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Red Piano Records to release "Tetraptych" with Bert Seager, Hery Paz, Max Ridley and Dor Herskovits on April 14, 2017
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Tetraptych is Bert Seager (piano/compositions), Hery Paz (tenor saxophone), Max Ridley (upright bass) and Dor Herskovits (drums). Tetraptych is also the name of their new recording! “There’s not only smart and well-crafted modern jazz present, but innate beauty and serene confidence in Seager’s music." – Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide “Seager has distilled his lyrical approach into perfectly balanced and unfailingly beautiful music full of quiet subtleties.” –Ed Hazell, The Boston Phoenix “Seager's group balances fresh immediacy and a ...
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Joe Bucci: Wild About Basie!
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the 1950s and early '60s, virtually every city in the country had a top jazz or R&B organist. If you were a club owner, the organ's ability to impersonate the tonality of virtually any instrument meant you could hire one player and wind up with the sound of a full orchestra. And, if the player was deft with his or her feet, you'd also have a bassist. The organist was a one-person band who only needed the services of ...
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Pianist/Composer Randy Ingram Set To Release His Most Personal & Enlightening Recording To Date, "The Wandering" Featuring Bassist Drew Gress
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Available on Sunnyside Records – April 21, 2017 CD Release Celebration – April 19, 2017 @ The Jazz Gallery, NYC! Pianist-composer Randy Ingram has put himself in a position to reveal more about his musical identity by scaling down to record The Wandering, a sophisticated, personal and enlightening duo album with bassist Drew Gress. While other instrumentalists can choose a different mouthpiece or effects pedal to modulate and personalize their sound, pianists must develop their identity by how and what ...
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Ben Markley Big Band--Downbeat Editors' Pick & 4.5 Star Review All About Jazz--at Dazzle Jazz in Denver on March 25
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Ben Markley Big Band Clockwise: The Music of Cedar Walton featuring Terell Stafford Radio Interviews, National Airplay Confirm Your Interview Today! “Ben has found a way to embrace the music of Cedar Walton and transform it into stellar big band arrangements that express his voice, sound and musical genius."—Terell Stafford Upcoming Performances March 24: University of Wyoming Jazz Festival March 25: Dazzle Jazz Club, Denver Read Jack Bowers' review in All About Jazz WPKN interview with jazz host ...
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Jackie Paris + Anne Marie Moss
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Right at the peak of his recording career, when The Song Is Paris (Impulse) was released in 1962, Jackie Paris felt the jazz earth crumble beneath his feet. In the late 1940s and '50s, he had been among New York's hippest club singers, a jazz musician's singer. But by the early '60s, Paris was never able to leverage opportunity beyond jazz as the market shifted to pop. As a result, Paris spent the '60s scuffling as big-label recording shots for ...
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French Prog Ensemble Yang Release Highly Anticipated 3rd Album "The Failure Of Words"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Founded by Frédéric L’Épée in 2002 (previously founder of the bands Shylock in the '70s and Philharmonie in the '90s), Yang is an instrumental quartet which compositions melt guitar counterpoints, odd time signatures, New Music with a hint of oriental modes all together with a powerful rock pulse. Their new opus, The Failure of Words, is a touchstone in Yang's evolution. This album, unlike the others, aims no more to sound like in live situation but is a musical process ...
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Gary Burton on Telephone Song
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On May 22, 1964, the Stan Getz Quartet with Astrud Gilbert appeared at New York's Cafe Au Go Go. Among the songs they performed was the Telephone Song, by Roberto Menescal, Ronaldo Bôscoli and Norman Gimbel. The gig was recorded for a live album released by Verve in December called Getz Au Go Go. Here's Gilberto singing the song. Then in February 1965, to promote the album, the Stan Getz Quartet appeared on ABC's Shindig, the teen jukebox show broadcast ...
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Celso Fonseca: Like Nice
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in the late 1950s, when the bossa nova was first emerging in Rio de Janeiro, the music was all about a feathery touch. The acoustic guitar had to sound barely strummed, as if the breeze were whistling through the strings. The vocals had to sound almost whispered. Early masters such as João Gilberto, Johnny Alf, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfá and others wrote songs meant to sound ethereal, like a lover's breathy secret. In the early 1960s, when producer ...
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