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Doug Collette

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As seen in: All About Jazz, Glide Magazine, Sophos, Seven Days, Jambands.com
Covers:  Choice artists and their work in the realms of rock and roll, jazz and the blues: new release and archive records, concerts, videos, books and interviews as well as historical think pieces.
Doesn't Cover: Contemporary pop, hip-hop and country music
Discerning aficionado devoted to music, greatest of all the arts!...#Insight & #Information @allaboutjazz & @glidemag...Observations HERE are mine alone.....
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Chris Robinson Brotherhood Strike Hot On 'If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now' EP (ALBUM ...

Chris Robinson Brotherhood Strike Hot On 'If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now' EP (ALBUM ...

glidemagazine.com — With the release of, If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now EP, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood's earlier 2016 full LP release Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel makes more sense.
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Holly Bowling: Better Left Unsung

Holly Bowling: Better Left Unsung

allaboutjazz.com — Classically-trained pianist fills two CD's worth of her free-flowing interpretations of selections from the Grateful Dead songbook, including a near-half hour take on "Dark Star..."
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Neil Young Forsakes Pointed Social Commentary With 'Peace Trail' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Neil Young Forsakes Pointed Social Commentary With 'Peace Trail' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

glidemagazine.com — On Peace Trail, Neil Young forsakes his recent penchant for pointed social commentary in favor of a disarmingly offhanded approach that's much more effective. Over the course of ten no nonsense tracks, the Canadian musical icon shines a light on our cultural dislocation without making statements or declaring his opinion in any overt way.
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Dave's Picks Volume 20: CU Events Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO - December 9, 1981

Dave's Picks Volume 20: CU Events Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO - December 9, 1981

allaboutjazz.com — Dave's Pick's Volume 20 marks a milestone in the 's current archive series, its significance not lost on the curator, David Lemieux. Yet rather than indulge in nostalgia in his notes accompanying this set, the man chooses to take the success of the series as further inspiration to carry on, not just with these quarterly releases, but the judicious exhumation of the iconic band's vault in general.
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The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris

The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris

allaboutjazz.com — The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris jazz article by Doug Collette, published on December 3, 2016 at All About Jazz. Find more DVD/Film Reviews articles
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Prime Bob Dylan In Effect On 'The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Mag...

Prime Bob Dylan In Effect On 'The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Mag...

glidemagazine.com — The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert is not an entry in The Bootleg Series of Bob Dylan's, but it achieves the same effect as the most significant releases in that archive project. That is, it definitively clarifies one of the pivotal points in the 2016 Nobel Laureate's long career.
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'T Bone Burnett A Life in Pursuit' By Lloyd Sachs Reveals (BOOK REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

'T Bone Burnett A Life in Pursuit' By Lloyd Sachs Reveals (BOOK REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

glidemagazine.com — Lloyd Sachs adopts just the right tone in his book on the life and times of eccentric genius T Bone Burnett. Writing A Life in Pursuit, the author remains ever cognizant of his subject's idiosyncratic tendencies in both his personal life and his work.
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The Beatles _Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years_

The Beatles _Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years_

Jambands.com — The two-disc Deluxe Edition of Ron Howard's film on the Beatles, Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years 1962-1966, reaffirms the legacy of this iconic group to an even greater extent than the splendid archive title that came out earlier this year Live At The Hollywood Bowl. In fact, the
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Eric Clapton and Guests: Highlights from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide M...

Eric Clapton and Guests: Highlights from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide M...

glidemagazine.com — Crossroads Revisited includes selections from the recorded appearances of various artists who've graced the various stages of for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festivals 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. Those compiling the anthology do yeoman's work in highlighting not just memorable moments at the events themselves, but revealing the evolution of the rosters involved as well as the concerts themselves.
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Electric Hot Tuna at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center

Electric Hot Tuna at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center

allaboutjazz.com — Electric Hot Tuna Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center Stowe, Vermont November 22, 2016 After over fifty years of friendship and music, guitarist and bassist Jack Casady deserve to be playing venues such as Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.
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The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years

allaboutjazz.com — Even with an almost immediately coincidental announcement of home video release in the early fall of 2016, Ron Howard's Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years elicited a response so great on its initially limited theatrical showings, the film compelled subsequent extended runs.
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Scott Amendola vs. Wil Blades: Greatest Hits

Scott Amendola vs. Wil Blades: Greatest Hits

allaboutjazz.com — Scott Amendola vs. Wil Blades: Greatest Hits jazz review by Doug Collette, published on November 18, 2016. Find thousands reviews at All About Jazz!
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R.E.M. Out of Time 25th Anniversary Edition Marks Vast Stylistic Departure (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide...

R.E.M. Out of Time 25th Anniversary Edition Marks Vast Stylistic Departure (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide...

glidemagazine.com — With their six previous anniversary releases, R.E.M. have set very high standards for such reissues, both the packaging and content of equal appeal to collectors and scholars. 2010?s Fables of the Reconstruction box (mini-boxed like this latest one), for example, included a wholly alternate mix of the entire album.
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Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun & Havana Moon DVD/CD

Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun & Havana Moon DVD/CD

allaboutjazz.com — It might be fair to say that any concert appearance by a band with fifty years plus history is an occasion in itself and doubly so (or more) to offer that observation about the . Who would've guessed in 1963, 1973 or 1983 that the group would not only still be together in 2016, but playing regularly around the world?
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John Scofield: Country For Old Men

John Scofield: Country For Old Men

Jambands.com — John Scofield's Country For Old Men would be an ideal subject for those blindfold tests where listeners need to identify details of an undisclosed piece of music. No doubt the inimitable blend of staccato blues and jazz fluidity in this esteemed guitarist could be readily pinpointed, as might
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Neil Finn & Paul Kelly: Goin' Your Way

Neil Finn & Paul Kelly: Goin' Your Way

allaboutjazz.com — The essays written by Neil Finn and Paul Kelly enclosed inside the booklet within this double-CD set are, like the two men's original songs, wholly and completely without affectation. These two kindred spirits instead speak frankly about the pragmatic aspects of their collaboration, such as choosing the songs and rehearsing with the band, for a concert tour that yielded this recording of their very last show.
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Glen Phillips: Swallowed by the New

Glen Phillips: Swallowed by the New

allaboutjazz.com — It's not wholly fair to say Glen Phillips' is the sound of Toad the We Sprocket (with whom he still works when not going solo). But it was usually his insinuating voice and engaging way with words that shaped the group's sound and those virtues are readily apparent on this exotic sounding record Swallowed by the New.
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Jim James: Eternally Even

Jim James: Eternally Even

allaboutjazz.com — Jim James' latest solo album, Eternally Even, not quite the memorable expression of commitment Titular leader of My Morning Jacket intends it to be...
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Allison Miller & Honey Ear Trio: Lean; Swivel

Allison Miller & Honey Ear Trio: Lean; Swivel

allaboutjazz.com — Alison Miller may well be the renaissance woman of modern jazz. High-profile mainstream gigs like appearing with the band on Late Night with Seth Myers hardly hint at the diverse complexity of her collaborations and work under own name, most conspicuously including the band Boom Tic Boom.
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All About Jazz

All About Jazz

allaboutjazz.com — Observation and analysis of the latest solo album by former leader of British rock band Mott the Hoople...
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Van Morrison: It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD Box Set (ALBUM REVIEWS) - Gli...

Van Morrison: It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD Box Set (ALBUM REVIEWS) - Gli...

glidemagazine.com — The announcement of the archiving of Van Morrison's considerably lengthy discography through Legacy Music no doubt generated cautious optimism among his fans and music lovers in general. Previous reissue initiatives consisted of straight remastering with minimal bonus additions in any form, while the overt retrospective of unreleased recordings called The Philosopher's Stone in 1998 seemed like a forced concession to the inevitable in the CD age.
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GOV'T MULE: RANKING THE LIVE RECORDS FROM STRONGEST ON DOWN... - Glide Magazine

GOV'T MULE: RANKING THE LIVE RECORDS FROM STRONGEST ON DOWN... - Glide Magazine

glidemagazine.com — Last week we counted down Gov't Mule's studio LPs from strongest on down and this week we do the same with their live LPs. As one of the most courageous and enduring live acts of our time, Gov't Mule has gone from power trio to expanded quartet to hosting performance where anything is game from special guests, cover songs and down-right ambitious themes.
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Gov't Mule From The Studio: Ranking The Records From Strongest on Down..... - Glide Magazine

Gov't Mule From The Studio: Ranking The Records From Strongest on Down..... - Glide Magazine

glidemagazine.com — Gov't Mule have always been too experienced and too professional to record anything less than a listenable album or perform anything less than a very interesting show.
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Miles Davis: Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series Vol. 5

Miles Davis: Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series Vol. 5

allaboutjazz.com — If ever a band of ' deserved the high-intensity inspection/dissection represented by The Bootleg Series Vol. 5, it is his second great quintet.
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