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Category Archives: US
American Café Orchestra
American Café Orchestra: Nightmare Polka (2011) About a year ago a friend gave me Ruthie Dornfeld’s record, Duets Abroad. Dornfeld, a fiddler from Seattle, crafted a solid, enjoyable, and sometimes wild record of duets with musicians from Finland, Denmark, France, … Continue reading
Posted in Americana, Denmark, Finland, Nordic, US
Tagged american café orchestra, americana, denmark, finland, morten alfred høirup, nordic, rootsworld, ruthie dornfeld, tapani varis
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Hal Cannon
Hal Cannon: Hal Cannon (2011) Hal Cannon is best known as the founding director of the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. He has been collecting songs and stories from the people of the American West for the … Continue reading
John McCutcheon
John McCutcheon – This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America (2011) July 14th, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth. While there will undoubtedly be a number of musical tributes leading up to that day, This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America from John … Continue reading
Nikki Matheson
Nikki Matheson: Invisible Angel (2011) Nikki Matheson was born in Canada, and worked as a professional musician in New York City and France before returning recently to Vermont. By drawing on those experiences to write her own songs and adding … Continue reading
Jane Ira Bloom
Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker (2010) My first encounter with Jane Ira Bloom was through an article in Saxophone Journal in 1985. I was intrigued back then by her use of multiple microphones in performance and recording. I still like the … Continue reading
Marcus Shelby Orchestra
Marcus Shelby Orchestra: Soul of the Movement (2011) The subtitle of this record from the Marcus Shelby Orchestra is “Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Dr. King personifies the Civil Rights Movement for many of us, representing courage and … Continue reading
Posted in Jazz, US
Tagged charles mingus, faye carole, howard wiley, jazz, kenny washington, marcus shelby
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