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It was, simply, an amazing year in music, from Late Registration to Sufjan Stevens. Let's look back.Thursday, January 27, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
You simply have to watch this band to believe it — especially the transfixing accordion.Thursday, January 27, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Joan Hutton and Sue Orfield 's Take that Back opens with the smooth dark chocolate crooning of Hutton's bass clarinet. The tune is "Dirty Secret," a Hutton-penned, mid-tempo gem. And initially what comes to mind is ( Bennie Maupin and...Thursday, January 27, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Eric Goletz is a virtuoso trombonist who also writes and arranges. On first hearing, his core band may put some in mind of Chase, Bill Chase 's high-flying group that featured both vocals and technically demanding trumpet. Goletz has...Thursday, January 27, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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A veteran of Chico Hamilton , Dave Holland , and The World Saxophone Quartet , saxophonist Eric Person knows a sweet gig when he plays one... [ read more ]Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
The move comes two days after Neil Young requested that his work be removed from Spotify in protest over coronavirus misinformation on Joe Rogan's podcast.Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
Leslie Jordan was an Emmy-winning actor pre-pandemic. His quarantine video diaries scored him nearly 6 million Instagram followers. He's got merchandise, a book and a gospel album.
I met Jim McCormick many years ago, when the very accomplished singer-songwriter was performing locally with the band the Bingemen, and teaching a class in English at the University of […] The post Jim McCormick Takes On Music...Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
Michelle Zauner's stripped-down cover grounds Yoko Ono's "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do" in its mournful genesis.Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
Tagaq, a recipient of the national Polaris Music Prize, discusses the subjugation of Canada's Indigenous people and her hopes for healing through acknowledging that difficult history.Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but doesn't much like them.Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from All About Jazz News
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There is no need to read their bios to hear that these are two friends who have been working and playing together for a good while (nearly a decade at the time of this recording). For a start, the mere fact of playing as a duo inevitably...Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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There's a buzz to Dancing Shadows that is akin to the first time one stumbled upon a late 1950s to late 1960s Blue Note, Riverside, Verve, Impulse! or Prestige recording and time just stopped and the music took you places you were eager...Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Go back to a time when music genre categories were not in effect, and listeners were open to crossing borders. Miles Davis was invited to play at rock concerts and Carlos Santana could cover a John Coltrane composition... [ read more ]Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from All About Jazz News
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
John said that he's fully vaccinated and boosted, experiencing only mild symptoms, and expects to be able to perform at his scheduled show this weekend in Arkansas.Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from All About Jazz News
PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Dara Tucker to perform at New Jersey Jazz Society January Social on January 29th
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Cheesy, inspiring and enormously popular, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" is a song which became an American Anthem long after it was released.Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
Adair was a superb soloist and tremendous accompanist, as well as the bedrock of Nashville's jazz scene after first relocating there in the early '60s.Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
The group takes inspiration from Pablo Picasso's alter-ego, the minotaur, to examine the darker parts of ourselves that we hope to hide.Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
In just under three minutes of mid-tempo Americana, De Vitry fends off mortality wielding nothing more than generosity, spirit and soaring harmony.Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
The band draws on jazz's dance with silence and a love of Talk Talk's later records, all of which hum through the new single "Performance."Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
Co-produced by Utada and Floating Points, "Something Near Marseilles" takes the established J-pop idol on a hypnotic disco train.Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from NPR Topics: Music
From a cozy home in Pittsboro, N.C., the singer and guitarist breathes new life into old, obscure folk songs.Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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An Alltet is apparently two groups, one with eleven musicians, the other with six. At least that is the case on trumpeter Larry Douglas ' reissued debut album, Dedications, on the first half of which he leads a tentet (and auxiliary...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Some of pianist British Alexander Hawkins ' most potent outings have been in the intimate duo setting. Think, for example, of Leaps In Leicester (Clean Feed, 2016) with Evan Parker or Shards And Constellations (Intakt, 2020) with cellist...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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In a trio format, listeners have come to expect alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella to lead and write all the compositions. He introduced himself to the world with Aviary (Thought To Sound Records, 2010), and followed up with three more...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Bands such as Tower of Power and the Average White Band are known for their hard-driving blend of funky soul mixed with rock and jazz elements. The Canadian-based group, Shuffle Demons , takes these influences and keeps the funk alive...Monday, January 24, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Finally, a band of brothers retaliates against the coronavirus. The scientists and the anti-vax antipodes have had their day. Time for some partisan guerrilla action. Okay, maybe just a pipe dream, but these nine tracks by the Amsterdam...Monday, January 24, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Cleveland club La Cave, a grungy cellar which could accommodate around two hundred people, opened as a folk venue in 1962, transitioned into rock mid-decade, and closed in 1969. Along the way, in amongst such counterculture flagbearers...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Sonny Rollins summed up the outsize talent of British pianist Stan Tracey in a remark he made sometime in the early 1960s. Tracey was then the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, where Rollins was playing a season. "Does anyone...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Twenty-five years on from her debut, A Live (Music Mecca, 1997), recorded at Copenhagen's Jazzhaus, Danish saxophonist Pernille Bévort returns with another live outing. Live is only her second live recording as leader in that...