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Exotic International Singer Patrina Morris Released 'Up So Close' Featuring Brian Jackson
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Patrina Morris brings a romantic summer dance feeling this month with the release of an upbeat single “Up So Close” the original 1966 vibe mix featuring Brian Jackson. Brazil meets a touch of Ibiza in this duet. Recorded in home studios, Brooklyn, Portugal, London and Brazil come together for the first time. Patrina: “We made this in an “old skool” way, before I had even met Brian in person and never released the original version, only an Ibiza remix. ...
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Greek Power Trio S.E.V. release debut album 'Far From Close'
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Tassos Spiliotopoulos
Anelia Records is proud to present Far from Close, the debut album of a new collaboration between three of Greece’s most vibrant jazz musicians. Tassos Spiliotopoulos, Panos Vassilopoulos and Michael Evdemon. The music was composed by Evdemon and Spiliotopoulos and the goal was to achieve an elegant but emotionally powerful music through the electric sound of a modern jazz trio. Each one of the band members brought their own influences to the blend, ranging from electric jazz-rock and mainstream jazz ...
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Guitarist Tommaso Costa Debuts with “Too Far, Too Close”
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All About Jazz
For his 2019 debut Too Far, Too Close, Costa combines electric jazz, rock, and blues into his own guitar sound with European sophistication and style that resonates from his homeland of Italy. “My favorite thing is the sound of the record," Costa explains. “It's got a great modern tone with a vintage feel." Too Far, Too Close crosscuts selections by composers from jazz (Keith Jarrett, Richie Beirach), from pop and rock (Stevie Wonder, Don Henley), and composers with ...
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Marcus Anderson And Special Guest JJ Sansaverino Up Close And Personal Smooth Jazz Affair
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Helen Taylor
ACT Jams Productions presents an Up Close and Personal Smooth Jazz Affair featuring Billboard Artists Marcus Anderson and JJ Sansaverino on Friday, November 10 in the Palace Theater Orchestra Lobby located at 100 East Main Street. The artists are joined by band members Steve Clarke (bass), Dexter Pettaway Sr. (drums), and Sean Uliasz (keys). The show is followed by an Old School Dance Party. Hosted by Al Taylor of ACT Jams Productions. Tickets are $40 and it's a limited seating ...
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Bassist / Composer Matthew Golombisky Releases 12 Aural "Short-Stories" With Close Music Cohorts / Improvisers On This Cassette Release
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Matthew Golombisky
All About Jazz writer Jakob Baekgaard recently called Matthew Golombisky a modern “renaissance man”. He is a forward moving, fast acting, and busy artist. Between his acoustic/electric bass performing, commissioned compositions (including his work on Australian singer/songwriter Via Tania’s latest album, featuring his Tomorrow Music Orchestra, his film scoring contributions to Argentine director Alejo Domínguez’s feature film, La Soñada, or creating improvisation teaching supplements for the Institute for Creative Music), directing, filming and editing music videos and/or release trailers (ie. ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Up close with the Chick Corea Trio
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some video of the Chick Corea Trio with Christian McBride and Brian Blade, who will be in St. Louis to perform on Tuesday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 22 at Jazz at the Bistro. While all three musicians have played St. Louis before on multiple occasions with other groups, this will be their first performance here together. Corea, McBride and Blade made their debut as a trio in 2010 with tours of the ...
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Miles on Monday: Miles Ahead to close New York Film Festival, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week in Miles Davis news: Miles Ahead, the film about Davis directed by and starring Don Cheadle, finally has a US premiere date. The movie will be shown on Sunday, October 11 in New York City as part of the closing night of the New York Film Festival, though Cheadle still is seeking a distributor for a wider release. The Newport Jazz Festival this coming weekend will include a number of events and performances celebrating the 60th anniversary of ...
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Sony To Close Music Unlimited, Partners With Spotify For New Service
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HypeBot
One major sign that a sector is heating up is the quantity and quality of the deal making, as rivals jockey for position. By that, and almost any other measure, streaming music is on fire; and today's announcement that Sony Music Limited will shut down to be replaced by a new partnership with Spotify is a major win for the pre-IPO startup. Sony Network Entertainment and Spotify today announced a global partnership to deliver digital music to the PlayStation Network's ...
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Terell Stafford Quintet Pays Tribute to Lee Morgan in the Kimmel Center’s Jazz Up Close Series, Feb. 25
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All About Jazz
Terell Stafford Quintet continues the Kimmel Center's 2011/12 Jazz Up Close Series, which honors Philadelphia jazz legends, with a tribute to Philly born hard-bop trumpeter, Lee Morgan, on February 25, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Perelman Theater. The quintet will perform a bebop-infused program of select works from the legendary composer, arranger and musician's catalogue of music, as well as works from Terell Stafford's latest 2011 release, This Side of Strayhorn. Trumpeter Terell Stafford will be joined on stage by ...
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Webster Records to Close January 31
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
According to a story by Deb Peterson published Wednesday on STLtoday.com, Webster Records will close permanently on January 31. The story says the store has been in operation for 58 years, which would make it St. Louis' longest-running independent music retailer and one of the more long lived businesses in the Old Webster business district of Webster Groves. It's been a haven for local jazz fans throughout the years, stocking recordings from smaller labels that were hard to find elsewhere, ...
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