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Cajun French Chanteuse Juliet Varnedoe Release Single 'Mon Chéri' on January 14, 2022
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Juliet Varnedoe
New York-based singer songwriter Juliet Varnedoe developed her musical foundation in the bayou lands of southeast Louisiana surrounded by Cajun French, New Orleans jazz, and Acadian traditional songs. Her years of performance in New York cabaret clubs and swing dance halls solidifies her stage persona as a Cajun French chanteuse, a unique America voice sharing the joie de vivre of the Cajun people. “Mon Cheri" is the first single release from her debut album Cajun Bleu featuring Juliet Varnedoe Jazz ...
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The Title Track From Yaniv Taubenhouse's Upcoming Solo Piano Album 'hope' Is Out Now!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Pianist/Composer Yaniv Taubenhouse Announces the Release of Solo Piano Recording – Hope Available on Fresh Sound New Talent – February 18, 2022 Extraordinary times often produces extraordinary art. In the case of pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse, his new solo piano recording, Hope, was created during the onset of the global pandemic, in February 2020, against a backdrop of news about the virus spreading, coupled with anxiety and fear of the unknown, but also a survival instinct laced with hope. ...
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Composer / Guitarist Justin Morell To Release 'Exit Music For Intelligent Life On Earth'
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Justin Morell
Guitarist and composer Justin Morell is releasing his newest album, Exit Music for Intelligent Life on Earth, a collection of twenty-one short works for multiple guitars and drums. This is the follow-up to the much acclaimed All Without Words: Variations Inspired by Loren (2021) by the John Daversa Jazz Orchestra featuring Justin Morell, on which Morell was the composer and guitarist. This unusual collection of mostly short pieces, the majority lasting little more than a minute or two, depicts a ...
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Vocalist-Songwriter Eugenie Jones Revels In Variety Both Musical And Geographical On 'Players,' Set For March 11 Release By Open Mic Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
“Wide-ranging” takes on a new meaning with the March 11 release of vocalist/composer/lyricist Eugenie Jones’s Players on her own Open Mic Records. Jones’s third album is the result of an odyssey that took her from her Pacific Northwest base (Seattle) to the Deep South (Dallas), the bustling East Coast (New York), the Midwestern Plains (Chicago), and back again, working in the process with a jaw-dropping spectrum of major jazz musicians that includes (among others) bassists Reggie Workman and Lonnie Plaxico, ...
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Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The long-awaited Lennie Tristano box from Mosaic has just been released. Culled from previously unissued material found in the pianist’s personal collection by his daughter, Carol, Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970 features airchecks, remote wire recordings, live dates preserved by bandstand colleagues, solo tracks recorded at Tristano's East 32nd Street studio in New York and Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey, and group tracks made at Tristano's studio in Hollis, Queens. Jerry Roche of Dot Time Records supervised the ...
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Greek Power Trio S.E.V. release debut album 'Far From Close'
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Tassos Spiliotopoulos
Anelia Records is proud to present Far from Close, the debut album of a new collaboration between three of Greece’s most vibrant jazz musicians. Tassos Spiliotopoulos, Panos Vassilopoulos and Michael Evdemon. The music was composed by Evdemon and Spiliotopoulos and the goal was to achieve an elegant but emotionally powerful music through the electric sound of a modern jazz trio. Each one of the band members brought their own influences to the blend, ranging from electric jazz-rock and mainstream jazz ...
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Flautist Nestor Torres - New Release January 17th 'Thank You Willie' Latin Grammy Award Winner And Multi-Grammy Nominee!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Standing on the shoulders of flute giants from worlds as diverse as Rampal & Galway in Classical Music; Richard Egues’ Cuban Charanga style; rocker Ian Anderson’s Jethro Tull; Herbie Mann and—most influential of all—Hubert Laws as pioneers of Jazz Flute, Latin Grammy Award winning Nestor Torres’ rhythmic and mellifluous flute sound remains apart in a class all by itself. Nestor's 18 recordings as a soloist; four Latin Grammy nominations, one Grammy nomination and one Latin Grammy Award; collaborations with diverse ...
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Markus Rutz Plays one Saturday In September: Live From Merrimans’ Playhouse—Available Now
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Markus Rutz
With this fifth recording as a leader, Markus Rutz invites listeners to a seat for a live performance from “A Home for Jazz” in the Midwest, Merrimans’ Playhouse in South Bend, Indiana. Many performances are stellar nights of good feeling and shared experience that exist only in that time and space where others do not have the opportunity to hear the magic. Well You Needn’t fret because the fire and Serenity of the evening was documented on these tracks recorded One Saturday in September at this ...
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