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Saskia Laroo: New CD Release March 15th

Source: Gina Vodegel Writing Affairs
March 2, 2008

In March, international trumpet player from the Netherlands Saskia Laroo will release her fifth CD on her own label Laroo Records. This new CD, a melange of Funk, Dance, and Jazz using instrumental themes, vocals, rap, beatbox, and improvisation over hip grooves will be called Really Jazzy. Having released two jazz albums and two funk albums in more than twenty countries, Really Jazzy will be her first new release since 1999. Ms. Laroo recorded and produced her latest work on ...

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Karmyn Tyler: A Computer Catalyst for a Song

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2008

With a 3-month writer's strike came a lot of free time for Karmyn Tyler. An actress and singer, Karmyn utilized that time and took her computer with garage band, added her home studio and wrote, arranged, and produced Luv Me So. Podcasters immediately started playing it and it debuted the first week on the PMN (podsafe music network) Top 10 at number 7, The next week it went to number 1. The next week, Karmyn composed “Forbidden Love," a song ...

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Pure Bossa Nova | Os Cariocas | Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2008

Os Cariocas started his career in the '40s, when Bossa Nova was not even dreamt of. Strongly influenced by the vocal groups of the “golden era" of American music, they recorded every rhythm that was fashionable in Brazil and weer acclaimed, in the '50s, as one of the best vocal groups in Brazil. From 1963 on, they adopted the Bossa Nova aesthetic as a banner, helping popularize Brazilian music classes like Tem D, Tim-tim-por-tim-tim, Pra que ...

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Seasons of Change | Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band | Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2008

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Pure Bossa Nova | Roberto Menescal | Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2008

Roberto Menescal lived in Copacabana and his two big passions were the sea and the guitar. It did not take much for him to get involved in the rising Bossa Nova movement between the '50s and the '60s. With his partner Ronaldo Bscoli, he wrote some of the biggest classics of Bossa Nova including O Barquinho, Voc, Ns e O Mar and Vagamente, soft and “sealike", as was appropriate at that time. He and his group ...

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Pure Bossa Nova | Sylvia Telles | Album

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2008

A delicate and sophisticated singer of the '50s, Sylvia Telles was one of the first interpreters to become identified with Bossa Nova, recording all the great classics written by Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and other important composers of the genre. Using remarkably good taste when choosing her repertoire, she released several quality albums during her short career from 1955 to 1966 when, still young, she died in a car accident. Tracks ...

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Razdaz Recordz Will Release "Evolution" from Amos Hoffman on March 25

Source: GoMedia PR
February 29, 2008

New CD from Guitarist and Oudist Blends Jazz and Middle Eastern Influences Guitar and oud player Amos Hoffman, who has been performing and recording as a member of Avishai Cohen's band for more than two decades, will release Evolution, his debut CD on Cohen's Razdaz Recordz, on March 25. Since relocating to his native Israel in 1999 after years on the New York jazz scene, Hoffman has spent the time since the release of his last CD (2006's Na'ama, on ...

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Pure Bossa Nova | Walter Wanderley | Album

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2008

The “number 1 organist in Brazil," Walter Wanderley proved that it was possible to combine good taste and modern arrangements in a commercial and danceable repertoire. His albums always made the “hit parade" of the time be it samba, rock, bolero and especially jazz Bossa-which was his biggest trademark thanks to the smash hit “Samba de Vero," recorded by him in the US in 1966. Tracks 1. Samba De Vero ...

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