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King Crimson The Elements Tour Box 2018 2-CD Set Now Available
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
The Elements Tour Box was originally devised specifically as a one-off edition for the 2014 King Crimson tour but has since become an in-demand series with subsequent editions in 2015, 16 & 17 becoming firm sellers. As with previous releases in the series, the full variety of King Crimson’s music can be represented over 2CDs with extracts from rehearsals, new live recordings, elements from studio recordings, full tracks, alternate takes & finished recordings from 1969-2017, many of which make their ...
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Elio Villafranca - 2018 Downbeat 2018 Critics Poll Winner "Rising Star - Keyboard" And 4.5-star Review For "Cinque"!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Cinque features Wynton Marsalis, Lewis Nash, Vincent Herring, Steve Turre, Greg Tardy & Freddie Hendrix. Elio Villafranca has just been announced as DownBeat Critics Poll Winner- “Rising Star- Keyboard" and also received a 4.5-star review for Cinque! He was recently interviewed on Univision 41 and is featured on Loren Chuno's Doing Jazz Podcast. Cinque is a five movement suite inspired by the story of Joseph Cinque, who in 1839 led a successful revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, days ...
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A New Chapter In Jazz from The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
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Michael S. Clark
The history of jazz is littered with tales of unsung heroes and overlooked genius. It could be argued that the trumpeter and composer, the late Kenny Wheeler, was one such musician. He moved almost invisibly through the mainstream milieu, yet, he was universally admired by his peers for his important contributions to jazz composition. Many such personalities are dedicated to illuminating the deeper corners of the soul through emotive creativity, often revealing something autobiographical in their music. The SNJO is, ...
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Dale Head And The MindWinder Orchestra "Swing On The Rocks" Release Date July 13!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Hard Rockin' Big Band! Release Date: July 13, 2018 Dale Head releases his latest album, Swing on the Rocks (MindWinder Records) on July 13, 2018, and expands the Great American Songbook with 14 classic rock songs re-imagined in an innovative big band format. Swing on the Rocks explores “soundscapes" in a nod back to the progressive rock of the 1970s. Headphone icons on the album notes indicate where these features enhance the listener's experience. Dale's background is in rock music, ...
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When Grant Green Got Funky
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Two previously unissued Grant Green albums are giving the guitarist’s music something of a comeback. Green, who died in 1979 when he was 47, recorded extensively for the Blue Note and Prestige labels in the 1960s and ‘70s with Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and other leaders. Later, Blue Note recordings under his own name included such distinguished sidemen as Hank Mobley, Sonny Clark, Elvin Jones, Houston Person and Larry Young. In the late 1960s and early ...
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New Bob Mintzer Big Band – New York Voices Album, "Meeting Of Minds," Out Now From MCG Jazz
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All About Jazz
“Meeting of Minds focuses on the integration of voices with the big band. The combination of the dynamic writing styles of Bob Mintzer and Darmon Meader, from New York Voices, produces a very dense yet very fresh sonic palette. There are subtle harmonic and rhythmic nuances in the arrangements that blend together to deliver an engaging musical journey. The repertoire draws on the Great American Songbook from the 1930s and 1940s. Each arrangement transforms a classic song into a modern-day ...
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"My Shining Hour," New CD By San Francisco Bay Area Vocalist Jennifer Lee, Set For Release By SBE Records On August 10
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Terri Hinte Publicity
With her first two albums, Oakland-based vocalist Jennifer Lee established herself as a gifted interpreter of the American and Brazilian Songbooks, producing a critically hailed body of work. On her new CD, My Shining Hour, Lee emerges as a composer who, in the nine years since her last release, has developed a striking repertoire exploring the human condition with humor, compassion, and imagination. “I always wrote a little bit,” says Lee, “but I certainly never thought of myself as a ...
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John Coltrane: Both Directions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On March 6, 1963, saxophonist John Coltrane was at Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones. Between 1 and 6 p.m., Coltrane's “classic quartet" recorded 14 songs, including two untitled Coltrane originals that were recorded just once. As I write in my Wall Street Journal review of the album this week (go here), the newly discovered music is astonishing and hugely important. The recording session was held ...
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