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Quadro Nuevo Release 'Inside The Island' on October 24, 2025 on GLM Music
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Matt Fripp
It is a journey inward – not only geographically, but musically and spiritually as well. Inside the Island, the new album by Quadro Nuevo, will be released on October 24, 2025, by GLM Music, distributed by Edel (LP/CD) and Kontor New Media (digital). More than a collection of pieces, it is a musical travelogue, born on the Greek island of Samos. There, where waves, light, and sun shape the landscape, where ancient villages slumber in the hills, and a kafenion ...
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The Institution-builder At The Keyboard: How Luping Robyn Xu Is Powering A New Era For New England’s Music Ecosystem
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All About Jazz
The Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu has rapidly become one of the defining musical forces in New England, a marquee artist whose piano, leadership, and pedagogy are shaping the future of multiple top-tier institutions. Since 2024, she has held a leading post at the North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) as Lead Pianist and Piano Pedagogue, a role the organization has already extended through 2028. In that capacity, Xu is central to NEMPAC’s concerts, musical productions, events, and ...
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Creatures Of Sound Explores The Connection Of Dance & Music To The Human Spirit - An original work that tributes the ideas and music of Don Cherry
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Michele Brangwen
Creatures Of Sound is a new dance and music work that tributes the ideas of composer and trumpeter Don Cherry, featuring choreography by Michele Brangwen, original music by GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter & composer Tim Hagans, and movement and music created spontaneously in the moment by all ten performers. Don Cherry was interested in the relationship of music to the human spirit, and how music could be a force and a presence in our daily lives. Co-presented at the Duffy by Ivesian ...
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Music Journalist And Fiction Author Matty Bannond Releases Debut Jazz Novel, 'Cutting Contest'
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Matty Bannond
Cutting Contest is an energetic novel about a dry-humoured and hot-tempered young trombone player on the brink of financial, professional and personal ruin. Published in September, 2025: Connie Benson is a 26-year-old trombone player whose reckless online persona is taking over her life—and trashing it. She is buried under a mountain of personal debt, her professional reputation is falling apart and her relationship with her mother is hanging by a thread. When she snatches the last open spot in a ...
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Grails Opens in New Haven, a Sanctuary for Audiophiles and Music Lovers
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All About Jazz
Yale University Properties will welcome Grails, a music playground reimagining the record store as a cultural destination, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1020 Chapel Street on Wednesday, October 22, at 11 a.m. with founder King Kenney and distinguished community partners including New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker and Hope Chávez, executive director of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Nestled among The Shops at Yale, Grails embodies the lifelong passion of Kenney, a marketing executive, arts advocate, DJ, and music ...
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German saxophonist Marubia Releases 'A Seeker’s Dream' on Inner Circle Music
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Matt Fripp
Inner Circle Music proudly presents A Seeker’s Dream, the second album from rising German saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Marubia. Set for release on October 7, 2025, the album is a deeply personal work that blends the spiritual depth of Nordic and spiritual jazz with ambient soundscapes, trip hop grooves, and lush, cinematic arrangements. Unbound by conventional jazz narratives, Marubia’s music unfolds as an invitation inward. Influenced by spiritual jazz legends like John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, and Jan Garbarek, ...
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New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra Pays Tribute To A Jazz Great In 'Dreamkeeper: Music Of Carla Bley' On Thursday, October 16
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
The NEC Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Ken Schaphorst, presents Dreamkeeper: Music of Carla Bley on Thursday, October 16. The concert features music composed and arranged by Bley, including “Awful Coffee,” “Greasy Gravy,” “On the Stage in Stages,” and “Jesus Maria.” The 7:30 p.m. concert takes place in Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Admission is free but tickets are required. Information at necmusic.edu. The iconoclastic pianist, composer and arranger Carla Bley was a visionary whose works are revered ...
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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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101-year-old Jazz Icon Marshall Allen Named 'Best Jazz Artist' In The 2025 Unsigned Only Music Awards
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Jim Morgan
The Unsigned Only Music Awards is honored to announce that Marshall Allen, the respected alto saxophonist and leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, has been named the Best Jazz Artist in the 2025 awards. At 101 years old, Allen has been a pioneering force in avant-garde jazz for over six decades, proving that his artistry is as vital and visionary as ever. Widely celebrated for his groundbreaking work with Sun Ra and his stewardship of the Arkestra since 1995, ...
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International Music Network Announces New Ownership: 40-Year Legacy Continues Under Leadership Of Veteran IMN Agents
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
Director and Founder of International Music Network (IMN), Scott Southard proudly announces the transition of ownership to veteran IMN agents, Jeanna Disney & Alycia Mack, effective January 1, 2026. Scott will remain manager of clients Brad Mehldau, Joe Lovano, and Danilo Pérez and Alycia & Jeanna will take over leadership of agency business, continuing to provide top-tier performance booking services to these and the other exceptional artists on the IMN roster including Chucho Valdés, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, John Scofield, Lila ...
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