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Blue Note Records Releases The 2-CD Compilation "The Classic Blue Note Recordings"Of Saxophone Great Wayne Shorter

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Kazuko Baba Trio Releases "ai" on Playscape Recordings

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The power of love, it would seem, is central to the work of Kazuko Baba, pianist-composer. Above and beyond the reference in the title ("ai" means “love" in Japanese) and the different phases of romance that the composer says spawned each of her tunes, the sublime force is chief among the things required if one is to do as Baba has done in the decade or so since she came under the spell of jazz in her native Japan. Within ...

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Pianist Beegie Adair Releases Centennial Composers 6-CD Box Set on Green Hill

Source: All About Jazz

Roughly a century ago, six composers were born -- Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington and Richard Rodgers -- and they forever changed the style of popular music. To celebrate their awesome musical accomplishments, pianist Beegie Adair and her jazz trio have released a four-and-a-half-hour Centennial Composers six-CD box set with new renditions of a dozen or more of the best-known tunes by each songwriter.

With a full CD devoted to each composer, this expansive and ...

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ECM Releases Charles Lloyd's 2-CD Set "Lift Every Voice"

Source: All About Jazz

Charles Lloyd: tenor saxophone, flute, taragato Geri Allen: piano John Abercrombie: guitar Marc Johnson: double-bass Larry Grenadier: double-bass Billy Hart: drums

ECM 1832/33 (2-CD-Set 440 018 783-2)

Charles Lloyd introduces a new line-up, or line-ups, on Lift Every Voice. The recording derives from two sessions in Los Angeles in January and February of this year. The first employed the services of pianist Geri Allen (making her ECM debut), Larry Grenadier ...

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Rhinohandmade.Com To Release Jimmy Scott's Lost Masterpiece "Falling In Love Is Wonderful"

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Satoko Fujii Trio Releases Bell The Cat! On October 1

Source: All About Jazz

Bell the Cat!, the fifth album by Satoko Fujii's New York trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black may be their most varied - and most daring - yet. With each new recording, the rapport between the trio members grows deeper and the risks they take are greater. With each recording, Fujii's concept for the trio matures and her composing for it channels their creativity in new, exciting, and unexpected directions while giving them plenty of freedom to ...

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In Stores Now - Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Cannonball Adderley on HYENA

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Jazz Trumpeter Chris Botti Unwraps Holiday Album December And Offers Romantic Renditions Of Favorite Holiday Standards

Source: All About Jazz

After two years of touring as featured trumpet soloist with Sting and phenomenal success as a solo artist, Chris Botti continues to set new standards in the world of contemporary jazz. With his latest release December, on Columbia Records, Chris Botti blends beautiful harmonies and sounds of the holiday spirit to create music that is joyful, romantic and sexy. Set to be released on October 22nd, December wonderfully captures the true meaning of Christmas and warmth of the season.

December ...

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