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Saxman Lerman is Back on the Prowl with "Meow Baby"

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
February 28, 2008

Album released to strong reviews as “No Ordinary Love" captures hearts at radio If cats have nine lives, perhaps soul-groove saxophonist Danny Lerman is on his third. Yesterday (February 26th) he released his third album, Meow Baby, on Sugar Whiskey Records, his record label distributed by Lightyear Entertainment/EMI. Lerman's mlange of accessible contemporary jazz, funk-da-fied R&B and shimmering pop melodies incorporates Latin, South African, Middle Eastern and World Music nuances that were inspired by his extensive travels and performances around ...

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This Year's Model | Elvis Costello | Album

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2008

This Year's Model (1978) was Elvis Costello's second album and his first with The Attractions. It was recorded mainly at Eden Studios in West London. It was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll [1]. In 2000, Q magazine placed This Year's Model at number 82 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 11 on its ...

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Kendrick Scott's World Culture Music Proudly Announces the Release of Trombonist/Composer Nick Vayenas' Debut Album, Synesthesia

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
February 28, 2008

Kendrick Scott's World Culture Music Proudly Announces The Release of Trombonist/Composer Nick Vayenas' Debut Album, Synesthesia In Stores and Online on February 26, 2008 Synesthesia |_sin_s__ zh _| ( Brit. synaesthesia) noun Physiology & Psychology o the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. o the poetic description of a sense impression in terms of another sense, as in “a loud perfume" or ...

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Leni Stern Lyrics: Sociopolitical Nightmares in Africa

Source: Seth Cohen PR
February 28, 2008

THE WASHINGTON POST: “Leni Stern Crafts a Cross-Cultural Prayer Meeting on the Soulful 'Africa'" “Shimmering Guitar Work and an Indigenous Brew of Vocal Harmonies"; Lyrics Address “Sociopolitical Nightmares" DOWNBEAT: “Stern Also Laces 'Africa' with Sadness...in its Ability to Capture the Enormity of Africa's Plight" Stern is Invited to perform at Eastwind Festival in New Delhi, India Six NY Dates Set for Spring; European Release of 'Africa' Set for March; West Coast U.S. Tour Planned for May '08 Leni Stern continues ...

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Dave Douglas & Keystone Release Moonshine

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
February 28, 2008

Moonshine available now, exclusively at greenleafmusic.com In Stores, April 15, 2008 Moonshine, the new album from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Grammy-nominated band, Keystone, is one of those albums that move musical genres forward into uncharted territory. In this case, the genre is electronica, funk and jazz, the sound of late 1960s Miles Davis, Weather Report, and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. The evolutionary/revolutionary aspect is found in the vibrant alchemy between Douglas' avant-garde leaning compositions, the relentless, polyrhythmic funk of drummer ...

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Pure Bossa Nova | Nara Leao | Album

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2008

Nara Leo was known as the “Muse of Bossa Nova" because many of the meetings which created the Bossa Nova movement happened in her Copacabana apartment. Despite having recorded all genres of Brazilian music, her small, fragile, and sensual voice would be synonymous with Bossa Nova forever. Daring and brave, Nara Leo was always a vanguard artist, often released in the unexpected. Tracks 1. Corcovado 2. Voc E ...

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Mosaic to Release Ahmad Jamal Trio Set

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2008

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Pure Bossa Nova | Vinicius de Moraes | Album

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2008

A poet devoted to writing books, Vinicius De Moraes started a partnership with Antonio Carlos Jobim, writing essential pieces for Brazilian music. His lyrics were somewhere between the dark, dramatic, and painful “samba-ballads" and the solar lightness of Bossa Nova, which prevailed from 1958 on, when Joo Gilberto had many hit singles with the duo's songs. After the '60s he kept his high standards, writing with such partners as Carlos Lyra, Baden Powell, Edu Lobo and ...

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