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New Sunnyside Records CD Release Features Corea, Byron And Klein
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Clarise Snyder
This new and musically diverse CD Infinite Winds features three long form compositions by three innovative and highly regarded composers: Guillermo Klein, Chick Corea and Don Byron. Dedicated to the late great jazz trumpeter Herb Pomeroy, who taught at MIT for 22 years (and founded the FJE in 1963), Infinite Winds features world première recordings by both Corea—an iconic keyboardist, composer, and bandleader who has won 22 Grammy Awards—and Byron, a critically acclaimed clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer as well as ...
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M.O.D. Technologies To Release Hu Vibrational's The Epic Botanical Beat Suite - With Special Guests Eivind Aarset, Bill Laswell And More!
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hubtone PR
Hu Vibrational's new album mixes deep percussive African rhythms and Afro-jazz with elements of hip-hop and electronica. Recorded and mixed at Bill Laswell’s state of the art studio, this is the fourth album by Hu Vibrational and for those who bought the previous 3 releases this will not disappoint! Produced and mixed by Adam Rudolph together with longtime Laswell engineer James Dellatacoma, the album features 7 world music percussionists along several special guests including Bill Laswell hitting the deep pockets ...
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M.O.D. Technologies Adds Re-Imagined US / Russia Collaboration To Its Incunabula Digital Series, Timezone - Lost Nations
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hubtone PR
Timezone is world beat music that emerged during the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union. Artists from Moscow and Humboldt County, California, have built on ethnic diversity and bilingualism to cogenerate an exciting new music. Interwoven with rock, reggae and African rhythms. This decade-long musical journey began in the early 80's, before Gorbachev and Chernobyl. Timezone moved under the guidance of Jon Humboldt Gates, a Russian speaking guitarist and songwriter from Northern California. The first Timezone sessions ...
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Right On! DW3’s “Truth” Is Spreading Fast
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
With an active summer festival season on the horizon, things are already heating up for the throwback R&B vocal group on the heels of a new album release and a hot radio single featuring Brian Culbertson. Los Angeles, CA: A twelve-song set of smooth old school soul strewn with modern day sensibilities, retro R&B vocal group DW3’s just released sophomore disc, Vintage Truth, is letting the music be its guide to the top of Billboard’s Most Added and New & ...
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Stanislaw Soyka & The Roger Berg Big Band Release "Swing Revisited"
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Mikolaj Gajewski
American swing played with bravado by leading Polish jazzman Stanislaw Soyka and the Roger Berg Big Band. In their rendition, recorded at sessions in Malmö and Warsaw, the artists refreshed jazz standards by Duke Ellington and Ray Charles among others. Swing Revisited is an album by Stanislaw Soyka, a noted Polish jazz singer, and the Roger Berg Big Band, a Swedish-Danish constellation. Their collaboration stemmed from a spontaneous jam session at the band's first Warsaw concert. ”I was just overwhelmed ...
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Minas Releases Most Important Album of Its Career, Symphony in Bossa
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All About Jazz
Ten years in the making. Over 60 musicians. Seven different recording studios. Symphony in Bossa is a monumental achievement by Philadelphia-based Brazilian jazz group Minas. Written specially for Minas for big band and strings by the late Bill Zaccagni (Bobby Rydel, Patty LaBelle), Symphony in Bossa merges north and south with big band jazz and Brazilian Bossa Nova. It presents fresh takes on old classics such as “The Girl from Ipanema," “Quiet Nights" ("Corcovado"), “Desafinado," “Chega de Saudade," “Triste," “Waters ...
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Frank Sinatra's Timeless Music Celebrated Worldwide With New, Career-Spanning "Ultimate Sinatra" Centennial Collections From Capitol/UME
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Michael Ricci
Ultimate Sinatra CD, Digital, 2LP and 4CD/Digital Deluxe Editions Present Key Recordings Spanning Sinatra's Years with Columbia, Capitol and Reprise, Together for the First Time Los Angeles, CA: In celebration of Frank Sinatra’s centennial year, new, career-spanning collections of the entertainment icon’s timeless music have been compiled for worldwide CD and digital release on April 21 by Capitol/UMe. Available in 25-track CD, 26-track digital, 24-track 180-gram 2LP, and deluxe, 101-track 4CD and digital editions, Ultimate Sinatra presents key recordings spanning ...
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Yves Montand: C'est Si Bon
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Fans of Man Men have been emailing to ask me about the closing song on Sunday night's episode. As viewers of the series know, Matthew Weiner, the show's creator, writer and producer, is crazy about music and loves springing off-beat songs as a closing theme. This past Sunday, Weiner went with a cool, suave C'est Si Bon by French singer-actor Yves Montand. Montand had two sizable recordings of the song, a music hall version in 1948 and a cool, updated ...
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