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Many Birds With Strings

Many Birds With Strings

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

I love Charlie Parker With Strings. It's such pretty, soulful music from one of the first jazz artists to cross over to the American songbook with an easy listening twist. And I know many readers share my passion for Bird with strings. First, let's listen to an example so those who aren't familiar have a sense... Yesterday, I went on YouTube and looked around for tributes to the Parker with Strings catalog. To my surprise and pleasure, I was able ...

Recording

Danny Michel Releases "Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me" with The Garifuna Collective

Danny Michel Releases "Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me" with The Garifuna Collective

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

Danny Michel first fell in love with the Central American country of Belize 15 years ago when he traveled there for a break from a cold Canada winter. What started as a vacation from the grind of touring and recording changed Michel’s life and led him down a long and winding road towards the creation of Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me, a stunning collaboration between a Canadian indie rocker, an innovative Belizean producer and some of the top musicians ...

Recording

Americana Duo Birds Of Chicago To Release Self-Titled Debut October 2

Americana Duo Birds Of Chicago To Release Self-Titled Debut October 2

Source: 1888 Media

NPR eTown Episode To Air Beginning August 8 U.S. Tour Aug 21-Nov 10 Includes Two-Month Stint With Sean Hayes Hometown Record Release Show On November 10 At Old Town School Of Folk Music Chicago, IL: Birds of Chicago, a collective based around singer-songwriters/ instrumentalists JT Nero and Allison Russell, are set to release their eponymous debut album on October 2, 2012. Comprising twelve original songs, Birds of Chicago immediately soars into flight with the protracted leap of its lead track, ...

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Festival

Candye Kane, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Muddy Waters Tribute Headline Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival, May 26-27

Candye Kane, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Muddy Waters Tribute Headline Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival, May 26-27

Source: conqueroo

Los Angeles area's largest Cajun and Blues festival, held over Memorial Day weekend, features two stages, a Mardi Gras parade, kids' stages, crafts and dozens of food booths SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—The 23rd annual Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival will rock over Memorial Day weekend, May 26-27, at Rancho Santa Susanna Community Park, 5005 Los Angeles Ave., in Simi Valley. The festival features two full stages for each of its musical genres. Music will proceed non-stop each day from 12 ...

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Music Industry

The Fabulous Thunderbirds' Kim Wilson Demands Rush Limbaugh Stop Using His Music

The Fabulous Thunderbirds' Kim Wilson Demands Rush Limbaugh Stop Using His Music

Source: Anne Leighton

The Fabulous Thunderbirds' lead singer Kim Wilson has officially demanded that Rush Limbaugh cease and desist broadcast of any music written, recorded or published by Kim and his band in any context related to or concerning any radio or television broadcast of, by or about Rush Limbaugh. Kim Wilson's memo was issued on Tuesday, March 6 to Clear Channel Communications, Premiere Networks and Broadcasting and Rush Limbaugh directly. Over the years Rush has played the Thunderbirds' “Tuff Enuff" and other ...

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Radio

Blues Queens, Cakewalkin’ Babies & Songbirds: A Riverwalk Jazz Salute to Women’s History Month

Blues Queens, Cakewalkin’ Babies & Songbirds: A Riverwalk Jazz Salute to Women’s History Month

Source: Don Mopsick

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Carol Woods portrays women who were seminal figures in jazz with dialogue based on their first-person accounts, and Carol interprets important songs from their careers. 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. It may have been a man's world in the early days of jazz, but tell that to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday—not to mention artists ...

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Music Industry

Jim McCarty Discusses Jeff Beck's Ouster from the Yardbirds: "He Had to Go"

Jim McCarty Discusses Jeff Beck's Ouster from the Yardbirds: "He Had to Go"

Source: Something Else!

The Yardbirds, famous for such 1960s-era tracks as “For Your Love," “Over Under Sideways Down," and “Heart Full of Soul," served as a launching pad for three of rock's most recognizable guitarists—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Co-founding drummer Jim McCarty recently returned to the band's separation from Beck, which actually happened on tour after a October 1966 stop in Texas. “Jeff was always very keyed up, very wound up when he played, and a sensitive guy," McCarty told ...

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Music Industry

Angry Birds CEO: If Piracy is Too High, It's Probably Your Own Damn Fault...

Angry Birds CEO: If Piracy is Too High, It's Probably Your Own Damn Fault...

Source: Digital Music News

It's been official for a while now: the music industry of 2012 is exactly where other industries don't want to end up. Especially the part that includes lawsuits against fans, mispriced content, endless infighting, and disastrous profit-plunges. “We could learn a lot from the music industry and the rather terrible ways they've tried to combat piracy..." The comment came during Midem from Mikael Hed of Rovio Mobile, whose Angry Birds is among the most successful games of all time. But ...

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Interview

Two Hollywood Songbirds

Two Hollywood Songbirds

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

I wasn't around in Los Angeles in the '50s and early '60s, but from what I hear, it was quite a place. Actually, you kind of sense that the city was overflowing with musical talent. Anyone who loves rare jazz albums by little-known singers knows that there were a lot of superb vocalists on the scene there whose names today have been largely forgotten. Two examples are Thelma Gracen and Mavis Rivers.  Thelma Gracen [pictured] was a big band singer ...

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Recording

Singer/songwriter Jay Brown of the Lazybirds reaches into folk and country influences on new solo album

Source: Graham Taylor

Just because Jay Brown is in the Lazybirds doesn't mean he is one. On the contrary, Brown is probably one of the busiest young musicians in the scene. With the Lazybirds, Brown has gradually built a devoted fan base with the group's foot-stomping hybrid of ragtime and blues; moreover, Brown's tireless work ethic and creative versatility is expansive enough to find its presence known in the vintage jazz of Swing Guitars and the spicy world music of Shantavaani. However, the ...

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