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Sometimes called the father of freak-folk, the 83-year-old singer-songwriter lived, worked and died on his own terms.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
The rap mogul, who awaits trial on sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges, faces two new counts expanding the timeline of his alleged crimes.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
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Elton John partnered with Brandi Carlile for a new album of duets, Who Believes in Angels? But the project almost fell apart during its first recording sessions.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
In June, Bruce Springsteen will put out a collection of previously unreleased music that dates back as far as four decades.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
The Hold Steady's Craig Finn. Momma. Newcomers Lily Seabird and duendita. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson teamed up with Zach McCormick of Minnesota Public Radio's The Current to highlight their favorite albums out April 4. Featured albums:...Friday, April 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
The country star talks about his latest record, High , and he revisits some of his biggest hits.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Here's the list of new albums out today, including a solo outing from The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, a star-making turn by the indie rock band Momma, and much more.Friday, April 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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New York-based pianist Eugenia Choe 's first two trio albums on SteepleChase Records, 2016's Magic Light (review here ) and 2018's Verdfant Green (review here ), featured her trio with bassist Danny Weller and drummer Alex Wyatt ... [...Friday, April 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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"Unfortunately, I became entangled in a variety of day jobs and set music on the backburner for a shameful number of years. Finally, I have realized that I don't want to work in an office." How often has some frustrated artist said just...Friday, April 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Despite spending the majority of his career as a side man for William Parker and Matthew Shipp , Rob Brown is perhaps the most recognizable alto saxophonist on the East Coast... [ read more ]Friday, April 4, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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R.E.M. played its first concert there in 1980 and still draws fans to its hometown. A visit to Athens can be like a pilgrimage of the band's music.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Scottish tenor saxophonist Matt Carmichael captured attention with his first album Where Will The River Flow (Porthole Music, 2021), garnering over 8 million streams. His second album, Marram (Edition Records, 2022), developed his blend...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
If energy and enthusiasm were enough to earn a prize, the University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1 would surely have one in hand to salute its newest album, Let the Good Times Roll, a textbook lesson in buoyant and heavy-duty...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Amidst his occasional outings with combinations of other players, Ronny Wiesauer keeps drifting back to a personal niche that is reliably comfortable and comforting. When settled in alone with a guitar, he spins pastoral meditations with...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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This is album number five from bassist Quinn Sternberg . It follows on from Walking On Eggshells (Mind Beach Records, 2023). A resident of jny: Asheville , North Carolina, as of this writing, Sternberg returned to jny: New Orleans for...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Jake Hertzog 's ambitious Ozark Concerto showcases his lithe electric guitar in a well-intended but only moderately successful seven-movement opus, accompanied for the most part by the 23-member Arkansas-based Ozark Jazz Philharmonic...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Sometimes, a random listener intervenes to comment on music a reviewer is working on. "Who are those guys?" with a tone that means, "I should know this right?" Well, if you happen to be from Philadelphia, shame on you. This was some kind...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Simply stated, and without hyperbole, Terry Waldo is an American musical treasure. He's also a treasure purveyor. A protégé of and mentored by Eubie Blake , Waldo is a player, composer, arranger, author, podcaster, theatrical director,...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
In 1951 in Vienna, a graduate school psychology student and amateur harpist doing work on Freud literally stumbled upon a handful of torn-edged music manuscript papers of the legendary psychiatrist. Recognizing what could be a major...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz News
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When Diana Ross , the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa , the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues... [ read more ]Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Imagine a Detroit dive bar in 1969, where the feral howl of The Stooges collides with the towering tenor of Dexter Gordon in a haze of sweat, distortion, and cigarette smoke. Raw Blow Power, released on the FuzzTone rock label, is that...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
British saxophonist Ronnie Ross had just locked down his now iconic baritone solo on Lou Reed 's soon-to-be overplayed rock classic, "Walk On the Wild Side" when co-producer David Bowie snook up behind Reed and whispered excitedly...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
In a career that lasted an odds-defying four decades, trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker's signature sound was captured on around 20 live albums. The majority of these performances, covering the years 1952-1988, not surprisingly, fell on...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Easy Mo Bee is a fellow who does not like to leave things unfinished. Like any good producer, he is restlessly willing to shape and hone a work until things are fine-tuned down to the smallest details--a fine quality in rap recording,...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
If you're tired of the same-old same-old musical merry-go-round, here's a group that really shakes things up and RIPs them apart on its debut recording, MUSKrats, firing brutally and haphazardly at every melodic convention and literally...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
