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Singer, Songwriter & Jazz Musician Elizabeth Geyer To Release Long Awaited New Album "The Bridge"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
“Elizabeth Geyer is a force of nature. An amazing singer and songwriter, original vocalist, wonderful trumpet player and multi instrumentalist. She writes songs directly from the heart!” —Bruce Lundvall, Blue Note Records / EMI An endorsement like that from the man who signed Nora Jones, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis is something to make one sit up and take notice. The late great Lundvall even featured Elizabeth's music on his Sirius Radio XM Blue Note hour in 2013. Unusual for ...
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New Work From William Parker Featuring Lisa Sokolov & Cooper-Moore To Be Released On April 1, 2016
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Steven Joerg
On April 1, 2016, a new album of William Parker's luminous compositions will be released on his own Centering Records imprint (distributed via AUM Fidelity). Stan’s Hat Flapping In The Wind presents new work from one of the jazz avant-garde’s most essential individuals, presented in one of the most traditional of forms: voice & piano duets; by fully illuminated masters of their instruments. 19 new songs composed by William Parker, and performed by Lisa Sokolov & Cooper-Moore. Parker is—among his ...
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"The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald," Jane Monheit's First CD On Her New Emerald City Imprint, Due For April 8 Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Vocalist Jane Monheit had long thought about recording an Ella tribute. Fitzgerald’s beloved songbook albums held “Biblical” importance for her when she was growing up and have never lost their hold on her. Those dreams have come to fruition with Monheit’s new album, The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald. It was the perfect maiden project for her new label, Emerald City Records, which will release the disc April 8, on the cusp of the Ella Fitzgerald centennial. On this new offering, ...
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Composer / Bassist / Conceptualist Alexis Cuadrado Presents Poètica: An Adventurous, Multilingual Tapestry
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Created in Collaboration with Authors/Poets Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Melcion Mateu, Guitarist Miles Okazaki, Pianist Andy Milne, & Drummer Tyshawn Sorey Upcoming Appearances: Sunday, April 24-3:30 PM @ Teatro Latea (Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center) Part of the Sant Jordi celebration and in connection with the International Books and Roses Day. Alexis Cuadrado Group: Poètica Alexis Cuadrado (Bass), Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Melcion Mateu (Voice-Spoken Word), Ben Monder ...
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Frank Strazzeri: Taurus
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I knew Frank Strazzeri could play tasty piano, but I didn't know he could play really tasty Fender Rhodes electric piano. Yesterday, I was listening to Taurus, an album Strazzeri recorded in January 1973 with Conte Candoli (tp), Frank Rosolino (tb), Don Menza (ts,fl), Gene Cherico (b) and Dick Berk (d). Interestingly, Strazzeri's piano style—which was straightforward and simple—lent itself perfectly to the electric piano. All of the compositions are by Strazzeri. I suspect Strazzeri arranged the charts as well. ...
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New Release "Angels" by Andy Scott, Featuring Cyrus Chestnut, Dezron Douglas And Evan Sherman
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Frank Moten
Andy Scott is a jazz singer… but that’s like saying Al Pacino is an “actor” and Julia Childs a “cook.” Scott comes from the tradition of the classic ballad/American Songbook style but he’s not “retro”—like the best singers he melds the best of the past with the immediacy of the Eternal Now, with an eye on the horizon. Born 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio to Terry and Al Rosen—the latter a slugger for the Cleveland Indians—Andy Scott grew up in a ...
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Buddy Arnold: Wailing
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, tenor saxophonist Buddy Arnold played in a wide variety of New York big bands. These included the orchestras of Joe Marsala, Georgie Auld, Herbie Fields, George Williams, Tex Beneke, Claude Thornhill, Buddy DeFranco and Jerry Wald. In January 1956, he recorded his first and only leadership album called Wailing for ABC Paramount. It also happened to be one of Creed Taylor's first albums produced for the label after coming aboard from Bethlehem, where ...
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Trumpeter/Composer Ian Carey's 5th CD, "Interview Music: A Suite For Quintet+1," To Be Released April 8 By Carey's Kabocha Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Bay Area trumpeter and composer Ian Carey’s big, bold new jazz suite, Interview Music, is the centerpiece of his like-titled new album, due for release by his Kabocha Records on April 8. The piece, which was premiered in 2013 at the California Jazz Conservatory (formerly the Jazzschool) in Berkeley, is a 45- minute, four-movement adventure and Carey’s longest composition to date. It is a vehicle for both his intricate writing and the improvisational chops of his group, the Ian Carey ...
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