Category: Genespeak – The Cranky Dubmaster
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Brad Mehldau plays Elliott Smith
Featuring Chris Thile and Daniel Rossen. Yea, we have been strung out on all things Brad Mehldau since the Art of the Trio series in the nineties. That group with Larry Grenadier and Jorge Rossy built upon the piano trio format in the style of Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett. And like those groups, they…
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Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
Singer Songwriter with tasty arrangements influenced by American and British folk traditions. We love Joan Shelley! So much so, we tend to buy twice as much of her records than we sell! That just means that we are not going to run out anytime soon. In addition to her husband Nathan Salsburg contributing fingerstyle guitar…
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Brad Mehldau Double Hitter Out Now Via Nonesuch!
Grammy Award winning jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, Brad Mehldau, has two new albums, After Bach II and Après Fauré, out on Nonesuch Records!
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Kamasi Washington Turns to Dance on Fearless Movement, Out Now!
Following 2015’s (aptly titled) The Epic and 2018’s Heaven and Earth, the Los Angeles saxophonist, composer, and band leader juggernaut’s Fearless Movement is “a celebration of music, dance, and the ever changing maze of the mind that makes us who we are”.
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Guitar Polymaths, James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg, Collaborate For Third Album, All Gist, Out April 12th!
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings, All Gist, is coming soon!
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Chincano Soul Is Alive & Well On Thee Sinseers Debut Album, Sinseerly Yours!
After six years as a group, East Los Angeles based R&B/Soul nonet, The Sinseers, have finally released their debut album, Sinseerly Yours, and boy was it worth the wait! From early ’60s pop, Jamaican dancehall and rocksteady, and, of course, ’60s soul, Thee Sinseers have reinterpreted these sounds through an unmistakably modern Chicano soul lens,…
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SHEKU and ISATA KANNEH-MASON continue their esteemed family’s groundbreaking work in modern classical music with two new albums, “SONG” and “CHILDHOOD TALES.”
The seven Kanneh-Mason brothers and sisters, who range in age from their early teens to their mid-20s, all play either violin, piano or cello
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The MODERN JAZZ QUARTET and MCCOY TYNER live again with “THE MONTREUX YEARS,” 2xLP/1 CD sets that cover their performances from 1981-2009. Both sets are out NOW!!
For decades, both legendary pianist MCCOY TYNER and the marvelous MODERN JAZZ QUARTET contributed volumes to the vocabulary of jazz music.
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AS WE SPEAK, a groundbreaking collaboration between BELA FLECK, ZAKIR HUSSAIN, EDGAR MEYER and RAKESH CHAURASIA is out NOW on LP and CD!
Across a dozen tracks, the group glides easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm and the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, sounding equally at home with the rigors of raga.
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THE NATIONAL’s new album, FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN, is their finest work in a decade, and it’s in-stock now on vinyl LP and CD at Horizon!
Anchored by evocative melodies and an enthralling lyrical narrative, THE NATIONAL’s new album FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN signals