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Jazz at sea with healthy doses of Latin flavor
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Anybody who didn’t hear enough music aboard the 2019 edition of The Jazz Cruise only has themselves to blame. The offerings were plentiful and varied, with music running from 11:30 a.m. to after 1 a.m., with staggered programming in five different performance spaces. There were more than 100 jazz musicians in the lineup, and about 2,000 passengers aboard the m/s Celebrity Infinity. The cruise departed Fort Lauderdale FL on Saturday, January 19 and returned a week later after brief stops ...
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Ximo Tebar Band "The New Son Mediterraneo" Jazz With Sea Flavor At Smalls Jazz Club New York on May 24th With Jim Ridl, John Benitez & Donald Edwards
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Jazz Friends News
Virtuoso and innovative spanish jazz guitarist Ximo Téba will perform on May 24th at smalls jazz club accompanied by Donald Edwards, Jim Ridl and John Benítez. Creator of “Son Mediterráneo" style, Ximo Tebar is one of the most international Spanish musicians, with an impressive career, numerous awards, excellent recordings and performances in the most prestigious festivals around the world. Son Mediterráneo is the hallmark of the innovative Valencian guitarist Ximo Tebar since the early '90s, a mix of jazz jazz ...
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Vocalist Carmen Cuesta Releases "Toda Una Vida...", A Collection Of Boleros With A Jazz Flavor
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
Following up on her acclaimed recording Mi Bossa Nova, vocalist Carmen Cuesta returns home to Spain, both physically and spiritually, to embrace the enduring magic of the bolero on her soulful and sensual new masterwork Toda Una Vida (Tweety Records, January 28, 2014 release). Tapping into the wealth of classic pieces from Spain and South America, that have become over the years the Spanish equivalent of the Great American Songbook, the singer and her husband, guitarist/producer Chuck Loeb, join forces ...
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Why Music Startups and Ad Networks Suffer from "Flavor of the Month Syndrome"
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HypeBot
Last week, I was out in Indiana, chatting it up with one of music's respected tastemakers. I had just presented Earbits to several local business leaders, talking about the potential of our platform to become a streaming service of scale. Said tastemaker, a well-known blogger and host of his own show on Sirius, told me that it didn't seem like any streaming service has ever had staying power. There was always a flavor of the month, phenomenal growth, and inevitable ...
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Pianist/keyboardist Mike DiLorenzo revives '70s funk with jazz flavor on new album
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Lauren Rogers
Call it old school but the sweltering mélange of jazz, funk, and soul that characterizes pianist/keyboardist Mike DiLorenzo's new album Bring It Back defines timelessness. The early '70s was a golden age for R&B music as artists as diverse as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder adopted elements of jazz and filtered them through a pop framework, creating infectious, raw streetwise rhythms that lit dance clubs on fire. Their influence was so extraordinary that it can be felt throughout ...
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Saxophonist Abdiel Flores Releases "He Watches over Me" -- Jazz with Gospel and Latin Flavor
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Michael Ricci
Puerto Rican saxophonist Abdiel Flores is premiering his first soloist production titled He Watches Over Me. The album, available this March, is a compilation of traditional hymns with musical arrangements based on jazz rhythms and harmonies with Latin influences.This new release involves the collaboration of a select group of local and international veteran jazz players. Among them, the bassist Ramon Vazquez, pianist Yan Carlos Artime, guitarist Isaac Lausell, bassist Elías Santos, and drummer Leobadis González. According to Flores, the purpose ...
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Jazz Ensemble Iron City Knows How to "Put the Flavor on It"
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Boston, MA -- Amherst Massachusetts based Iron City is an instrumental jazz trio with their roots steeped in the past but a step ahead of everyone else with a leap into the future on their new release Put The Flavor On It. The band takes the cue from groove masters such as Grant Green, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Melvin Sparks, and James Brown to create their own special blend of jazz and blues. Iron City is Charlie Apicella (guitar), Beau Sasser ...
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Hard Jazz & Funk! The Phibes, Cold Flavor Repair and Tom Phonic @ The Knitting Factory
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All About Jazz
Grammy Award-Winning Robin Eubanks Brings Commanding Flavor, Style to Idlewild
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JazzStage Productions
Much like the genre it celebrates, the 2008 Idlewild Jazz Festival embraces an array of eras, artists and melodic styles. Slated for Saturday, Aug. 2, in Idlewild, Mich., from 1:30 - 9:30 p.m., this year's event remains true to its eclectic tradition, synthesizing established and emerging musicians into an ear-pleasing day long line up. Festival acts range from big band to fusion, providing enough versatility to suit the breadth of any jazz enthusiast's eight-track/LP/CD collection. Leading this year's Idlewild Jazz ...
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The Seventh Annual Performance of "Harlem Renaissance Revisited with Boston Flavor" Coming in May!
Source:
All About Jazz
Location: Roxbury Community College: Media and Performing Arts Center 1234 Tremont Street,Roxbury, MA When: NIGHTLY: Thursday, May 26 through Saturday May 28, 2005 7:00pm From the Company that brought you “FROM GOSPEL TO HIP-HOP & ALL IN BETWEEN" and the critically acclaimed story of “COOTA AND THE MAGIC QUILT" comes... THE NEW AND IMPROVED “HARLEM RENAISSANCE REVISITED WITH BOSTON FLAVOR!" For the seventh consecutive year, HARLEM RENAISSANCE REVISITED WITH BOSTON FLAVOR will take the stage. An exquisite musical written and produced ...
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