Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Sign With Ted Kurland Associates Booking Agency!
BOSTON, MA. (Top40 Charts/ Ted Kurland Associates) - Legendary trumpet player Herb Alpert and his wife, internationally renowned GRAMMY-winning singer Lani Hall, have signed with the Boston, MA-based booking agency Ted Kurland Associates (TKA) for worldwide representation. TKA will exclusively represent ...
| ObliqSound Signs Vocalist Gretchen Parlato
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ ObliqSound) - ObliqSound is pleased to announce the signing of its newest artist, American vocalist Gretchen Parlato. Having appeared as a guest on three previous ObliqSound releases, the singer who Herbie Hancock describes as having a "deep, almost magical connection to ...
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Jair-Rohm Parker Wells Trio Release and Tour News July 2008!
Philadelphia, PA. (Top40 Charts/ Jair-Rohm Parker Wells Official Website) - The Jair-Rohm Parker Wells Trio is a very high energy improvising unit driven by sonics and beats that propel boundless musical explorations. The members all have impressive backgrounds in the idiom with credits as illustrious ...
| 'Summertime' By AmesEla & Osphiera To Pre-release July 2, 2008
Watsonville, CA (Top40 Charts/ StreetWise PR) - Let's celebrate! Summer it here! Starting it off with a new spin on "Summertime" - that old opera by Gershwin. "Summertime" New Release by AmesEla features vocal duet by Amy Seidman featuring special guests Eah and Will Brayton of Osphiera. AmesEla's unique ...
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Pianist Timothy Cooper Creates CD To Counter 9/11 Terrorist Tragedy
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts/ New Piano Age Music) - Timothy Cooper strives to bring enlightenment to the world through his art as well as his job as Executive Director of Worldrights, the human rights advocacy organization. His goal of calling attention to today's problems, and offering solace and solutions, ...
| Mack Avenue Records Announces The Signing Of Saxophonist-Composer Kenny Garrett
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Mack Avenue Records) - Mack Avenue Records announces the signing of saxophone sensation and Detroit native Kenny Garrett, the highly renowned composer and multiple GRAMMY-nominee, to their unique roster of artists. Garrett will release on September 23 Sketches of MD, a capricious ...
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Emusica & Henry Knowles Productions Take Pride In Announcing The Return Of The New Swing Sextet Back On The Streets
MIAMI, FL. (Top40 Charts/ Emusica Records) - Imagine a hot salsa band from the 1960s reuniting after a 30-year hiatus to discover an even greater, more global, fan base. "Rip Van Winkle couldn't have had it better," recalls co-bandleader George Rodriguez of the New Swing Sextet's (NSS) recaptured infectious ...
| Eric Roberts & Friends Live At Kenny's Castaways For Independent Day
DENVER, CO. (Top40 Charts/ MusicMagic Productions) - Guitarist Eric Roberts will be appearing at Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, New York, NY on July 13, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. courtesy of www.digitalcafetour.com's Live 2.0 Independent's Day Virtual Festival. The show will be professionally audio ...
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Alex Lattimore Comes Full Circle
Atlanta, GA. (Top40 Charts/ Alex Lattimore Official Website) - Velvety vocalist Alex Lattimore has been around the world and has returned home sweet home for a local tour of venues. The multi-talented musician was honored with international success in both South Africa and Japan while touring with The ...
| Jim Brickman With The North Carolina Symphony Join Grand Opening Month Lineup For Durham Performing Arts Center
DURHAM, N.C. (Top40 Charts/ Durham Performing Arts Center) - Christmas spirit will thrive this year at the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) as the theatre presents platinum-selling recording artist, pianist and composer Jim Brickman alongside the renowned North Carolina Symphony on December 18, ...
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Clarence McDonald & Evolution - In Concert At El Portal Theatre In Hollywood
Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Clarence McDonald Official Website) - After four decades of producing, writing, arranging and accompanying the best in the business, pianist Clarence McDonald has finally taken center stage. McDonald is credited with creating some of the most memorable music of our time. ...
| Marilyn Scott Releases Set Of Jazz Standards Every Time We Say Goodbye
Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Tokuma Japan) - With Every Time We Say Goodbye, Marilyn Scott is taking her love for jazz to the ultimate place her heart has always desired, to make an acoustic jazz album in New York City the way the legends used to do it - with the singer and musicians all cutting ...
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TIEDYE BLACK's 'Thursday's At TDK's' - World-Class SF Bay Area Musicians
Burlingame, CA. (Top40 Charts/ TIEDYE KEITH RECORDS) - From a circle of his San Francisco Bay Area friends, TIEDYE KEITH RECORDS is excited to announce their latest CD; TIEDYE BLACK's 'Thursday's at TDK's' - a co-production between TIEDYE Keith and Vernon Ice BLACK - a collection of toe tappers and ...
| Trombonist, Arranger, And Composer Wayne Wallace Returns With The Nature Of The Beat, Available On August 19, 2008
Oakland, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Patois Records) - Wallace's recent placement in DownBeat Magazine's "Critic's Poll" has gotten the word out about his virtuosity as a trombonist, and on The Nature of the Beat, (available digitally now; hard copies out August 19 on Patois Records), we hear him stretch out ...
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Dirk Quinn Band CD Release Party at Steel City
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Sunset Recordings) - QuinnTet is a striking and out of this world sophomore CD by Dirk Quinn with his band of incredible musicians that will also play at the CD release party this weekend. Although the CD is an obvious jazz album, Dirk beautifully portrays each song with ...
| Acclaimed Singer/Pianist/Composer Patricia Barber Releases The Cole Porter Mix - An Expressive Tribute To Her Favorite Songwriter
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Blue Note Records) - In reviewing Patricia Barber's 2006 album Mythologies, a song cycle based on Ovid's Metamorphoses that she wrote as a result of receiving the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, JazzTimes celebrated her as "the most fearless, most intellectually stimulating and, ...
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CD Release Party: Anna Maria Flechero At Yoshi's July 21, 2008
Oakland, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Anna Maria Flechero Official Website) - Featuring 10 well-known pop and jazz standards and one original Within the Fourteenth Hour is a stunning sophomore effort on Flechero's part creating a breathtaking sophomore effort. Even though this CD touches on the well-known, Anna ...
| Alyssa Graham Unearths Hidden Billie Holiday Gem On 'Echo'
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - On 'Echo', (Sunnyside, July 29), vocalist Alyssa Graham proves fearless, putting original works alongside songs by the likes of Paul Simon and Sting. But one of the most notable tracks on the album has to be "Involved Again," a tune that might have become ...
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Herbie Hancock Performs Selections From His GRAMMY-Winning Album 'River: The Joni Letters' On Celebrated Music Series 'Live From Abbey Road'
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Verve Music Group) - On June 26th, Herbie Hancock will perform selections from his GRAMMY Award winning Album of the Year 'River: The Joni Letters' on the new season of Sundance Channel's acclaimed original music series 'Live From Abbey Road.' Corrine Bailey Rae will join ...
| Pianist And Composer Esbjorn Svensson Has Passed Away
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Sbme Special Mkts. Records) - The pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson passed on last Saturday, June 14th, after a diving accident on the island of Ingaro. His trio e.s.t, with the bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Ostrom had since its inception in 1993 developed into ...
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