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Drummer Brandon Sanders Makes Long-awaited Debut With The August 25 Release Of 'Compton's Finest' On Savant Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The only thing drummer Brandon Sanders has to prove on Compton’s Finest, set for an August 25 release on Savant Records, is his musicality. Making his recording debut at the age of 52, Sanders is past the youthful need for flashy pomp and circumstance. He instead focuses on serving the material—and supporting an ace roster of bandmates that includes vibraphonist Warren Wolf, tenor saxophonist Chris Lewis, pianist Keith Brown, and bassist Eric Wheeler—with taste and maturity. Though he’s only now ...
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Uptown Jazz Tentet - What's Next - Release Date: October 1st Featuring Brandon Lee, Adam Birnbaum & More!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Uptown Jazz Tentet What's Next Release Date: October 1st Featuring Brandon Lee, Willie Applewhite and James Burton III Ten-Piece Powerhouse! The Uptown Jazz Tentet is a ten-piece ensemble collectively led by trumpeter, Brandon Lee and trombonists Willie Applewhite and James Burton. The other seven members are the most reputable sidemen on the jazz scene today. The band attributes it's distinct sound to not only the musical prowess of its members, but also to the priceless value ...
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James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor Launch 2018 Season In Beacon, NY
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James Keepnews
“James Brandon Lewis, a jazz saxophonist in his 30s, raw-toned but measured, doesn't sound steeped in current jazz-academy values and isn't really coming from a free-improvising perspective. There's an independence about him.” —The New York Times “With an insatiable appetite for music on the fringe, drummer Chad Taylor has been an active participant in the creative music environments of both Chicago and New York. Not confined to any particular style, Taylor threads an array of astounding patterns and cadences.” —All ...
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Singer Songwriter Phillip Brandon Debuts With A Genre-Defying Musical Gift For The Planet: "The Story Begins"
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Inque Public Relations
Proud Morehouse Graduate Steps Out Making a Profound Musical Difference Springing forth following eight years of tours as “Narrator” with platinum selling rock band Trans Siberian Orchestra to a feature role in the life story of Gospel legend BeBe Winans, “Born For This: The Musical,” singer-songwriter Phillip Brandon is making good on the promise of his purposed and abundant gifts to share songs of love and optimism all his own via his powerful debut album, The Story Begins—a warm wraparound ...
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Ken Silverman Trio At Amoskeag Studio (NH) on August 26 And At Brandon Music (VT) on August 27
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Ken Silverman
The New York-based Ken Silverman Trio is a modern jazz group that plays original compositions with influences that range from atmospheric film music to swing, funk surf-rock and blues. The trio demonstrates the improvisational prowess of jazz, the delicate creativity of classical composition, and the raw intensity of the blues. Reviewing the 2015 recording Parallel Man, Hrayr Attarian wrote “ Polished, sophisticated... an engaging record full of intelligent ideas and charming melodies that is a refreshingly honest statement by a ...
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Soulful Cabaret Featuring Phillip Brandon Live At The Secret Rose Theatre
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TIC Group Entertainment
TIC Group Entertainment proudly presents: Billboard Smooth Jazz Most Added Artist Soulful Cabaret (feat. Phillip Brandon) Live at the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood, CA on Friday, October 30, 2015 at 7:30pm. $20 Advance Sale/ $25 Day Of Soulful Cabaret is just as it sounds: an international jazz, funk and soul fusion band offering the best melodic stew from the respective countries that each member calls home. Now you can catch their final show featuring Phillip Brandon (who was ...
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Phillip Brandon Crosses Musical Boundaries On Sunny New Ep
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Eric Taylor
With the spring melting the icy chill of winter, the self-titled EP of Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Phillip Brandon delivers an appropriately sunny ambience, feel-good vibrations pulsing through an electrifying powder keg of funk, jazz, and R&B. With musical inspirations as wildly diverse as Journey and Luther Vandross. Oddly enough, Brandon’s music crosses the boundaries between them both, venturing unafraid in giving his soulful approach a feisty guitar kick. Brandon, who has been involved with The Trans Siberian Orchestra and “The ...
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Interview: Phillip Brandon
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Eric Taylor
Q: Your music is a hybrid of various genres, namely funk, jazz, and rock & roll. How did this style come about? A: It's an amazingly beautiful thing when you set out with a vision, and then have others share in that vision without purposefully persuading them to do so. When I started this project, I wanted to infuse music that spoke to me. When listening to music, I never feel bound by a particular genre. Therefore, when creating music, ...
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Pyeng Threadgill and Brandon Terzic team for The Blues Sessions residency at Barbes
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Matthew Paneth
If the American Blues tradition has been overly saturated by endless retellings of the same songs by the same artists, it is not so much a declaration of a lull in creativity and innovation as much as it is a sign of how powerful the roots are. It is the well spring from which all current popular styles of music hold allegiance to in one degree or another. Brandon Terzic along with Pyeng Threadgill has taken this to heart and ...
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George Brandon and the Blue Unity Orchestra Celebrate Black History Month at the City College of New York
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George Brandon
The Blue Unity Orchestra will stage a series of participatory events as part of The City College of New York Black Studies Program's Black History Month events. These events, which will include workshops and open rehearsals, will culminate in a Blue Unity Orchestra Legacy concert at the Aronow Theatre on CCNY's Harlem campus on February 24, 2012 at 8 pm. The Blue Unity Orchestra promotes the work of African, African-American and Afro-Diasporic composers. This year's event will feature a work ...
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