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Bobby Sanabria: West Side Story
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In August 1957, West Side Story opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. The musical was fashioned after Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and was set on New York's Upper West Side in a neighborhood polarized by Puerto Rican and working-class white families. The show received positive reviews, and four years later the musical was adapted for the screen by director Robert Wise. Since the curtains went up on West Side Story's original stage production, virtually every major interpretation of the score ...
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Saxophonist/Composer Dave Anderson To Release New CD By His World-Jazz Band Melting Pot on September 14
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Melting Pot, the new CD by saxophonist Dave Anderson’s like-named world-jazz ensemble, provides a joyous musical antidote to the wave of xenophobia washing over the West today. Formed in 2017, the multicultural band reflects the vitality and diversity of New York City’s international creative music community. Melting Pot will be released on September 14 by LABEL 1 Records. “American culture has started to resist something that’s always been one of its strengths: bringing in people and their influences, seeing what ...
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Award-Winning Saxophonist Tony Kofi And The Organisation Release "Point Blank" On The Last Music Company Label on August 31
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The Last Music Company
“I don’t think I set out to create a retro concept, but it’s mostly what I hear in my head. Because I grew up in the 1970s, the music of that era which I love is deeply rooted within my musical ear,” says saxophonist Tony Kofi of this latest collection, which features the classic organ sound of The Organisation throughout. The quartet on these recordings first emerged in 2010 when Kofi, fresh from recording with Ornette Coleman in New York, ...
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Miggy Augmented Orchestra Entitled Colorful And Performing At Birdland On September 30!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
"A hidden treasure of New York." —Slide Hampton THE NEW TOSHIKO! Miggy Augmented Orchestra Colorful on artistShare! Migiwa “Miggy" Miyajima: Composer, Pianist, Producer Release Date: September 6, 2018 CD Release Performance: September 30th at Birdland! A story of inspiration. Fearless pursuit of passion. Watch the Video The key to living a rich and meaningful life is continuous learning and fearless and pursuit of one's passion. Migiwa “Miggy" Miyajima stepped down as editor in chief of a ...
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Brazilian Pianist / Composer Abelita Mateus Releases "Mixed Feelings" on August 1st
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
From São Paulo to New York City.... Everybody Loves Samba! Featuring Guitarist Romero Lubambo, Bassist Peter Slavov and more! “A mixture of excitement, sadness, 'saudades', happiness, failure, regret, luck- all of the things I was feeling at the time are in my music. I lived in Brazil for the first 30 years of my life. When I decided to move to another country, I had mixed feelings about the new challenges I was about to face. For my ...
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West Side Story Reimagined For Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
An incredible new Latin jazz treatment of this timeless masterwork that premiered on September 26, 1957 redefining American musical theatre in celebration of the shows recent 60th Anniversary (2017) and Maestro Bernstein’s Centennial (2018). Recorded live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in NYC, this exciting new reimagining is West Side Story like you’ve never heard it before as performed by the amazing multi-Grammy nominated 21 piece Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band. This set includes an accompanying 16 page booklet containing rare ...
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Saxophonist / Composer Konstantinos Papachristou Releases New Contemporary Jazz Album "The Darkness Of A Fairy Tale"
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Konstantinos Papachristou
The Darkness of a Fairy Tale is the debut album from Greek composer and saxophonist Konstantinos Papachristou, and describes the journey of a man who receives the “wake-up call" and begins his own inner search for the meaning of life. Konstantinos composed a thematic album of modern jazz music that gains a dark programmatic mood, which motivates the listener to dive deep into his senses. Orchestration preserves Jazz's classical raw sound, while instruments such as bass, piano and drums are ...
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"YUL" By The Alex Lefaivre Quartet Now Available Worldwide
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Orange Grove Publicity
Canadian bassist Alex Lefaivre's new album, YUL, is now available worldwide. Having just returned from a cross-country tour of Canadian Jazz Festivals with Parc X Trio, bassist Alex Lefaivre will celebrate his new release with a series of concerts in Montreal this August. The recording is released through Multiple Chord Music (MCM), the label which he founded in 2011 and which is quickly becoming the reference for creative jazz in Montreal, with artists such as Rachel Therrien, RJ Leblanc, Benjamin ...
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