Jazz Composer Steve Lindeman Debuts On CD With "The Day After Yesterday," June 11
22 May, 2013
Steve Lindeman's distinctive approach to modern big band composing is on ample display on his impressive debut CD, "The Day After Yesterday," to be released by Jazz Hang Records on June 11. The Brigham Young University professor's originals are performed by BYU's Synthesis under the direction of Ray ...
| Tony Adamo Miles Of Blu Random Act 2013
20 May, 2013
As the business and cultural landscape of improvisational music has evolved over the last year or two I am starting to notice a slight trend toward the inclusion of poetry and spoken word passages on some recordings and with incredibly mixed results. Tony Adamo is releasing a spoken word recording or ...
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Skope Reviews Canary Burton 'Piano Music From Cape Cod'
16 May, 2013
Drawing on her extensive background and jazz & classical influences, Cape Cod resident Canary Burton has released an album of piano music.
Burton and her inspiration have traveled from Idaho to Wash. DC, before settling at the sandy tip of Cape Cod's Provincetown, where her melodies might summon ...
| Preservation Hall Jazz Band To Release "That's It!" July 9th On Legacy Recordings
10 May, 2013
Preservation Hall Jazz Band was founded in 1961 to promote traditional New Orleans jazz in all its authenticity. Legendary players like George Lewis , Sweet Emma Barrett and Kid Thomas Valentine, all rooted in the formative years jazz, were its original stars. That generation is long gone now, yet ...
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Jazz/Soul Artist Kathy Yolanda Rice Releases Hot New Single, "Love Is Like A Sunny Day"
09 May, 2013
Kathy Yolanda Rice's new single, "Love Is Like A Sunny Day", released February 22nd on the Paintbrush Records label, is still climbing the charts. The song garnered spots on five CD Baby Charts after its release, and is still the top rated single in the Jazz/Cool Jazz category. It is also finding success ...
| Bass Player Antoine Fafard To Release Second Album 'Occultus Tramitis' Featuring Former Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson Members!
09 May, 2013
Bass Player Antoine Fafard To Release Second Album 'Occultus Tramitis' Featuring Former Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson Members!London, UK - Much to the excitent of music aficionados across the globe, the second solo album by composer and bass player Antoine Fafard, 'Occultus ...
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"Black Lace Blue Tears," Debut CD For Seattle-Area Jazz Singer Eugenie Jones, Due For May 28 Release
08 May, 2013
With the release of her debut album "Black Lace Blue Tears," Seattle-based Eugenie Jones emerges as a rising jazz vocal star with a deep-rooted sense of where she's headed as an artist. Jones's repertoire is based primarily on her own striking originals, and she also had a hand in all of the arrangements. ...
| TIME Premieres Mingus Tribute From No BS! Brass
07 May, 2013
TIME Magazine is exclusively premiering "Haitian Fight Song" from No BS! Brass Band's upcoming tribute to Mingus, 'Fight Song.' No BS! Brass was co-founded by Bon Iver trombonist Reggie Pace and features an all-star brass and drums lineup of first-call players who perform with Feist, Sharon Van Etten, ...
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Mingus & MJ Mix At Lincoln Center With No BS! Brass
03 May, 2013
No BS! Brass Band, co-founded by Bon Iver trombonist Reggie Pace and featuring first-call horn players who perform with everyone from Feist and Sharon Van Etten to the Wailers and Gladys Knight, will make their Lincoln Center debut August 8 as part of the free Lincoln Center Out of Doors series on the ...
| Artists From Across The Globe Grace The Stage In Istanbul For International Jazz Day 2013
02 May, 2013
In an unprecedented series of events worldwide, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz joined together to celebrate jazz as a universal language of freedom on April 30th. With events taking place in every country on the ...
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Jazz Music Producer Matthew Shell Collaborates With Pop Instrumental Grammy Nominee Arun Shenoy On New Single "Genesis"
02 May, 2013
Narked Records, in collaboration with MTS Music, is pleased to announce the release of "GENESIS" an exciting instrumental single forged out of the first ever collaboration between record producers Matthew Shell & Arun Shenoy.
The music on this track features guest musicians from around the world, ...
| International Jazz Sensation Keiko Matsui To Perform One Of A Kind Concert At Miami's New World Center With Special Guest Al Di Meola
01 May, 2013
For the first time ever performing at Miami's New World Center, celebrated jazz artist and pianist Keiko Matsui will join special guest Al Di Meola on Friday, May 31st at 8pm for a never before seen concert event featuring both artists as well as Keiko's band. Matsui is known around the world for ...
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Paris Combo Set To Mark International Jazz Day With A Sold-Out New York City Concert
01 May, 2013
Sublime timing places French 5-piece Paris Combo in New York City tonight, which is perhaps exactly the type of cultural exchange the United Nations had in mind when they designated April 30th as International Jazz Day. In the midst of a 12-city U.S. concert tour that has already produced five sold-out ...
| Contemporary Jazz Guitarist James "Tootie" Hogan Releases Smooth Jazz Single "Picnic In The Park"
29 April, 2013
Contemporary jazz/r&b guitarist James "Tootie" Hogan release his new single "Picnic in the Park" April 23, 2013 worldwide via iTunes, Amazon MP3, and all other digital retail outlets through Vision One Entertainment Group, LLC.
Hogan shows true professionalism with his guitar. Hogan style of play ...
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Duke Ellington, Funkadelic & Outkast Squeezed Through The Bell Of A Trombone
29 April, 2013
The members of Richmond collective No BS! Brass Band have collaborated with some of the biggest names in indie music, from Bon Iver to Feist to Sharon Van Etten, and they've earned some high-profile fans along the way. Check out the "sternum-rattling" "RVA All Day" at SPIN, and see below for testimonials ...
| Gerald Forrest's GospelChops.com Releases "Bass Sessionz Vol. 2"
26 April, 2013
It was revered jazz bassist Charlie Haden who once said, "When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything." Judging by the latest endeavor of GospelChops.com creator Gerald Forrest , he couldn't agree with Haden more. Forrest, who has received international acclaim for his expanding ...
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Sexy, Sultry And Sophisticated... Sylvia Brooks Returns To The Stage At Two Of LA's Most Important New Venues
26 April, 2013
Numerous artists have paged through the Great American and Jazz Standards Songbooks. And then there's Sylvia Brooks, whose sultry charm, combined with a commanding stage presence and sonic clarity have set her head-and-shoulders above the rest.
"Every so often, a unique talent comes along…with ...
| Jazz Legends To Perform At 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival Labor Day Weekend
24 April, 2013
The Detroit Jazz Festival "Imported from Detroit" today announced the headlining acts and 2013 Artist in Residence for the 34th annual Labor Day Weekend performances. Once again the Festival will deliver an eclectic lineup filled with jazz greats, performing on four stages throughout Labor Day weekend.
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Jazz Music At Ginny's Supper Club Mixes Classic And The New With Multi-Generational Artists Gracing The Stage For Innovative Programs
24 April, 2013
May carries this theme with a master guitarist in his 70s playing jazz, classical and Brazilian melodies in collaboration with two younger artists on bass and trumpet. Also, two jazz piano trios—one led by a senior giant of jazz, the other by one of the most exciting 20-something pianists—make music ...
| New York Jazz Workshop Set For Annual Summer Sessions
23 April, 2013
More than beach and barbeques, for jazz musicians around the world summer is the time to take their playing to the next level in the world capital of jazz, as the New York Jazz Workshop School of Music (NYJW) will again offer focused four-day workshops, July 25 through August 18, with sessions for all ...
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