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Brazil's Michel Nirenberg Releases "Retrato/Portrait"

Source: The Phillips Agency
July 15, 2015

At the age of 25, award-winning saxophonist and composer Michel Nirenberg has attracted some of the finest Brazilian and Latin jazz players available to record his debut album Retrato/Portrait on indie label Carioca Music. They are at once his musical colleagues and mentors, drawn to make music that sails across geographic and stylistic borders. The album will be released in mid-June 2015. With this album of contemporary Brazilian instrumental music, Nirenberg and co-producer Leonardo Lucini aim to share the fullness ...

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Kenton: Concerts in Miniature

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 15, 2015

In early 1952, money was tight for Stan Kenton. The musical experiments of his massive 39-piece Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra in 1950 had taken a toll on his wallet. What's more, the music didn't go over well with audiences, who found the classically influenced arrangements largely a bore. Kenton reconfigured his band in early 1952 and commissioned arrangements by Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Holman and others. But he needed to get the word out. The NBC radio network ...

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Oliver Nelson: Fantabulous

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 14, 2015

Oliver Nelson occupies an interesting space among jazz composers and arrangers in the 1960s. While not as well known as Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin or Claus Ogerman, Nelson is a favorite among those familiar with his music. Unlike many of his peers, Nelson specialized in explosive, blues-centric jazz compositions and charts that could wail and moan with the muscular drama of a film noir score. What's more, Nelson played tenor saxophone on many of his own sessions, giving the orchestra a ...

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Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 13, 2015

In the fall of 1960, Ben Webster was on the West Coast freelancing and recording. Johnny Hodges was out there as well with the Duke Ellington Orchestra to perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival. On Nov. 22, two days before Thanksgiving, Webster and Hodges were in San Francisco to record an album for the Verve label that was never released. The CD should be added to any list of jazz albums that will instantly convert non-believers into life-long fans. The ...

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Composer/Musician Wayne Horvitz Releases New Album Inspired By Poet Richard Hugo

Source: AMT Public Relations
July 12, 2015

Composer/Musician Wayne Horvitz Releases Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (Songlines), Paying Tribute to Poet Richard Hugo SEATTLE, WA — Known for his multifaceted musical personality, composer/musician Wayne Horvitz ventures into progressively-inclined acoustic jazz and ultra-modern classicism in his latest album, Some Places Are Forever Afternoon. Written in honor of the iconic Northwest poet Richard Hugo (1923-82), Some Places Are Forever Afternoon is a full-length suite of 12 compositions influenced by different poems of Hugo’s. A colorful 28-page booklet featuring the ...

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Tony Adamo & The New York Crew Is Reviewed By Kirpal Gordon

Source: Tony Adamo
July 10, 2015

By Kirpal Gordon The killin’ist thing about Tony Adamo = 1728 and the New York Crew is that everybody in the band, especially the dope rhyme sayer, has got big ears all the way back to New Orleans and ancient-forward into the ever-evolving multi-new thing. It’s big ears working together that’s keeping this CD in Jazzweek's Chart Top 200 List since its release, a totally unheard of phenomenon for jazz-spoken word collaborations. Although singing the talents and wonders of the ...

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Stevie Holland Releases "Life Goes On"

Source: Michael Ricci
July 9, 2015

"A graceful, silken voice..." —THE NEW YORK TIMES “Virtually every important jazz singer to emerge in the past two decades has had to find a way to expand the familiar repertoire of golden-age standards. Stevie covers the waterfront. Effortless swing, and a radiant wit…a self-possessed tour de force” —Gary Giddins Stevie Holland returns to the recording studio with Life Goes On, a collection of Holland’s trademark picks of lesser-known gems and classics from the contemporary pop world and American Songbook. ...

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JMood Records Is Pleased To Announce The New CD Release Of The Roberto Magris Trio Entitled "Enigmatix"

Source: Paul Collins
July 9, 2015

JMood Records is pleased to announce the release of the “New” Roberto Magris Trio CD entitled Enigmatix. Enigmatix captures the global effects of our music as it is seen now and in this new century. “Roberto and I have not, until now, expressed this global effect in our music as a whole or in part in this particular jazz genre”, says Paul Collins, impresario JMood Records. “We observe that “straight jazz” music is evolving more and more and looking into ...

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