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Steven Davis's “Perfectly Perfect” Soundtrack For Summer Love
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Jazz crooner Steven Davis ponders “What Happened To Romance,” his first big band album due June 23, led by the original song featured in an international television commercial. Nashville, TN: Bolstering the belief that romance is always en vogue, crooner Steven Davis plies his big voice backed by a big band on the swinging set “What Happened To Romance,” a charming meditation on love marrying timeless traits from another era to today’s passionate demand for originality. The 14-track disc comprised ...
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Rosolino And Mingus On Bethlehem
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
A trove of jazz recorded in the 1950s became available again when Naxos of America acquired the Bethlehem Records catalogue a couple of years ago and began an extensive reissue program. Gus Wildi, who was born and grew up in Switzerland, founded the label in New York in 1953. Through the 1950s herecorded Dexter Gordon, Booker Ervin, Zoot Sims, Mel Tormé, Oscar Pettiford, Nina Simone, Chris Connor and a couple of dozen other major artists on both coasts. He provided ...
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Seattle Jazz Singer Eugenie Jones To Release "Come Out Swingin'" May 12
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Eugenie Jones’s widely praised 2013 debut, Black Lace Blue Tears, introduced a late-blooming but fiercely original jazz vocalist and songwriter to the jazz world. Among other honors, the disc was named Earshot Jazz’s Northwestern Recording of the Year. The Seattle-area singer’s response to her warm critical reception was to start writing again and prove that her success was no fluke. On her impressive follow-up, Come Out Swingin’, Jones displays the rhythmic authority, emotional insight, and melodic invention of an artist ...
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Grammy Winner Neil Citron Releases Remastered Version Of Debut CD “In Search Of Higher Ground"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles - Declassified Records and SBI Music Inc. proudly announce the re-mastered release of “In Search Of Higher Ground”, the debut solo CD from Grammy winning guitarist, engineer and producer Neil Citron. Originally recorded in 1994, the digital versions of the record have been re-mastered from the original master tapes to further highlight the sonic beauty of this musical masterpiece. The 13 track album also features Keyboardist Erik Norlander, Drummer Walter Garces, Tony Franklin on Fretless Bass, and one ...
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RareNoise To Release Album "Doctoring The Dead" With Eraldo Bernocchi & Colin Edwin, Joined By Ted Parsons And Roy Powell
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hubtone PR
Metallic Taste Of Blood, the instrumental math-rock/outer rock unit lead by Italian guitarist and soundsculptor Eraldo Bernocchi and Australian bassist Colin Edwin is back with a vengeance, joined now by legendary drummer Ted Parsons, whose earlier ventures included Swans, Prong, Buckethead, Godflesh and Killing Joke, and British keyboard player extraordinaire Roy Powell, whose recent work includes InterStatic and Naked Truth. The vigor and inventiveness which characterized Metallic Taste Of Blood’s first release still sits center stage, a natural outflow of ...
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Watkins and Rouse's Jazz Modes
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I posted about the Jazz Lab, a little-known, short-lived East Coast jazz quintet co-led by Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd in 1957. Today, continuing with my series on jazz supergroups of the mid-1950s, I'm turning to Les Jazz Modes, a little known quintet co-led by French hornist Julius Watkins and tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse that began a year earlier than the Jazz Lab and lasted a year later. Much of the original material the group recorded was composed and ...
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Bassist-Composer-Producer Lorenzo Feliciati To Release Koi - Rarenoise Concept Album Features Japan Drummer Steve Jansen & King Crimson Drummer Pat Mastelotto
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hubtone PR
For his sixth recording for RareNoiseRecords, following his 2011 solo album Frequent Flyer and subsequent collaborations with vocalist-multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (Berserk!) and Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin (Twinscapes) as well as two albums with the adventurous jazz-rock outfit Naked Truth (Shizaru, Ouroboros), the restlessly creative bassist-composer-producer Lorenzo Feliciati has realized his most ambitious and personal project to date in Koi. A concept album based on the life of the renowned river carp fish, Koi features former Japan drummer Steve ...
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Charlie Shavers: Blue Stompin'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I like measuring jazz trumpeters on the heat scale. Imagine Chet Baker and Bix Beiderbecke all the way over on the cool left end and guys like Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw on the other end. You can almost plot all trumpeters along this line. In the case of Charlie Shavers, I'd probably put him to the right of center—left of Harry James and Fats Navarro and to the right of Clark Terry and Harry “Sweets" Edison. What set Shavers ...
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