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A Night of Classic Jazz and Other Gems
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Gems from the Great American Songbook, opera and operettas, and a few classic-jazz staples were in the splendid mix when The Midiri Brothers brought their quintet to Punta Gorda FL on Monday, March 13 for their first Charlotte County Jazz Society appearance. Paul and Joe Midiri have both serious chops and a love for the instrumental jazz tradition. Together, they imbued the music with a bright sound and connected with the audience through humorous, well-honed banter about their identical twinship. ...
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Trombonist And Vocalist Hailey Brinnel Brings New Life To Hidden Gems Of The Heyday Of The Swing Era With Her Debut Album, 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles'
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Outside in Music
Described as “a versatile talent on so many levels of expression” with “amazing control and grace” by legendary saxophonist Dick Oatts, and as writing “inspired arrangements” that “serve as the perfect channel to highlight her extraordinary talent, with a seamless reverence for tradition and unique, fresh style that keeps the music swinging” by DIVA Jazz Orchestra Director Dr. Sherrie Maricle, Hailey Brinnel is a trombonist, vocalist, and arranger set apart from the rest. Brinnel’s debut album, I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles, ...
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Saxophonist's "A Team" delivers a night filled with musical gems
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
A touring jazz saxophonist's lot often means solitary travel to a distant city or country- and working with a local or regional rhythm section with whom they may or may not be familiar. The fine swing tenor Harry Allen had none of that uncertainty for his March 14 appearance in the Charlotte County Jazz Society's concert series. Allen brought his own New York-based band to Port Charlotte as part of a five-concert Florida tour. His ace rhythm section included the ...
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Sophisticated Ladies: Piano Gems of the Past Year
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Claire Ritter, Deanna Witkowski and Janice Friedman are not household names on the piano jazz circuit. But like the best ingredients, their taste and intrigue far outshines their notoriety. In late 2014 and 2015, each released a recording worthy of “top ten" status as well as repeated listening. Once a student of Mary Lou Williams and later Ran Blake, as well as former faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music, Claire Ritter has amassed a long list of grants ...
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Music Gems From The Vaults Of SRI Jazz
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Shelly Liebowitz
"The response to us adding classic recordings to our website has overwhelmingly positive we so dipped into our vaults for some great lost treasures," said Shelly Liebowitz, President of The SRI Label Group whose website, srirecords.com, has become the hot destination on the web for baby boomers in search of the music they love. They went deep into their treasure trove for classic jazz albums by The Velvet Fog himself, Mel Torme' and the great jazz vocalist Ruth Brown. The ...
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Hidden Gems: Get to Know Your NC Symphony at All-New ncsymphony.org
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Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
RALEIGH, N.C.—Spend your evenings with a private pilot, an outdoorsman, an international traveller, a cat wrangler, an antiques collector, an astrophysicist, a celebrated photographer, a wine expert, a tennis pro, a new music entrepreneur, more than a few master chefs, and some of the best music you'll ever hear live, all in one place. You can this weekend. Your North Carolina Symphony has launched an all-new musicians section at its award-winning Web site, ncsymphony.org, allowing you to get to know ...
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Gimme Five: Favorites, Forgotten Gems from Peter Gabriel
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Something Else!
By Something Else Reviews Anybody who names his first four solo recordings after himself is going to require some deciphering, right? We're here to help with a five-song spin through Peter Gabriel's solo career, featuring both charting favorites and a few forgotten gems. “HERE COMES THE FLOOD" (PETER GABRIEL 1/CAR, 1977) By Tom Johnson With Gabriel's first solo album, “Here Comes the Flood" arrived bearing the weight of a full band, then shed most of the instrumentation for another appearance ...
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Forgotten Gems: Phil Collins - Face Value (1981)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Face Value is a fulcrum for fans of both Phil Collins and the band he had just begun leading, Genesis. Thought of, if its thought of at all anymore, as a divorce record (thanks to its two hits, “I Missed Again" and “In the Air Tonight"), Face Value is something much different in the listening. Rather than wallowing in what must have been a devastating turn of events, Collins instead offers a brisk variety of musical settings. ...
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Rare Gems of Bix Beiderbecke on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
On public radio this week, Riverwalk Jazz explores cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's gift for music and his place in jazz history. One of the first major soloists to emerge in jazz, Beiderbecke is considered by many to be the first to start playing and recording ballads in a jazz context. Jazz historian, bandleader and bass saxophonist Vince Giordano, one of today's foremost interpreters of Bix's musical legacy and the leader of his Nighthawks Orchestra in New York City, joins The Jim ...
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Forgotten Gems: Songs We Still Love by Prince
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Something Else!
By Something Else Reviews OK, there was the symbol thing. And the awful attempts at hip-hop phrasing. And the Sheena Easton thing. And the using of a certain ubiquitous letter of the alphabet ("Take Me With U," “I Would Die for U," “U Got the Look," “I Wish U Heaven," “Nothing Compares 2 U," so on) in the songs. And the spoken-word thing on The Gold Experience. And the complete redo of Purple Rain—your band versus the Time? Again?—for the ...
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