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Los Angeles-Based Pianist, Vocalist And Composer Adrianne Duncan Offers Songs Beautiful And Broad In Scope, Leading A Top-Shelf Ensemble On New Album 'Gemini'
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Two for the Show Media
In honing her own creative voice as a jazz pianist, singer and songwriter, Adrianne Duncan also discovered the ideal way to present it: with the devoted group of musicians and friends heard on her inspired recording Gemini. The versatile rhythm section features Duncan on piano with Dan Lutz on acoustic and electric bass and Jimmy Branly, who mixed the album, on drums. Vibraphonist Nick Mancini achieves a beautiful blend with Duncan’s instrument, serving the multifaceted songs with his fine touch ...
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Stratusphunk: The Life and Works of George Russell By Dr. Duncan Heining Available through Amazon Worldwide
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All About Jazz
Stratusphunk is the story of remarkable musician and a remarkable man. Through his ideas and music, composer, theorist and musician George Russell joins the dots in modern jazz from bebop, though modal and free jazz and into jazz rock. It is hard to imagine another artist, who was both so influential but also so misunderstood. For the first time in paperback and in a newly revised edition, Stratusphunk makes Russell’s story, music and theories available to scholars, students and fans. ...
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California Jazz Vocalist Beth Duncan To Release Her Third Album, I'm All Yours, July 24
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Vocalist Beth Duncan applies her warm, robust contralto to a collection of finely crafted tunes on her long-awaited third album, I’m All Yours, set for a July 24 release on Saccat Records. While the album’s ten tracks are an eclectic bunch, they are all the work of composer and lyricist Martine Tabilio, a friend of Duncan’s for over a decade. Saxophonist-flutist Jacám Manricks provides the arrangements and joins a band led by acclaimed pianist Joe Gilman, and featuring guitarist Steve ...
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Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Duncan Heining from Equinox Publishing
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All About Jazz
Mosaics is the first biography of bassist, band-leader, composer, educator and author Graham Collier. Duncan Heining draws extensively on Collier’s personal archive, as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music. It locates Collier and his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred during his life and, particularly, in relation to developments in British and European jazz of the 1960s and '70s. Collier’s work as a composer-bandleader represented an attempt ...
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Duncan Millar Video For New Single "Fresh Air" Now Online
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Jiminy Cee
Duncan Millar's video for his new single “Fresh Air" can now be viewed at Youtube (and is embedded below). The track is currently #1 at groovejazzmusic.com and at radiowavemonitor.com and has increased play on US smooth-jazz radio charts. The album will be released February 12th through Amazon and iTunes, also, with free downloads from All About Jazz, Reverbnation and Bandcamp. Fresh Air follows pianist, keyboardist and MOBO jazz-nominee Duncan's previous releases Dream Your Dream and Good To Go on Instinct ...
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Duncan Millar To Release New Album "Fresh Air" 12th Feb
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Jiminy Cee
Contemporary-Smooth Jazz pianist and composer Duncan Millar will release a new album called Fresh Air on 12th Feb 2013. This is his first album since previous albums Dream Your Dream and Good To Go on Instinct Records, and Comin Thru on Passion Jazz Records, UK, tracks from which receive continuing air-play and earned him a prestigious UK MOBO nomination as Best Jazz Act. Duncan returns with ten new enticing tracks. Filled out by a full band including some of London's ...
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Duncan Sheik - Daylight (2003)
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson I fell hard for Sheik's highly developed melodic sense on Phantom Moon, a moody, dark, mostly acoustic album of songs about the psyche written by a friend and playwright. I stepped back through his small catalog to Humming and found the album almost as beguiling, and only his debut, self-titled album left me wanting. As debuts go, it's strong, but it's obviously aimed at getting his name out there—and it did. It seemed like a logical progression: ...
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Duncan Sheik to Compose 'American Psycho' Musical
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Michael Ricci
Drenched in equal parts blood and hit '80s pop tunes, Bret Easton Ellis' novel “American Psycho" chronicled the fissured state of mind of Patrick Bateman, a homicidal New York yuppie who harbored a taste for designer suits and blunt instruments. The 1991 novel's runaway success spawned a movie starring Christian Bale, which opened in 2000. A musical theater adaptation has been in the works for a while and now appears to be on the fast track, with Duncan Sheik signed ...
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