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Italian Jazz Guitarist Rocco Zifarelli Releases New Album Music Unites

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 9, 2020

Music Unites is the new CD by Italian guitarist Rocco Zifarelli, for more than 20 years alongside the famous movie music composer Ennio Morricone with whom he has recorded many award winning scores (Academy Award, Golden Globe, Bafta etc) and performed in many tours around the world. Published 20 years after the acclaimed Lyndon (Via VenetoJazz-Universal) this CD continues on the same musical concept, that concerns instrumental electric jazz and jazz-rock in general, with 10 tracks describing a series of ...

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Bill Warfield Re-Ups His Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra On 'Smile,' Due June 5 From Planet Arts Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 8, 2020

Trumpeter Bill Warfield’s Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra lives up to its name on Smile, the little big band’s second album, set for a June 5 release on Planet Arts Records. The 12-piece ensemble locates and unleashes grooves from a pair of Warfield originals and several R&B and fusion classics, as well as a few more unlikely sources. They have some major league help: keyboardist and longtime David Letterman sidekick Paul Shaffer and esteemed tenor saxophonist “Blue” Lou Marini take seats ...

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Bassist Nicholas Krolak Inspires Listeners To Find And Use One’s Voice To Impact The World Around Oneself With His Sophomore Album, 'Voice = Power.

Source: Outside in Music
May 6, 2020

Bassist, composer, and lyricist Nicholas Krolak is no stranger to the complexities of the modern world in which we live. As a musician, Krolak understands it is not enough for him to merely preserve tradition, but it is not possible to move forward without it. As a person, he understands the dual necessity of walking in modernity while maintaining healthy roots firmly in the natural world. Voice = Power, Krolak’s sophomore album, represents the path he has walked to reconcile ...

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Bassonist Sara Schoenbeck And Pianist Wayne Horvitz Will Release 'Cell Walk' On May 22

Source: GoMedia PR
May 4, 2020

New Album is Frequent Collaborators' Debut as a Duo Sara Schoenbeck and Wayne Horvitzhave been musical partners for 20 years, notably in Horvitz’s chamber jazz group The Gravitas Quartet (formed 2004) and his Some Days are Forever Afternoon project (2015, both on Songlines). They formed this duo in 2018 to play a program of their own music—composed, improvised, and everywhere in between, a study of the crossroads where texture and extended technique meet with and support the expression of melody ...

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Legendary Electric Violinist & Vocalist L. Shankar Debuts New Single & Video From His Star-studded New Album

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 3, 2020

Lakshminarayana Shankar, professionally known as L. Shankar, is widely considered a living legend, a pioneer, and a musical genius who has collaborated with giants such as Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and many, many more. His solo albums have always drawn not only enormous interest from fans and critics alike but also showcase the collaborative spirit that is integral to Shankar’s art. Musicians, singers, visionaries, both known and obscure, have all come to pay tribute to this ...

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DGM Records Launches Robert Fripp 'Music For Quiet Moments Series'

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 2, 2020

DGM Records is launching the Robert Fripp Music for Quiet Moments series. They will be releasing a soundscape every Friday on DGMLive, Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music and all the main online music platforms. Says Co-producer David Singleton, “Hopefully something that will nourish us, and help us through these uncertain times. I have certainly enjoyed the peace that comes with editing and mastering them. Turning a seeming disadvantage to our advantage, a year at home without touring offers the chance to ...

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Alex Bird And The Jazz Mavericks: 'Whisky Kisses' (Single)

Source: Alex Bird
May 1, 2020

TITLE TRACK FROM UPCOMING DEBUT ALBUM “WHISKY KISSES” Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks have been turning heads across the Toronto Jazz scene, and now they bring to you one more single, “Whisky Kisses”, the title track from their upcoming, all original debut album (Summer 2020). It is a song that is very much needed right now. “Whisky Kisses” will be one of the bright musical lights of an otherwise dark year. “Whisky Kisses” is already an award winner. Alex ...

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Bartosz Hadala Group Releases 'Three Short Stories'

Source: Bartosz Hadala
April 30, 2020

Polish-Canadian pianist and composer Bartosz Hadala is thrilled to announce the release of his new jazz album, Three Short Stories, the highly- anticipated follow-up to his critically- acclaimed and successful debut jazz album, The Runner Up (featuring Randy Brecker & Antonio Sanchez). Three Short Stories invites the listener to share Hadala's deeply personal journey through a musical narrative presented through arrangements which are unique yet accessible and delivered with brilliant musicianship. Recorded at one of Toronto's premiere studios, Revolution Recording, ...

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