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Final e.s.t. Album "Leucocyte" in Shops September 1

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Right after the untimely passing of Esbjörn Svensson his band colleagues Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund had decided to stop the release of the already finished album Leucocyte.

Now this final e.s.t. album will get released worldwide on September 01, 2008 in its original and unchanged version - as it has been previously approved by the band and delivered to the record companies before Esbjörn Svenssons passing. It will now become the legacy of Esbjörn Svensson and shows the band ...

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David Archuleta's First Single, Crush!

Source: Michael Ricci
August 1, 2008

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Keller to Release Live Album

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

KELLER WILLIAMS RELEASES NEW ALBUM, LIVE A LIVE CONCERT RECORDING FEATURING WILLIAMS, KEITH MOSELEY, GIBB DROLL AND JEFF SIPE LOOK FOR KELLER WILLIAMS AND THE BAND ON TOUR THIS FALL

Keller Williams Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house all by himself. So why now, after fifteen-years as a solo artist, is he releasing a live album-simply titled, Live with three other names on the cover? It turns ...

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Leni Stern's Africa Praised in JAZZIZ Profile

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Leni Stern Featured in Annual Women's Issue of JAZZIZ “Especially as a woman, when I came to Africa, I could see they were just thinking, 'What the hell?' But then you play what you know is their favorite blues lick, and then there's, 'Oh, yes, that we know'" JAZZIZ MAGAZINE Leni Stern Q&A feature, July/August 2008 By Melissa Blazek Though not an African native, the blonde, German-born, Berklee-trained jazz guitarist Leni Stern has become a windswept ...

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"Thousand Miles" by Julio Awad with Peter Erskine, Paul Wertico and Mark Egan

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Thousand Thousands is the new CD alone of the pianist and composer Julio Awad, where it assembles a stellar group of musicians to present/display his compositions of Jazz/World Fusion. The acoustic piano sparks in the overture “Returned Tango", an improvisation accompanied by two legendary musicians like the bass player Mark Egan and the drummer Paul Wertico. In other compositions like “We Arrived" it is possible to be appreciated different styles and their fort work like arranger, that an endless ones ...

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Keyboardist Nick Manson Releases "Mercator" with John Patitucci, Ian Froman & Andy Suzuki

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Mercator Nick Manson, John Patitucci, Ian Froman, Andy Suzuki Manasus Music 2008

Recorded in NYC on St. Patrick's Day, 2008, the improvisational music included within Mercator has little to do with luck, and everything to do with musicality, patience and soulful virtuosity.

Mercator is the result of four journeyman jazz musicians' willingness to allow seven newly penned compositions; never before performed or rehearsed, take them across a broad, emotional, sonic spectrum, without any imposed ...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa Releases "Kinsmen"

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Kinsmen is a groundbreaking project by alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa (rude-RESH muh-HAHN-tha-pa) that melds jazz with South Indian music into a single organic whole. Mahanthappa, recently named a Top 10 alto saxophonist in the 2008 DownBeat Critic's Poll, is one of the most innovative young musicians in jazz today. Kinsmen is his collaboration with Kadri Gopalnath, a living legend of Indian music known as “The Emperor of the Saxophone, “ a true innovator in bringing the saxophone to Indian classical ...

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Chris Greene Quartet Releases Soul and Science 2: Electric Boogaloo

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
July 31, 2008

"Straight Ahead Jazz with an Edge" “...rivals some of what is played on contemporary jazz music stations across the United States. Soul and Science 2: Electric Boogaloo is certainly a formidable follow-up from a formidable band." - AllAboutJazz.com Soul and Science 2: Electric Boogaloo, the new CD by the Chris Greene Quartet, is now available for purchase at www.DustyGroove.com and at its Chicago headquarters (1120 N. Ashland). Copies may also be purchased at CDBaby.com, Amazon.com, ITunes, and CandyRat.com. And the ...

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