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Dazzling Live Sides By Sonny Rollins Receive First Authorized Release On Resonance's Record Store Day Offering 'Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings'
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Resonance Records, the award-winning home of archival jazz treasures, will proudly present a new, fully authorized live collection by tenor master Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings, as a limited edition four-LP set on Record Store Day, April 20. Never before issued as a legitimate release, these much-bootlegged sides—which feature Rollins, at the height of his early powers, with bassist Henry Grimes and drummers Pete La Roca, Kenny Clarke, and Joe Harris—will subsequently reach stores as a ...
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Acclaimed Dominican Drummer Stars With Alejandro Sanz At The Peacock Theater In LA
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All About Jazz
Helen De La Rosa, an internationally renowned drummer and music director from Santo Domingo, has starred at many prestigious jazz festivals and concert series across the globe, and is now leading the rhythm section of the 4-time Grammy Award and 25-time time Latin Grammy Award winner Alejandro Sanz’s SANZ en Vivo World Tour. Based on Alejandro Sanz’ 2021 Latin Grammy nominated album, SANZ en Vivo had successful runs in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Puerto Rico. After a resounding success ...
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MLK Day: Eight for Freedom
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Today in the U.S., it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday since 1986 to honor the slain civil rights leader and a holiday recognized by all 50 states since 1999. To remember Dr. King, I chose seven great jazz albums that express what King was fighting for. Let freedom ring: Here's Sonny Rollins's Freedom Suite (1958), the album's first track... Here's Max Roach's We Insist: Freedom Now Suite (1960)... Here's Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers's Freedom Rider (1961)... ...
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New From Sher Music Co. - 'Jazz Arrangements Of Public Domain Songs' by Chuck Israels
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Sher Music Co.
A unique collection of jazz arrangements by the great Chuck Israels, who has spent many years honing his jazz arranging skills, besides being a legendary bassist with Bill Evans, Stan Getz, George Russell, and many more. “A valuable collection of tunes. Mr. Israels' quartet makes a great case for adding some of these tunes to your jazz repertoire. Thanks, Chuck, for a great job." —Jamey Aebersold Great jazz-oriented arrangements of Tin Pan Alley songs, ("Deed I Do," etc.) Americana classics ...
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Ukrainian Jazz: Freedom Rings
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If your heart aches watching what is going on in Ukraine in real time, spend time today listening to Ukrainian jazz to understand what freedom and liberty means to the people of that country. And if you're reading this in Ukraine, please know that JazzWax readers worldwide are thinking of you. Here's a 2018 tribute to Charlie Parker's Bird with Strings... Here's pianist Igor Khoma... Here's a 47-minute Ukrainian compilation. Just let this one play... Here's an hour of Ukrainian ...
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Leon Lee Dorsey's 'Freedom Jazz Dance' with Mike Clark and Manuel Valera is out August 20, 2021 via Jazz Avenue 1
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
Jazz Avenue 1 is proud to announce the August 20, 2021 release of Freedom Jazz Dance by veteran bassist Leon Lee Dorsey, drummer extraordinaire Mike Clark and brilliant Cuban-born pianist Manuel Valera. Dedicated to the late Puerto Rican-born piano master Hilton Ruiz, whom Dorsey regularly played with in his last years (appearing on 2004’s A New York Story and 2005’s Steppin’ with T.P., the pianist’s dedication to his own mentor, Tito Puente), this collection of eight tunes highlights that same ...
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Dom Um Romão: Rio, 1964
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Dom Um Romão is probably best known as the percussionist who replaced Airto Moreira in the fusion band Weather Report from 1972 to '74. If you read my post last week that featured video clips of singer Astrud Gilberto, you probably remember this one, featuring Dom Um Romão on drums. Dom Um Romão was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1925 and began playing in Rio ballrooms and cabarets in the 1940s. He was then hired by Rádio Tupi’s orchestra. ...
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Fernando Rodríguez De Mondesert Releases New Book: 'Women In Jazz... In The Dominican Republic'
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All About Jazz
In February of 2020, after being recognized as one of the winners of the Global Blog Awards 2019, Fernando Rodríguez de Mondesert released his first book Jazz en Dominicana: The Interviews 2019 as part of the awards received from Ukyoto Publishing Co. During the year 2020, Ukiyoto Publishing continued to monitor Rodríguez De Mondesert, and seeing that his publications on the Jazz en Dominicana blog met the criteria of content, creativity, uniqueness, originality and focus, they invited him to submit ...
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Sylwester Ostrowski New Song "Chiefs Kingdom" Available Now
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Cheptoo Kositany
Sylwester Ostrowski, new single “Chiefs Kingdom" featuring Bobby Watson is available now. The music honors Kansas City, its Jazz legacy, and the 2020 Super Bowl Champions, the Chiefs. In this song, Ostrowski brings together two Kansas City legacies, Jazz and football. His team includes Jazz artists from three generations. He co-produced the music with Dominique Sanders with the recording taking place in Make Believe Studios in Omaha, Nebraska. Ostrowski is an accomplished tenor saxophonist, composer, producer, and bandleader of the ...
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Sylwester Ostrowski Releases New Song 'Chiefs Kingdom' Featuring Bobby Watson
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Cheptoo Kositany
Sylwester Ostrowski, new single “Chiefs Kingdom" featuring Bobby Watson is available on August 28, 2020, under the recording label Agora. Fans can enjoy the music on iTunes, Tidal, and Spotify. “Chiefs Kingdom" is a piece of celebratory and uplifting music honoring Kansas City, its Jazz legacy, and the 2020 Super Bowl Champions, the Chiefs. Ostrowski was in Kansas City for a project celebrating Parker’s Centennial in partnership with Jazz Sister Cities during the championship game in February 2020. Together with ...
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