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Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan: 1963
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1962, Annie Ross had to take a health break from the wildly successful vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In her place, Yolande Bavan (above) was hired. When I interviewed Yolande in 2007 three months after starting this blog, she told me the story of how she came to join the group (you can read all three parts of my interview here, here and here). Cruising YouTube yesterday, I came across Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan on Ralph Gleason's TV ...
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Michel Lambert Releases "Journal Des Episodes 2"
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MONTREAL, QC — On November 18, 2014, Jazz from Rant will release the latest recording by jazz composer, drummer and artist Michel Lambert, entitled Journal des Episodes II. The epic musical journey continues with 97 new episodes! Journal des Épisodes is a series of compositions from a year long daily musical diary created by Michel Lambert, originally containing 366 short musical compositions for orchestra. The first recording was the result of transforming and performing 92 of these journal entries with ...
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Dave Lambert: Voice of Reason
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you want to truly understand the kind side of jazz—the side that reveres other artists, wants everyone to love the music and views improvisation as way to bring people together—you need to dig the music of Dave Lambert. Before World War II, Louis Armstrong was the chief bridge between jazz and everyday life, largely because he stood for happiness and togetherness as well as magnificent artistry. After the war, Lambert took on that role, becoming something of a Johnny ...
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New Album Michel Lambert Journal Des Episodes
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MONTREAL, QC (CANADA) — On February 5, 2013, Jazz from Rant will release the latest recording by jazz composer, drummer and artist Michel Lambert, entitled Journal des Épisodes. This remarkable iconoclastic musical adventure contains 92 titles. Journal des Épisodes is a year long daily musical diary kept by Michel Lambert. Each diary entry contains a musical score for symphony orchestra and a drawing. The album cover shows one of the journal entries. Here, in this new album, the music has ...
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Stagecoach: B. Paisley, J. Aldean, M. Lambert, Kenny Rogers
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JamBase
STEVE MARTIN, CHRIS ISAAK, THE JAYHAWKS, GREENSKY BLUEGRASS, DEL MCCOURY BAND, DAVE ALVIN, RALPH STANLEY, AND MORE ALSO ANNOUNCED The Stagecoach Country Music Festival returns for the 6th year with the addition of a third day of music. The festival welcomes Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Kenny Rogers, and more. The Stagecoach Country Music Festival takes place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California on Friday April 27-Sunday April 29. Tickets go on sale Friday, October ...
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Dave Lambert: Audition at RCA
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
What you're about to see is going to blow your mind (unless you've seen it already). This was the first time I viewed the following video clip, and I knew nothing of it until JazzWax reader and publicist Michael Bloom sent along a link.
Lambert from Peter on Vimeo.
The clip is a 15-minute documentary short called Audition at RCA, which was filmed in 1964 by master of the genre D.A. Pennebaker. According to George Avakian, Dave Lambert had put ...read more
Jeannette Lambert releases new album of jazz standards
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MONTREAL, QC (CANADA)—On May 5th, 2011, Jazz From Rant will release Montreal jazz vocalist Jeannette Lambert's 9th recording as a leader, Born to be Blue (rant 1141), featuring her longtime collaborators, her brother guitarist Reg Schwager, her husband drummer Michel Lambert and bassist Neil Swainson. The recording features a return to the jazz standards Jeannette and Reg began performing when they were teenagers, with many of the selections recorded now for the first time. Drawing on her background singing and ...
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Queen Considering 'Idol's' Lambert as Frontman
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Billboard Magazine
"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert's performance with rock band Queen on the finale of the TV singing contest this week has the British band thinking about a new front man. “Amongst all that furor, there wasn't really a quiet moment to talk," Queen guitarist Brian May told Rolling Stone in an interview released on Friday. “But and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with at some point. It's not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing ...
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Jeannette Lambert's "Sand Underfoot" Out Today
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All About Jazz
MONTREAL, QC (CANADA) -- On February 28th, Jazz From Rant will release Montreal- based poet/jazz vocalist Jeannette Lambert's seventh recording as a leader, Sand Underfoot (rant 0631), featuring longtime collaborators, bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Michel Lambert, and special guest, pianist Paul Bley. Funded in part by the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, her follow- up to 2003's Lone Jack Pine (rant 2027), which Cadence called “an absorbing round of music ...
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Poet/Jazz Vocalist Jeannette Lambert's New CD Coming Feb. 28th
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All About Jazz
MONTREAL, QC (CANADA) -- On February 28th, Jazz From Rant will release Montral- based poet/jazz vocalist Jeannette Lambert's seventh recording as a leader, Sand Underfoot (rant 0631), featuring longtime collaborators, bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Michel Lambert, and special guest, pianist Paul Bley. Funded in part by the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, her follow- up to 2003's Lone Jack Pine (rant 2027), which Cadence called “an absorbing round of music ...
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