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Stunning Originals Featured On Pianist Michika Fukumori's "Piano Images" - Solo Project Produced By Steve Kuhn

Source: Mouthpiece Music
July 22, 2018

Michika Fukumori, a native of Japan, has been living in New York City since 2000. A soulful pianist, she was drawn to the U.S to study jazz and become involved in the New York jazz scene. Piano Images (Summit Records, June 22, 2018) is her third CD release since coming to States. The CD is a solo project, featuring Fukumori on piano playing mostly stunning original compositions as well as several of her favorite jazz standards. Fukumori has played in ...

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Expressive Vocalist Christine Hitt Releases "Magical Kite," Produced By Geoffrey Keezer

Source: Mouthpiece Music
July 21, 2018

For vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Christine Hitt, music is a family affair. Her father was a band director and her mother was a piano teacher and professional vocalist. Hitt married a trumpet player, and two of her three sons appear on Hitt’s newest CD, Magical Kite. Hitt’s warm voice can express a rich tapestry of tones, and she sings ballads and swing tunes with equal facility. The selection of songs on Magical Kite, from standards to gospel to bebop, reflects Hitt’s ...

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Paul Simon To Release New Album – In The Blue Light – On September 7 Coinciding With Final Leg Of Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2018

“This album consists of songs that I thought were almost right, or were odd enough to be overlooked the first time around. Re-doing arrangements, harmonic structures, and lyrics that didn’t make their meaning clear, gave me time to clarify in my own head what I wanted to say, or realize what I was thinking and make it more easily understood.”—Paul Simon, July 2018 Legendary songwriter, recording artist and performer Paul Simon will release his 14th studio album—In The Blue Light—on ...

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This Is Your Vinyl Notice

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 17, 2018

The long-playing 33&1/3 RPM record is far from dead. Following up on the July 12 Rifftides review of Duck Baker’s LP of Thelonious Monk compositions, here are three other relatively recent vinyl albums worthy of your acquaintance. Rudresh Mahanthappa Indo-Pak Coalition, Agrima (Mahanthappa) Nine years following their first album, Apti, alto saxophonist Mahanthappa’s trio further expand on the possibilities in combining music from his double heritage, American and Pakistani. Accompanied by the formidably energetic drummer and tabla player Dan Weiss ...

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Soft Machine Announce New Album "Hidden Details" & World Tour Dates, With First North American Dates Since 1974

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
July 15, 2018

In support of their forthcoming new album, British music legends Soft Machine will embark on their first North American tour since 1974 in October 2018, followed by the second North-American leg of the tour in January/February 2019. In concert, their set list will include material from all parts of the band's repertoire from 1970 onwards, but this is emphatically not a nostalgia act resting on its laurels. Last weekend Soft Machine played their first two shows in North America since ...

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Recent Listening In Brief: Black Art Jazz Collective, Lynn Arriale

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 15, 2018

Black Art Jazz Collective, Armor of Pride (High Note Records) Half of the Collective’s members are leading lights among jazz artists in their forties and early fifties. They include trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery and pianist Xavier Davis. The younger trombonist James Burton III, bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Jonathan Blake blend into a modern mainstream sextet inspired, at least in part, by Wayne Shorter’s writing during his Art Blakey period (and since) and by Miles Davis’s pre-electronic ...

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Russian Guitar Virtuoso Roman Miroshnichenko celebrates his creative life jubilee with "Ascension"

Source: Roman Miroshnichenko
July 14, 2018

Ascension was recorded with his long time band and includes Val Chernook on drums and Oleg Kanakov on bass. He is also joined by special guests: Grammy-winning violinist Charlie Bisharat, Argentinian pianist Mario Parmisano, renown Floridian musicians Luis Alicea (drums) and Aron Ferre (keyboards), Danish virtuoso Henrik Andersen and world class percussionist Gumbi Ortiz. Al Di Meola, the legendary guitarist, commented on the release: “Roman’s adventurous complex playing and songs take the listener on a tour de force journey. Carrying ...

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Vocalist Sarah Benasouli Releases Enthralling New Single “thoughts”

Source: You And Whose Army Media
July 13, 2018

Sarah Benasouli’s latest track titled “Thoughts” is a refreshing fusion ofjazz and synth play. The single highlights the melodic progressions and changes which are perfectly balanced by Benasouli’s building vocals featuring her adventurous scatting and narrative lyrical tendencies. “Thoughts” accentuates the quartet’s innovative writing style through its catchy hook, creating an impressive intersection between various genres which speaks to the track’s exciting yet simple sequence. Sarah Benasouli’s personal vocal inspirations include icons Ella Fitzgerald and Rachelle Ferrell, both of whom ...

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