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Eddie
Daniels & Roger Kellaway
Live at the Library of Congress
IPO Recordings
This is the sequel to the memorable live recordings issued a couple
of years ago by Grammy winner Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway
at LA’s Jazz Bakery. This album is recorded live at Library
of Congress in Washington DC and it includes some tunes from
Roger Kellaway’s score for Bergman’s America project.
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Nicholas
Payton
Bitches
IN+OUT Records
Grammy Award winner Nicholas Payton’s groundbreaking and
highly anticipated modern jazz, R&B/neo-soul concept album
featuring special guest vocalists Cassandra Wilson, Esperanza
Spalding, N'dambi, Chinah Blac, and Saunders Sermons. “Ferociously
gifted.” — New York Times
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Dennis
Rollins Velocity Trio
The 11th Gate
Motéma Music
Multi-award-winning British-Jamaican jazz and funk star Dennis
Rollins is the hugely virtuosic trombonist seen and loved worldwide
in the Maceo Parker Band. The electric energy of his Velocity
trio is palpable and powerful—Rollins’ harmonized
horn spills into cinematic washes of cymbals and growling organ
on imaginative compositions raging from straight-ahead jazz
through funk and gospel riffs. Major international exposure
as a key member of the Maceo Parker band since 2006, and previously
with Courtney Pine, The Brand New Heavies, Blur, and other top
touring acts. As the winner of the 2006 BBC Jazz Best Band Award,
Rollins is hugely popular on the British scene due to his prior
band Bad Bone. His talent warrants major attention in the US,
as heralded by liner notes from Willard Jenkins of Open Sky
Jazz.
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Susan
Egan
The Secret of Happiness
LML Music
The Secret of Happiness features “Momsense,” which
went viral on the web, performed here with a full orchestra and
Susan’s hilarious take that gets standing ovations in concert.
Susan original song, “Nina Doesn’t Care,” has
a beautifully produced music video on the internet. This album
features a new song by Broadway icon Jason Robert Brown: “All
Things In Time” and multiple new songs from popular theatre
writers Georgia Stitt and Paul Gordon. In addition, this new release
includes original songs by famous stand-up “Guitar Guy” Brian
Haner. New takes on classic songs by Paul Simon, Rodgers & Hammerstein,
and Stephen Sondheim.
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Jimmy
Owens
The Monk Project
IPO Recordings
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens’ debut as a
leader on IPO features the legendary trumpeter & flugelhornist
leading a stellar septet on a program of uniquely original arrangements
of Thelonious Monk compositions that are deeply steeped in the
blues. Jimmy Owens will receive the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters
Award for Jazz Advocacy. The A.B. Spellman award is special recognition
as an NEA Jazz Master. Longtime colleague and fellow NEA Jazz
Master Kenny Barron, well known for playing Monk’s music
with the group Sphere, heads the rhythm section. Robin Kelley,
who wrote the prize-winning biography Thelonious Monk: The Life
and Times of an American Original, contributes extensive liner
notes.
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L.A.
Guns
Lost in the City of Angels
Mausoleum Records
After Axl Rose split from his previous group
in order to front Guns N’ Roses and become the biggest rock
star in the universe, Tracii Guns went on to forge his own multi-million-selling
career band: L.A. Guns. This double-disc extravaganza features
the band’s comeback album, Man in the Moon, on which a reunited
and revitalized near-original line-up got back together for the
first time in over five years and spiced up their ’80s West
Coast sleaze rock with memorable hooks and modern rock. Tracii
and vocalist Phil Lewis then created a rock-solid follow-up, which
was as much a triumph for producer Andy Johns as it was for the
band. Waking the Dead is a brilliant collision between flashy
late 1980s rock and today’s heavier, more powerful version
of the genre. It is without doubt the best L.A. Guns album yet!
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Joachim
Kuhn
Free Ibiza
Outnote Records
German pianist Joachim Kühn could have had
a career in classical music had he not developed an enthusiasm
for jazz under the influence of his older brother, clarinetist
Rolf Kühn. After leaving his natal Leipzig, then still under
communist yoke, the young Bach fan arrived in Paris in 1968 in
the midst of the free jazz movement. His meetings with Don Cherry,
Aldo Romano, Gato Barbieri, Archie Shepp, and Roswell Rudd were
determining. Transcending borders, he alternated between duos
with Ornette Coleman, encounters with young classical pianist
Michael Wollny, and the Mediterranean trio he formed with Ramon
Lopez and Majid Bekkas. On Free Ibiza, this key figure of the
European jazz scene lays bare the qualities that were already
obvious on his first solo recording from 1971. Romantic, passionate,
introspective, and sometimes demonstrative, Joachim Kühn
manages to attain a kind of serenity—his Ibiza is not that
of DJs and high-level decibels.
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Stuart
McCallum
Distilled
Naim Label
Manchester guitarist/composer Stuart McCallum
is best known for his work with Cinematic Orchestra. The distinctive,
ethereal sound of his guitar has been at the heart of their sound
since 2004, including the albums Ma Fleur, Live at the Royal Albert
Hall, and the award-winning soundtrack The Crimson Wing. Stuart’s
own music, influenced by jazz and DJ culture, is a distillation
of many influences from Wes Montgomery and Björk to Flying
Lotus and Bon Iver. This brilliant third album, and first for
Naim, is a culmination of the music Stuart has written over the
last few years. Here, he ‘sampled’ the best bits of
his compositions, using them as the basis for further writing,
before again sampling the results, and so on, until arriving at
a perfectly distilled version of what he wanted to say.
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