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Getting Involved with Jim Hall and Bill Frisell

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2008

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Kate Schutt Needs to Hear Your Love Story!

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2008

Kate Schutt is currently working on a new ArtistShare project, No Love Lost, that requires participants to submit their own love stories. She will interpret the chosen stories, and write music and lyrics. The album is going to be named “The Telephone Game." Now is your chance to let your love story last in a beautiful artform. Even if you choose not to submit your story, you can be part of the “Spread the Love" team. You will be able ...

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Judy Wexler Sings "Dreams & Shadows" - Coming March 18th

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
February 13, 2008

Coming March 18: JUDY WEXLER DREAMS & SHADOWS Jazzed Media JM 1031 The follow-up to Judy Wexler's critically acclaimed debut Easy on the Heart confirms her status as one of the finest rising bop-influenced jazz vocalists on today's music scene. Dreams & Shadows features an eclectic repertoire, including “Spooky" and “Almost Blue," with inventive arrangements by piano greats Alan Pasqua and Jeff Colella. The sideman list includes saxman Bob Sheppard, bassist Darek Oles, and drummer Joe ...

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Guitarist Todd Grubbs New CD Featuring Dream Theater, Megadeth, Iced Earth, Zappa Members Now Available

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 13, 2008

2/Brandon, Florida - Last month the music press was buzzing with what was being described as a 'super session' taking place during the recording of virtuosic Florida guitarist Todd Grubbs fourth solo album titled Time, Space and the Electric. For these sessions, Grubbs, who has been prominently featured in national and international publications such as Guitar World, 20th Century Guitar and Guitar (Japan), enlisted an array of well-known musical artists to record on his new CD. “Time, Space and the ...

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The Bird and the Bee - One Too Many Hearts EP - Available Online Now!

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2008

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Yazbek Hailed: "Sulfurous and Often Despairing" "Edgy and Inventive" "Unusually Good"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
February 11, 2008

Journalists have spent time with David Yazbek's complex pop-rock CD 'Evil Monkey Man,' and have come to appreciate the darkness beneath the album's deceptively catchy melodies. The New York Times, in an interview preview, described the music as “Sulfurous and often despairing...," adding: “What's no shock is that emotion doesn't capsize his craft. The words may be about the inevitability of decay, but the grooves include mellow bossa novas and uptempo blues. And he still has the wit to rhyme ...

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Album of the Week - Sambatropolis, Hendrik Meurkens

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2008

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JM Creative Artists and JansenMusic Records Take B.J. Jansen & Conjura Global in 2008!

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2008

New Music by Jansen & Conjura is now available on the following retail websites: iTunes: USA, Japan, UK/EU, Canada & South America Amazonmp3.com: USA/UK eMusic.com Amiestreet.com Myspace.com Rhapsody.com Napster.com SNOCAP.com IMEEM.com And Many More! Also The Movement Vol. 1 Album will be available for sale in Physical CD Format at all performances along with Digital Download Cards redeemable for MP3s online. JM ...

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