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University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One Releases "Destiation Unknown"

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2007

The University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One has released their latest CD entitled Destination Unknown. It contains a wide mix of progressive new compositions and more traditional big band music. Some composers and arrangers whose work is featured on the album include Chris Merz, Jim McNeely, Kyle Novak, Jeff Holmes, Kim Richmond and Duke Ellington.

The CD is available at the website below and at cdbaby.

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, UNI Jazz Band One, the School ...

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Delmark Records New Releases for 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 3, 2007

Delmark New Releases Street Date February 20, 2007

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Live at the Ascension Loft (Delmark DVD 1574 / CD DE 574)

Kahil El'Zabar, drums, earth drums, kalimba; Corey Wilkes, trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion; Ernest Dawkins, alto and tenor saxophone, percussion; Fareed Haque, electric and acoustic guitar.

In a DownBeat review of their previous Delmark album, Freedom Jazz Dance (517), Paul de Barros wrote, “The forms being advanced here--or at least merged in a creative, new ...

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MB3 CD Release Party Mel Bay Records Jazz Hits Vol. 1 Wed. Jan. 3 at The Iridium Jazz Club

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 3, 2007

Iridium Jazz Club 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/ Sets At 8:30 & 10:30PM

January 3, 2007 MB3 CD Release Party

Vic Juris Guitar Corey Christiansen Guitar Mordy Ferber Guitar Jay Anderson Bass Tim Horner Drums

Corey Christiansen, Jimmy Bruno and Vic Juris released the first solo CDs on Mel Bay Records. ...

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Introducing Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle / Debut Album on HYENA in 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2007

MIKE DILLON'S GO-GO JUNGLE To Release Debut Album, BATTERY MILK,On HYENA Records In 2007

Midwest and West Coast Tour Dates Announced For January & February

Brooklyn, NY - When jazz legends Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson first introduced the vibes to the jazz idiom circa 1930, they could have never in their wildest dreams foreseen where Mike Dillon would take the concept 75 years later. Likewise, Dillon's heroes Black Sabbath, The Minutemen and Bad Brains would've been hard-pressed to envision ...

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Diatic Records New Releases

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2006

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The Vinyl Gibbon Releases 4-Song EP

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2006

The Vinyl Gibbons' fourwords EP has been highly rated by Derek Sivers, President of CD Baby:

“Mmm, yeah...that hazy, sexy, sensual ache of desperately smoky lounge meeting sex jazz, muted trumpet, really pointy extended jazz chords softened by sultry keyboards and a trip hoppy, 70's flashback groove that casts one hell of a spell over the mind, altering your consciousness like a refined substance, be it whiskey, cigarettes or something heavier. Using synthesizers and various instruments and colors to create ...

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Delmark Records New Releases for 2007- Happy Holidays!

Source: All About Jazz
December 29, 2006

Delmark Records is excited to announce our next batch of four releases for 2007!

We will have the pleasure of making available new DVD/CDs of two of the most popular and hardest working artists of today's Chicago blues and jazz scenes, Jimmy Burns and Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, along with two fascinating buried treasures from Bob Koester's early St. Louis days, Barrelhouse Buck McFarland and Cowboy Roy Brown. Live electric Chicago blues and soul from the fantastic and diverse ...

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Congratulations To Brian Lynch And Eddie Palmieri On Their 2007 Grammy Nomination For Simpatico

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 28, 2006

CONGRATULATIONS TO BRIAN LYNCH AND EDDIE PALMIERI ON THEIR 2007 GRAMMY NOMINATION FOR SIMPATICO

Field 10 (Jazz) - Category 50: Best Latin Jazz Album ?

the Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri project - Simpatico artistShare AS0057

The renowned trumpeter meets musical icon and piano innovator Palmieri in a historic collaboration. Also featuring Phil Woods, Lila Downs, Giovanni Hidalgo and many other stars of jazz and Latin music.

“One of the best Latin jazz albums of the year ... a beautifully arranged explosion ...

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