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A Lost Treasure Returns: Sylvia Rexach En La Voz De Sharon Riley Restored From Surviving Vinyl
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Aaron Weibe
Traducción al español disponible a continuación More than fifty years after its original release, the rare and long-lost album Sylvia Rexach en la Voz de Sharon Riley has been carefully restored and remastered, allowing audiences to once again hear this important recording of Puerto Rican música bohemia. It is scheduled for release on all digital streaming platforms on October 17th, 2025. The album, recorded in the early 1970s, features actress and vocalist Sharon Riley Rexach, daughter of Puerto Rico’s beloved ...
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Recording Artist And Songwriter Sylvia Brooks' anticipated Release 'Signature' On May 30th!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film-noir inspired femmes fatale. On this—Signature (Rhombus Records)—her fourth album, she embraces the most challenging role of all, defining herself with a set of beautifully crafted original songs. Her evocative lyrics and emotionally direct delivery imbue the music with hard-won authenticity. Whether looking back with wry affection on her walk-on-the-wild-side youth or lamenting a lost love, Brooks brings ...
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"The Arrangement" By Sylvia Brooks Named Jazz Vocal CD Of The Month by Jazz Station / Arnaldo Desouteiro
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
From Jazz Noir to Technicolor, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks reveals a vivid array of new emotional hues on her third album, The Arrangement, a beautifully intimate collaboration with the talents of brilliant Los Angeles arrangers. Besides beautiful originals ("Maybe I'm A Fool," “Sweet Surrender," “What Was I Thinking," three inspired songs to which she contributed as lyricist), Brooks offers surprising renditions of “Body And Soul" (with a beautiful flugel solo by Ron Stout) and “Cold Cold Heart", along with haunting ...
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From Jazz Noir to Technicolor, Jazz Vocalist Sylvia Brooks Reveals a Vivid Array of New Emotional Hues on her Gorgeous Third Album, "The Arrangement"
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
With her first two critically acclaimed albums, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks introduced a sensuous jazz-noir sound redolent of femme fatales and tough guys, crooked deals and deep-shadowed urban nightscapes. But no great artist wants to be typecast, and with her third album, The Arrangement, she steps out of the mist and fog into the sunlight, where she reveals herself as a singer at home in just about any narrative. An intimate collaboration with an array of brilliant Los Angeles arrangers, ...
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Sylvia Black's Sultry Debut Solo Single, "Walking With Fire," Featuring Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, Released July 28
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Prime Mover Media
Multi-talented singer/songwriter, bassist and producer Sylvia Black (formerly of Betty Black/KUDU) steps into the spotlight with her smoldering solo debut single, "Walking With Fire," featuring acclaimed alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw (Robert Glasper/Roy Haynes Quartet/Mingus Big Band) and Brazilian Girls' Aaron Johnston on drums and percussion. The track is the first in a series of planned singles for this year. “Walking With Fire" is released digitally July 28 via Frau Pink / KID Recordings. A cinematic slice of late-night jazz-pop exotica, the feverish track (which is featured in the ...
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Sylvia Telles: Bossa Tragedy
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Sylvia Telles is my favorite female bossa nova vocalist. In 1961 she was the first Brazilian bossa nova artist to record songs in both English and Portuguese, setting a high bar for bossa nova singers who followed. Telles was on the rise when she was killed in an auto accident in Brazil in December 1966. Signed to Kapp Records that year, she had released The Face I Love in October and was about to begin a U.S. promotion tour. Her ...
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Jazz This Week: Jim Manley, Christopher McBride CD Release Tour, "Artsounds" with Sylvia McNair, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features the debut of a St. Louis trumpeter's new band; a mini-tour through the area from a Chicago saxophonist; tributes to the music of Nancy Wilson, Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix; and more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, singer Denise Thimes will take the stage at the Sheldon Concert Hall with the aforementioned “Tribute to Nancy Wilson" (meaning the Nancy Wilson who recorded jazz for Capitol and ...
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Sylvia Brooks Explores The Noir Side Of Jazz In New CD Release "Restless"
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Sylvia Brooks
LOS ANGELES, CA: Acclaimed jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks returns with her second genre-busting release Restless, exploring the hungers that haunt us, the passions that drive us and the compulsions that send us careening deliciously close to the edge of the abyss. Initial discussions with arranger and producer Kim Richmond brought forth several ideas. “I wanted to take a set of songs—this set of songs—and give them more of an urban, street-like feel.” Recalling an incident several years ago that saw ...
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Jazz This Week: The Jazz Crusaders, Wine Dine and Jazz Festival, Sylvia McNair, Coco Soul, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Mid-summer heat has arrived in St. Louis several weeks ahead of schedule, but if you can brave the unseasonable temperatures, there are a number of jazz and creative music events worth checking out over the next few days. Today at lunchtime, the band Swing Set will play a free concert from noon to 1 p.m. at the Old Library Plaza at 8th and Locust as part of the St. Louis Public Library's “Not So Quiet" concert series. Tomorrow, there are ...
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International Music Sensation Sylvia Tosun Records yet Another Top-Five Hit with "World Keeps Turning"
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Susan Blond, Inc.
Progressive Pop Superstar Continues Her Success With The Second Single Off Her “Above All" EP New York, NY—Sylvia Tosun has done it again. The Sea To Sun Recordings founder and global Dance Scene queen has recorded yet another top-five hit on the Billboard charts with her latest single, the infectiously inspiring anthem “World Keeps Turning." The track, which is featured on Tosun's current “Above All" EP, landed on iTunes earlier this month and has quickly become a fan favorite, showcasing ...
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