Steve Tyrell Releases Remastered & Expanded 'Back To Bacharach' Album
29 October, 2018
Grammy Award-winner and two-time Emmy nominee Steve Tyrell has remastered his classic Back to Bacharach album and has added seven new songs. The expanded 21-track edition is by New Design Records and Warner Brother's East/West Records.
The release celebrates both the album's tenth anniversary and ...
| Marcus Strickland Releases New Single "On My Mind" Ft. Bilal, Pharoahe Monch, & Greg Tate
28 October, 2018
On November 9th, Brooklyn composer-saxophonist Marcus Strickland will release his thrilling new LP People of the Sun via Blue Note/Revive Music. The second single "On My Mind" is out now - on the track Bilal and Pharoahe Monch explore infatuation and romantic love, while modern griot Greg Tate speaks ...
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Introducing Chicago's New King Of Soul " Brandon James"
25 October, 2018
Chicago's very own " Brandon James" is ready for success, and he wants you to know it. The r&b and soul singer is creating a strong buzz with the recent release of his video "There She Goes" on YouTube.
"There She Goes" is the title track for the two-track E.P released on August 3rd, 2018. Links have ...
| Leyla McCalla's Potent Collection Of Protest Songs By Way Of Haiti + New Orleans: 'The Capitalist Blues' Out January 25, 2019
25 October, 2018
Leyla McCalla will return with her third album, 'The Capitalist Blues,' on January 25 (PIAS). This singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist has written a potent collection of protest songs that weave their way through Leyla's Haitian heritage and the near decade she's lived in New Orleans. 'The Capitalist ...
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The Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Introduce Their New Release "Long Way Home"
24 October, 2018
If you lived in Las Vegas Nevada USA you would know that at one point everyone great musician stops by the entertainment capital of the world to either visit "the meadows", as it is referred to locally, or become part of its bustling and multilayered musical brew. Such it is with pianist and producer ...
| Jennifer Saran Issues A Heartfelt Plea To Voters With "Let The Waves Wash Over Me (Song For Christine)"
24 October, 2018
When listeners first hear the new JENNIFER SARAN single "LET THE WAVES WASH OVER ME (SONG FOR CHRISTINE)," they will be transported by the singer's elegant and gorgeous phrasing over producer and co-writer Narada Michael Walden's impeccably lush bed of jazz-blues instrumentation. But as Saran points ...
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Modern All-Star Band Vinyl Hampdin Launches Critically Acclaimed CD "Red" With A New Website And Submissions In Multiple Categories In The 61st Grammy Awards
24 October, 2018
"What would Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears and Tower of Power sound like if they started out now?" That is the mission of this jam-packed all-star assemblage of world-renown musicians: to take the modern landscape of textures, hybrid styles and pour it all into the rocked out horn bands of yore
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| Composer And Saxophonist Dave Feusi To Perform At Kathmandu Jazz Festival
23 October, 2018
Those who know Dave Feusi are used to him globe trotting to the famous and not so famous jazz corners of the world. This time around Dave and the Groove Gang find themselves about to perform at the famous Kathmandu Jazz Festival in Nepal. This is the hip jazz festival that beckons all sincere jazz ...
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New Zealand-Based Contemporary Jazz Band GroovExpress Rumbles To #1 On Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart With 3rd CD Amsterdaam
23 October, 2018
Like the mighty locomotive train that is its namesake, 8-piece band GroovExpress, made a mighty leap from #9 to #1 on Billboard magazine's Contemporary Jazz Albums chart for the week of September 15 with its third release, Amsterdaam. The soul-jazz fusion band's latest album had only been on the charts ...
| Tu Ancora M'Innamori: The New Single By The Italian Singer Songwriter Vittorio Merlo
22 October, 2018
This new single is a love song in which Vittorio puts into music the text of Nicolò Donetti, a 20-year-old poet of Pray in the province of Biella, author of two collections of poems "Amando follemente" and "Raffica di Parole".
Nicolò contacted Vittorio via e-mail in November of last year with ...
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Watch Alfredo Rodriguez's Tiny Desk Concert
22 October, 2018
Alfredo Rodríguez, the prominent Cuban pianist and Quincy Jones mentee stopped by NPR Music's headquarters recently to perform a Tiny Desk Concert in support of his new album The Little Dream. Today Alfredo's Tiny Desk Concert had its worldwide release, watch what NPR Music calls, "Cuban pianist Alfredo ...
| Blue Note's Newest Signing, Pianist James Francies, Releases His Debut Album 'Flight'
20 October, 2018
Blue Note Records today announces the release of Flight, an extraordinary debut album from the legendary jazz label's newest signing James Francies, the Houston-born New York City-based pianist, keyboardist, and composer that The New York Times called "a pianist with liquid dynamism in his touch." The ...
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Crooner Brian Evans To Record First Ever Spanish Song 'Cocodrilo,' Written By Andres Venegas
20 October, 2018
Brian Evans, who Grammy Magazine has called one of the top five crooners of this generation, will record the first Spanish sung song of his career.
With lyrics by Andres Venegas and music by both Evans and Venegas, the song will be produced by Grammy Award winning producer Gary Anderson.
Originally ...
| Aaron Diehl Performs Florence Price's Piano Concerto And Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue With NJSO
19 October, 2018
Acclaimed jazz pianist Aaron Diehl performs Florence Price's Piano Concerto and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, November 29-December 2 in Newark and New Brunswick. Joshua Weilerstein conducts the program, which also features Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite (1919) ...
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The Martucci Swing Orchestra Presents 'Shout, Sister, Shout!' The Incredible Boswell Sisters
19 October, 2018
Katie Martucci and her Swing Orchestra are celebrating the amazing Boswell Sisters - those three hip chicks from New Orleans who revolutionized singing with their rhythmic experimentation and innovations in harmony. Shout, Sister, Shout! The Incredible Boswell Sisters celebrates Martha, Conee and Helvetia ...
| Billy Childs' Jazz Chamber Ensemble Plays The Broad Stage, 11/11
19 October, 2018
The Broad Stage presents Billy Childs and his Jazz Chamber Ensemble on Sunday, November 11 at 7:30pm. One of the foremost American composers of his era, pianist Billy Childs embodies a unique blend of jazz and classical music. The multi-GRAMMY Award winner's groundbreaking project merges improvisation ...
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James Francies Releases New Track From His Debut Album "Flight"; Jazz Standard NYC Shows Nov. 8-9
16 October, 2018
Pianist James Francies has released "Sway," the second single from his forthcoming debut album Flight, which comes out next Friday, October 19. The track features Francies—who The New York Times called "a pianist with liquid dynamism in his touch"—in a quartet with guitarist Mike Moreno, bassist ...
| John Escreet's 'Learn To Live' Out Now (Blue Room Music)
16 October, 2018
John Escreet's thrilling and rewarding new album 'Learn To Live' is out now. It finds the experimental keyboardist juxtaposing deep grooves and synthesizer with exploratory, meditative acoustic jazz, and has been met with praise from NY Times, WBGO, Stereogum and beyond.
For his first album of ...
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Incheon Airport Presents Harmony Performances Of Beautiful Melodies In Deepening Autumn
16 October, 2018
Incheon Airport will host harmony performances full of beautiful melodies featuring the deepening autumn sentiment with jazz and Korean classical music. Incheon Airport Terminal 1 holds different performances every month under the slogan of 'Culture touch the Sky' offering amusement and enjoyment to ...
| Music Institute And Dance Chicago 'Duke It Out' 12/8
16 October, 2018
Classical, jazz and dance combine when the Music Institute of Chicago collaborates with Dance Chicago to present a family concert, "Duke It Out!," Saturday, December 8 at 2 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston.
This Nutcracker performance, curated by Dance Chicago, pairs the ...
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