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Clarence : American Music, Texas Style
by C. Michael Bailey
At the Gate. 1997 experienced the release of Gate Swings (Verve 314 537 617-2). This disc was a powerful disc by the then 72 year old Brown, brimming with genre-crushing jazz, blues, zydeco, pop...Oh Gosh, the whole apple pie. This has been Clarence Brown’s mantra: “the whole ball of wax”. Brown is joined by a BIG band that includes Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson and Nicholas Payton. The charts and conduct fall under the able hands of Wardell Quezergue. The results are ...
read moreTrumpeter Ryan Quigley To Release "What Doesn't Kill You" September 9 Featuring Paul Booth, Steve Hamilton, Michael Janisch, Clarence Penn
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Emma Perry Publicity
Enjoying a career which includes key roles with prominent UK symphony orchestras and big bands, plus recording/touring projects with Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, Tom Jones and Randy Brecker (to name but a few), trumpeter and composer/arranger Ryan Quigley now unveils his ten-track album What Doesn’t Kill You—a quintet release with Paul Booth (tenor sax, flutes), Steve Hamilton (piano, Fender Rhodes), Michael Janisch (double bass) and Clarence Penn (drums). The album will be supported by a tour featuring special guest pianist ...
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The Story Of Clarence Williams This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz looks at both sides of the Clarence Williams legacy. New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman and Broadway’s Vernel Bagneris lend their acting and vocal talents to this week's show as they join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for Gulf Coast Blues: The Clarence Williams Story. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Did he make a significant contribution as a ...
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Clarence Clemons' Nephew Jake Joins the E Street Band
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JamBase
NEW ADDITIONS TO THE E STREET BAND ANNOUNCED The expanded lineup for the upcoming Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band world tour will feature singers Cindy Mizelle and Curtis King, it has been announced. Trombonist Clark Gayton and trumpeter Curt Ramm, both of whom have toured with Bruce in the past, will also join the E Street Band on the road, along with newcomer Barry Danielian on trumpet. E Street stalwart Eddie Manion, also known as the Kingfish," and ...
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Canned Heat, Featuring Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Live at Montreux 1973 (2011)
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Something Else!
Canned Heat, the doomed boogie-blues revivalists, only made a lone appearance at the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival. Yet they still managed some star-crossed magic. By 1973, co-frontman Alan Blind Owl" Wilson had already tragically passed, an overdose victim at just 27. Stepping in, however, with Bob The Bear" Hite and the rest of his Delta-rocking brethren was Clarence Gatemouth" Brown, giving this recording a vibrating once-in-a-lifetime specialness. Already huge festival draws, after signature appearances at Monterey Pop in 1967 and ...
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R.I.P. Clarence Clemons
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JamBase
THE BIG MAN IS GONE On the cover of 1975's Born To Run, it is saxophonist Clarence Clemons that Bruce Springsteen leans on, the pair caught in a moment of laughing camaraderie. For decades, Clarence was the rock, at least subtly & psychologically, the entire E Street Band set their foot upon, a presence as much spiritual as it was musical, a rock 'n' roll shaman for one of the genre's great tribes. Clemons suffered a massive stroke on June ...
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Clarence Clemons, 1942-2011...
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Digital Music News
A cornerstone of the E Street Band has now passed away. Saxophonist Clarence Clemons died Saturday evening at 69, just days after suffering a serious stroke. Shortly after news of the death, Bruce Springsteen offered this statement. Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage. ...
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Clarence Clemons (1942-2011): An Appreciation
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Something Else!
ate last night, I saw the email light blinking on my phone. A single new message had come in from one of my writer cohorts. The subject line read Blood Brothers" ... and I knew. By the time you read this, thousands of obits will have already been published. The Clarence Clemons' story is well known and will not be repeated here. Instead, let's talk about how people change the world. On Friday, I wanted a little dream sequence to ...
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Clarence Johnson: Low Down Papa
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Before radio, before the phonograph and before the jukebox, there was the piano roll. An ingenious invention dating back to the 1890s, the piano roll was the first way in which the public could hear recorded music. Many of the major piano roll companies were in Chicago, and by the early 1920s, some of these companies were recording black musicians who had relocated to the city from the South to play in speakeasies. One of these musicians was Clarence Jelly" ...
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Bluesman Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown dies
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All About Jazz
Weakened by lung cancer and heart disease and devastated by the destruction of his beloved New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, Grammy Award-winning singer and guitarist Clarence Gatemouth" Brown died on Saturday. He was 81.
Brown died at his brother's home in Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape the hurricane. His home in Slidell, La., just outside New Orleans, was destroyed by Katrina, said Rick Cady, his agent.
He was completely devastated," Cady said. ... He evacuated successfully before ...
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