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Vocalist Staci Griesbach Gives Jazz Treatment To George Jones Catalog With 'My George Jones Songbook' Out September 10th
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Staci Griesbach
Celebrate the Music of George Jones as Vocalist Staci Griesbach Honors the Late Country Music Icon’s 90th Birthday with Jazz Tribute Album My George Jones Songbook Singles “He Stopped Loving Her Today” & “The Grand Tour” Available August 27th with 14-Track Album Out Everywhere September 10, 2021 Celebrate the 90th birthday of country music icon George Glenn Jones as vocalist Staci Griesbach reimagines Jones’ catalog in My George Jones Songbook, a tribute album available everywhere on September 10, 2021. Set ...
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Alan Broadbent Plays Dave Brubeck
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A tribute album to Dave Brubeck isn't about emulating Dave. It also isn't about interpretation. To hit the bull's eye, you have to capture Dave's spirit—his broad smile, his post-war optimism and his sophisticated, sunny feel, which is purely emotional. Either you get it or you don't. Having spent an afternoon on assignment with Dave in 2010 at his house in Connecticut watching the creek that rushed past his home empty into a lake, I totally get it. So does ...
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Joe Alterman: The Upside of Down
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I spent the day writing and riding out Hurricane Henri while listening to Joe Alterman's new album, The Upside of Down (Ropeadope). Joe not only is a gifted jazz pianist but also is a rarity in jazz—someone who sifts through the history of the jazz piano like an archeologist. He also is immensely likeable. His upbeat disposition serves him well, since he has befriended many of his jazz heroes and learned quite a bit from them. It shows in ...
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Adonis Rose, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, & Vocalist Cyrille Aimee Explore New Orleans' French Connection On New CD 'Petite Fleur'
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The celebrated New Orleans Jazz Orchestra examines and the profound relationship of its hometown to the nation of France with its fall release of Petite Fleur on Storyville Records (digital release September 24, physical release October 15). The second album under the artistic directorship of drummer Adonis Rose features ten songs, nine of them standards associated with French and New Orleans musicians. The tenth tune is an original by Cyrille Aimée, the acclaimed jazz vocalist who was born and raised ...
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Leon Lee Dorsey's 'Freedom Jazz Dance' with Mike Clark and Manuel Valera is out August 20, 2021 via Jazz Avenue 1
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
Jazz Avenue 1 is proud to announce the August 20, 2021 release of Freedom Jazz Dance by veteran bassist Leon Lee Dorsey, drummer extraordinaire Mike Clark and brilliant Cuban-born pianist Manuel Valera. Dedicated to the late Puerto Rican-born piano master Hilton Ruiz, whom Dorsey regularly played with in his last years (appearing on 2004’s A New York Story and 2005’s Steppin’ with T.P., the pianist’s dedication to his own mentor, Tito Puente), this collection of eight tunes highlights that same ...
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Pianist And Composer Josh Nelson Releases 'Live At Bluewhale | Volume 1'
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Josh Nelson
Highly acclaimed pianist and composer Josh Nelson’s latest release, Live at bluewhale, Volume 1 features recordings from his “Discovery Project” live shows, and a heartfelt tribute to Bluewhale jazz club in downtown Los Angeles, California. Live at bluewhale, Volume 1 is a compilation of sentimental and bittersweet recordings from Josh Nelson’s Discovery Project concerts originally performed at the Bluewhale jazz club, located in the heart of Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. Founded in 2009 by Korean visionary and musician ...
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Introducing The Explosive New Album 'Solace' By The Dave Mullen Ensemble
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Two for the Show Media
NYC-based saxophonist Dave Mullen releases his long-awaited new album The Dave Mullen Ensemble Solace on Mullsoul Music Records that features inspired performances by pianist Jon Cowherd, bassist Hans Glawischnig, drummer E.J. Strickland, and trumpeter Jim Seeley. An album of healing, heartfelt jazz dedicated to some of the music’s most iconic voices such as John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, McCoy Tyner, and Michael Brecker. Solace is currently climbing up the Jazzweek chart and is getting played in ...
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Q'd Up Closes A Chapter Of Its Own History With 'Going Places,' Set For Release Oct. 8 On Tantara Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Q’d Up celebrates its enduring creative bounty on Tantara Records’ October 8 release Going Places. The venturesome quintet, formed in 1983 out of the jazz faculty at Brigham Young University, packs their seventh recording with eleven original compositions of hard-charging, straight-ahead jazz with bold progressive touches. Going Places also marks a sunset of sorts for the band. Its founding saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, Ray Smith, and veteran keyboardist Steve Lindeman have both put in their retirement papers from the BYU School of Music ...
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