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Pianist-singer Kelly Green Honors Her Late Mother On 'Corner Of My Dreams,' Set For August 22 Release By La Reserve Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
By taking a wistful look backward, Kelly Green takes a tremendous artistic stride forward with her August 22 release of Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve Records/Green Soul Studios). Inspired by and in tribute to her late mother, Green’s fifth album also finds her at the head of an ambitious assemblage. Her working trio with bassist Luca Soul Rosenfeld and drummer Evan Hyde is augmented by an accomplished, all-female string quartet under the leadership of violinist Ludovica Burtone; percussionist Andromeda ...
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Sol Roots Band With Guest Pat Mother Blues Cohen at JV's Music Room on April 13
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9th Floor Music
On Thursday April 13, the Sol Roots Band with guest Pat Mother Blues Cohen perform a special concert of dynamic funk, heartfelt jazz, and deep blues and soul at JV's Music Room located in Northern Virginia. Sol Roots and Pat “Mother Blues" Cohen are both Music Maker Foundation artists and have toured around the world, showcasing their powerful and unique style of blues and soul. Hailed as a fierce guitarist and soulful vocalist, Sol Roots has toured around the world ...
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Vocalist Jackie Ryan Honors Her Late Mother With Classics From The Latin American Songbook On 'Recuerdos De Mi Madre,' Set For October 7 Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Having established her mastery of the Great American Songbook, San Francisco Bay Area vocalist Jackie Ryan sets her sights on the Latin American Songbook with Recuerdos de mi Madre, set for an October 7 release on the OpenArt Productions label. The album’s ten tracks are all Spanish-language standards—the backbone of Latin American popular music—performed with a core band that includes pianist/trumpeter Marco Diaz, bassist Saúl Sierra, and percussionists Carlos Caro and Louie Romero. It also features a number of special ...
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“Ima, You Don’t Look Jewish,” A Three-year Old Said To Her Mother.
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
On Mother’s Day, Meg Okura, who converted to Judaism four years ago, will release Ima Ima, featuring trumpeter Tom Harrell and guitarist Rez Abbasi. Ima Ima (mom in Hebrew and now in Japanese) will be her Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble's fourth album, showcasing extensive works composed since her pregnancy, for 10-piece chamber jazz ensemble. She sees this album as a musical platform for exploring her new Jewish faith, her Japanese heritage, her passion for jazz, and love for family. ...
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Elio Villafranca With All-Star Band & String Quartet - March 31 At Aaron Davis Hall - "Cuba - Senegal: Letters To Mother Africa II"
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
CUBAN PIANIST ELIO VILLAFRANCA- ALL-STAR BAND WITH STRING QUARTET & MORE. HEADLINES AT AARON DAVIS HALL ON MARCH 31ST Cuba- Senegal: Letters to Mother Africa II, acclaimed pianist-composer's ode to Cuba and Africa! City College Center for the Arts on Friday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. Piano sensation Elio Villafranca heads to the City College Center for the Arts on Friday, March 31, with the latest in his popular “Letters to Mother Africa" concerts. The last one was named one ...
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Guitarist Joel Harrison Revisits His Roots Growing Up In Washington, D.C. On Latest Cuneiform Records Release, Mother Stump
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Matt Merewitz
Mother Stump Highlights Harrison’s Guitar Playing Over His Composing On Covers of Buddy Miller, Leonard Cohen, Al Kooper, Luther Vandross, Paul Motian, George Russell And More Featuring Top NY-Based Sidemen Michael Bates (bass), Jeremy ‘Bean’ Clemons (drums), Glenn Patscha (keyboards) For many years, guitarist Joel Harrison claimed he had no roots. Growing up in Washington D.C., a place whose identity and values are always in drift, Harrison was convinced he had to “go out into the world with a shovel ...
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Martha Lorin Returns To Metropolitan Room With Mother's Day Show
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Lampkin Publicity Service
Martha Lorin Returns to the Metropolitan Room for a special afternoon of jazz in: “My Mother’s Favorite Songs" Featuring Harvie S (bass), Ralph Lalama (alto saxophone), and Richard Siegel (piano). One Show Only! Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 2:00 p.m Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) Music Cover: $20.00. Two Drink Minimum. Reservations suggested - please call: (212) 206-0440 “My Mother's Favorite Songs" will include love songs from the jazz standards songbook, plus several songs ...
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Arizona Dranes : Forgotten Mother Of The Gospel Beat
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Tompkins Square
San Francisco-based label Tompkins Square has released the book+CD/eBook,'He Is My Story : The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes'. A singer sits at the piano and loses all inhibitions while in complete control of the instrument: Little Richard, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis. Although church singer Arizona Dranes doesn't come close to the stature of those icons, she set the mold for rockin' singer/ pianists in 1926 with six “test records" that have stood the test of time. Until now, ...
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The Mother Hips | 20th Anniversary | Review | Pics
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JamBase
By Dennis Cook The Mother Hips :: 09.09.11-09.11.11 :: 20th Anniversary Weekend :: Chico, CA Few acts have aged more gracefully than Northern California's premiere people's rock unit The Mother Hips, who gathered with their most faithful followers in Chico for a 20th Anniversary celebration that stretched over three days. As together and charismatic a band as one could want, the Hips reveled in their rich, varied, history with a house party on Friday, the main headlining concert at movie-theatre-turned-music-hall ...
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Michael Wolff Plans 9/30 Benefit to Raise Funds for Scholarship in His Mother's Name
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Seth Cohen PR
Jazz pianist Michael Wolff plans a 9/30 benefit concert at the Berkeley Jazz School, to raise funds for a scholarship in his mother's name. Proceeds will benefit The Sanville Institute, a PHD program in social work—Wolff's mother, Elise Blumenfeld, was a PHD social worker. Wolff did a similar benefit in her name last year, which raised over $10,000 for the Scholarship fund. Additional details and band line-up will be announced soon. Wolff returns to his Bay Area roots next week ...
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