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'The Wailing Sounds Of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene' - Ricky Ford Brings A Lifetime Of Experience To His Newest Recording
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Mixed Media Promotion
It is with tremendous pride that Whaling City Sound announces the new Ricky Ford recording, The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford. Not only does Ford bring impeccable credentials with him wherever he goes, but he also happens to have deep ties to New England, which is why the recording title is something of a play on words, with reference to his connection to Southeastern Massachusetts, and the city of New Bedford, also known as “The Whaling City.” Unsung compared to ...
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Public Radio Host Paul Slavens Is Also A Brilliant Composer. His Intellectually Mad 'Alphabet Girls, Vol. II' (from 'Naomi' To 'Zelda'), Out June 24
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Fanatic Promotion
Alphabet Girls, Vol. II by Paul Slavens (June 24, State Fair Records) is the crystallization and distillation of the Nebraska born, Denton, TX-based artist’s long, varied, and accomplished career, complete with all of the requisite breakthroughs and disappointments. On record, Slavens’s endurance is a listener’s treat. Alphabet Girls, Vol. II plays like the product of a “been everywhere, seen everything” guru-type somehow fitting all of his experience and education onto five lines of musical staff like some kind of trippy ...
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Paris Combo New Album 'Quesaco?' Is Out May 6, 2022 On Six Degrees Records
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Press Junkie PR
Paris Combo, the French quintet Variety describes as possessing “a seemingly endless supply of catchy hooks and imaginative lyrics,” is back with a new album, Quesaco? The full-length release is their seventh studio album, but also the last recorded with the group’s late singer/songwriter Belle du Berry, who died suddenly on August 11, 2020, aged just 54, following a brief battle with cancer. Stream their latest single “Seine de la vie parisienne" here. Hailed by Billboard as “a vocalist/accordionist and ...
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Shambhu Releases New Single, 'Life Passage,' Dedicated To Chick Corea
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Shambhu Vineberg
Acclaimed new age/jazz guitarist Shambhu released his new single, “Life Passage,” on April 27th. The song features Shambhu’s transcendent guitar music in a soulful dedication to the late pianist Chick Corea. Life Passage is also the title song of Shambhu’s new EP due early this summer. Stream “Life Passage” here. “Life Passage” was composed, arranged and produced by Shambhu, who is featured on guitars and e-pads. “I was studying music online during the pandemic with the great jazz maestro Chick ...
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Dave Bass' New Album, 'The Trio Vol. 2,' Will Be Released On June 17
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GoMedia PR
On June 17, Dave Bass, whose four previous recordings have received accolades from Downbeat, Jazz Times, All About Jazz and Jazz Journal, among many others, will release his second album with his Trio, simply titled The Trio Vol. 2. Bass says that Vol. 2 elevates everything the Trio did on Vol. 1 to a new level. It's a deeper, more mature effort by the Trio regarding the three things that made Vol. 1 a success: the wide spectrum of styles, ...
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Willie Oteri And Dark Matter Horns Dig Into Their Archives For Upcoming Album 'Ghosts Of Texas Past'
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Willie Oteri
Willie Oteri and Dark Matter Horns dig into their archives for upcoming album Ghosts of Texas Past. Available May 27, 2022 The new album features tracks taken from rehearsals recorded in 2018 in Austin Texas with Willie Oteri (tenor sax and flute), Dave Laczko (trumpet and effects) and Steve Mankenberg (drums) in a totally improvised environment, recorded with minimal equipment on 2 to 4 tracks. A decades long relationship between Oteri and Laczko produced several releases with Oteri jumping from ...
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McCoy Tyner and Freddie Hubbard, 1986
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1986, Fabrik—or Factory—stood on the west side of Hamburg, Germany, in the Altona district. Back then, the former machine-parts factory was a cultural center frequented by young people in the left-wing eco-movement and by those on the right, depending on what was on the bill at the performance space. Sometimes the two groups converged when the performers appealed to both groups. As a result, Fabrik's programs were often highly diverse, ranging from pop and ska to punk and jazz. ...
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San Francisco Bay Area Guitarist/Composer George Cotsirilos Deepens His Explorations With New Quartet Date 'Refuge,' Due May 20 On Oa2 Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
George Cotsirilos pushes into new frontiers with the May 20 release of Refuge (OA2). The guitarist and composer’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2018 album Mostly in Blue again features his quartet—pianist Keith Saunders, bassist Robb Fisher, and drummer Ron Marabuto—but repositions them both in pursuit of new challenges and, if anything, even more “in blue.” Cotsirilos added piano to his longtime trio in 2018, hoping to express the denser harmonies he was hearing in his writing. The success of the ...
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