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Sonny and Horace: 1959
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On Thursday, March 5, 1959, the Sonny Rollins Trio and the Horace Silver Quintet were in Zurich on a joint European tour. Interestingly, Sonny and Silver were at different points in their careers. Silver had yet to crest and would record the fiery Blowin' the Blues Away in August before riding his funk piano style into the 1960s. Sonny, by contrast, had grown frustrated with his approach on the tenor saxophonist. He feared he was growing too conventional and staid ...
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Bay Area Vocalist Sandy Cressman Reaffirms Her Deep Connections With Brazilian Music On New CD "Entre Amigos"
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Terri Hinte Publicity
As founder and leader of the group Homenagem Brasileira, San Francisco-based vocalist/educator Sandy Cressman has had many opportunities over the last 20-plus years to forge creative partnerships with like-minded musicians from the Bay to Brazil. Her entrancing new album, Entre Amigos, which will be released on February 3 by her Cressman Music imprint, marks the culmination of these relationships and is a celebration of her own deep history with the music and the players. Though the new CD is her ...
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The Lost Bobby Scott
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If I could sing and accompany myself on piano, I'd want to sound like Bobby Scott. The pianist and singer-songwriter (1937-1990) started out in the early 1950s as a superb jazz pianist and composer-arranger (Bethlehem, Verve, ABC-Paramount), shifting to pop-rock and R&B in the early 1960s (Mercury and Atlantic) before switching to pop and jazz (Columbia) mid-decade and assorted labels in the 1970s and '80s. As a composer, Scott was prolific. He is probably best known for co-writing two major ...
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NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston To Release New 2-CD Set, "The African Nubian Suite," On His African Rhythms Label, Jan. 20
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Terri Hinte Publicity
NEA Jazz Master, iconic pianist/composer, and still-vital jazz elder Randy Weston, at 90, remains a powerful force in jazz. Currently serving as artist-in-residence at Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York; celebrated earlier this month at Harvard University, which has acquired his archive; and named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow last week, Weston is now preparing to release a new recording on his African Rhythms label. The 2-CD set, The African Nubian Suite, captures a concert ...
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Artie Shaw: Pied Piper
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On a Sunday afternoon in July 1946, CBS's Columbia Workshop broadcast The Pied Piper of Hamelin, featuring a story adaptation and music by Artie Shaw. The national radio show broadcast from Columbia Square in Hollywood was aimed at young kids home from school. Weeks later, Shaw's label, Musicraft, brought together Shaw and the broadcast's ensemble to re-tell the story on three 78s, which were released as an album that fall as a holiday item. The Musicraft recording session was sandwiched ...
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Jazz Fusion Orchestra Bandzilla Feat. Guest Appearances By Randy Brecker & Leo Sayer To Release Long-awaited Second Album "Bandzilla Rises!!!"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
What happens when a group of top studio musicians get together in their free time? A unique mixture of sophisticated composition, passionate improvisation, scathing social commentary and biting humor, BANDZILLA play furious funk, sleazy soul, punk jazz and heartfelt ballads. Led by acclaimed composer/arranger/guitarist Richard Niles, the 25-piece jazz-fusion orchestra was originally formed in the studio to play on the seminal Grace Jones track “Slave To The Rhythm." Since then, Niles & BANDZILLA have performed and recorded with Paul McCartney, ...
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Saxophonist Ayumi Ishito Releases Debut Album, "View From A Little Cave"
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Ayumi Ishito
On Friday, December 16, the saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Ayumi Ishito will release her debut studio endeavor, an album entitled View From A Little Cave. The new collection of songs, entirely composed by Ishito, will be available on all major digital music platforms. Furthermore, a record release show is tentatively scheduled for New York City in February of 2017. Ishito has been an active member of the music community in New York since 2010, following her jazz studies at the ...
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Count Basie: High Voltage
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over the course of five years, Chico O'Farrill arranged part or all of 11 Count Basie albums—from Basie Meets Bond in 1965 to High Voltage in 1970. Born in Havana, O'Farrill attended a military academy from 1936 to 1940 in Georgia where he began playing trumpet. He returned to Cuba after graduation and concentrated on arranging. In 1948, he moved to New York where he began arranging for Benny Goodman. With the rise of the mambo, O'Farrill wrote Latin-jazz charts ...
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