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'It's All in the GAME' of the Great American Music Ensemble from Jazzed Media (REVIEW)

Doug Richards is one of the most respected composers/arrangers you've never heard of, so much so that a 2014 tribute CD, 'Bugles Over Zagreb: The Music of Doug Richards' by Rex Richardson, paid tribute to him before he ever even recorded under his own name. Richards put The Great American Music Ensemble (GAME) together in the mid-'80s, toured throughout the '90s, and in 2001, recorded 'It's All In The Game,' yet due to lack of label interest, it sat unheard until now.
By Mike Greenblatt

  • Watch Gaelynn Lea Perform Songs of Heartbreak at Her Tiny Desk Concert

    NPR's most recent Tiny Desk concert featured a fiddle player by the name of Gaelynn Lea. Ms. Lea, who suffers from Osteogenesis Imperfecta (commonly known as "brittle bone disease"), is a classically-trained fiddler from Duluth, Minnesota. Her songs of heartbreak and despair resonated intimately at the Desk, which featured, perhaps, its largest crowd to date.
    By Ian Holubiak

  • Rob Reddy Considers 'Bechet: Our Contemporary' on His Own Reddy Records Release [REVIEW]

    Rob Reddy has been around since the late '80s. Sidney Bechet [1897-1959] was, many say, the first important jazz soloist (recording just months prior to Louis Armstrong). 'Bechet: Our Contemporary' (Reddy Music) is Reddy's seventh album with four tracks each by both composers. It takes Bechet's pioneering music away from the ghetto of dusty time to reposition it as the groundbreaking force it once was.
    By Mike Greenblatt