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Oslo-Based Hitra's New Album 'Transparence' Out Now
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Alessandro Sgobbio
HITRA plays imaginative original music and improvisations. A project born at the Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo, HITRA reunites four artists who have extensively investigated contemporary art forms. The band is made up of pianist and composer Alessandro Sgobbio, Hilmar Jensson on guitar, Jo Berger Myhre on bass and Øyvind Skarbø on drums. The band has performed concerts and recorded in Norway. Transparence is a journey into imaginary, lost and hidden places. The opening track Lebtit (written by Alessandro Sgobbio) evokes ...
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Omar Kamal Releases 'In The Wee Small Hours' Previewing His New Album And World Tour!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Omar Kamal goes back to the origins from where his passion for singing started. The world of jazz, swing, and blues inspired him at the age of 15 to evolve from a young pianist engrossed in the classical world of music to a singer/composer embarking on an exciting journey to showcase his music with his voice as the lead instrument. “In The Wee Small Hours", a jazz standard released in the 1950s by Frank Sinatra, has been recreated by Omar ...
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Lebanese Pianist Tarek Yamani Drops Electro-Arabic-Jazz Mash-Up Single In Tribute To Buzuq Maestro Matar Muhammad
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All About Jazz
Tarek Yamani—a pianist who appears to have made it his life's work to figure out just how far Arabic musical traditions can be thrust into the American jazz idiom—has unleashed perhaps his most audacious project yet. Typically an acoustic player most often fronting a trio, Yamani makes a brave about face with “King Matar," a quarter-tonal jazz/electro tribute to the virtuoso Lebanese/Syrian buzuq player Matar Muhammad (1939-1995), who lived most of his life in the pianist's homeland, Lebanon. The result ...
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Journey To The Heart Of Africa: Greg Murphy’s 'Cool Water' Is A Genuine Jazz Revelation
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Mixed Media Promotion
Every recording has something of a story associated with it, especially in jazz. For Greg Murphy’s victorious new album, the story is especially intriguing and uniquely spiritual. “The inspiration for the concept of the album and title track, ‘Enkare Nairobi,’ (which means ‘cool water’ in Maasai and refers to the Nairobi River which flows through the Kenyan capital) came from a dream,” Murphy recalls, “and was a direct connection to my trip to Kenya in March of 2019.” Murphy woke ...
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Matthew Alec And The Soul Electric Release Debut Album 'Cleveland Time' Feat. Tom 'bones' Malone
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Big Picture Media
Jazz fusion ensemble Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric has released their new album Cleveland Time via Cleveland Time Records. Working alongside Cleveland-based producer Jim Stewart, the album was recorded in two separate sessions because of the ongoing pandemic. Fans can stream Cleveland Time from here. Cleveland Time marks the first album release from the group that features Matthew Alec (tenor saxophone and EWI), Brian Woods (piano, keyboards, organs, plus vocals on “Give What You Take” and “Baby You Got ...
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Joe Chambers: Samba de Maracatu
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Joe Chambers is one of the most prolific and intriguing jazz drummers and jazz songwriters working today. He's also a superb vibraphonist and percussionist, and he has recorded on piano. Chambers came up in the mid-1960s as an in-demand sideman for the Blue Note label. His first album date was on Freddie Hubbard's Breaking Point! in 1964. The list of Blue Note albums that followed is staggering—three with Andrew Hill, 10 with Bobby Hutcherson, two with Joe Henderson, four with ...
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Swiss Music Ensemble Kali Trio To Release Second Album 'Loom' On March 19, 2021
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
KALI Trio is a Swiss post-genre band. They function as a collective, with every member contributing equally to the writing and creative processes. Their original score for Thomas Imbach’s movie Nemesis will arrive in 2021. Loom is the second album by KALI trio and shows the consequent development of the original style of the working band. The three Swiss musicians Nicolas Stocker (Drums), Urs Müller (E-Gitarre) und Raphael Loher (Piano) weave the various threads of their stylistic background together with ...
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Guitarist And Film Music Mastermind Lyle Workman To Release Stunning New Instrumental Album 'Uncommon Measures' On Feb. 19, 2021 On Blue Canoe Records
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Known both as a first-call sideman/session musician and a top-shelf film composer with credits including Superbad, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, prolific guitarist Lyle Workman will release Uncommon Measures, his first solo album in a more than a decade, on February 19, 2021, via Blue Canoe Records. Featuring a 63- piece orchestra recorded live at Abbey Road under the direction of orchestrator extraordinaire John Ashton Thomas (Black Panther, Captain Marvel), the collection plays like the score to some ...
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