong residency in a performance space, located in a breeding ground for creative music and the results hopefully will turn out to be something like Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio. Canadian trumpeter Darren Johnston, now living in the Bay area of San Francisco, spent a year making music at the Red Poppy Art House in the Mission District with the aptly named Nice Guy...
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Bebop was considered a radical departure for jazz music during its formation in the 1940s and 1950s, pioneered by drummer {{Max Roach = 10725}}, {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} and {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}} among others. Coupled with tenor saxophonist {{Archie Shepp = 4266}}'s 1960s avant-garde jazz proclivities, the artists respectively helped procure a prismatic and non-traditional perspective on the...
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A group made up entirely of strings might initially suggest chamber music, but this all-European trio produces music that crosses many boundaries, not so much to create music that's eclectic but to define its own terrain. Portuguese violinist Carlos Zingaro is a well-known exponent of free improvisation while the bassist {{Wilbert De Joode = 14742}} has served as foundation in a broad spectrum of Amsterdam-based...
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Alto saxophonist {{Welf Dorr = 13785}} has spent the last several years putting his own unique spin on the brass band, an instrumental lineup that is usually found in NYC crossing jazz with Balkan music. Although Dorr does look to Serbia for part of his musical muse he also draws heavily on a host of things including Afro-Cuban rhythms, funk and {{Thelonious Monk = 9507}}; thus the title of this release...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The liner notes imply that this is the Christmas album {{Django Reinhardt=10635}} and {{Stephane Grappelli = 7175}} might have made, had they made one. Certainly the The Hot Club of San Francisco is a virtuosic group that specializes in conjuring that era (see their masterful Bohemian Maestro for a recent example). But there's a wealth of delicious humor here that goes beyond anything that legendary...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
If The Pack is Back is a slight improvement over the 2008 debut from The Sax Pack "supergroup" of {{Kim Waters = 11193}}, {{Jeff Kashiwa = 3098}} and {{Steve Cole = 5807}}, it's because they sound more comfortable playing together, trimmed of frills and excesses that made the first album a sloppy affair...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In the debut of the project Now vs. Now, keyboardist and composer Jason Lindner seizes onto a multi-lingual, multi-faceted approach to convey a global message of peace through non-violence. The group includes Panagiotis Andreou on electric bass and drummer {{Mark Guiliana = 15306}}, providing a core for the multi-ethnic group of artists Lindner has chosen to augment his trio: Baba Israel recites his...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This reviewer heard drummer {{Eric John Eigner = 14766}}'s Mysterium project around five years ago, about the same time as picking up on guitarist Adam Cai's Pipe (TrueFalse, 2005). Both these trio releases were thrill-rides that aurally assaulted with an instrumental and compositional mix that leaned heavily on their respective leaders. Their playing field was bounded by a stylistic melange of free,...
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TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
- Always trying to reinvent their sound, Long Island natives Brand New return to the CD shelves this week with their most experimental album yet. Entitled “Daisy,” the record portrays the group's most diverse and eclectic sound yet. Unfortunately for older fans, though, this new sound may take some time getting used to. Hailing from the Long Island town of Merrick, these boys have always...
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- In 1971, Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young gathered musicians to record sessions for his third solo album. Some of the people invited included members of the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Byrds. The resulting group worked out so well that they decided to record an album together as their own band.The still unnamed band partook on a small tour. While at the train station in Manassas,...
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TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
- “How Big Can You Get'” is the eighth Big Bad Voodoo Daddy album. For this album they pay tribute to the late, great Cab Calloway and released it on the year of what would have been his 100th birthday. They are a swinging big band who had hit singles in the past with their song, “You & Me & The Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)” and “I Wanna Be Like You.” The...
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- “Free our minds from mental slavery,” says the first line in Jahmings Maccow’s track, “Man Redemption,” from the new album of the same name. Evoking the classic reggae style, the song calls for awareness and an acknowledgment of society’s frailty. All the classic words can be found in this first song, words like happiness, ignorance, unruliness, and of course,...
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TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
- Mike Zito grew up in St. Louis where he bagan performing at the age of five. He soon found inspiration in the form of a Van Halen record, and picked up the electric guitar. At 19, Zito made a name for himself in the St. Louis music scene, and released his first album in 1996, “Blue Moon.” After bouncing around the country and releasing several more albums, Zito signed with Eclectro Groove...
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TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
- Sharif unleashes his soul in his latest album, “Kisses and Lies,” where he uses an underlying country twang to tell his story, singing of love, life and heartbreak, and making “Kisses and Lies” the appropriate album title. “When your heart falls apart, there’s a price you pay for love,” he sings in “The Price You Pay,” telling of the pain associated...
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TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
- Up-beat, danceable melodies; catchy lyrics that are relatable to today’s youth—these elements and more are what sets Honor Societies second CD, “Fashionably Late,” apart from other’s in the same genre.The CD includes a balance of danceable songs like “Full Moon Crazy” and “Here Comes Trouble” and slower, easy-listening songs like “Goodnight...
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