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Chicago's Iconic Jazz Record Mart Closes it's Doors Forever

You may roll your eyes and shrug your shoulders at the news of another record store closing or you may be young and naive and shrug your shoulders and ask what the heck is a record store? Billing itself as "The World's Largest Jazz and Blues Record Store," many have voiced their despair about the closure of the landmark that has helped to keep pieces of our musical heritage alive and vibrant.
By Teresa Swan

  • Classicalite Catches Up With Jazz Guitarist Hristo Vitchev

    Hristo Vitchev deserves to be heard. His website describes him as an impressionistic, modern jazz guitarist. However, one listen of his new CD In Search of Wonders, you are struck by the timelessness of Mr. Vitchev's music. The guitarist fronts a tightly structured quartet that features him on guitar, Jasnam Daya Singh on piano, Dan Robbins on bass and Mike Shannon on the drums. In real life, they are four different individuals but, as a band, they are one, as Mr. Vitchev will be the first to tell you.
    By Thomas Swan

  • Brazilian Trio Da Paz Celebrates '30' Years Together on New Zoho Music Debut [REVIEW]

    Thirty years in, Trio Da Paz is still making memorable experiments within Brazilian samba and bossa nova. Their seventh CD, and first for Zoho Music, is a melting pot of cultural influences, from gypsy jazz and bebop to third stream and free improvisation. The sounds they get from just guitar, bass and drums are, in a word, magic.
    By Mike Greenblatt
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