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Paolo Negri: A Bigger Tomorrow -- Over 20 guest musicians, including members from New Mastersounds, Diplomats of Solid Sound, Montefiori Cocktail, Phat Fred, Cucumber, Speaklow, Nick Rossi Set, among many others, are featured on the album. The album features Paolo “Apollo” Negri’s intense, emotional and vivacious Hammond A-102 organ playing. In addition to the unique organ sound created by Negri, the album includes an eclectic mix of instruments, including electric piano, various synthesizers, flute, maracas, congas, bongos, tenor saxophone and several guitars played through numerous amplifiers and effects pedals.
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Dennise Neill: "One Kiss" Is Not Enough -- Dennise Neill’s “One Kiss” Is Not Enough is a multi-lingual jazz vocal album mixed with Latin vibes featuring vocals in English, Italian, French, and Spanish. Now how is that for worldly coverage? Jazz is a universal language and it only seems fitting that you have the opportunity to hear it in several different languages all at once on one album. I cannot say it is very common to find a recording like this and I must say it was a nice change from anything else I have heard for quite some time.
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Nad Neslo: Back From Gone -- Back From Gone is a good album. At first blush, I felt that Nad’s voice sounded familiar. After a while, it hit me, he sounds like Nils Lofgren (Grin, Springsteen). That is from my own perspective; someone else may hear something else entirely. That is a good thing, having a connection to the music you are hearing, in any way, is a good start to your listening experience. It always works for me.
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Next Order: Live-Roaring Colors -- Recorded live at the Jazz Inn Lovely in Nagoya, Japan, “Live-Roaring Colors” is a dynamic jazz/rock/ fusion album jam packed with colorful guitar harmonies and solid bass lines.  Yuji Muto’s guitar in the right channel and Takumi Seino in the left creates great rock/fusion harmonies throughout the album and gives the music a truly unique appeal.
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No Restraints: In The Left Lane -- Did you ever feel like you are traveling in the left lane of life? No Restraints is not In The Left Lane of music so to speak but their music covers those feelings that make us feel like we are outside looking in, not a part of, all alone in a crowd of 300 people.  I think you get my drift.
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Sharon Rae North: The Way You Make Me Feel -- I have set aside three separate occasions to listen to this recording and every time I walked away feeling something different. Actually, I went through several different emotions taking in this music but mainly it made me feel alive, good about being a sensitive and cerebral human being.
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Lee Nysted: Whispers of Wisdom -- With Whispers of Wisdom, Lee Nysted has become a sort of modern-day musical shaman. The title of this album suggests the invisible spirit within each of us that will guide us through the most troubling of times and deliver to us an inner peace - if we only take the time to hear its voice.
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