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Cowboy Mouth Kickstart The Party On Rip-roaring Collection Of Covers + New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest Main Stage May 3rd
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1888 Media
One of the great American rock bands of the last four decades, Louisiana stalwarts Cowboy Mouth have announced the release of Cover Yo' Azz, an homage to some of their favorite songwriters and beloved gems from their youth. Landing August 15 via Symphonic Distribution, the 10-track collection marks the band's first full-length of newly recorded material since 2014's Go! Vocalist/drummer Fred LeBlanc explains the title and the impetus for the recording, “There’s no rhyme or reason. It just kind of… ...
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Pianist Extraordinaire Harold O'Neal Releases 'The Adventures Of Mr. Grey' On April 15th
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Pianist, composer, and storyteller Harold O'Neal debuts a new and exciting project. The Adventures of Mr. Grey is a music and NFT collaboration with renowned illustrator and cartoonist, Thomas Deisboeck. Release date: April 15th. Label: Piano Cinema Music. Deisboeck’s eight illustrations have a 1920s art noir feel, which O’Neal first encountered in the music studio while the tape was rolling. “I didn't know what to expect," he says. “I wanted to experience the full potential of each illustration. And stay ...
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Harold Land: Westward Bound!
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over the years, tenor saxophonist Harold Land has been positioned as unheralded, underappreciated and not fully celebrated. He has also been referred to as John Coltrane's true heir and a genius. None of this is true, of course. Land recorded 15 leadership albums between 1958 and 2001 and four times that number as a sideman. Jazz fans have known about him for decades, since his early recordings with the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in 1954. A genius? My definition of ...
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Celebrated Bassist and Producer Leon Lee Dorsey Announces the Release of 'Thank You, Mr. Mabern!,' A Trio Recording Featuring The Late Jazz Luminary Harold Mabern
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
Leon Lee Dorsey is pleased to announce the release of Thank You, Mr. Mabern! Recorded in July 2019, two months prior to the passing of jazz luminary Harold Mabern, the album is the swan song for the great pianist and composer, his final recording. This posthumous release is not only Dorsey’s personal farewell to Mabern, it also echoes the sentiments of jazz fans everywhere in appreciation for Mabern’s prolific 60 years. Mabern appears here in top-form and is joined by ...
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Harold Mabern: 1936-2019
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Harold Mabern, a pianist who came relatively late to prominence but quickly carved out space as a hard-bop and soul-jazz legend, died September 17. He was 83. Born in Memphis, Tenn., Mabern was self-taught and came under the sway of local jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. In 1954 he moved to Chicago, where he began recording with saxophonist Frank Strozier. He also was friend with Memphis saxophonists George Coleman and Booker Little. After moving to New York in 1959, Mabern ...
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Harold O'Neal "Piano Cinema" Launch Event On July 6 In NYC - Free!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Harold O'Neal's “Piano Cinema" Hudson Yards NYC Free with RSVP Only Album Launch Event Date: Friday, July 6th from 7-9pm Location: SAP Leonardo 10 Hudson Yards, Floor 48 New York, NY 10001 Attire: Smart Casual Admission: Free with RSVP only RSVP Now About Piano Cinema Piano Cinema is the second solo piano release for Harold O'Neal. He says it is his statement of a signature piano style that ...
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Harold O'Neal Releases A Solo Masterpiece - "Piano Cinema"
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Piano Cinema is the second solo piano release for Harold O'Neal. He says it is his statement of a signature piano style that he calls by the same name. Release date is May 14, 2018. “Piano Cinema is how I describe my genre of music. It's equally a balance of improvisations and well thought-out compositions. Some pieces were composed and constantly reworked. While others, like 'The Magic Hour', were completely improvised. My goal is to share this vision with the ...
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Harold Mabern: Pisces Calling
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Pianist Harold Mabern has been known for his sideman work. In the 1960s and '70s, he was on Hank Mobley's Dippin', Lee Morgan's The Gigolo, Jackie McLean's Consequence, Blue Mitchell's Bring It Home to Me, Gene Ammons's The Black Cat and Stanley Turrentine's Don't Mess With Mr. T to name a few. Starting in 1968, Mabern also began recording leadership albums with horn players such as George Coleman, Blue Mitchell, Virgil Jones, Lee Morgan, Hubert Laws, among others. Then in ...
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Meta-Metadata: Turning Three Text Fields Into Millions of Dollars
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HypeBot
As the number of data records music companies continues to grow, the value of efficiency has continued to increase, particularly given that each record contains only a few points of data. To a keen observer, there are deep, financially beneficial possibilities in this track-related information. Guest post by Jesse Buddington, Director of Licensing Operations at Loudr Leaping from a few hundred thousand to trillions of lines in a few short years, the number of data records music companies must process has grown exponentially. ...
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Jazz this week: Harold López-Nussa, Filippo Cosentino, Alice Ripley, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes a pianist from Cuba, a guitarist from Italy, a cabaret show from a singer and actress who has earned Broadway's highest honor, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 18 Cuban-born pianist Harold López-Nussa makes his St. Louis debut in the first of four evenings at Jazz at the Bistro. For more about López-Nussa and some video samples of him and his trio in action, see ...
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