Blues Project

Jazz And Blues Vocalist Mercedes Nicole Debuts Her Self-Released New Blues Project ‘Constellation' Set For June 2020!

Source: All About Jazz
April 22, 2020

Ms. Nicole weaves an intimately contagious web of love and passion. She returns this time with award winning multi-instrumentalist Jay Thomas, Evan Flory-Barnes, and D’Vonne Lewis for the incantation of romance that truly sets the tone to escape the chilling reality of today’s landscape. “Thomas, Barnes, Lewis evoke emotions of surrender that cannot be denied” —Mercedes Nicole Chanteuse Mercedes Nicole as her fans and other noted reviewers dub her, literally ushers in a timeless and relentlessly evocative new project that ...
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Guitarist Joe Morris Joins Forces With Keyboardist Jamie Saft & Drummer Mike Pride On Microtonal Blues Project Raoul

Source: hubtone PR
March 7, 2015

The sound of Joe Morris’ electric guitar, with distortion pedal set on stun and wah-wah pedal fully engaged, colliding with Jamie Saft’s droning, microtonal organ and Mike Pride’s thunderous free drumming approach to the kit creates a mind-numbing maelstrom on The Spanish Donkey's RAOUL, the improvising trio’s debut on RareNoiseRecords. A follow-up to XYX, their 2011 album, which was released on Northern Spy Records. The album consists of three throbbing tracks — the brutal 32-minute title track ‘Raoul, the 22-minute ...
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Archie Shepp's Kickstarter For New "Attica Blues" Project

Source: Pushan Bhowmick
June 12, 2013

Archie Shepp launches a Kickstarter campaign to finalize funding on a new Attica Blues Band live album recording. Forty years after his masterpiece Attica Blues, recorded with a big band of 39 musicians and in which he highlights social injustices faced by African Americans, Shepp returns with a brand new big band composed of 26 musicians (young and experienced) from France and the United States to transmit his values to the new generation. The new big band will record a ...
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Delirium Blues Project, Co-led by Kenny Werner & Roseanna Vitro, Debuts on CD 3/25

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 11, 2008

In August 2007, longtime friends and musical partners in jazz Kenny Werner and Roseanna Vitro took to the stage of the Blue Note in New York with a bodacious new category-bending band, the Delirium Blues Project. Werner occupied his customary piano chair but also filled the new role of arranging for the nine-piece group. Vocalist Vitro tapped into her Arkansas and Texas roots to deliver the goods on Delirium's funk and blues material, which ranged from Tower of Power and ...
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Willie King Partners with the Alabama Blues Project

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2007

The Alabama Blues Project (ABP) is partering with internationally renowned bluesman Willie King to present a six-week long Blues in the Schools Artist Residency at Aliceville Middle School in Pickens County, Alabama. Pickens County native Willie King has twice won the Living Blues Magazine “Blues Artist of the Year" award and is the recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA) Fellowsip award. His annual Freedom Creek Festival, held at his home in Old Memphis, Pickens County, on ...
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Alabama Blues Project Featuring Debbie Bond and Caroline Shines Sept. 29

Source: All About Jazz
September 26, 2007

Saturday, September 29, The Alabama Kids' Club at the Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham will be hosting two interactive performances by the Alabama Blues Project featuring blues women Debbie Bond and Caroline Shines at 10am & 11:30am.

These educational performances are open to the public. This program is a mixture of performance, lecture, and participation, through which participants are introduced to the historical and cultural significance of blues music, from its West African roots, through slavery times and Reconstruction, to ...
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Jane Bunnett Releases "Radio Guantanamo: Guantanamo Blues Project Vol. 1" on Blue Note Records

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2006

EMI Music Canada To Donate A Portion Of The Proceeds From Sales To The New Orleans Musicians Clinic Juno Award winner, Jane Bunnett has turned her bands and recordings into showcases for the finest musical talent from Canada, the U.S. and Cuba. She has been nominated for Grammy Awards, numerous Juno Awards, and most recently, was honored with an appointment to the Order of Canada. While past recordings have explored and combined elements of Cuban roots music with traditional and ...
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