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Vocalist Naama Embarks On A Musical Expedition On "Songs From The Road," Set For November 20 Release By La Reserve Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Vocalist Naama plies her warm, supple alto as a vessel on which to take listeners on a trip—in more than one sense—on Songs from the Road, her eighth release, set for a November 20 release on La Reserve Records. The album’s eleven selections from the Great American Songbook all center around the theme of travel. What’s more, with the superb trio of pianist Aaron Diehl, bassist Dave Baron (who also arranged the songs), and drummer Kyle Poole accompanying Naama’s lovely, ...
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Flutist/Composer Christian Artmann Reconvenes His Long-standing Quintet Of Laszlo Gardony, Jeff Denson, & Yoron Israel, Plus Guest Vocalist Elena McEntire, For Two Bay Area Shows November 7 & 8
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The acclaimed San Francisco-based flutist, composer, and bandleader Christian Artmann will be appearing with his quintet at two upcoming Bay Area engagements: Meyhouse Jazz in San Ramon, on Saturday, November 7, and Keys Jazz Bistro in San Francisco, Sunday, November 8. Coming on the heels of an October concert at Berklee College of Music in Boston with the Laszlo Gardony Quintet, Artmann will be joined by pianist Laszlo Gardony, bassist Jeff Denson, drummer Yoron Israel, and vocalist Elena McEntire. The ...
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Saxophonist Ron Blake Announces The Release Of 3 New Videos Starting With "No Hype Blues," Premiering September 7 In Honor Of Sonny Rollins
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Terri Hinte Publicity
“No Hype Blues,” the first in a series of three new videos by the Ron Blake Quartet, will premiere on September 7. The videos were recorded at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago on November 24, 2024, with guitarist Bobby Broom, bassist Dennis Carroll, and drummer Kobie Watkins. Blake chose September 7 as the release date for the first video to commemorate the life work of Sonny Rollins, whose birthday is September 7. (Blake shares Rollins’s birthday as well as his ...
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Bassist Fumi Tomita Enters The Spirit Realm On "Yokai! Songs Of The Japanese Supernatural," Releasing October 16 On Origin Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Bassist-composer Fumi Tomita chronicles a series of musical ghost stories—of a sort—with the October 16 release of Yokai! Songs of the Japanese Supernatural on Origin Records. Heading a quartet featuring Carl Clements on saxophones and flute, Jason Ennis on guitar, and Gary Fieldman on drums, Tomita creates sonic interpretations of the yokai: a lineage of shapeshifting wraiths, spirits, monsters, and other supernatural beings that populates Japanese folklore. For Tomita, these mythical spirits carried real and visceral weight. Born in New ...
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Saxophonist Rahsaan Barber Attains A New Level Of Artistic Vigor With 'Eternal,' Coming October 9 From Jazz Music City Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Already an accomplished saxophonist and composer, Rahsaan Barber nonetheless reaches a magnificent degree of creative energy—fresh, thoughtful, and somehow both raw and refined—on Eternal, arriving via his own Jazz Music City Records on October 9. The album features the Nashville-born, Chapel Hill, North Carolina–based saxophonist with a new collaborator, New Orleans guitarist Ted Ludwig, alongside Barber’s longtime rhythm section of pianist Matt Endahl, bassist Kevin Beardsley, and drummer Joshua Hunt. In part, the album’s artistic crest arises from a great ...
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Percussionist Ami Molinelli Digs Into Brazilian Music With Duo Violão Plus One On 'Raizes Do Choro E Samba,' Set For September 4 Release By Amimo Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Long established as a passionate and knowledgeable explorer of Brazilian choro, samba, and jazz, San Francisco percussionist Ami Molinelli goes a step further on Raízes do Choro e Samba (Roots of Choro and Samba), arriving September 4 on her own Amimo Records. The second album by Duo Violão Plus One—Molinelli with 7-string guitarists Edinho Gerber and Rogério Souza (who also arranged the bulk of the album), plus special guests—investigates the beginnings of these foundational styles of Brazil’s popular music tradition. ...
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Tenor Saxophonist Azar Lawrence Sums Up His Lifelong Musical Trajectory On 'Turn The Music Up,' Set For September 25 Release On Trazar Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Tenor saxophone titan Azar Lawrence’s past, present, and future converge with the September 25th release of Turn the Music UponLawrence’s own Trazar Records. The world-renowned 73-year-old player and composer, who first made his name in the spiritual jazz and funk-fusion of the 1970s, revisits some of the milestones of that era, filtering it through the lens of his current-day ensemble (The Azar Lawrence Experience, or TALE), and pointing the way forward for his musical conception. In other words, Turn the ...
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Drummer Mike Clark Offers A Varied But Ceaselessly Swinging Program On 'Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning,' Set For August 7 Release On Wide Hive Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Drummer Mike Clark plies his undisputed mastery of swing in its many guises with both relish and stark imagination on Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning), his August 7 release on Wide Hive Records. Featuring an elite ensemble with trumpeter and NEA Jazz Master Eddie Henderson, tenor saxophonist Craig Handy, pianist Patrice Rushen, and bassist Essiet Okon Essiet, the West Coast jazz icon’s third Wide Hive album, largely a straight-ahead jazz set, is predictably a scorcher…though little else about it is ...
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