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Gonzo Multimedia To Release Rare Albums By Sax Legend Gary Windo Featuring Robert Wyatt And Pink Floyd's Nick Mason
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
London, UK: To the great excitement of music fans worldwide, Gonzo Multimedia is releasing three rare albums by sax legend Gary Windo, one of which features Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason. Windo was a highly original musician with an instantly recognizable style, and was involved in the Seventies with many icons of the British jazz and rock genres, including the Canterbury scene. Windo was born in Brighton in 1941, into a musical family, and learned to play drums ...
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Synthesizer Pioneer GARY WRIGHT To World Premiere An Unreleased Song Co-Written With George Harrison in 1971
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1888 Media
Performance Will Take Place At 34th Annual Beatle Fest in Chicago On August 14
CHICAGO, IL--August 14, 2010 marks the exact 50th Anniversary of the day that The Beatles adopted their famous moniker after having played for four years under the name The Quarrymen. In celebration of the historic occasion, synthesizer pioneer Gary Wright, a long-time friend of Ringo Starr and George Harrison, will perform the song “To Discover Yourself," a composition co-written with George Harrison in 1971.
This world-premiere ...
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Gary Wright to Release Connected on June 8; His First Pop-Rock Album in over 20 Years
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1888 Media
Special Guest Appearances by Ringo Starr on Drums and Joe Walsh on Guitar
Digital Version of Album Contains Never-Before-Released Bonus Tracks; One Co-written by George Harrison and One Song Featuring Harrison on Guitar
Los Angeles, CA: Anchored by a lifetime of songcraft and production know-how, synthesizer-pioneer Gary Wright will release CONNECTED on June 8th, his first pop-rock album in over 20 years. This bold new album is an inspirational journey that instills Wright's self-realized world-unifying vision with the magical transcendence ...
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Aguilar Amplification Announces Master Class with Gary Willis
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All About Jazz
Aguilar Amplification, maker of high-quality bass amplifiers, speaker cabinets and accessories for bassists is pleased to announce the continuation of their Artist Series Master Classes on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 with endorsing artist, Gary Willis. An in-demand clinician, Willis has lectured in over 20 countries and currently teaches improvisation and arranging at the prestigious Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya conservatory in Barcelona, Spain. His published works for Hal Leonard include Fingerboard Harmony for Bass, Ultimate Ear Training, and 101 ...
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"Dream Weaver" Gary Wright Releases Two New Records, Available Now Digitally
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1888 Media
Dream Weaver hitmaker illuminates new territory with Waiting to Catch the Light and The Light of a Million Suns
Visionary songwriter and performer Gary Wright enters his fifth decade of musical pioneering with two new releases – the ambient music collection Waiting to Catch the Light, and an EP called The Light of a Million Suns which, with multidimensional experiences in instrumentation and production, recall his enduring 1975 hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love is Alive.”
Always pushing boundaries and exploring ...
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World-Renowned Musicians Join WBGO Music Director Gary Walker to Advise Westchester Jazz Orchestra
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All About Jazz
Westchester, NY -- World-renowned jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano and WBGO jazz radio host Gary Walker are joining forces with several other music luminaries to provide artistic direction and organizational growth support for the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, featuring 17 jazz professionals who reside or work in Westchester County. The Westchester Jazz Orchestra (WJO) has created an advisory board comprising Lovano, Walker, trumpeter Randy Brecker, pianist/composer Jim McNeely, bassist John Patitucci, saxophonist Houston Person and bassist Rufus Reid. They will offer input ...
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Bassist Gary Willis Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Sixteen years in Tribal Tech, the most innovative of post-Weather Report fusion bands, confirmed the status of Gary Willis as a modern-day bass icon. Picking up where Jaco Pastorius left off, Willis's explorations are stretching the possibilities of the fretless bass as a lead instrument, as evidenced on two 2007 releases, the storming Slaughterhouse 3 and his third solo album, Actual Fiction--a bass album unlike any other--both on Abstract Logix.
In a revealing interview Willis tells AAJ contributor Ian Patterson ...
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Beatlejazz Live Broadcast with WBGO's Gary Walker American Museum of Natural History Starry Nights Series, June 1 at 7:30P.M.
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
"The Beatles had a kind of spirit that even transcended the music. It was just a feeling you got when you listened to the music," states Beatlejazz's Dave Kikoski. Join host Gary Walker for a LIVE BROADCAST from the Rose Center for Earth and Space of the American Museum of Natural History for the Starry Nights Series, June 1 at 7:30p.m.
BeatleJazz Tour Dates In Support of Their New CD All You Need
June 29th Syracuse Jazz Festival ...
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Tribal Tech's Gary Willis, Kirk Covington and Libert Fortuny Releasing Slaughterhouse
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Abstract Logix
Fiercely uncompromising with equal allegiance to jazzy improvisation, funky backbeats and sonic experimentation, the audacious power trio Slaughterhouse 3 dwells in a place where fellow renegades like Garage a Trois, Bobby Previte & Charlie Hunter's Groundtruther and jam band godfathers Medeski, Martin & Wood operate -- right on that cutting edge between Sun Ra-inspired extrapolation and James Brown-inspired groovepower. Anchored by the formidable rhythm tandem of drummer Kirk Covington and bassist Gary Willis (bandmates in Tribal Tech, one of the ...
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Jerry Vivino on WBGO with Gary Walker 9am to 10am Wednesday January 31st
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Just letting you all know that Jerry Vivino will be back on WBGO as Gary Walker's guest this Wednesday (January 31st) from 9am till 10am. Hope you can tune in.
Morning Jazz with Gary Walker airs from 6am till 10am on WBGO at 88.3 on your FM dial. Or tune in on the internet at http://www.WBGO.ORG
Wednesday, January 31st, 9am till 10am--that's right, one full hour!
New CD: Jerry Vivino Walkin' with the Wazmo ...
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