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Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. This week, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we would like to thank our local music [...]
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Patrick Jarenwattananon at A Blog Supreme has thrown down the gauntlet once again, this time asking which jazz albums should be included in a list of the decade's finest. Jazz has always been a great musical sponge, from Jelly Roll Morton's idea of the "Spanish tinge" to today's multi-culti improvisational stew. But the jazz that meets different music on it's own terms and maintains it's...
Thumbrella - Words To A Void (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Here's an interesting thing - a Moog guitar. Capable of all kinds of sustain and sounding very good in the hands of Phil Keaggy, this might take guitar playing to the next level - I'd like to hear what somebody like Henry Kaiser or Bill Frisell might do with this - many of the sounds coming from it in the video reminded me of Frisell. I'd also like to hear it in a band context, playing a
Review Site (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Personnel: Paul Simon (vocals, guitar); Adrian Simon, Jesse Dixon Singers (vocals); Vincent Nguini (acoustic guitar); Bill Frisell (electric guitar); Herbie Hancock (piano); Gil Goldstein (harmonium, keyboards); Alex Al (bass instrument); Abraham Laboriel, Pino Palladino (bass guitar); Leo Abrahams (fretless bass); Robin DiMaggio, Steve Gadd (drums); Jamey Haddad (percussion); Brian Eno (electronics)....
captains dead (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
looking at the list of artists, and committed artists, this is very tempting and ten bucks for a year is pretty much a steal. to top it all off, gord downie and the sadies are the featured artist of the month offering up a cover of randy newman’s “louisiana, 1927.” here’s the info, taken straight [...]
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this is a classic -- needs to be played on campus radio stations across US!
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Duology: Michael Marcus (clarinet) & Ted Daniel (trumpet, flugelhorn & Moroccan flute) +2: Charlie Collins (drums) & John Jasnoch (electric guitar & oud). Free jazz is an unpredictable art form yet it was odds on that last night's gig upstairs at the Bridge Hotel would be a winner. Michael Marcus and Ted Daniel have been working together for some time (their debut duo recording 'Duology'...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The guitarist Jim Hall imbues his music with a deep, companionable rightness.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Debut CD by Go Home Ben Goldberg - Charlie Hunter - Scott Amendola - Ron Miles BAG Production BAG 001 "The band creates music that is cozy and spacious, pungent and perfumed, virtuosic, sophisticated and pleasingly raw." -- The Boston Globe "A searching ensemble that welcomes lyrical improvisation while embracing the groove." --The New Yorker...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
With a program that consistently attracts a host of wonderful performers and where living legends appear alongside rising stars, London Jazz Festival (LJF) opens at The Barbican this Friday with a spectacular celebration of 100 years of songwriting. Led by trumpeter/arranger extraordinaire Guy Barker, a 40-piece jazz orchestra and a dazzling array of stellar vocalists draw on significant anniversaries...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Tori Amos's holiday album, Midwinter Graces, is in stores tomorrow, as is the Pixies 17-disc Minotaur box set. Among the discs that have already been sent my way, I can definitely recommend Caroline Herring's Golden Apples of the Sun,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
How best to describe slide trumpeter {{Steven Bernstein = 16405}}'s singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with {{John Lurie = 8915}}'s Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from {{Bill Frisell = 6859}} to {{Sam Rivers = 10719}}, the Flying...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The 18th annual St. Louis International Film Festival, which begins Thursday, November 12 and continues through Sunday, November 22, once again will feature the St. Louis premieres of several recent music-related movies, including two that should be of particular interest to jazz fans.The first of t...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Jones was the most delicately luminous talent produced by the West Coast scene of the 1970s. When she's good she changes the very light; when she's bad she's dull. This is very good. It's a collection of hitherto uncompleted songs from the drifts of her career and ought to be seen as a triumph of good housekeeping. The ensemble includes Bill Frisell, Ben Harper, Alison Krauss and Vic Chesnutt; the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I worried that Rickie Lee Jones's 13th album might involve an extension of the overtly Christian ruminations of 2007's unsatisfying The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard; but it seems employed here in a more general metaphorical sense, of music as spiritual medicine. That's certainly the impression given by the reflective blues-jazz piece "Blue Ghazel", whose wordless vocal hums and growls...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Jem Cohen Vic Chesnutt and band featuring Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto/ members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion Saturday, December 5th Central Presbyterian Church ( 200 East 8th Street ) [ info ] Vic Chesnutt is currently touring in support of his latest record, At The Cut, and from this album and its tour are trailing an entourage of indie notables. Featuring Guy Picciotto of Fugazi...
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