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Album Review

Saga: 20/20

Read "20/20" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


20/20 marks the popular Canadian ensemble's 20th release. Here, original vocalist Michael Sadler rejoins the unit, and adds melodious overtones to its stylish, cross-functional melding of pop-rock, progressive rock and progressive metal. Enamored by a first-rate production and a largely memorable track mix, the artists go for the gusto, synchronizing technical veracity with surging rock anthems. On an album short on filler material, Saga divulges high-caliber musicianship with thrusting pulses, climactic crescendos and tricky time signatures. “Anywhere You ...

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Saga: Färger

Read "Färger" reviewed by Joshua Weiner


Art Farmer made a great record with Jim Hall in the '60s entitled To Sweden With Love. If Färger, the debut album by the piano trio Saga, is any indication, Sweden is more than ready to return some of that love. By turns moody, joyous, exuberant, and somber, Saga plays jazz that mixes Scandinavian folk flavors, neoclassical influences, and free playing in an enticing way.Pianist and composer Joakim Simonsson sets the tone with the introductory “Thank You," playing ...

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Music Industry

Happy Birthday To You: A Copyright Saga Chapter Closes

Happy Birthday To You: A Copyright Saga Chapter Closes

Source: HypeBot

As most are now aware, the song which has for years been a staple of American birthday celebrations has been wrested from the clutches of Warner/Chappell and placed in the public domain where it belongs...until someone steps up to claim the now orphaned copyright. Guest Post by Anna-Kaisa Kaila on Future of Music Coalition  “Happy Birthday” is the song everyone and your cat knows. The Guinness Book of World Records lists it as the most frequently sung English song, but it is ...

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Recording

Rodrigo Lima: Saga

Rodrigo Lima: Saga

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Temperatures dropped to single digits in New York today, compelling me to break out something tasty and warm: Saga, a new double-CD album by Brazilian guitarist and composer-arranger Rodrigo Lima. Produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro, the album is Lima's first as a leader and a tribute of sorts to CTI's sultry Brazilian jazz recordings of the 1970s, but with contemporary twists. Musical guests include flutist Hubert Laws and arranger Don Sebesky as well as clarinetist Anat Cohen, vibraphonist Mike Maineiri and percussionist ...

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Recording

Dee Bell releases "Sagacious Grace" with Houston Person, Al Plank, John Stowell, Michael Spiro, Colin Bailey and John Wiitala

Dee Bell releases "Sagacious Grace" with Houston Person, Al Plank, John Stowell, Michael Spiro, Colin Bailey and John Wiitala

Source: Dee Bell

Former Concord Jazz Recording Artist Dee Bell Moves to the Laser Label with the new album Sagacious Grace (Cat #0708). Available on CD Baby, Amazon, and ITunes as of 15 August 2011 Featuring Al Plank: piano; Houston Person: saxophone; John Stowell: guitar; Michael Spiro: percussion; Colin Bailey: drums; John Wiitala: bass. Praised by critics both abroad and in the United States for her “gorgeous phrasing" and “clear and easy delivery (Stereo Review)" of the lyrics of a song, West Coast ...

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Interview

Sad, Violent, Obscure Saga of Jazz Singer Jackie Paris

Sad, Violent, Obscure Saga of Jazz Singer Jackie Paris

Source: Michael Ricci

Stumbling upon a talent as imposing, magnetic, and seemingly unflawed as that of Jackie Paris prompts both exhilaration and unease.

A jazz singer whose career spanned the 1940s through the '70s, Paris seems to have been everywhere and nowhere - singing with jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, recording highly acclaimed albums, but constantly missing the career boat, often by a hair. He remained so obscure that he appeared, literally, to die before his time: One notable jazz dictionary says ...

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Recording

New Epic Prog CD "Terra Incognita" by Roswell Six Features Dream Theatre, Asia and Saga Alumni

New Epic Prog CD "Terra Incognita" by Roswell Six Features Dream Theatre, Asia and Saga Alumni

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - ProgRock Records has joined forces with internationally bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson for a groundbreaking crossover novel and progressive rock project, Terra Incognita. Anderson has created an incredible fantasy universe with sailing ships, sea monsters, and the crusades. The first novel, The Edge Of The World, hits stores on June 2, 2009 from Orbit Books. Anderson says, “My work work has always been heavily influenced by music, especially progressive rock - but Terra Incognita truly ...

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Music Industry

Saga of Capitol Records Studio's Acoustics in Jeopardy

Saga of Capitol Records Studio's Acoustics in Jeopardy

Source: Michael Ricci

They were singing the blues in the legendary Studio A at Hollywood's Capitol Records tower.

Pile drivers and excavation would take place only feet away from famed echo chambers beneath the Vine Street tower. EMI is appealing an approval of the project as recording pros fret.

“Losing this place would be a big deal. There's nothing better than this anywhere in the world," said recording engineer Al Schmitt. Schmitt, a 19-time Grammy winner, was standing over the banquet-table-size mixing board ...

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TRAGIC TWIST TO GRAMMY AWARD WINNER'S SAGA: JAZZ LEGEND EDWARD KID ORY'S EFFECTS AUCTIONED BY MISTAKE

TRAGIC TWIST TO GRAMMY AWARD WINNER'S SAGA: JAZZ LEGEND EDWARD KID ORY'S EFFECTS AUCTIONED BY MISTAKE

Source: All About Jazz

Sole Heir Searches for Priceless Memorabilia Tracing Father's Illustrious Career

Los Angeles, 11 May 2001 - Babette Ory, the sole heir to the estate of legendary Jazz pioneer Edward “Kid" Ory, discovered today that the entire contents of a storage unit containing priceless and irreplaceable memorabilia collected throughout the course of Kid Ory's career has been auctioned to an anonymous bidder. Triple-A Storage of Chatsworth, California, claims that they were within their rights to auction the contents of the unit ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

20/20

Eagle Records
2012

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Färger

Self Produced
2004

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