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Chris Slawecki

@funkmutations

Chris serves as Senior Editor for AllAboutJazz and served as the Jazz Voice for the ConcordMusicGroup from 2007 to 2013.

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Please read and "heart" this story of my #VaccineChamp friend and #ShareTheScience healthyeconomies.wixsite.com/vaccines/post/…

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#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut goes far and further out w/the Discovery Project Live in Japan by Josh Nelson Josh Nelson Trio (w/thanks to Michael Bloom & All About Jazz) : Josh Nelson Trio: The Discovery Project youtu.be/0OR2xBfNydI via YouTube

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#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut discovers a "love story between Spanish guitar and African drum" thru #LigaLatina on #MultinationMusic (w/thanks to All About Jazz): Liga Latina: Liga Latina album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/liga-latina-li…

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#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut: Hot Stuffed & Baked: #SoftMachine Live at thebakedpotato on Moonjune Records (w/thanks to All About Jazz): Talkin' Jazz From the Inside Out: Soft Machine - Live At The Baked Potato youtu.be/KmyO9p8WWP8 via YouTube

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#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut seeks and finds #TheCallWithin, shapeshifting sonics from Tigran Hamasyan on Nonesuch Records (w/thanks to All About Jazz): Talkin' Jazz From the Inside Out: Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within youtu.be/VvJgdfm3GCA via YouTube

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We are so sad to hear of music legend Jerry Granelli's passing. Our Elementary Choir was blessed to perform with and learn from him as part of Halifax Jazz Festival Tales of a Charlie Brown Christmas. His genius and humanity will be sorely missed. #MySHSH #JerryGranelli #musiclegend

We are so sad to hear of music legend Jerry Granelli's passing. Our Elementary Choir was blessed to perform with and learn from him as part of <a href="/HFXJazzFest/">Halifax Jazz Festival</a> Tales of a Charlie Brown Christmas. His genius and humanity will be sorely missed. #MySHSH #JerryGranelli #musiclegend
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#Distancia (Odradek Records) presents a unique travelogue w/#RodrigoAlmonte's Dublin home and shimmering sonic similarities w/guitarists Pat Metheny and #TerjeRypdal as epicenter: Rodrigo Almonte: Distancia review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/distancia-rodr…

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#SeriouslyDeep (Moonjune Records) sounds too powerful & beautiful to mainly come from a trio: #Beledo with Kenny Grohowski and Tony Levin. More than beautiful: Good for getting (back) in touch with your soul: Beledo: Seriously Deep album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/seriously-deep…

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"Forever" blends intricacies of form and structure (European, Latin American, Caribbean) with emotional blues, elation and release: Great jazz from Bill McBirnie, #BillMcBirnie and friends: Forever album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/forever-bill-m…

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Keyboard, Chapman stick and guitar doctor Dave Hartl contemplates thru the pandemic and emerges w/the stylistically kaleidoscopic and careening "Tales of the Plague" - an absolute monster! Dave Hartl: "Tales from the Plague" album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/tales-from-the…

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Blues sound foundational on #Loguslabusmuzikus (Effendi Records) but in the way that Charles Mingus used the blues: for tone and content but not (bar) structure: JazzLab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/loguslabusmuzi…

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A Christmas fire in the heart(h), Changing Tides (Iridium Records) revisits with warmth and light music that 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜 𝚃𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚍 composed in the Advent season and its spirit of "expectant waiting": Chris Trinidad's Changing Tides album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/chris-trinidad…

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Writers often want to make great music sound more complicated than excellent tunes swung with power and grace. But sometimes it really is that simple. This is an absolute joy: Alex Bird: You Are the Light and the Way @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/you-are-the-li…

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Recorded live in the studio w/ bassist Paul McDaniel and percussionist/pianist Matt Mayhall helping @davedevinejr paint dreamy sonic landscapes of various moods and hues: Dave Devine: Played Against The Harmony Of The Real @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/played-against…

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"Wedding on the Cyclone" is a perfect fit and description, a marriage made up of different musical cultures whirled together by David Krakauer Kathleen Tagg w/guitarist Yoshi Fruchter: Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/mazel-tov-cock…

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Enormous and sprawling w/ten pieces, most never recorded before and several never performed again, of glorious jazz sound from Brazilian composer and sorcerer Hermeto Pascoal (Far Out Recordings) Hermeto Pascoal: Planetario Da Gavea @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/planetario-da-…

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With no chord instruments between them and three saxophonists, bassist Mike Downes and drummer Stich Wynston move like madmen to keep Shuffle Demons moving, and simultaneously swing and rock #AllIn hot as demons: Shuffle Demons: All In @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/all-in-shuffle…

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Thx @RonKadish: Bassist Quinn Sternberg paints a dreamy portrait of a languid summer evening at home full of snoozing dogs, meandering cats and the natural summer serenade of its title track: Quinn Sternberg: Cicada Songs @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/cicada-songs-q…

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Cannot recommend this band's artistry and soul, musically and lyrically, highly enough. If Downbeat awarded eight stars, NoteSpeak 12 would have received eight. PLEASE HAVE A LISTEN!