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Generations Deconstructed Tour Featuring Will Calhoun, Ozmosys, And The Rock N’ Roll Collective
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Featuring legendary drummer Will Calhoun (Living Colour, BB King, Mick Jagger), Rachel Z (Peter Gabriel, Steps Ahead, Wayne Shorter) Ozmosys, and the Rock N’ Roll Collective The Generations Deconstructed Tour is a dynamic, multi-faceted live music experience that bridges generations and genres. The show features the Rock N’Roll Collective (ages 12-18) performing iconic classic tunes in their original, high-energy form, while Ozmosys reimagines those same songs through a bold and sophisticated jazz lens. Audiences will hear familiar hits transformed in ...
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New Music From Chicago Soul Jazz Collective And Dee Alexander On Calligram Records
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Calligram Records
Chicago Soul Jazz Collective returns with No Wind & No Rain (Calligram Records, 2026) No Wind & No Rain, their fourth album and most fully realized artistic statement to date. A seven-piece ensemble led by saxophonist John Fournier and featuring the acclaimed vocalist Dee Alexander, CSJC has spent years seeking that elusive sweet spot where Chicago soul and jazz converge with blues, gospel, and folk to create a sound that echoes throughout the history and the present moment of the ...
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Psychedelic Dub-Jazz Collective Club d'Elf Announces New Album 'Loon & Thrush' Out April 10
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Missing Piece Group
Today, world-class instrumental ensemble Club d'Elf announces that their upcoming album Loon & Thrush will be released on April 10 via Royal Potato Family. Recorded entirely live in the studio with minimal overdubs, the LP captures the raw, ecstatic, Moroccan-influenced energy that defines the band’s signature sound since their inception in 1998. Today, they’re also releasing a Moroccan-infused take on the Grateful Dead’s “Bird Song,” which brings a new spirit to the classic track. Speaking on the new song, frontman/bassist/composer ...
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Wamptronica: How A New Bedford Collective Is Rewiring New England’s Underground Dance Music Scene
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Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
On a WAMPTRONICA night, the room settles into a shared pulse. The music is steady, soulful, and unhurried. Dancers aren’t performing for one another; they’re listening, responding, moving with intention. It feels less like nightlife and more like a gathering, a reminder that house music has always been about connection first. Based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, WAMPTRONICA has emerged as one of the most compelling underground dance music collectives in New England. Since its founding in 2021, the group has ...
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Jimmy Greene Quintet – 'As We Are Now' Album Release Celebration At The Artists Collective On Thursday, June 12th, 2025
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Lori Reynolds
Exactly thirty-five years after his first life-changing encounter with Jackie McLean at the Artists Collective, saxophonist Jimmy Greene returns to the Collective with his quintet on June 12 to celebrate the release of his latest album, As We Are Now (Greene Music Works). Joining Greene for this special night are the same all-star musicians who appear on the recording: guitarist Mike Moreno, pianist Aaron Goldberg (original member of the Artists’ Collective Twin Towers Quintet, alongside Greene, in 1994), bassist Dezron ...
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Black Art Jazz Collective: 'Truth to Power'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Many jazz fans break out in a sweat when they see the word “collective" in the name of a jazz group. One assumes the music is going to be avant-garde and free form to the point of incoherence. You'll be happy to know that that the Black Art Jazz Collective's new album Truth to Power (HighNote) is warmly stormy and soulfully engaging. This collective is a sextet that has been around since 2014 and features topnotch musicians carrying on the ...
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Acclaimed Global Music Collective The Scooches Ready New Single, 'Stop This Climate Change' For Earth Day
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1888 Media
Global music sensation The Scooches have announced the April 21st release of “Stop This Climate Change,” a poetic and uplifting call to action fraught with cataclysmic imagery, yet infused with the desire for change. Arriving in time for Earth Day, the lyric “We’ve got to stop this climate and change" refers to the climate of helplessness and denial that surrounds climate change. Vocalist Betina Hershey wrote the song about interpersonal relationships with each other but also with Mother Earth because, ...
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Jade Collective Dreamily Combines Jazz With Brian Eno And Shoegaze Influences On 'Cycles'
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Christine King
Jade Collective is a group of talented musicians with the common goal of bringing freshness, personality and innovation to the world of modern jazz music. Their most recent EP features five songs that blur the lines between a wide range of musical influences. The first song, “Light” showcases beautiful ambient soundscapes and piano parts that make me think of artists like Brian Eno. Over the beautiful droning textures, a set of beautiful acoustic instruments and passionate vocals create an intimate ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Sly and Miles
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the SFJAZZ Collective, who will be coming back to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, March 14 at The Sheldon. Formed in 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective is an eight-member, all-star group that's based at San Francisco's presenting and producing organization SFJAZZ, while drawing players from all over the country. The band's personnel has evolved over the years, as individual members have moved on and been replaced, but they've continued to ...
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Saxophonist-Composer Benjamin Boone Collaborates With Accra-Based Ghana Jazz Collective On New Album "Joy," Due March 20
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Saxophonist-composer Benjamin Boone’s “The Poetry of Jazz," a visionary collaboration with U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, was praised in leading musical and literary publications, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and voted the #3 Best Album of 2018 in DownBeat’s 83rd annual Readers Poll. Boone documents an equally compelling collaboration, this time from his year as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, on his newest project “Joy," set for a March 20th release on Origin Records. This album, the fifth ...
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