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As America’s #1 Gold Record Award winning group of all time, and that’s in every category, KISS can easily be named one of rock’s most influential bands. The Rock N Roll Hall of Famers have released 44 albums and sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. The KISS legacy continues to grow generation after generation, transcending age, race and creed. The unparalleled devotion and loyalty of the KISS Army to the "Hottest Band in the World" is a striking testament to the band's unbreakable bond with its fans.

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Vocalist Karrin Allyson Revisits A Favorite Musical Destination With 'A Kiss For Brazil,' Releasing May 17 On Origin Records

Vocalist Karrin Allyson Revisits A Favorite Musical Destination With 'A Kiss For Brazil,' Releasing May 17 On Origin Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Vocalist, pianist, and composer Karrin Allyson writes the long-awaited next chapter in her series of love letters to Brazil on the aptly titled A Kiss for Brazil, to be released May 17 by Origin Records. The sequel to 1999’s From Paris to Rio and 2008’s Imagina: Songs of Brasil adds a bold spice to the sauce: Brazilian singer, guitarist, and national treasure Rosa Passos appears on two songs alongside Allyson and all-star accompanists Vitor Gonçalves (piano, Rhodes, accordion), Yotam Silberstein ...

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Whisky Kisses by Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks Available On October 23, 2020

Whisky Kisses by Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks Available On October 23, 2020

Source: Orange Grove Publicity

Alex Bird is a singer/songwriter and actor from Toronto, Canada. Alex is quickly becoming one of the top new Jazz crooners on the scene. With a swinging style and an indescribable charm, Alex is currently working on an entirely new chapter in the Great American Songbook, with his soon to be released original 11 track debut album Whisky Kisses (October 23rd, 2020). The album was recorded at Canterbury Studios with the masterful Jeremy Darby. “Whisky Kisses” is already an award ...

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Alex Bird And The Jazz Mavericks: 'Whisky Kisses' (Single)

Alex Bird And The Jazz Mavericks: 'Whisky Kisses' (Single)

Source: Alex Bird

TITLE TRACK FROM UPCOMING DEBUT ALBUM “WHISKY KISSES” Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks have been turning heads across the Toronto Jazz scene, and now they bring to you one more single, “Whisky Kisses”, the title track from their upcoming, all original debut album (Summer 2020). It is a song that is very much needed right now. “Whisky Kisses” will be one of the bright musical lights of an otherwise dark year. “Whisky Kisses” is already an award winner. Alex ...

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Saxophonist Tom Harrison Celebrates Ellington and Strayhorn with "Unfolding In Tempo" Featuring Cleveland Watkiss - Available in October

Saxophonist Tom Harrison Celebrates Ellington and Strayhorn with "Unfolding In Tempo" Featuring Cleveland Watkiss - Available in October

Source: Tom Harrison

Rising star saxophonist Tom Harrison unveils his hotly anticipated second release Unfolding in Tempo on October 14th 2016. The long-awaited live album will be released on Lyte Records in October 2016 in the esteemed company of releases by jazz stars Ari Hoenig, Jean Toussaint, Jason Rebello and David Lyttle. The album documents two nights of Harrison’s hugely successful national tour of February 2016 which received high praise from the media, including features on BBC1, in Time Out and Jazzwise Magazine. ...

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Names 2014 Inductees: Nirvana, Kiss and More

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Names 2014 Inductees: Nirvana, Kiss and More

Source: HypeBot

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2014 inductees. They are Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt. The E Street Band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence. Original Beatles manager Brian Epstein and original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham will each receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers. The 29th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at Barclays ...

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MAXJAZZ to Release David Budway's a New Kiss on Tuesday, November 8

MAXJAZZ to Release David Budway's a New Kiss on Tuesday, November 8

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

MAXJAZZ has set Tuesday, November 8 as the offical release date for A New Kiss, pianist David Budway's debut recording for the St. Louis-based independent label. A veteran performer and educator who plays classical and rock as well as jazz, Budway has played and/or recorded with many well-known musicians over the course of his career, including Branford Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Jeff “Tain" Watts, Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Louie Bellson, Mark Murphy, Marlena Shaw, Ravi Coltrane, Joe ...

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Johnny Richards: Kiss Her Goodbye

Johnny Richards: Kiss Her Goodbye

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

In the summer of 1958, Johnny Richards took his orchestra into a Warner Bros. studio in New York to record the soundtrack for a low-budget film that was being shot in Cuba. The movie was Kiss Her Goodbye, starring Elaine Stritch as a young woman who loses her sanity. Richards asked David Allyn to sing the title theme. More with David in a minute. But when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in January 1959, he confiscated the film, which ...

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Hetty Kate New EP Release "Kissing Bug"

Hetty Kate New EP Release "Kissing Bug"

Source: Michael Ricci

Australian/English Jazz Vocalist, Hetty Kate has released her gorgeous new five track EP—available for download on iTunes, CDBaby and Amazon. Recorded on a snowy winter afternoon in December 2009 and released this Summer, “Kissing Bug" showcases five romantic songs from The Great American Songbook. Featuring the songwriting talents of Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Johnny Richards and more, and the musical interpretations from New York Jazz Musicians, Art Hirahara (piano), Tal Ronen (bass) and Dan Aran (drums). A limited run of ...

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Peter Tchaikovsky/Victor Kissine "Piano Trio"

Peter Tchaikovsky/Victor Kissine "Piano Trio"

Source: ECM Records

Gidon Kremer: violin Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė: violoncello Khatia Buniatishvili: piano Two compositions bracketing the history of Russian chamber music. A revelatory account of Tchaikovsky's piano trio op.50, juxtaposed with Victor Kissine's “Zerkalo" of 2009, a work dedicated to performers Kremer, Dirvanauskaite and Buniatshvikli, and inspired by two lines from Anna Akhmatova: “The mirror dreams only of the mirror / Silence watches over silence." Issued on the eve of a major tour with dates in both Europe and ...

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Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Brothers, 2011)

Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Brothers, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland

Iron & Wine, originally a pseudonym for singer songwriter Sam Beam began as a solo project for guitar and voice and Beam's spectral and haunting songs. Over the years it has grown into a full band, and this years album features a full rock 'n' roll ensemble that help flesh out the music but still never get in the way of the narrative energy of the songs. There is sort of a time warp feeling here, as if one were ...

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