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Red Piano Records To Release "Cosmopolitan Greetings" From Frank Carlberg/Joe Morris/Pascal Niggenkemper/Luther Gray
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Available October 16, 2015 Brooklyn-based Red Piano Records is proud to announce the release of Cosmopolitan Greetings, a collective effort by four veterans of the improvised music scene. This album marks the recorded debut of this quartet, with a line up featuring guitar legend Joe Morris, pianist/composer Frank Carlberg, bass wizard Pascal Niggenkemper and unsung drum master Luther Gray, in a program of three Carlberg compositions, and three collective improvisations. In the liner notes Carlberg describes the genesis of Cosmopolitan ...
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Sam Sadigursky Debuts New Band And Album "Follow The Stick" To Be Released On Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
The spirit of the organization is firmly rooted in Brooklyn. All of the members reside there, and they wanted to give a nod to the vitality of its scene. —The Wall Street Journals Follow The Stick Features Sam Sadigursky (clarinet/bass clarinet) Chris Dingman (vibes, marimba) Bobby Avey (piano) Jordan Perlson (drums, percussion) Jason Palmer (trumpet on trks 2,5,9,13) Ljova (viola, trk 7) Available November 6, 2015 (North America), November 27 ...
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Recent Listening: Bill Kirchner
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Bill Kirchner, An Evening Of Indigos (JazzHeads) Soprano saxophonist and composer Kirchner’s concert in New York a year ago has appeared in its entirety as an album. Kirchner overcame daunting physical problems to be able to play the concert—indeed, to be able to play at all. Throughout the jazz community it is known that removal of a tumor on his spinal chord kept him alive but also left him with a limp and with his right hand all but immobilized. ...
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Ramsey Lewis: The In Crowd
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Ramsey Lewis's The In Crowd peaking on the Billboard pop chart at #5. The album of the same name went to #2 in early November 1965, and it remained on the chart for 47 weeks. What's particularly astounding about The In Crowd LP reaching #2 are the other albums on the chart. Above Ramsey's album at #1 was the Beatles' Help! Directly below at #3 was Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. On down ...
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Charles Ruggiero Releases "As Heard On TV"
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Tapping PR
Rondette Jazz announces second solo album from drummer Charles Ruggiero, As Heard On TV. On October 16, As Heard On TV will be available through Rondette Jazz on CD and via digital download on iTunes. Limited edition vinyl will also be available. A CD release party will be held Friday, October 9 at Smalls Jazz Club (NYC), sets at 7:30pm and 9:00pm. A direct follow up to his 2014 premiere solo album, “Boom Bang, Boom Bang!," Ruggiero along with regular ...
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Johnny Mandel: Harper, 1966
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1966, Paul Newman starred in Harper, a film about a private investigator with a spent marriage who takes a challenging case 90 miles north of Los Angeles to get away from it all. In today's world, it's a TV pilot at best, but in the cool '60s, studios didn't need much of an excuse to put Newman in gear. The Harper soundtrack is a different matter. Composed and conducted by Johnny Mandel, with orchestration by Bill Holman, Billy Byers ...
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Don Elliott: A Musical Offering
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There weren't too many instruments Don Elliott couldn't play. Starting in the early 1950s, Elliott recorded on vibes, mellophone, trumpet, bongos, marimba, xylophone, flugelhorn and a variety of percussion instruments. Whats' more, he was a superb vocalist. Like many multi-instrumentalists, Elliott had a multitrack recording studio in New York and at his home in Connecticut. Most of all, Elliott knew what sounded great. He had a producer's sensibility, which let him detach and think through what he wanted to record ...
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"Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" - Drummer Billie Davies With Art Inspired By Music, Music Inspired By Art!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Billie Davies' Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon Inspired by Artist Serge Vandercam Drummer Billie Davies pays homage to Danish-born Belgian artist Serge Vandercam in this exciting free-form adventure. Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon is a musical symphony inspired by Vandercam's exquisite creations. Davies says it is, “The painter influenced by the drummer and the drummer influenced by the painter over a period of three days of the full moon." Born in Belgium ...
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