Tribute or insult, tribute or insult... that's what went through my head before I recorded Cold Sweat with my trio for our upcoming album. Not a day passes that I don't hear a James Brown tune (see my music collection...). Especially considering his recent passing, I thought it would be appropriate to take a stab at recording a song he wrote.I chose Cold Sweat because it's relatively easy to ...
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Here's the first track of my new album. There's a short story behind this one, too.When I was young, I used to tap dance. My mom was a dance teacher and taught in downtown St. Louis a few days a week. I was brought along and naturally, at 3 years old, started taking the class for little kids--you know, this is your right foot, this is your left foot... i guess all you do for the first year i...
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Well, the new album is finally done, at least from the creative point of view. Manufacturing starts next week. To celebrate, here's another track. Let me know what you think. And sit tight, this one clocks in just over 8 minutes.
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I've just booked the CD release party gig for my upcoming album:June 13 @ the Parkside Lounge in NYCParkside is on Houston at Attorney St. sort of between Aves B & C.It'll be a good time. There'll be food, hopefully some free stuff to give away, and we're going to play a long, funky set. If you're in NYC and dig the Meters or funk-laden organ trio ala (early) Soulive, you'll enjoy yourself an...
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It's interesting to sit here and read everyone's thoughts on my previous post about downloading music. I feel like most people download illegally more songs than they'll admit, and justify it by saying all kinds of things. I'm alright with that, whatever floats your boat. By illegal, I simply mean the copyright owner is not being reimbursed for the transaction in anyway. Until that law chan...
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"":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=209545619Hey Moggers,In honor of my new EP release on iTunes, and just in time for Christmas, I've posted one of the tracks as a free download exclusively for the peeps on MOG. You can stream it here, or just do the whole save link bit and it's yours to keep."The Whipper":http://www.cameronmizell.com/moggersonly/01%20The...
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Well, I figure my first post might as well be about my album, to get this out of the way. I recorded this in 2004 while in Bloomington, Indiana. The band was made up of mostly IU jazz musicians, and the playing is outstanding, I was very lucky to have all these guys play my music. Please listen to the tunes on this page or visit my "website":http://www.cameronmizell.com.If you like what you ...
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For all you New York cats and kittens out there, here's where you can catch my next show. It'll be better than whatever no name hack is playing at the Blue Note, I promise.Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Club Groove - http://www.clubgroovenyc.com125 MacDougal (at W. 3rd)New York, NY 10012Price: FreeTwo sets: 6:30-7:30 and 7:45-8:45.FeaturingBrad Whiteley on keys and Mike Fortune on drumsTo add ...
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Hey, at least you're getting 22.5 hours notice...If you find yourself in New York Saturday night (9/16), hop on the hip L train into Brooklyn's Grand St. stop, head one block west down Grand and turn into the Stain Bar at 766 Grand St. around 10pm to catch my trio. We'll be playing our brand of funky jazz, or jazzy funk, or something like that. I know myspace is the devil, but you can go ther...
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For all of you in the NYC area, I'm playing Tuesday night, 9pm at the Underground Lounge on the upper westside of Manhattan with my trio. Here's the address for all you Mapquesters and HopStoppers:The Underground Lounge955 West End Ave (at W. 107 St.)New York, NY 10025It's a one set gig, so don't be late. We'll play until the 10 o'clock group starts giving us stinkeye.Also, we did some record...
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I'm currently writing and recording music for my next album, and constantly looking for sources of inspiration. Tonight I went to a small cookout with my neighbors and met a bunch of new people, several of which were artists. Just hearing about their work, not to mention seeing some of it, really inspired me to sit down and start writing music. I've realized that I'm most creative musically ...
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