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Author: TJ Nelson

TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow. Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931. Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
Obituaries

Puerto Rican Singer and Musician Cheo Feliciano Killed in Crash

TJ Nelson April 17, 2014 No Comments

Salsa and bolero singer and composer Cheo Feliciano died in an early morning car crash Thursday, April 17, 2014 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Reports…

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Cuban Percussionist Armando Peraza Dies at 89

TJ Nelson April 16, 2014 No Comments

Music fans spanning from Cuban and Afro-Cuban to Latin and Latin jazz to Latin inspired rock are mourning the loss of Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza.…

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A Soaring Musical Journey through the Amazon with Animated Friends

TJ Nelson April 16, 2014 No Comments

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by John Powell Rio 2 (Sony Music, 2014) Music composer John Powell ponders, “If you think about music and where it…

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Groupa’s Hypnotic Hybrid of Folk and Musical Improvisation

TJ Nelson April 13, 2014 No Comments

Groupa Silent Folk (Footprint Records, 2014) One of the irresistible charms of world music is its promise – its promise of a journey. Nothing delivers…

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Aziza Brahim’s Expression

TJ Nelson April 11, 2014 No Comments

Aziza Brahim – Soutak

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Sousou and Maher Cissoko Turn Out A First Class Musical Experience

TJ Nelson April 8, 2014 No Comments

Sousou and Maher Cissoko Africa Moo Baalu (ARC Music, 2014) With the 2008 Adouna and the 2011 Stockholm-Dakar recordings to their credit, Sousou and Maher…

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Enthralling Intermingling Of Flamenco, Classical and Jazz

TJ Nelson April 2, 2014 No Comments

Jerez Texas Viento y Marea (2014) Savvy, sophisticated and brutally cool, Jerez Texas’s latest offering Viento y Marea scorches the flamenco jazz label with an…

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Superb and Masterful Hafez Nazeri

TJ Nelson March 29, 2014 No Comments

Hafez Nazeri Rumi Symphony Project Cycle 1 Untold (Sony Classical, 2014) There are music critics out there that sit back stone faced like some disinterested…

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Dynamic Pairing

TJ Nelson March 27, 2014 No Comments

Daby Toure and Skip McDonald Call My Name (Real World Records, 2009/U.S. release 2014) Music fans looking for a little sunny bounce might want to…

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Utterly Evocative and Imaginative Anne Hytta

TJ Nelson March 22, 2014 No Comments

Anne Hytta Draumsyn (Carpe Diem Records, 2014) Stepping off the well-worn path of world music, I don’t often come across solo hardanger fiddle (a Norwegian…

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