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Abel Mireles: Animo

Read "Animo" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


The life stories of musicians raised along the Southern border of the United States tend to be compelling. The Juárez-El Paso conurbation is home to 2.7 million people. It is famous, not to say notorious, for many of its lurid stories of drugs, cartels, mayhem and violence. It is a pity that more of them are not like Abel Mireles' because where the news is sensational, the deeper substance of people's lives and culture often goes unnoticed. Lawlessness has, it ...

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Deelee Dube: Trying Times

Read "Trying Times" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Five years ago, the annual Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition named Deelee Dubé its first British winner and (2016) Sassy Award recipient, landing Dubé a spot at the Montreal International Jazz Festival and recording contract for this Concord Records debut. Trying Times marks a major label debut, but Deelee Dubé is no artistic novice. She started violin lessons when she was four and put together her first band when she was fourteen. Her 2016 release Tenderly was produced ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Animo

Sunnyside Records
2022

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Trying Times

Concord Music Group
2020

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