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by / on February 19, 2012 at 8:01 am / in Gospel, Half Notes, Jazz

Half Notes: Don Byron’s New Gospel Quintet – Love Peace and Soul (2012)

The debut of this soulfully swaying amalgam finds Byron – one of this era’s more intriguing jazz clarinetist/saxophonists – turning his attention to the layered musical legacies of Thomas A. Dorsey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

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by / on September 7, 2011 at 8:16 am / in Fusion Jazz, Jazz, Something Else! Interviews

Something Else! Interview: Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell

We might be tempted to take for granted quietly impactful triumphs like guitarist Bill Frisell’s forthcoming All We Are Saying, an Americana-infused tribute to John Lennon.

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