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Nara Leão: Muse of the Bossa Nova
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Nara Leão (pronounced LEE-yay-yo) was a celebrated Brazilian bossa nova and Tropicália pop singer in the 1960s. Her father had given her a guitar at age 12, and as a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with many of the singer-songwriters who were pioneering the bossa nova. The list included including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Many of them rehearsed in her parents' home in Rio de Janeiro's ...
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Woody Shaw: Muse Box
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Woody Shaw was the last of the statement trumpeters. Deeply influenced by Freddie Hubbard's blistering attack on the instrument, Shaw began his recording career in 1963 during a highly charged and transitional period in this country. His compositions, arrangements and playing style were highly personal and mirrored the frustration that many jazz artists felt given the slow pace of civil rights, a government determined to wage an unpopular war and an art form that no longer held the same status ...
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Enter the "George Cables - My Muse" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the HighNote Records “George Cables - My Muse“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 16th. Click here to enter the contest
(Becoming a fan of George Cables at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)
Good luck! Your Friends at HighNote Records About George Cables
Pianist George Cables has been one of the most sought-after sidemen in jazz for more ...
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Cheryl Lynne Skinner Producer At Elinez Music Announces 2nd Contemporary Muse MP3 Project Releases “Heartbeats”
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Cheryl Lynne Skinner
Louisville, KY: Composer-Musician Cheryl Lynne Skinner is happy to announce the 2nd Contemporary Muse MP3 Project at cheryllynneskinner.com. Elinez Music, Skinner’s independent label is excited to release an mp3 single each month April-July this summer. This year’s project will feature tracks from The Love Chronicles Collection exploring the stages and phases of “love“. The first flute instrumental dance track “Heartbeats” explores feelings of infatuation, attraction, “love at first sight” and new love that wants to dance. The MP3’s can be ...
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Hungary's Sziget Festival Muse, Maiden, Gorillaz, Hives
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JamBase
LATEST STARS, BIG COMEBACKS, AND PROMISING NAMES AT SZIGET FESTIVAL 2010
Sziget Festival 2009 by Walter Sziget Festival has announced the first names that include current stars, big comebacks and great promises. Among the confirmed names is Muse, one of the world's most popular rock bands, after three sold out concerts at Wembley stadium and a wildly successful world tour they will be performing on the main stage at Sziget. Very few bands have managed as outsiders to infiltrate the ...
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Joni Mitchell's Muse Returns on "Shine"
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All About Jazz
NEW YORK (AP) -- A few years ago, Joni Mitchell had rejected her musical muse, refusing to write or even play music as she devoted her life to painting, watching old movies on TV and reconnecting to the daughter she had given up for adoption in 1965. Now, at age 63, newly inspired by family, nature and anger at today's politics, Mitchell is enjoying an outburst of creativity. The iconic Canadian singer-songwriter, whose poetic verses on songs like “Both Sides, ...
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Keyboardist Composer Lao Tizer Broadens His Jazz Muse on "Diversify"
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All About Jazz
By the time keyboardist-composer Lao Tizer was 17, he had already released three self-produced, self-released solo piano and keyboard albums. Being an overachiever who ambitiously strives to grow, stretch and achieve new heights comes naturally to him. Tizer is now set to release an expansive and accomplished sophomore outing with his own band. Diversify will be unveiled nationally on April 3rd via his Yse Records label, which is distributed by the ARTizen Music Group. Tizer wrote fourteen new songs for ...
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Vinx at the Evening Muse in Charlotte, NC 2-2-07
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All About Jazz
Vinx will be preparing for a March trip to Ghana and Europe by making a solo appearance at The Evening Muse in Charlotte this Friday, February 2nd as part of the Gallery Crawl. This is a follow up to a well-received appearance at the Tosco Music Party by the performer who Stevie Wonder called, “the gift you give to someone you really care about."
Vinx's most recent CD, Grits & Pate, is a 32-track compilation of the singer/percussionist's favorite and ...
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Savoy Acquires Muse and Landmark: Set for Ambitious New Year
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All About Jazz
Acquires Muse and Landmark Catalogues Acquisition Gives CME Subsidiary Commanding Presence in Jazz Savoy Returns to Active Recording after a Long Hiatus
Savoy Jazz today announced the acquisition of the catalogue of 32 Records which includes the noted traditional jazz labels Muse and Landmark, founded by Joe Fields and Orrin Keepnews respectively. Savoy Jazz is a wholly owned subsidiary of CME (Columbia Music Entertainment formerly Nippon Columbia), the Japan-based recorded music company with operations in both the U.S. and Asia. ...
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Wired Encounter @ Muse Creative Workspace
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RVAjazz
The Adler/Burtner Wired Encounter
The Muse Creative Workspace presents two internationally celebrated composer-performers meeting on stage for the first time.
Richmond, VA Saturday, December 6 2008 at 7pm at MUSE CREATIVE WORKSPACE--6N 19th Street:
Tzadik recording artist Christopher Adler and “Metasax" inventor Matthew Burtner meet together for the first time for an exclusive Richmond Muse Creative Workspace performance. The Adler/Burtner “Wired Encounter" will feature computer-mediated improvisations and composed sound art works for piano, saxophone and computers. A ...
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