Featured Artist: A Little Space

CD Title: A little space

Song Title: Yes I Would

Record Label: Independent Records

Style: Latin Jazz / Latin Funk

Yes I Would - MP3

Track Description: Latin / Jazz, Up-tempo Bossa Nova. This song is another rule-breaker in that the Verse sections have 3 distictly different melodies. Some body part will be moving after listening to this song for at least 30 seconds. Soprano Sax and Electric Guitar share the melody statements.(3:41)

Dean Roubicek - Soprano Sax; Big Al - fretless Fender Jazz Bass, Fender Stratocaster, MIDI everything else.

This song is a prize winner in the Jazz category of the 2001 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Artist's Website: http://alittlespace.biz

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Featured Artist: A Little Space

CD Title: A little space

Song Title: Hanging Around

Record Label: Independent Records

Style: Jazz Vocals

Hanging Around - MP3

Track Description: A jazz ballad, semi-acoustic. About stating the intimately obvious fact of not taking for granted the grace of someone's presence.(4:34)

Terrell Moran - Vocals; Big Al - fretless Fender Jazz Bass, Yamaha APX-4A Acoustic Guitar, Fender Stratocaster, MIDI everything else.

Artist's Website: http://alittlespace.biz

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Featured Artist: A Little Space

CD Title: A little space

Song Title: Curve In The Road

Record Label: Independent Records

Style: Acid Jazz

Curve In The Road - MP3

Track Description: Groovin Funk, Acid/Jazz. Good music to drive fast on curvy roads or the soundtrack to your morning run. A strong Bass line drives the Tenor Sax led melody.(3:55)

Dean Roubicek - Tenor Sax; Big Al - Pulcinella Level 5 Bass, Fender Stratocaster, MIDI everything else.

Artist's Website: http://alittlespace.biz

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Featured Artist: Tony Adamo

CD Title: DANCE OF LOVE

Song Title: Passport

Record Label: Rhombus Records

Style: Jazz Vocals

Passport - MP3

Track Description: The song "Passport" was #1 at soundclick.com on their Smooth jazz charts. Tony Adamo is listed under artist ADAMO at soundclick.com

Artist's Website: http://www.jazznow.com/Adamo/adindex.html

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Featured Artist: Tony Adamo

CD Title: DANCE OF LOVE

Song Title: NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Record Label: Rhombus Records

Style: Soul / Funk Jazz

NO STRINGS ATTACHED - MP3

Track Description: With the help of Tower Of Power horns. "No Strings Attached" went #1 at four music web sites. Tony Adamo is listed under artist Adamo at soundclick.com

Artist's Website: http://www.jazznow.com/Adamo/adindex.html

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Featured Artist: Tony Adamo

CD Title: Dance Of Love

Song Title: Midnight Cafe (Featuring Ernie Watts)

Record Label: http:///www.rhombus-records.com

Style: Smooth Jazz

Midnight Cafe (Featuring Ernie Watts) - MP3

Track Description: This singer/songwriter has been called "the David Bowie of the smooth jazz set" by Lee Prosser of jazzreview.com and "a true smooth jazz vocalist" by Derick Winterberg of thesmoothjazzsite.com.

Artist's Website: http://www.jazznow.com/Adamo/adindex.html

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Featured Artist: Adamo

CD Title: Dance Of Love

Song Title: Hey Lou,featuring Paul Jackson,Ernie Watts

Record Label: Rhombus Records

Style: Acid Jazz

Hey Lou,featuring Paul Jackson,Ernie Watts - MP3

Track Description: This song features the heavies of the heavy: Paul Jackson on base, Ernie Watts on tenor, Rodney Franklin on piano, and Tony Adamo, vocals.

Artist's Website: http://www.jazznow.com/Adamo/adindex.html

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Featured Artist: Monty Alexander, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare

CD Title: Monty Meets Sly and Robbie

Song Title: Monty's Groove

Record Label: Telarc

Style: Contemporary Jazz

Monty's Groove - MP3

Track Description: Pianist Monty Alexander teams up with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare—reggae's most respected and experienced rhythm section—to create a killer combination of classic soul tunes, funky jazz and modern grooves with a hardcore, dub flavor on Monty's Groove.

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Featured Artist: David Arivett

CD Title: Island Fun

Song Title: She Gives Me Joy

Record Label: Songs Of David

Style: Smooth Jazz

She Gives Me Joy - MP3

Track Description: Starts out mellow but gets down with a cool groove that will have you up dancing! Tasty keyboard solo by David Arivett and soprano sax add so much to this Smooth Jazz offering. Upbeat tempo with wonderful positive vibe!

Artist's Website: http://www.songsofdavid.com/music_jazz_film.htm

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Featured Artist: Various Artists

CD Title: Prestige Profile Series

Song Title: Various Tracks

Record Label: Prestige

Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic

Listen: Various Tracks - Quicktime

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Featured Artist: Patricia Barber

CD Title: Live: A Fortnight in France

Song Title: Various Tracks

Record Label: Blue Note

Style: Jazz Vocals

Listen: Various Tracks - Quicktime

Artist's Website: http://www.patriciabarber.com/

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Featured Artist: Jorge Barnet

Song Title: Enigmatic Woman

Style: Various Jazz Styles

Enigmatic Woman - MP3

Track Description: Enigmatic Woman provides, as a jazz composition, a time frame, for Jorge´s improvising and guitar playing skills. For the listener, its melody provides a soundscape to hideaway ....

Artist's Website: http://www.jorgebarnet.com

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Featured Artist: Jorge Barnet

CD Title: When you Return

Song Title: Caminos de la Costa

Record Label: TGB

Style: Smooth Jazz

Caminos de la Costa - MP3

Track Description: Music with a happy mood to support yourself on a sunny day, striving for beautiful landscapes and villages over the Venezuelan coasts.

Artist's Website: http://www.jorgebarnet.com

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Featured Artist: Chris Bauer

CD Title: Now's The Time

Song Title: Misty

Record Label: Independent

Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic



Track Description: This tune is from Chris' solo debut CD "Now's The Time which is a collection of Jazz and pop standards artistically performed on chromatic harmonica with a smooth and melodic jazz improv.

Artist's Website: http://www.chrisbauermusic.com

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Featured Artist: Chris Bauer

CD Title: Now's The Time

Song Title: Moondance

Record Label: Independent

Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic



Track Description: This is a tune from Chris' debut solo CD "Now's The Time" which is a collection of jazz and pop standards artistically performed on chromatic harmonica with a smooth and melodic jazz improv.

Artist's Website: http://www,chrisbauermusic.com

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Featured Artist: Shelly Berg

CD Title: Blackbird

Song Title: Various Tracks

Record Label: Concord Jazz

Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic

Listen: Various Tracks - Quicktime

Track Description: Shelly Berg has always been a musician’s musician, not to mention a superb jazz educator. Many of the practicing jazz musicians, particularly those in the Los Angeles area or those who join Berg on S.S. Norway jazz cruises, know about his superb technical facility on the piano, especially when he pays tribute during performance to one of his inspirations, Oscar Peterson. Indeed, one of Berg’s hard-to-obtain, but as always outstanding, albums that he recorded in the 1990’s was The Will: A Tribute to Oscar Peterson. Even though the general public may not be aware of Berg’s talents, he has a resume as long as his arm, including work for movies, television shows and commercial jingles for names like Kelloggs and Wendy’s. But his greatest source of pride is the boost he has provided for jazz education, both as the head of jazz studies at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and as the former president of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Berg’s debut album for Concord Records, Blackbird, no doubt will provide a boost in his awareness among jazz listeners who previously hadn’t heard him. And even for jazz enthusiasts who had considered Berg to be a technically astounding and aggressive pianist with unstoppable energy, Blackbird reveals a more contemplative, but no less creative, side of his personality. Berg’s intention was to make a CD that purely flows and brings out elegance subtleties of some of the songs that Berg grew fond of as his life in music advanced.

After Berg recorded Blackbird with his trio consisting of equally top-notch, highly regarded musicians, Gregg Field and Chuck Berghofer, he considered shopping the recordings to several labels until Field, a Concord Records producer, brought it to the attention of Concord’s management. And the rest is history.

Now, Berg is being known as a sensitive interpreter of songs from jazz, pop, Latin and American songbook standards, mixing up the music with varying interpretations. Yet, Berg finds nuggets of beauty within each of the songs that previously may have been overlooked, or he finds a new way of presenting the songs. The overriding goal, though, is to have an effect on the audience, treating each song as a narrative, with introduction, thematic continuity, build-up of intensity and resolution. For instance, on “I Hear A Rhapsody,” typically upbeat with Berg’s characteristic joyousness, the first chorus and repeat involve an extension of the fourth measure’s rest for four more measure to allow for the interjection of an unexpected samba beat, before the song picks up the original beat again. Likewise, “Blackbird” elongates the melody as Berg twists and shapes it with reharmonization, unexpected accents and extended rests filled with sparkling decoration. Yet, after the signature interpretation, the tune evolves into a straight-four blues, allowing for lightly swinging improvisation. Rather than choosing one of Stevie Wonder’s universally known songs, Berg instead plays “Blame It On The Sun” as a sensitive ballad and exposing the harmonic values that attracted Berg to the song since he first heard it. “All My Tomorrows” begins with Berg’s and Berghofer’s characterizing bass lines before breaking into a swaying three-four version that’s notable not for its ease, but for the long crescendo within the performance that leads to an effective climax at the conclusion of the improvisation section.

These are musicians who make the difficult sound easy, so accomplished are they are investing any music they play with a coherent, meaningful sense of feeling. Berg wanted to choose two other musicians who were known for their other accomplishments, particularly in big bands and movie studios, and feature their ability to animate a piano trio at the same level as the better-known jazz bassists and drummer. And he succeeded.

Blackbird is an irresistibly appealing CD that has no pretensions of breaking ground for technique or musical form. Instead, as Berg says, “I just hope this music…makes people feel good. - Don Williamson

Artist's Website: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00070EBC6/thejazzreview

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Featured Artist: Big Band Byrne

CD Title: Leaving For Home

Song Title: Talking

Record Label: Self Produced

Style: Contemporary Jazz

Listen: Talking - MP3

Track Description: Big Band Byrne, a UK Jazz Orchestra that exclisively play original contemporary big band music that will smack you in the face!

Artist's Website: http://www.bigbandbyrne.com

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Featured Artist: Angela Bingham

CD Title: Angela Bingham

Song Title: Gentle Rain

Style: Jazz Vocals

Gentle Rain - MP3

Track Description: Very smooth rendition of Gentle Rain. Angela Bingham comes from San Francisco, raised in a musical family where four-part harmonies were a mandate. While attending De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif., she became smitten with jazz, and performed with Vocal Flight, the school's renowned jazz vocal group. Through VF, she discovered Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Shirley Horn and gained valuable performing and observational experience when the group toured Europe.

Artist's Website: http://www.angelabingham.com

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Featured Artist: John Bishop

CD Title: Winter: An Origin Records Holiday Collection

Song Title: Let It Snow

Record Label: Origin Records

Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic

Let It Snow - MP3

Track Description: "Let It Snow" is from the new holiday collection from Seattle's Origin Records featuring some of that cities premiere jazz talents. If you're looking for holiday music that veers away from the traditional song, this is a perfect disc for you.

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Featured Artist: Erin Bode

CD Title: Don't Take Your Time

Song Title: Various Tracks

Record Label: MAXJAZZ

Style: Jazz Vocals

Listen: Various Tracks - Quicktime

Track Description: Musicians: Erin Bode, vocals; Bruce Barth, piano and fender rhodes; Larry Grenadier, bass; Montez Coleman, drums; Steve Nelson, vibes; Adam Rogers, electric and acoustic guitar; Meg Okura, violin; Adam Maness, piano; Sydney Rodway, tenor saxophone; Jerry Barnes, background vocals.

Artist's Website: http://www.erinbode.com/

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Featured Artist: Debby Boone

CD Title: Reflections of Rosemary

Song Title: Various Tracks

Record Label: Concord Records

Style: Jazz Vocals

Listen: Various Tracks - Quicktime

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Featured Artist: Boston Horns

CD Title: You've Got to Find Your Own Groove

Song Title: In the Pink

Record Label: Independent

Style: Soul / Funk Jazz

Listen: In the Pink - MP3

Track Description: The Boston Horns "In the Pink" featuring special guest Sam Kininger of Soulive. Uptempo, relentless, and funky. Check out other samples on BostonHorns.com website music page.

Artist's Website: http://Bostonhorns.com

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Featured Artist: Chris Bowden

Song Title: Crockers & Killers

Record Label: Ninja Tune

Style: Contemporary Jazz

Crockers & Killers - MP3

Track Description: Bowden's 1996 LP on Soul Jazz established him as a noteworthy purveyor of "space jazz." He's made a name for himself as a composer, arranger & live musician in the soul/acid jazz scene, working with K-Creative (Talking Loud), Simon Richmond (Mo Wax), Jhelisa Anderson (Dorado), 4Hero, Basement Jaxx and others. His Ninja connection came via his role in the Herbaliser live band for the past 3 years. The 4 tracks on this "Slightly Askew" hour- plus journey provide plenty of room to travel the vast expanses & varied landscapes of innovative, challenging funky jazz.

Artist's Website: http://promo.mudhut.co.uk/NinjaTune/VirtualFlyer3.htm

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Featured Artist: Rick Braun

CD Title: Yours Truly

Song Title: Various Tracks

Record Label: ARTizen Music

Style: Smooth Jazz

Listen: Various Tracks - Quicktime

Artist's Website: http://rickbraun.com

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Featured Artist: Bill Bruford and Michiel Borstlap

CD Title: In Two Minds

Song Title: From the Source, We Tumble Headlong

Record Label: Summerfold Records

Style: Contemporary Jazz

Listen: From the Source, We Tumble Headlong - MP3 From the Source, We Tumble Headlong - Real Audio

Artist's Website: http://www.billbruford.com

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