Drummer Mike Clark, perhaps best known for his work with and without Herbie Hancock as a member of the Headhunters, is part of a new band now — the dazzlingly improvisational Wolff and Clark Expedition, with longtime friend Michael Wolff.
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The source material here speaks to the essential versatility of these two Georgia-based music industry vets.
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There are as many Christmas music traditions as there are stockings hung with with care.
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Lucy Van Pelt loves the beautiful sound of clinking nickels.
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Any other collective of jaded music geeks might have stampeded toward a recent-vintage slab of Xmas irony as our all-time fave holiday hit – "Fairytale of New York," say, or "Christmas Wrapping."
Read MoreBoiling, murderous hatred should not be one of them, but the world does not always conform to our wishes.
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"Spend Christmas with Me," a duet with jazz chanteuses Jane Monheit and Sara Gazarek.
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San Francisco jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi would have been remembered in the popular music conscience for his 1962 hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind," had he not redefined his legacy three years later with the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra fame, former Eagles guitarist Don Felder and Kiss are all back, to the delight of baby boomer rock lovers everywhere.
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Most bands tend to constrict themselves by setting up parameters or sticking to a formula within which they operate, in order to create a sort of trademark sound.
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Most surprising of all however was his Solo Piano album of 2004, that focused solely on his piano playing.
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Christmas is coming, and with it, the annual Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour, a high-energy holiday tradition celebrating its 15th anniversary.
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Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour, a high-energy holiday tradition celebrating its 15th anniversary, will kick off its 2012 edition on November 23rd in Sarasota, FL with a return engagement at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. The tour is one of the longest-running Christmas tours.
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To say that Blues Control make exactly the music the duo wants to make seems at first a mere tautology.
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From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.
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Shelby Flint had but one Top-40 single, 1961's "Angel on My Shoulder," but the purity of her voice, the quality of her technique and the sophistication of her melodic sensibility has been enough to sustain a music career.
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Charlie Brown -- that soft-spoken, perpetually trod-upon, and mysteriously bald child at the heart of the beloved Peanuts comic strips and cartoons -- does not conjure thoughts of bitter lawsuits.
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We talk a lot about relativity in music writing.
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This plays like Vince Guaraldi for a new generation, as Harry Connick Jr. performs an all-original, Christmas-themed set that recalls the spirit of the season without falling into the cliches that often follow better known Yuletide classics.
Read MoreAll of the tunes posted during our 12 Days of Christmas series last year are still up.
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For many years now, I've gone out and purchased one new CD of Christmas music.
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How often in your life has someone asked you what your favorite song is?
Read MoreThe New York Times reviews Higher Gossip , John Updike's book of essays and crticicism.
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James Ferraro 's latest stares down our contemporary world of the future, invaded by iPads, overwhelmed by Skype meetings, and caught up in the unnecessary conveniences of self-serve frozen yogurt spots, with an equal sense of dread and awe.
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Here's a run down — with a few of our thoughts — on some notable music projects, both new and reissue, slated for release for the week of Oct. 31, 2011.
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Everytime I've examined a Jerry Granelli record, like Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing or News From The Street , I've marveled at how a guy who drummed for all those Charlie Brown children's TV specials with Vince Guaraldi ended up being such a creative risktaker as a leader.
Read Morephoto by by Brian Sweeney When I first started this blog, I never set out to predominantly focus on Scottish music, it was just something the I found myself getting drawn more and more into as I kept finding a wealth of great music in my own backyard.
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