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Trumpeter Terell Stafford Releases "Forgive and Forget" on Herb Harris Music
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All About Jazz
Herb Harris Music is happy to announce the release of a new album from trumpeter Terell Stafford. Forgive and Forget and is the second installment of a series of recordings dubbed “Jazzmasters Unlimited". A master jazz trumpeter with over 20 years of experience, Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player" by legendary pianist McCoy Tyner. A powerful trumpeter with a finely honed sense of swing, and the ability to croon ...
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BangTower Featuring Percy Jones New Album Available For Pre-Order
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Declassified Records announced today the newest album from progressive fusion legends BangTower entitled With N With Out, is now available for official Pre-Order from PledgeMusic. The highly anticipated 13 track sophomore album, due for retail release December 6, marks the first full length CD since the internationally acclaimed 2010 debut Casting Shadows. The link to the Pre-Order campaign can be found at PledgeMusic. Returning to the BangTower “2” project are original members, fretless bass legend Percy Jones of “Brand X”, ...
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Braxton Cook "Somewhere In Between" Saxophonist/Vocalist Jazz, R&B, Soul Hot, New Cutting Edge! Album Drop Date Jan. 31
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
BRAXTON COOK Somewhere In Between Saxophonist/Vocalist Jazz, R&B, Soul Hot, New Cutting Edge! Available January 31 About Braxton Cook A 25-year-old with an old soul. Sunny personality, with homemade qualities, and a love of relationships between music passion, family and friends. Braxton's positivity acts as a way to create a message and theme in his music and overall brand. “The concept behind this album is Love. I know that sounds cliché, but before jumping to conclusions, ...
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"Recalled To Life - Chapter One" CD/FLAC/MP3 Album By British Guitarist Steve Robinson Formerly With The Band 'igginbottom Which Also Included Guitarist Allan Holdsworth Now Available From Art Of Life Records.
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Art of Life Records
Art of Life Records is proud to present, Recalled to Life-Chapter One, the debut release by British guitarist and composer Steve Robinson. Steve was a member of the British group 'Igginbottom which recorded the album “Igginbottoms Wrench" in 1969 which also included guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Recalled to Life-Chapter One includes ten original compositions by Steve and features Pat Schroeder on drums, Dave Bryant on drums, Steve Zerlin on electric & acoustic bass, Marc Duby on electric bass, Andrew Ford on ...
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French Jazz-Core Trio "Toc" Release "Air Bump" With The Compulsive Brass
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Peter Orins
After the release of Le Gorille (2009), Dance (2012), Haircut (2014) and Qeqertarsuatsiaat (2016), Toc has incorporated sounds of the bayou, the French Quarter and brass bands into their latest, Air Bump. Available on Vinyl, CD, FLAC HD, MP3. Christian Pruvost: trumpet Sakina Abdou: alto and soprano saxophone Jean-Baptiste Rubin: baritone and tenor saxophone Maxime Morel: tuba and trombone Jérémie Ternoy: Fender Rhodes, piano bass Ivann Cruz: guitar ...
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Lee Morgan: The Rajah
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On Nov. 19, 1966, Lee Morgan headed out to Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Billy Higgins. When they arrived, the quintet recorded what I consider to be a perfect album. The songs were beautifully selected, the material was well rehearsed and the playing was pure bliss by all five musicians. And then Blue Note decided to shelve the album. Why the album wasn't ...
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Lena Horne and Gabor Szabo
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There are plenty of jazz albums in the rock era that, on paper, never should have worked but did and still do, exceptionally well. Joe Pass's The Stones Jazz (1966) is one. Paul Desmond's Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) is another. Add Lena & Gabor (1970) to the list. When the album by vocalist Lena Horne backed by guitarist Gábor Szabó was released in 1970, it came out on Skye Records, a label formed in 1968 by Szabó, vibraphonist Cal ...
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Jack Sheldon: Ray Charles Profile
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In May 1961, Jack Sheldon recorded what today is one of his rarest and most interesting albums—A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles (Reprise). Over two days, the West Coast trumpeter recorded with a trio—Marty Paich (p, org), Joe Mondragon (b) and John Markham (d). The album came out in July, with Charles writing the back-jacket notes. The songs on the album are Am I Blue?, Georgia on My Mind, When Your Lover Has Gone, Cherry, Come Rain or Come Shine, ...
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