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Music Review: Chet Baker –‘Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe’
More than likely the 1959 Riverside album Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe, newly remastered for a Concord re-release, was an attempt to capitalize on the critical and commercial success...
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Music Review: David Pedrick –‘Time Remembered’
In a short liner note to his album Time Remembered, guitarist David Pedrick calls it “in essence, a deconstruction of the song “Time Remembered” by pianist and composer Bill Evans.” Now while I am...
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Music Reviews: Jazz from Lauren Meccia, The Phil Chester Group, and Pat Hall
Lauren Meccia – Inside Your Eyes Although an accomplished saxophonist, Lauren Meccia seems to limit her instrumental participation on Inside Your Eyes in favor of her prowess as a vocalist. While her...
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I Shall Be Released: New Recordings and Tours from Modest Mouse, Shania...
Modest Mouse released its first new album in eight years this week, Strangers to Ourselves. “The difference between how I approach putting out a record and how I think most people do,” Lead Mouse Isaac...
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Music Review: ‘The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings’ [40th...
Put two great artists in a recording studio and leave them to their own devices. If those artists are Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, you’re likely to come up with something special. At least that’s what...
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Music Review: Tony Bennett and Bill Evans –‘The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill...
The pairing of Tony Bennett and Bill Evans in the mid-’70s has been hailed as one of the greatest jazz duets of all time. The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975) was their first recording, followed by...
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Music Review: Bill Evans –‘The Complete Fantasy Recordings’ A Nine-Disc Box...
One name bound to be near the top of any list of the finest jazz pianists of the last century, if not at the very top is Bill Evans. His playing was technically brilliant, creatively innovative, and...
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Music Review: Bill Evans –‘Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black...
On the one hand, the release of previously unknown recordings of jazz icons long deceased should be cause for celebration. But then (and there is a but), how are today’s unknown young musicians looking...
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Music Review: Charlie Ballantine –‘Providence’
Providence, the sophomore album from Indianapolis-based guitarist Charlie Ballantine due for release on May 6, is another clear indication that fine jazz isn’t limited only to the usual places....
View ArticleMusic Review: Tony Bennett – As Time Goes By: Great American Songbook Classics
Written by General Jabbo One need only say the words “Great American Songbook” and many music fans will have a specific idea of what those songs represent. Standards, show tunes, theatre (specifically...
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