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Lenore Raphael Releases Several Singles Of Standards And Other Beautiful Music
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Lenore Raphael is an internationally renowned jazz pianist, Steinway artist, radio host and jazz teacher and has been critically acclaimed as one of the best pianists in the jazz mainstream today. Critics, jazz hosts and jazz lovers all agree that she is one of the most swinging mainstream pianists. Influenced by Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell and Bill Evans, she has taken these influences and created her own recognizable sound. Featured in top jazz clubs like Dizzy’s at Jazz At Lincoln ...
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mDecks Music Launches Groundbreaking Jazz Standards Book Series Featuring Over 1,500 Fully Analyzed Tunes
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Ariel Ramos
mDecks Music, a leader in innovative music education resources, has released a groundbreaking new book series dedicated to mastering jazz standards. This comprehensive collection provides musicians with essential tools to enhance their improvisation, harmonic understanding, and melodic development—featuring over 1,500 jazz standards fully analyzed. The series, now available at mDecks.com, includes: The Jazz Standards Progressions Book Explore the harmonic structure of jazz standards with fully analyzed chord progressions, chord-scales & arrows & brackets analysis.
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Karl Latham 'Living Standards II' is available today on your favorite streaming platforms today
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Powderfinger Promotions
The highly-acclaimed jazz and rock drummer Karl Latham on Living Standards II turns rock favorites into jazz fusion jams. With an all-star cast that includes bassist Mark Egan (Pat Metheny, Gil Evans) and special guest vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid (Chet Baker, Larry Coryell), Latham digs into pieces associated with Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, the Doors, Steppenwolf and other rock icons, giving them new life and fresh ideas. Back in 2016, drummer Karl Latham recorded Living Standards, a trio set with bassist ...
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Master Drummer And Artistic Director Of The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Releases His First Standards Album, 'For All We Know'
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Vivo Musique Internationale
Renowned drummer and Artistic Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Adonis Rose, releases his new ballads album For All We Know, featuring his trio and vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, on Storyville Records. Gabrielle Cavassa (winner of the Sarah Vaughan competition in 2021) represents a new generation of wonderful and very talented new vocalists who knows the tradition. Behind her she has the Adonis Rose Trio, two young and very talented musicians, pianist Ryan Hanseler who has also contributed with two ...
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Tulio Araujo releases his sixth album Awerejê, merging his Brazilian Pandeiro with modern arrangements of Jazz standards
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All About Jazz
Brazilian percussionist Tulio Araujo, known by his dedication to the Pandeiro, just released the sixth album of his career. Different than the previous recordings, based on his originals, this time he focused on special arrangements of Jazz standards. Awerejê is a Brazilian indigenous word from Tupi Guarani language branch that means fusion, blending. No other concept would be more perfect to illustrate what you can listen in all nine tracks that, with bold arrangements, renews compositions by masters such as ...
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We'll Meet Again—American Jazz Standards with Jaimee Paul and Leif Shires at John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts on February 4, 2023
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Maura Dunno
Join the Pan American Symphony Orchestra for an evening of American jazz nostalgia with Nashville sensation, Jaimee Paul, singing favorites of the 1940’s such as the wartime hit, “We'll Meet Again." The performance will also feature selections from a swinging orchestral work, the “Zodiac Suite," by Mary Lou Williams, the talented, prolific African-American jazz composer, pianist, and arranger for Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and others. Considered a musician's musician, Williams was highly regarded for her swing-era music and ...
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UK Jazz Singer Showcases Vocal Talent With Fresh Interpretations Of Rare And Celebrated Standards
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Dynamic Agency
February 2021 marked the release of Tomorrow, the brand new album from the charming and distinctive jazz vocalist, James Hudson. Citing a wide spectrum of influential luminaries in his development as an artist including Mel Tormé, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall, Harry Connick, Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald—James Hudson became inspired to establish his own voice and unique style, the sum of which is captured in the music of Tomorrow . Providing a new and inimitable take ...
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Maki Mae Releases Astonishing Winter Album Of Jazz Standards
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Christine King
There is something quite special about music with the power to tell story and engaging people in a whole new way. This is definitely the case of Seasonal Songbook, an intimate and melodically excellent recent release by Maki Mae. This release has 13 songs, treading the audience to nearly 50 minutes of outstanding music. There is room for some astonishing rendition of jazz and swing standards, as well as Christmas songs, and other crowd-favorites. Most notably, Maki Mae actually struck ...
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Guitarist/Composer Henry Robinett Releases 20-Year-Old Recording For The First Time, 'Jazz Standards, Vol. 2: Then Again'
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Mouthpiece Music
Guitarist, composer, bandleader, and recording engineer Henry Robinett is releasing Jazz Standards, Vol. 2: Then Again on Nefertiti Records, Robinett’s own label. The album is the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2020 release Jazz Standards, Volume 1: Then. John Sanders of Jazz Music Archives said, “Henry’s playing is often in a rapid abstract blues bop style, somewhat similar to Joe Pass or Barney Kessel, but he has a personal voice all his own. It takes a lot from an artist ...
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Carl Saunders: New Standards
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Carl Saunders is one of jazz's best-kept secrets, and he kind of likes it that way. Born in 1942, Saunders is a trumpeter, composer and educator of the highest order who has worked with a long list of jazz giants, from Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald to Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson. Many factors set Saunders apart, including his skills as a player-composer, his warm tone and his exquisite taste. Even more significant is his vast catalog of original compositions ...
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