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Bev Kelly: From the Heart
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A couple of days ago I heard from singer Bev Kelly. If you're unfamiliar with Bev, dig my two-part interview with her from 2013 (here and here). In the 1950s, Bev was one of the hippest jazz vocalists in Chicago's bevy of hotel clubs and lounges. She recorded quite a few important albums, including several with pianist and vocalist Pat Moran. There also were two albums for Riverside—Love Locked Out (1959) and In Person (1960). Also notable was You Go ...
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American-British vocalist Allen Austin-Bishop debut album "Sorry Grateful" Available Now!
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Allen Austin-Bishop
Vocalist Allen Austin-Bishop's Sorry Grateful is an album comprised of jazz standards ranging from Errol Garner’s “Misty” and Johnny Mandel’s “The Shadow of Your Smile”, to Victor Young’s “When I Fall in Love” and Bart Howard’s “Fly Me to the Moon." Allen Austin-Bishop was born in Newark, New Jersey (USA) but is currently based in London. Allen is a crossover jazz singer, who’s smooth, mellow and emotionally charged voice allows his singing to connect with a captive audience, and create ...
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Tom Brigandi: Late Night N.Y.
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bassist Tom Brigandi recorded just two albums as a leader. Both albums are exceptional. From my online research, I know he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated in 1981. I also know that he played with Chuck Mangione in the 1990s along with J.R. Monterose and Nick Brignola. And this past May, Brigande played in a band at a Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation event, which provides scholastic and public jazz programs for the Upstate ...
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Chet Baker at the Moonlight
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Aging beauty is still beautiful. Jazz greats lucky enough to grow old tended to develop new techniques for expressing how they felt when they played. Their honesty and sensitivity remained intact but both were more pensive and thoughtful. What they played was still elegant and transparent. This was especially true of trumpeter Chet Baker in his final years. In November 1985, three years before he died, Baker performed at the Moonlight club in Macerata on Italy's east coast, halfway between ...
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Andromeda Turre "Live EP" August 7th Release!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Andromeda Turre's “Shine" Project CD To Feature: Steve Turre, Orion Turre, Rahsaan Carter, James Carter, Sachal Vasandani, Ray Angry and Warren Wolf After studying at Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory, New York City native Andromeda Turre kickstarted her career as the last Raelette hired to sing for Ray Charles. Producing two albums on her own, Andromeda has spent the last 10 years capturing the hearts of fans all across Europe, Asia and Russia. Now, having truly found ...
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Saxophonist Oded Tzur's Releases "Translator's Note" on Yellowbird/ENJA
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
Saxophonist Oded Tzur's latest effort, Translator's Note (Yellowbird/Enja Records) is is now available! Starting in 2012, Oded led a rehearsal in Brooklyn with Shai Maestro, Petros Klampanis and Ziv Ravitz. The immediate connection between the four musicians led to the creation of the Oded Tzur Quartet, an ensemble that explores relationships between the jazz setting and Indian musics melodic architecture. Oded Tzur is a New York City-based saxophonist, composer and bandleader. His work draws on Indian classical music and Jazz, ...
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Pianist And Composer Hayley Lam Releases "Being Alive" Single
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Hayley Lam
Composer/pianist/violinist Hayley Lam has released “Being Alive," a single that serves as expository material for her debut EP Being Alive scheduled for release later this year. The track features Marko Djordjevic on drums and Akos Forgacs on bass. Hayley Lam's musical background is diverse: she is a classically-trained pianist, received her classical diploma at 11, studied jazz composition and performance at Berklee, and yet likes to wander into progressive rock territory. “Being Alive" contains elements of jazz fusion, yet defies ...
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From Jazz Noir to Technicolor, Jazz Vocalist Sylvia Brooks Reveals a Vivid Array of New Emotional Hues on her Gorgeous Third Album, "The Arrangement"
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
With her first two critically acclaimed albums, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks introduced a sensuous jazz-noir sound redolent of femme fatales and tough guys, crooked deals and deep-shadowed urban nightscapes. But no great artist wants to be typecast, and with her third album, The Arrangement, she steps out of the mist and fog into the sunlight, where she reveals herself as a singer at home in just about any narrative. An intimate collaboration with an array of brilliant Los Angeles arrangers, ...
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