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Virtuoso Without Borders—Luping Robyn Xu’s Cross-genre Mastery
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All About Jazz
If one thread defines the career of Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu, it is a fearless versatility that traverses contemporary experiment, sacred reflection, chamber intimacy, and symphonic scale. On stage, on record, and within concert series that matter, Xu has delivered performances that connect tradition to today with uncommon authority—an artistry now set to make an even more significant imprint across the United States through 2028. As Lead Pianist for Ensemble Lyrae from 2025 to 2028, Xu is a core ...
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'MTB - Consenting Adults,' The Seminal Criss Cross Album Released On 180 Gram Vinyl By Elemental Music
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Elemental Music
For the first time ever on vinyl, we edited this beautiful Gatefold 2-LP set with High Quality 180 gram Audiophile Vinyl. Recorded at RPM Studio, New York City on December 26, 1994 and mastered for vinyl and lacquer cutting by the great Bernie Grundman Studios. This celebrated release will be available for the second drop of Record Store Day on July 17th. Music writer and regular collaborator at Downbeat and Jazziz, Ted Panken, introduces this seminal Criss Cross album as ...
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King Crimson's David Cross & No-Man's Andrew Booker's Unreleased 2006 Album Ends Meeting
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
David Cross was a member of King Crimson during the 1970s and Andrew Booker was a member of No-Man, Sanguine Hum and Peter Banks’s Harmony in Diversity. This PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED STUDIO ALBUM was recorded in 2006 but had not seen a release until now. David Cross said of the release “I met Andrew some years ago when the David Cross Band were touring with Pete Banks's Harmony and Diversity. Andrew was the drummer with that band and we got together ...
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Pianist Anne Sajdera Celebrates Creative Renewal, Cross-Cultural Inspiration With "New Year," Set For Nov. 2 Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Anne Sajdera’s remarkable acumen as both a pianist and a composer finds rejuvenation on New Year, set for November 2 release on her own Bijuri Records. The album hits close to home for Sajdera—her ancestral home, that is, of the Czech Republic and its storied capital, Prague. A 2014 trip to Europe’s “Golden City” was the catalyst for the album’s creation. Sajdera’s journey wasn’t planned as a musical one. While in Prague, however, she encountered trumpeter/flugelhornist Miroslav Hloucal and alto ...
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David Cross & David Jackson Release New Album
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
During the 1970s David Cross was a member of King Crimson and David Jackson was a member of Van der Graaf Generator. Now much to the excitement of music aficionados worldwide, the duo have teamed up for an amazing new album titled Another Day! Released via Cherry Red Records, the 12 new tracks on this album showcase the talents of Cross & Jackson and will appeal to the fanbases of both artists and the bands they have been in. It's ...
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Videos: Back Women Cross Over
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
African-American women came into their own in the early 1960s as solo pop singers. Long pegged as jazz or R&B recording artists in the '50s or members of girl groups in the early '60s, African-American women began to cross over to the pop charts thanks largely to exposure on major record labels, runs at supper clubs and appearances on TV variety shows. Here are a bunch of newly uploaded videos I found of leading African-American female vocalists between the mid-1950s ...
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Southern Cross Kitchen Hits A High Note In Conshohocken With Sunday Brunch In New Music Lounge
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Denise Kovalevich
Talk about sizzling Sundays! Southern Cross Kitchen (SCK), located in Conshohocken, is striking a chord with customers with its fabulous Sunday Brunch series featuring live jazz music and a special menu each week from 10:00 AM to 3 PM. As part of SCK’s new live entertainment bar “The Barrel Room”, which is located on the second floor of the acclaimed restaurant, the Sunday Brunch festivities include a large and varied menu that includes such stand out dishes as the breakfast ...
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Southern Cross Kitchen Strikes A Chord In Conshohocken With New Music Lounge
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Michael Ricci
Acclaimed Bar and Restaurant To Open “The Barrel Room” Featuring Live Music Nightly July 2, 2014 – “When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you understand now why you came this way…” – Crosby, Stills & Nash. Named after one of the most iconic classic rock songs of our generation, it seems only fitting that Southern Cross Kitchen (SCK) has revealed plans to open the largest music venue in Conshohocken. “The Barrel Room,” which will be located ...
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D.F.F. - Exciting Cross-Genre Band Play The Button Factory, Dublin, April 10
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All About Jazz
D.F.F. at the Button Factory Saturday 12th April: Doors 8pm D.F.F. featuring the musical talents of Vyvienne Long, Niwel Tsumbu & Dave Flynn. Touring their debut album Pouric Songs out 28 March on Frisbee Records What does D.F.F. stand for one might ask? Well it can mean whatever you want it to mean, whatever definition comes to mind when you hear the exceptional sound of Ireland’s new cross-genre musical sensation! With an incomparable sound, D.F.F. merge singular talents and international ...
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Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble's Winter Concert is Thursday, December 1 in Worcester
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
