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July 16, 2019
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Blue Note Records Goes Beyond The Notes With 80th Anniversary Release
Eighty years ago, Blue Note was born. The label worked with various inventive “jazz” artists who basically were given the mandate to be free with their art, to push boundaries, and especially to be creative. The new DVD/Blu-ray/Digital release Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes explores the label’s rich history and importance to the jazz […]
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July 15, 2019
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Omnivore To Release Art Pepper’s Complete Artists House Recordings
Producer John Snyder was determined to release a live album by jazz saxophonist Art Pepper’s weeklong Village Vanguard gig in New York City on his label Artists House. However, at the time, Pepper was signed to Contemporary Records and its head, Les Koenig, decided to record a project showcasing those performances for his label, scrapping […]
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July 12, 2019
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Gregg Allman Classic Albums Get Vinyl and Deluxe Edition Treatments
Legendary singer/pianist Gregg Allman’s classic albums Laid Back from 1973 and its 1974 followup, The Gregg Allman Tour, will be re-released on August 30, the former as a double disc CD and on 180-gram vinyl, the latter as vinyl only. It’s the first time in three decades that the long out-of-print …Tour album has been […]
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July 11, 2019
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Opinion: Masters of the Masters
The recent revelation mostly through New York Times Magazine writer Jody Rosen’s investigative reporting that a massively large, major music corporation apparently lied to its recording artists, managers, lawyers, etc. eleven years ago regarding the true state of their master tapes after a massive fire took out the facility in which they were stored should […]
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July 10, 2019
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Review: Glen Campbell – The Legacy [1961-2017]
Fifteen years ago, Glen Campbell fans were treated to a career-spanning box set that reached back to his days of arriving in Los Angeles (“Turn Around, Look At Me”) and as part of The Green River Boys (“Kentucky Means Paradise”), working its way forward while culling material from virtually all his significant albums and singles. […]
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July 9, 2019
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The Ann Arbor Blues Festival Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Historic Album Release
Back in August 15-18, 1969, more than 400,000 young people descended on Bethel, New York, at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for a series of concerts since dubbed “Woodstock” after a town 43 miles southwest of the event. Though Woodstock would become the most historically referenced musical gathering of that year and possibly all time, earlier […]
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July 8, 2019
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Blinded By The Light Movie & Soundtrack Coming
In the same approach as the massively popular, Beatles-inspired Yesterday comes a movie inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, Blinded By The Light, guided by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. The film received critical acclaim when released at Sundance and will be released in theaters on August 14. Its accompanying soundtrack features […]
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July 3, 2019
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Celebrating Country Music’s Bakersfield Sound
Many country music lovers who are into the genre’s early “Bakersfield Sound” immediately conjur memories of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, the field’s biggest and most storied stars. But beyond the hillbilly and variations on folk and bluegrass that evolved into the Nashvillian soundtrack to America’s working class, Bakersville’s blend of California attitude, honky-tonk, smokey […]
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