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Guitar Innovator Todd Mosby’s New Album, ‘Open Waters’ Coming August 1

Source: Presto Public Relations Inc.
June 19, 2019

World-renowned, Indian, Jazz, New Age, Contemporary crossover artist and co-creator of the Imrat guitar, Todd Mosby, is releasing his fifth album Open Waters on August 1. Produced by Windham Hill Records founder, Will Ackerman, and with a sound described as “an album to daydream to," Open Waters finds Mosby once again embarking on a creative journey navigating through elements of Jazz, New Age, Folk and Indian music. “Open Waters is the best project I have been involved with…Todd Mosby is ...

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Jazz Vocalist, Rebecca Angel, To Release "What We Had" On Timeless Grooves Records With Production By Grammy-Winner Jason Miles

Source: Presto Public Relations Inc.
March 23, 2018

Four quick “s” adjectives come to mind when you first hear Rebecca Angel, making for some nice descriptive alliteration: smooth, soulful, sensual and sultry. Listening to her soulfully produced and exquisitely arranged debut What We Had, we can top that off with sexy and unabashedly sentimental as well. The emerging NYC based singer makes every emotionally compelling track an invitation – to dream, to love, to reminisce wistfully about beautiful times gone by which infuse every waking thought of today. ...

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David Lanz, Best-Selling Piano Sensation, And Versatile Vocalist, Kristin Amarie, Release "Forever Christmas"

Source: Lydia Sherwood
October 7, 2014

For the globally beloved pianist and composer, David Lanz, Forever Christmas is an album of firsts. It’s the first recording the New Age legend has created from start to finish with a songwriting collaborator and his first prominently featuring a vocalist. It’s also Lanz’s first release since relocating from his longtime home in the Pacific Northwest to upstate New York. As you may have already guessed, all of these firsts have something—someone—in common: Kristin (pronounced Christine) Amarie, a Norwegian-born vocalist ...

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Gordon Bahary’s Unbreakable Breaks Through At Retail And Radio

Source: Lydia Sherwood
October 9, 2012

Major showcase gigs announced for NYC’s Metropolitan Room Some artists make their big splash and then fade away before you can blink, while others enjoy long, uninterrupted careers. Then there’s Gordon Bahary. The New York-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist made his initial artistic statements more than three decades ago, enjoyed a large wave of success, then took a hiatus from his recording career to pursue other avenues both inside and outside of the music world. But now, Gordon Bahary is back, ...

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David Lanz Releases "Here Comes the Sun," Pianist's Second Collection of Unique Interpretations of Iconic Beatles Music

Source: Lydia Sherwood
March 7, 2012

Quartet and solo versions to be released March 13th When pianist David Lanz released his critically acclaimed album Liverpool: Re-Imagining the Beatles in 2010, he was of course hoping that it would be well received by his legion of loyal fans. And it was, so much so that Lanz took the advice of many of them and went back into the studio armed with a brand new batch of classic tunes by the Fab Four. Here Comes the Sun will ...

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