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The player Don’t let Rachael Yamagata fool you. She may sing and write intimate, complex, moody songs that explore the soul, but she’s still a girl who wants to have fun. Really. With her husky voice (think a hoarse Scarlett Johansson), hearty laugh and adventurous spirit, she’s willing to play along with almost anything, even if the joke’s on her. Now a Philadelphia resident and Phillies fanatic, she took time out before an October 28 tour stop in Washington D.C.
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The Jazz Icons DVD series has proven itself time and again as an indispensable resource for serious jazz fans, as well as for newcomers to the genre. Jazz Icons: Cannonball Adderley Live In '63 is no exception, providing 99 minutes of classic performance footage. Two sets are featured, filmed within days of each other in March of 1963, capturing the Cannonball Adderley Sextet in their prime. Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was a highly respected and celebrated alto saxophonist.

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Written by Fumo Verde

I’ve always liked Sonny Rollins so when I had the chance to Live in ’65 & ’68 I was all over it. As much as I like jazz I always feel that I don’t know enough. Pictures on album covers and bios on the Internet shed some light on the artist and how they act and react to their own tunes, but seeing them live or even on DVD as it is here, truly opens the portal between the musician and their music.

This DVD contains two shows both recorded in Denmark, the first at Tivoli Halls, Copenhagen on October 31, 1965.

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Bill Evans was a famous and influential jazz pianist. He was a member of Miles Davis’ sextet in 1958 for eight months and was asked back to record Kind of Blue. Davis wrote in his autobiography “I've sure learned a lot from Bill Evans. He plays the piano the way it should be played.” As a leader, Evans most acclaimed trio found him joined by bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian although that line-up was cut short by LaFaro’s untimely death in a car accident at the age of 25 in 1961.

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Mixmag have suggested Paul Oakenfold may have persuaded Dubai authorities to pardon Grooverider, a claim the superstar DJ appeared to implicitly confirm when quizzed by the British dance magazine. “I don’t think I was completely responsible but I did make a few phone calls,” Oakenfold admitted. “I phoned a friend of mine who is the nephew of one of the Queen’s in the United Arab Emirates.
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Kanye West wasn’t kidding when he said his new album would feature the sound of the retro-rific 808 drum machine on every track. Over the weekend, a new song from the upcoming 808s & Heartbreak leaked: “Robocop,” the one ‘Ye collaborator Mike Dean said is supposed to get some added magic from Grammy-winning keyboard legend Herbie Hancock before the album drops November 25.

But West swears he wasn’t behind the song’s sneak peek. “I did not leak Robocop!!!” he wrote on his blog on Sunday.

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While a spokesperson for Eminem’s label, Interscope, told MTV News “there’s been no date scheduled for it,” a listing posted Monday on Amazon.com suggests that an LP from the Detroit MC will be in stores just in time for Christmas.

The post lists the name of the release as “TBD,” despite the MC’s announcement earlier this month that the album would be titled Relapse, and provides no information regarding the CD’s tracklisting.

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This week’s NME Music News is available to watch now on NME.COM - scroll down for the video. Today’s (September 19) round-up takes us through the week’s biggest stories, including news about Guns N Roses, The Long Blondes and Glasvegas. Also, hear about Eminem’s return and Paul McCartney’s lost head. Watch the video by clicking below.
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US magazine Rolling Stone were given a preview listen of Kanye West’s new album 808s & Heartbreak recently, and they’ve reported that it’s comprised entirely of �?electronic’ music with not a single hip hop styled track in sight. “All vocals were sung and treated with the electro “auto-tune” effect,” wrote Rolling Stone of the album. “But there was no rapping or overt sampling, just emotional waves of electronic sound, beats and occasional strings.” Kanye’s penchant for dance beats is of course no secret, having famously sampled Daft Punk on his last album’s first single Stronger.
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Musical benches playing the songs of The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and Queen are being erected across Britain. The bizarre scheme has been to put in place as part of Nokia’s new Comes With Music package, aiming to discover regional differences in musical tastes. The company conducted a survey where people chose from a long list of popular songs - and a top ten for each city was calculated. Perhaps surprisingly, the most popular song across the country was found to be Dusty Springfield’s ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’, coming top in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London and Leeds.
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