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The Brubeck Brothers Quartet Releases "Timeline," Celebrating Dave Brubeck's Historic 1958 State Dept. Tour

Source: Mouthpiece Music
April 14, 2018

Chris Brubeck and Dan Brubeck are extensions of a remarkable jazz legacy. Although they toured and recorded with their father extensively, the immensely popular and influential jazz innovator Dave Brubeck, Chris and Dan have forged their own musical identities. Bassist and trombonist Chris and drummer Dan have previously released four albums with their band Brubeck Brothers Quartet. Along with their musical compatriots, Mike DeMicco on guitar and Chuck Lamb on piano, they are releasing their newest CD, Timeline (Blue Forest ...

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Pianist/Composer Yelena Eckemoff Evokes Mystery & Allure Of Arabian Desert On Quartet Outing "Desert," Set For May 4 Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 8, 2018

It takes a discerning eye, or in this case ear, to envision the desert as more than a vast, arid wasteland. Pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff succeeds in musically portraying many of this daunting environment’s mysteries and its boundless allure on her new recording, Desert, to be released May 4 on her imprint L&H Production. The quartet outing, the latest in the impressive series of concept albums at the core of the prolific Russian-born, North Carolina-based keyboard virtuoso’s catalog, reunites her with ...

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Canadian Jazz Band B's Bees Releases Third Album "Kanata"

Source: Jazz Beyond Borders
April 7, 2018

Montreal’s busiest jazz band, B’s Bees, recorded their new album Kanata during a highly inspired, post-tour interlude. Their third album displays their vast, exciting style of play and shows growth in the group’s compositional and improvisational abilities. A native of British Columbia, drummer and bandleader Brandon Goodwin has been a mainstay in the Montreal music scene for over a decade. In his last five years there, he experienced an exceptional period of creativity as a composer and non-stop performer with ...

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Pianist Roberta Piket Revisits Jazz Trio Format With The April 6 Release Of "West Coast Trio," Featuring Joe La Barbera & Darek Oleszkiewicz

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 6, 2018

Roberta Piket, one of the most virtuosic and versatile pianists on the current international jazz scene, revisits the iconic jazz piano trio format with the April 6 release of West Coast Trio on her label Thirteenth Note Records. Joining Piket is the consummate rhythm section of drummer Joe La Barbera and bassist Darek Oleszkiewicz—part of the vibrant West Coast jazz scene centered in metro-Los Angeles and whose presence inspired the album’s title. Guitarist Larry Koonse guests on two tracks. In ...

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Guitarist/Composer Leni Stern Weaves Rhythms Of Senegal With The Music Of NYC On New Album, "3"

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
April 5, 2018

Featuring Leni Stern (guitar/vocals), Mamadou Ba (bass) & Alioune Faye (percussion & vocals). Available April 27, 2018 Upcoming Tour Dates: Tuesday, April 24 at 10 PM, 55 Bar, NYC Friday, April 27 at 9 PM, Shrine World Music, NYC Saturday, April 28 at 8:30 PM, Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3, NYC Thursday, May 3 at 7 PM, An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD CD Release Celebration Tuesday, May 8 at 10 PM, 55 Bar, NYC ...

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Just Released: "Clockworks" (Songlines Recordings) Featuring Patrick Zimmerli Quartet with Ethan Iverson, Chris Tordini, John Hollenbeck

Source: AMT Public Relations
April 3, 2018

Completing a 25-year compositional arc, saxophonist-composer Patrick Zimmerli releases his new jazz suite Clockworks (Songlines) following the release in 2016 of his first quartet’s 1992 recording Shores Against Silence (with Kevin Hays, Larry Grenadier and Tom Rainey). Both records feature rhythmically and melodically advanced composition largely inspired by Zimmerli’s love of serial composers such as Babbitt, Carter, Stockhausen and Boulez, though still grounded in a jazz ethos. Both explore a different third stream direction in jazz that Zimmerli made his ...

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Drummer/Composer Reggie Quinerly Reveals A New Aspect Of His Musicianship With The April 20 Release Of "Words To Love"

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 27, 2018

Hailed by DownBeat as the embodiment of “style, substance, soul, and swagger,” Reggie Quinerly is just the kind of drummer to take on a first-time challenge—like writing an album’s worth of songs featuring vocalists. “As a drummer, I’m always trying to write things you wouldn’t expect,” says Quinerly. On Words to Love, his third album as a leader which is set for April 20 release by Redefinition Music, Quinerly composed music and lyrics for eight songs exploring the many facets ...

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Susan Krebs Chamber Band Releases "Spring: Light Out Of Darkness" On Greengig Music

Source: Mouthpiece Music
March 25, 2018

Spring: Light Out of Darkness is Susan Krebs’ sixth album as a leader and the second CD project for the Susan Krebs Chamber Band. “Spring" is the follow-up to the Chamber Band’s 2015 acclaimed release, Simple Gifts, taking the chamber band concept even further on this new project. Chamber music is defined as “music composed for small instrumental ensembles and performed without a conductor. Traditionally intended for performance in a room or reception hall, often solely for the performers’ own ...

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