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Vocalist Hazel Mitchell-Bell Releases 'Sack Full Of Dreams'
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The Phillips Agency
Washington, D.C.-based jazz vocalist Hazel Mitchell-Bell unveils her new album Sack Full of Dreams with a release in May 2021. On this project, she partners with pianist, arranger and producer Vince Evans and a team of accomplished musicians from the Washington, D.C. area. This second independently produced album reflects a heightened level of artistry and a broadening of repertoire for the already popular vocalist. Liner notes by jazz journalist John Murph sweeten the pot by supplying a wealth of information ...
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Complete Bill Jennings on Prestige 1959-60
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Guitar pickers are in a class of their own. Sandwiched between Tiny Grimes in the mid-1940s and early '50s and Green Green in the 1960s and '70s was Bill Jennings. Born in Indianapolis, Jennings began recording in 1946 as a sideman in the Stuff Smith Quartet and would become a hero to Indy native and guitarist Wes Montgomery. During the early part of his career, Jennings recorded extensively with Louis Jordan, whose band had a big influence on R&B as ...
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Renowned Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore Releases 'The Rebecca Kilgore Trio, Vol. 1' Featuring Randy Porter, Tom Wakeling
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Mouthpiece Music
Jazz vocalist Rebecca Kilgore is one the most prolific recording and performing artists on the scene today. With 50 or so recording projects as a leader or co-leader, she is one of the most respected interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Based in Portland, OR, Kilgore has worked with many of the top jazz musicians in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Kilgore does not disappoint on her newest recording, The Rebecca Kilgore Trio – Vol. 1, which features pianist Randy ...
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Red Garland with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of the greatest pairings of piano and tenor saxophone was pianist Red Garland and saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis. Both artists were steeped in the blues and knew how to feed a blues and coax it up on its hind legs. And yet, they only recorded one album together, and only four tracks for that album, one of which didn't even make the final cut. It was used later as filler on a Davis compilation album that's now out of ...
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Hasaan Ibn Ali: Metaphysics
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Abstractionism in music is just over 100 years old. Largely a reaction to the inner torment of chaotic events that the artist can't process, abstractionism dates to the summer of 1908 and the jilting of Arnold Schoenberg. Back then, his wife, Mathilde, left him in Vienna and spent several months with a young Austrian painter. The despair experienced by Schoenberg as his world distorted was channeled into music. That summer, he composed Du lehnest wider eine Silberweide (You Lean Against ...
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Jazz Artists Sweet Megg And Ricky Alexander Join Forces On New Album Coming June 2021
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EMPKT PR
New York City-based jazz artists Sweet Megg (Meaghan Farrell) and Ricky Alexander prove you can always re-spark a romance, even for music. The two solo artists, who have been performing together for the past few years, aim to make early jazz classics popular again with their debut collaboration album, I’m in Love Again. The album is set to be released on Turtle Bay Records on June 11th, 2021. The two artists bring together a delightful collection of playful and romantic ...
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John Pizzarelli Plays Pat Metheny
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
This album shouldn't work. One superb artist recording the music of another usually happens many years after the subject has passed away. But John Pizzarelli's new album, Better Days Ahead: Solo Guitar Takes on Pat Metheny, works beyond your wildest dreams. It's as if John said to himself, “Why not now?" And he's right. The idea of taking on Metheny's compositions and doing so alone is about as beautiful a tribute as one can imagine. Add the fact that John ...
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Acclaimed Brazilian Guitarist Ricardo Silveira Releases 'Solo' On Moondo Music
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Mouthpiece Music
Renowned Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Silveira released his first solo album, aptly titled Solo (April 16, 2021, Moondo Music LLC). Silveira is a prolific recording and performing artist in both Brazil and the United States. He has worked with a Who’s Who of legendary Brazilian artists, and he has recorded over a dozen albums as a leader or co-leader. He has also appeared on numerous CDs as a sideman for other artists, including Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento, Wayne Shorter, Gilberto Gil, ...
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