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Enoch Smith Jr. Returns With This Is What Love Does
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Enoch Smith Jr.
Following the return to recording marked by The Book of Enoch, Vol. 1, pianist and composer Enoch Smith Jr. takes the next step in his musical evolution with This Is What Love Does, a nine-song piano trio recording featuring seven original compositions. The new album turns Smith's attention inward, drawing on family, memory, love and responsibility while continuing to explore the blues, swing, gospel, groove and rhythmic influences that have shaped his work. The album will be released August 28 ...
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Nishla Smith Explores Tales Of Yearning And Separation On New Album - It’s Getting Late, You’d Better Go Home
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Angie Lemon PR
“When you move away from home, you awaken to the vastness and wildness of the world – its beauty and danger and its magic… I know now that I might never really understand home – after all, I come from a long line of travelling, migrating people who have given themselves new names, and conjured up colourful, improbable lives out of the aether.” Nishla Smith Storytelling lies at the very heart of Nishla Smith’s music making, and since the release ...
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March 5 At New England Conservatory: Gordon Beeferman, Eden MacAdam-Somer, & Joe Morris Embrace Improvisation, Classical Virtuosity, Roots Music And Avant-jazz Innovation
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
NEC’s Contemporary Musical Arts presents a special residency concert with composer, pianist, and improviser Gordon Beeferman joined by CMA Department Chair Eden MacAdam-Somer (voice/violin/foot percussion), CMA and Jazz Studies faculty Joe Morris (guitar) and CMA students on Thursday, March 5 in Jordan Hall. The program features Beeferman's works, drawing on a multitude of genres and influences, including songs, compositions and improvisations on solo piano, and scored improvisations for trio and large ensemble. Admission to the 7:30 p.m. concert is free ...
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Announcing February 2026 Line-up At Smoke Jazz Club Including Joe Lovano, Miguel Zenón, Theo Croker And More
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AMT Public Relations
Hailed as the “#1 Jazz Club in New York City (SecretNYC),” SMOKE Jazz Club today announced an exciting line-up for the month of February 2026. Joe Lovano, one of the world’s most celebrated musicians, makes his SMOKE Jazz Club debut as a leader followed by a special Valentine’s Week concert series with the acclaimed Bill Charlap Trio. Genre-defying trumpeter Theo Croker returns to SMOKE with his stellar Quartet. February ends with the unique voice of saxophonist Miguel Zenón at the ...
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Pianist Enoch Smith Jr. Returns To Recording After An 8-year Absence With "The Book Of Enoch Vol. 1," Set For Nov. 7 Release On Misfitme Music
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Enoch Smith Jr. gives the gospel music repertoire a fresh infusion of blues and swing with the heartfelt, hard-driving The Book of Enoch Vol. 1, to be released November 7 on his own Misfitme Music. Played by his trio of bassist Kai Gibson and drummer David Hardy, thealbum—Smith’s sixth, and his first in eight years—obviously draws deeply on the gospel tradition but presents its seven tunes in the context of soulful, infectious straight-ahead jazz. In other words, it might not ...
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Smoke Jazz Club Announces October 2025 Lineup Including A Two-week Thelonious Monk Festival With Orrin Evans, Terri Lyne Carrington, Melissa Aldana, Joe Lovano, And More
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AMT Public Relations
SMOKE Jazz Club today announced its concert schedule for October 2025. The month’s capstone is a two-week Thelonious Monk Festival (Oct 8-19) celebrating the unparalleled genius of the legendary composer/pianist Thelonious Monk (born 10.10.17) with performances by some of today’s top artists including Melissa Aldana, winner of the 2013 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. Other highlights this month include the return of club audience favorites Nicholas Payton, Steve Davis, and one of the greatest organ trios Goldings/Bernstein/Stewart. For the ...
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Frank Wildhorn Unveils 'Frank Wildhorn & Friends: Live In Las Vegas With Jane Monheit And Clint Holmes' A Dynamic Return To His Jazz Roots Recorded Live At The Smith Center Inside Cabaret Jazz
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Jill Siegel
Frank & Friends: Live in Las Vegas with Jane Monheit and Clint Holmes, a captivating live album recorded at the Smith Center inside Cabaret Jazz is now available on all streaming platforms featuring 17 tracks lovingly selected by the renowned multi-Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-nominated composer and producer Frank Wildhorn for Jane Monheit and Clint Holmes. This album, produced by Frank Wildhorn and Myron Martin, features songs from Wildhorn musicals “Jekyll & Hyde”, “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, “ Wonderland,”” Camille Claudel” ...
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Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation Featuring Amira B. & Dick Griffin At Joe's Pub Saturday, August 23, 2025
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Robert C. Ford
On Saturday, August 23, 2025, Sound Liberation, the audacious musical collective led by visionary composer, guitarist, and rapper Gene Pritsker, storms the stage at the vibrant Joe's Pub in NYC. Armed with the philosophy of “ending the segregation of sound vibration,” Pritsker and his ensemble obliterate genre boundaries, fusing classical elegance, jazz improvisation, rock intensity, hip-hop swagger, and global grooves into one electrifying soundscape. This one-night-only performance will feature powerhouse R&B vocalist Amira B., a Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal ...
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Smoke Jazz Club Announces September Schedule Featuring Kris Davis Tribute To Women Pianists, Joe Farnsworth Album Release, And More
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AMT Public Relations
Hailed as the “#1 Jazz Club in New York City (SecretNYC),” SMOKE Jazz Club today announced its concert schedule for September 2025. The month begins by celebrating the release of Joe Farnsworth’s latest album The Big Room (SMOKE Sessions Records) with “one of the best bands recording today” (WJTU Radio): Sarah Hanahan, Emmet Cohen, Joel Ross, Yasushi Nakamura, and Jeremy Pelt. Making her SMOKE debut as a bandleader is pianist Kris Davis—who was recently named the Pianist of the Year ...
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Perfection: Paul Smith - Under My Skin (1957)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last weekend, I posted a video clip that included pianist Paul Smith accompanying Frank Sinatra. Smith belonged to a small group of superb West Coast jazz studio pianists that included Lou Levy, Jimmy Rowles and Pete Jolly. In the late 1950s, Smith recorded four albums for Capitol that became known as the Liquid Sound sessions. One of them was Delicate Jazz, recorded in November 1957. For this week's Perfection clip, I've chosen I've Got You Under My Skin. I'm not ...
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