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Negative Press Project Delivers Its Most Accomplished Album Yet With 'Cycles I,' Set For Release January 30 On Envelopmental Music
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Negative Press Project reaches new heights of ambition with Cycles I, their fifth album, arriving January 30 via Envelopmental Music. Though scattered to the four winds, the San Francisco Bay–founded chamber jazz octet came back together to realize 12 compositions by pianist Ruthie Dineen and bassist Andrew Lion—and joined forces with the world-renowned cutting-edge string ensemble Friction Quartet (violinists Otis Harriel and Kevin Rogers, violist Stephanie Bibbo, and cellist Doug Machiz). The result is a stunning coalescence of post-bop jazz ...
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Still Places Available On Europe's Biggest And Most Inclusive Jazz Education Event—Sligo Jazz 2025
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Sligo Jazz Project
Sligo Jazz Project’s annual Summer School and Festival runs from 22-27 July 2025, bringing a team of 33 world-class musicians from all over the world to teach and perform in Sligo over six days. From 22–27 July 2025, Sligo will once again become a global hub for music lovers, students, and jazz legends, as it hosts Europe’s largest and most inclusive Jazz Summer School alongside its internationally renowned Jazz Festival. The countdown is on for world-class jazz education and live ...
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Perfection: Serge Chaloff - 'The Most!' (1949)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of jazz's many paradoxes is that West Coast jazz was created largely by East Coast jazz musicians, and East Coast jazz was heavily influenced by West Coast musicians. Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan, Shelly Manne, Terry Gibbs, Don Fagerquist and Dave Pell, to name just a handful, were artists who grew up on the East Coast. Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Chico Hamilton, Bobby Hutcherson, Dave Brubeck, Zoot Sims and others who are thought of primarily as ...
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Australia’s Most Streamed Jazz Artist Connie Lansberg Soars With Her Self-Produced Album 'Alone With Bees'
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Cyber PR
Australian jazz singer-songwriter Connie Lansberg has released her latest self-produced album Alone With Bees. Boasting an impressive 4.5 million streams on Spotify, Lansberg has solidified her position as Australia’s most streamed jazz artist, captivating audiences with her expressive voice, storytelling prowess, and ground-breaking approach to the genre. “Alone With Bees” is a 10-track jazz album that features seven original songs, written, arranged, produced, and performed by Lansberg. The album also showcases the exceptional talent of her longstanding quartet, including the ...
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Backgrounder: Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Two of the finest jazz flutists in New York in the mid-1950s were united by producer Creed Taylor when he was at Bethlehem Records. The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet was recorded in October 1955 and released in 1956. It featured Herbie Mann, Sam Most (fl), Joe Puma (g), Jimmy Gannon (b) and Lee Kleinman (d). Sam Most had more experience under his belt than Mann at the time, having played with Tommy Dorsey, Shep Fields, Boyd Raeburn and Don Redman ...
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Resonance Records Is Proud To Present Brazilian Legend Ivan Lins With A Symphony Orchestra In The Most Sumptuous Album Of His Career
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Ivan Lins is one of the most treasured and recorded Brazilian composers in the world and a melodist with few equals. The winner of four Latin Grammy Awards, Lins has recorded nearly fifty albums since 1970; they contain countless songs, notably “Madalena” and “Começar de Novo” (To Begin Again), that have become standards in his country. “Love Dance,” cowritten with his longtime arranger, Gilson Peranzzetta, and lyricist Paul Williams, is Lins’s English-language classic. Its performers include Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, ...
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Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy - Never-Before-Heard Recording Of Two Of The Most Iconic Forces In Jazz - Set To Debut July 14
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Michael Ricci
In the summer of 1961, John Coltrane headlined at the celebrated music venue, the Village Gate. With a lineup of musicians that included McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, Elvin Jones, and the fiery playing of Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate captures the creative and transformative spirit that sprang from the pairing of Coltrane and Dolphy, and the evolving short-lived quintet. Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy will be released globally July 14 on Impulse! Records/UMe. ...
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Most Definitely - The First Solo Recording From Drummer-Composer Devin Gray, Due June 9th From Rataplan Records
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Devin Gray
Brooklyn-Berlin based drummer-composer Devin Gray made his widely lauded leader debut in 2012 with the release Dirigo Rataplan, which included a crew of heavyweight veterans Ellery Eskelin, Michael Formanek and Dave Ballou. JazzTimes said that Gray’s debut represented “the work of a young artist who knows who he is.” Free Jazz blog encapsulated the album this way: “...one of the best debut albums in years.” In 2015 Gray released Relative Resonance, a band of close New York associates: Chris Speed, ...
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Saxophonist/Composer Alex Weiss Exhibits His Surrealist Jazz Conception On 'Most Don't Have Enough,' Due Feb. 24 From Ears&Eyes Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Alex Weiss’s idiosyncratic vision of post-bop jazz finds a new apex with the tenor saxophonist-composer’s February 24 release of Most Don’t Have Enough (ears&eyes). Weiss’s third album as a leader is also his first with Glad Irys,hisworking quintet since 2019 comprising soprano saxophonist Dan Blake, guitarist Yana Davydova, bassist Dmitry Ishenko, and drummer Ches Smith, with pianist Marta Sanchez adding her distinctive stamp to two of the album’s nine moody, mysterious tracks. Seven of Most Don’t Have Enough’s tunes are ...
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Who are the most influential jazz artists of all time? Find out at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
Jazz musicians are identifying their influencers and All About Jazz is aggregating the data and presenting it to our readers. Back in 2018 we quietly launched a feature and encouraged musicians to select the primary influencers of their music. We thought it would be a fun project to identify jazz's lineage. It also represented a new way for readers to discover jazz musicians and their music. We're just getting started, but you can see who musicians have designated as the ...
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