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Bluebird Releases Two Funky Compilations: "Flying Funk" and "Flying Groove"

Bluebird Releases Two Funky Compilations: "Flying Funk" and "Flying Groove"

Source: All About Jazz

Bluebird's legendary Flying Dutchman catalog captured the musical zeitgeist of the late sixties and early seventies with gritty funk meeting driving rock and soulful jazz. This new language, now known as “rare grooves" by the musical cognoscenti, is driving DJ culture around the world.

Flying Funk and Flying Groove, compiled by writer and producer Dean Rudland, one of the genre's most renowned experts, capture all the soulful energy of the era with tracks from Gil Scott-Heron, Lonnie Liston Smith, Nina ...

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Trumpeter/Composer Ron Miles Releases Quartet CD

Trumpeter/Composer Ron Miles Releases Quartet CD

Source: All About Jazz



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Magnets! Bi-Coastal jazz/funk/fusion Band with Rob Scheps, Kim Clarke and Ronnie Burrage plays NYC

Magnets! Bi-Coastal jazz/funk/fusion Band  with Rob Scheps, Kim Clarke and Ronnie Burrage plays NYC

Source: All About Jazz

Magnets!, a fiery jazz/funk/fusion co-op quartet featuring Rob Scheps(saxophones), Kim Clarke (basses) and Ronnie Burrage (drums,wave drum, vocals, keys) returns for their first New York City performances in over a year.

On Friday April 18 and Saturday April 19, Magnets! will perform at The Jazz Spot in Brooklyn, N.Y. Location is Kosciuszko St. near Marcus Garvey Blvd. in the Bushwick neighborhood. Shows are 9 pm to 1 am.More info, go to www.robscheps.8m.net and link to Magnets! website.

Their CD Live ...

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Felmay Records Releases Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble's "Chorale"

Felmay Records Releases Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble's "Chorale"

Source: All About Jazz

Acoustic guitarist SIMONE GUIDUCCI is back with a new record, Chorale, again accompanied by the brilliant and inseparable Gramelot Ensemble along with a clutch of guest musicians familiar from the international jazz scene. Chorale marks a significant step on in Guiducci's pursuit of folk/jazz hybrid forms, a quest he has been on for several years now and which his previous album, the delightful Cantador showed to be rich in potential. The dialogue gets sharper and tighter on Chorale, opening out ...

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Chick Corea Releases New Project,

Chick Corea Releases New Project,

Source: All About Jazz



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