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Japan And Porcupine Tree Keyboardist Richard Barbieri Set To Release New Studio Album Planets + Persona Via Kscope On March 3, 2017
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London- Legendary Japan and Porcupine Tree keyboardist Richard Barbieri releases his most sonically expansive work to date, with a brand new album entitled Planets + Persona. It is the third Barbieri solo album, but the first to feature such a wide pallet of instrumentation. Vintage analogue synthesizers combine with acoustic performances and jazz elements. Twisted voices are always present, though not in a language we can recognize. Barbieri skilfully utilizes the talents of a pan-European core of musicians to produce ...
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BFM Jazz Recording Artist John Daversa's Progressive Big Band Receives Three Grammy Nominations For "Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music Of The Beatles"
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EastWest Media
Grammy Nominations Best Large Jazz Ensemble Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella (“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”) Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals (“Do You Want To Know a Secret” featuring Renee Olstead) Internationally renowned trumpet player, performer, composer, arranger, bandleader and educator ((John Daversa)) has received the most impressive new credit to his resume to date—three-time GRAMMY nominee, for his widely critically acclaimed and perhaps most ambitious musical undertaking—THE DAVERSA PROGRESSIVE BIG BAND'S RECORDING, Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music Of The ...
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Savoy Bop Sessions 1945-49
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
During the two decades that followed the end of World War II in 1945, independent record labels flourished. Many of these micro labels succeeded by specializing in specific types of music that the more bland-minded giants—RCA, Columbia and Decca—largely ignored. In the process, these small labels wound up establishing beachheads for new music genres and cornering the market for the genres' best musicians and singers. Tiny specialty labels in the late 1940s, '50s and early '60s included Four Star (country), ...
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Alto Saxophonist Mark Lewis's "The New York Session" To Be Released By Audio Daddio, January 27
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Terri Hinte Publicity
As well-traveled and widely recorded as alto saxophonist Mark Lewis has been over the past four decades, his new CD The New York Session is likely to be the album that helps rectify his current under-the-radar reputation. Recorded last year in Brooklyn with a world-class rhythm section—pianist George Cables, bassist Essiet Essiet, and drummer Victor Lewis—the new disc will be released by Lewis’s Audio Daddio label on January 27. It’s the work of an artist clearly reveling in the company ...
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Christopher Davis-Shannon: "Winter Wonderland” Video And Download
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Christopher Davis-Shannon
Retro-tinged vocalist and instrumentalist Christopher Davis-Shannon has released a video and free download of the 1934 holiday classic “Winter Wonderland”. Backed by his video the self produced video features the sights and sounds of Philadelphia in wintertime. Davis-Shannon performs nearly 200 dates a year throughout the country, with international touring and recording credits to his name. His fresh approach to traditional American music has thrilled audiences of all ages, from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Winter Wonderland marks the first release ...
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Ella Fitzgerald: Swinging Xmas
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Each December since 2008, I've selected a different album for the JazzWax Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame. I established this modest institution largely out of frustration. I love holiday music, but so few albums are perfect. For an album to resonate from start to finish, it has to have swing, smart song arrangements and warm vocals. My vintage pick this year is Ella Fitzgerald's Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas. Arranged and conducted by Frank De Vol and recorded ...
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French Twist: Art Pepper + 11
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Like most Art Pepper fans, I love the alto saxophonist's 1960 album Art Pepper + Eleven, featuring arrangements by Marty Paich. So imagine my surprise when I came across a video on YouTube of French jazz saxophonist Michael Cheret and his band recreating the entire album at a French club a few years ago. Give a listen to this video survey of the songs performed... I tracked down Mike and we e-chatted about his love for Art Pepper, the + ...
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Lyric Fury, The Adventurous Octet Led By Pianist/Composer Cynthia Hilts, Debuts On Record January 13
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Twenty years ago, Brooklyn-based pianist/composer Cynthia Hilts was seeking to form a band “that sounds like a celestial collision of Mingus and Debussy” as a vehicle for her brisk, striking originals. Her avant-meets-mainstream writing, as the band name Lyric Fury suggests, is demanding and defined by powerful contrasts. Hilts and her octet have been honing a sound and a vision ever since, and their brilliant efforts are captured on their first recording together—the like-named Lyric Fury—set for January 13 release ...
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