Maria Bethania is a Brazilian songstress who deserves greater attention in the United States.
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Music Review: Mack Avenue SuperBand – ‘Live From the Detroit Jazz Festival—2013’
These are musicians with chemistry; they understand and respect each other.
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Three new albums show the diversity of contemporary jazz.
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The quartet clearly demonstrates there is life in tradition yet.
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Gothic fiction with children at the center, either as victims or perpetrators, invites comparison with that genre’s masterwork, Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw.'
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McIntosh, with a little help from his friends (including Ronnie Wood and John Scofield), delivers a six-string master class.
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Callaway’s Sarah Vaughan tribute album is no attempt at cheap imitation.
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'Wonder of Wonders' is as wonderful a book as 'Fiddler on the Roof' is a musical.
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This is hard-rocking jazz played by musicians with real chops.
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Kadleck’s 'Around the Horn' is another in the spate of very fine big band albums released in recent months.
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