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New Releases from SteepleChase Records

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Available from: Stateside Distributors 1004 N. California Chicago, Illinois 60622 Tel: 1-888-776-0436 Fax: 773-862-8630 e-mail: [email protected]

SCCD 31526 “Jam Session - Vol. 3"- featuring: Dick Oatts (tenor sax), Vincent Herring (ts, as), Don Braden (ts), Andy LaVerne (pno), Jay Andersen (bs), and Billy Drummond (drums).Steeplechase jam sessions continue to present the best of the best. Package includes original tunes by Oatts, Braden, and LaVerne, standards such as Richard Rogers “You ...

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Kevin Stout & Brian Booth Release "Good Pals" on Jazzed5 Records, LLC

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SALT LAKE CITY— October 30, 2002— Former Four Freshmen trombonist Kevin Stout and Salt Lake City jazz saxophonist Brian Booth are in their finest hour on their new release, “Good Pals," recorded in 2002 with their band, “5.” The band “5" features Stout and Booth along with Las Vegas musicians Joey Singer on piano, Tom Warrington on bass, and John Abraham on drums.

Las Vegas Jazz Society reviewer Ken Hanlon writes, “The album's title, Good Pals, was inspired by the ...

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Original Jazz, Sweet Sounds, Great NYC Jazz Lineup Grace The Tracks Of Vibraphonist Matthias Lupri

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Blue Note Records Release Schedule Through 2003

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10/22/2002 Grant Green- Retrospective 1961- 66 (4 CD set) Wayne Shorter- Classics Blue Note Recordings (2 CD set)

11/5/2002 Mosaic Box set: The Four Freshmen- Complete Capitol Fifties Mosaic Box set: “Gene Krupa & Harry James- Complete Capitol Fifties

1/7/2003 Jane Bunnett- Cuban Odyssey Jacky Terrasson- Smile

1/28/2003 Stefano Di Battista- Round About Roma ScoLoHoFo- Oh! (Scofield, Lovano, Holland, Foster) RVG: Donald ...

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Jazz Singer Pinky Winters Records With Richard Rodney Bennett

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Writes the veteran jazz vocalist Carol Sloane in her liner notes for “Rain Sometimes":

“You may be unfamiliar with the work of Pinky Winters, but with resolute confidence in the exquisite music contained on this disc, I believe you will join the hundreds of musicians and others singers who have been her staunchest admirers for many years, in spite of the fact that so few of her precise interpretations have been heretofore readily available. This is a voice which will ...

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Bassist Ray Brown Leads High-Profile Jazz Trio In His Final Recording

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Pianist Monty Alexander and guitarist Russell Malone join the late jazz giant

Bassist Ray Brown, a pioneer in bebop whose associations included some of the most prominent names in modern jazz, was as hard working and prolific as he was talented. A contemporary of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, his artistic credits ranged from the recording studio to the international jazz stage to television, and his half-century resume includes an impressive string of Grammys and other awards. He ...

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Verve Records To Release Diana Krall

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Savoy Jazz Announces the Release of Premium Collections by Charlie Parker and Billy Eckstine as the Hallowed Label's 60th Anniversary Celebration Continues

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