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The Ed Palermo Big Band Announces It’s An Ed Palermo Christmas! God Bless Us, Everyone!, Arriving November 13, 2026

Source: Kari-On Productions
October 23, 2026

The Ed Palermo Big Band will release It’s An Ed Palermo Christmas! God Bless Us, Everyone! on November 13, 2026, via Sky Cat Records. The 23-track holiday album brings together the ensemble's wide-ranging musical influences, original compositions, inventive arrangements, narration, and a Christmas performance tradition spanning more than thirty years. Ed Palermo is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and band director whose work has long treated the big band as a vehicle for music well beyond traditional jazz-orchestra boundaries. Over more ...

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Russ Lorenson Announces "What I Want For Christmas (20th Anniversary Edition)"

Source: Russ Lorenson
October 22, 2026

Three-time MAC Award nominee Russ Lorenson will release What I Want For Christmas (20th Anniversary Edition) on November 19 through indie label RL Productions. The newly remastered and expanded album revisits Lorenson's first Christmas recording with refreshed sound, select reimagined arrangements, and a season-long campaign celebrating two decades of music and memories. The album's first advance single, “My Favorite Time of Year (20th Anniversary Edition)," arrives October 22 with a contemporary vocal-jazz celebration of Christmas in New York. “That's What ...

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Jeff Herr Corporation Returns With New Album 'five Moons'

Source: Matt Fripp
October 22, 2026

After a five-year hiatus, Luxembourg-based Jeff Herr Corporation returns with Five Moons, an eight-track album that introduces a new line-up and a reimagined approach to the trio’s sound. Led by drummer, composer and sound designer Jeff Herr, alongside saxophonist Maxime Bender and bassist Pol Belardi, the group brings together contemporary jazz, electronic textures and groove-driven improvisation, exploring the relationship between programmed structures and spontaneous musical interaction. Founded in 2004, Jeff Herr Corporation has evolved through several formations and musical directions. ...

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Guitar Virtuoso Roman Miroshnichenko Became Musician Of The Year

Source: All About Jazz
October 21, 2026

Roman Miroshnichenko has won the Josie Music Awards for “Musician of The Year" (guitar category)! 12th Annual Josie Music Awards ceremony took place on September 20, 2026 at Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville. Official letter from the music awards organizers On behalf of The Josie Music Awards, we are honored to inform you that you have been officially nominated for recognition at our 12th Annual Celebration. This distinction places you among an elite group of artists, musicians, songwriters, and businesses ...

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Just Released: Intimate 2008 Session Recording 'Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Vol. 2' Featuring Trombonist Steve Davis, Bassist Peter Washington, And Pianist Hank Jones

Source: AMT Public Relations
October 20, 2026

Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Volume 2 (Smoke Sessions Records), Out October 16, Features Thrilling Music from an Intimate 2008 Recording Session with Davis, Jones, and Bass Great Peter Washington When trombonist Steve Davis, bassist Peter Washington, and the legendary pianist Hank Jones (1918-2010) entered the studio in June of 2008, it was with anything but the grandest of intentions. It was a month prior to Jones’s 90th birthday, and just a year and a half since he had undergone ...

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Saxophonist David Ehrlin And Guitarist Neff Irizarry Release 'Softly Light'

Source: Matt Fripp
October 19, 2026

Swedish saxophonist and clarinettist David Ehrlin joins guitarist and composer Neff Irizarry for Softly Light, a nine-track duo album set for release on November 6th, 2026. Recorded live and acoustically, the album brings together two distinct musical backgrounds in a quiet, spacious setting shaped by Nordic landscapes, jazz tradition, Brazilian music, and subtle Latin influences. The collaboration began after Ehrlin and Irizarry met in the fall of 2025. Ehrlin had recently returned to the sacred music of his childhood with ...

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The Lisa Hilton Quintet Returns With Another Winning Recording, "Naturally"

Source: DL Media
October 15, 2026

The Lisa Hilton Quintet returns with Naturally (Ruby Slippers Productions 1032) out November 27, 2026. The award-winning composer and critically acclaimed pianist once again teams with her renowned quintet on eleven hopeful, impressionistic and mesmerizing tracks. Naturally marks Hilton’s thirtieth album and is destined to become another classic in cool jazz… naturally. “Creating music that is natural, authentic, and expressive has always been important to me,” says Hilton, who also produced the album. “Now with the advent of A.I. I ...

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Blind Blues Guitarist Joey Stuckey Readies 'King Of Strings' Ep, Recorded Live At The Les Paul Recording Studio

Source: 1888 Media
October 14, 2026

There are any number of credits, awards and accomplishments given Joey Stuckey throughout his multifaceted, 30-year career. An award-winning artist, producer, educator, mentor, and speaker whose efforts transcend the boundaries of sight, sound, and genre, Joey has done it all, both personally and professionally. So too, there’s another credit that should be added to that list of achievements, and that’s of “Survivor.” Blind since the age of two, he’s overcome any number of life-threatening obstacles and medical issues and has ...

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