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Look Who is #2 on Canada's Chart Attack Jazz & Blues Chart This Week: Tony Foster's "In Between Moods"

Source: Lisa Reedy Promotions
November 28, 2009

The 2009 release of pianist/composer Tony Foster and his trio entitled In Between Moods starts off this week at the #2 spot on the Canadian campus radio charts tracked at ChartAttack.com! About CHARTAttack.com Launched in 1996, CHARTattack.com is Canada's premier music website. Updated daily, the award-winning music information website is the leading online reference for Canada's music industry. As the premier Canadian music content supplier to The Canadian Press, CHARTattack.com was the first online service for the Canadian music/entertainment industry. ...

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Blossom Dearie's Website and Catalog Available Again!

Source: Michael Ricci
November 28, 2009

Blossom Dearie's website and record label, Daffodil Records, Inc., are once again live on the internet!

Since 1974, Daffodil Records has been the primary source for Blossom Dearie's music. You can find most of Blossom's back catalog along with Verve, Fontana and Capitol Records CDs. Daffodil also has a limited supply of sealed LPs, signed posters and other memorabilia.

Please visit BlossomDearie.com and get your holiday order in today!

We welcome your suggestions and content for the website and are ...

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Free Henry! - Summers on Neptune

Source: Susan Marie Public Relations
November 28, 2009

"Sometimes, everybody's getting in my mind / Oh Lord, I can't break through this time / sometimes, there can be no reason or rhyme / for the things I cannot rewind."

“Smoke," the first tune on Free Henry's! new release, Summers On Neptune, embodies everything currently void in the music industry. Poetically, artistically, and lyrically, “Smoke" is radio ready. “When you're there you know / you gotta swim towards the waterline / scrape for the waterline / swing on a ...

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Intimate Ella Fitzgerald, Rediscovered

Source: Michael Ricci
November 28, 2009

WITH all the multi-disc jazz boxes that have come out in recent years--the complete Miles Davis on Columbia, the complete Charlie Parker on Savoy, the complete Duke Ellington on RCA and so on--its hard to believe that any significant tapes by any major musician might still be languishing undiscovered in a record companys archives. Yet Verve has just released Twelve Nights in Hollywood, a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small jazz club ...

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The JT Project Release Debut CD "Love Passion Correspondence"

Source: Michael Ricci
November 27, 2009

JAZZED R&B WITH A WHOLE LOT OF SOUL GOIN' ON “The JT Project" has been called a link between the young hip-hop generation and the classic genre we call jazz. In reality, “The JT Project" is a collaboration between 20 year old Jacob Webb and 21 year old Todd Schefflin. The duo met at a local university and began working together two years ago picking up gigs wherever possible. It mushroomed in 2009, when Jacob and ...

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Bassist Phil Brown Releases Third Album: "Bright Side"

Source: Michael Ricci
November 27, 2009

Phil Brown's Bright Side once again features Brown with the New Arts Jazztet performing a program of ten originals--six by Brown with contributions by each of four other NAJ members. The results are a kaleidoscope of fresh jazz sounds and friendly styles. It's all here--straightahead, Latin, mainstream, free, groove, funk... expressing a spectrum of different moods--intriguing, sultry, exuberant, evocative, insistent, meditative, witty, brooding. Recorded July 2006; released November 2009

The New Arts Jazztet is Tyler Kuebler, reeds; Bob Allison, trumpet/flugelhorn; ...

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"Joyful Noise," New Reggae from the Virgin Islands

Source: Michael Ricci
November 27, 2009

Joyful Noise (I Grade Records): I Grade Records continue to revive Virgin Island reggae with new compilation

St. Croix-based recording label, I Grade Records, is releasing a brand new album -- a massive roots reggae compilation entitled Joyful Noise (January 12, 2010). I Grade Records has been releasing conscious roots reggae music from the VI since 2001. On this, the label's 20th release, the collection of songs features an impressive roster of artists who are all at the forefront of ...

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"Black Friday" Jazz! Download Tony Foster's "In Between Moods"- $4.99!

Source: Michael Ricci
November 26, 2009

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