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Stu Goldberg's "Dedication" Breaks Into Jazz Chart

Source: All About Jazz

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Mulgrew Miller Returns to Recording With "The Sequel" on MAXJAZZ (September 17)

Source: All About Jazz

Reunites Miller with Wingspan, the group he founded over 15 years ago

At age 46, Mulgrew Miller is one of the most acclaimed -- and recorded -- jazz pianists of his generation. In a 1995 NEW YORK TIMES poll, he was selected as the “most in-demand" pianist in jazz and was also listed by the venerable Hank Jones as one of Jones' favorite pianists. Yet while he is respected by his peers and embraced by audiences worldwide, Miller always believes ...

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New Jazz Releases From Concord Records

Source: All About Jazz

Peak Records is releasing the 50th album from Argentine jazz legend Gato Barbieri. As well as marking this milestone release, Gato is also celebrating his 70th birthday, five decades in showbiz and the 30th Anniversary of Last Tango in Paris, for which he won a Grammy. The new release is called The Shadow of the Cat and reunites Gato with Herb Albert. If you haven't yet received it, please let me know and I'll send it your way.

This month, ...

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Verve Records To Release Chris Potter's "Traveling Mercies"

Source: All About Jazz

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Ubiquity Releases "Para Puente" by Snowboy on September 12th

Source: All About Jazz

DJ, music critic, journalist, promoter and bandleading UK conguero Snowboy is back with a heavyweight hard-hitting tribute to Tito Puente, the King of Mambo! Para Puente! What more of a personal tribute can you pay someone than name your album after them? Para Puente is a way of acknowledging how much inspiration Tito Puente, the King of Mambo, gave and continues to give to Snowboy.

“There are no Puente 'covers' on this album, and other than my tribute song, “Puente", ...

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Ralph Alessi & Michael McGinnis - New Releases on RKM Music

Source: All About Jazz

RKM Music is proud to announce the release of three recordings by NYC-based artists. Two are by trumpeter Ralph Alessi who has been performing with Steve Coleman, Don Byron, Uri Caine, and Fred Hersch over the last few years as well as leading his own groups. The third CD is by saxophonist Michael McGinnis and his group Between Green and features all of Michael's compostions played by some of NYC's finest young musicians.

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Monty Alexander Celebrates His Version Of The American Dream

Source: All About Jazz

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