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Critically-Acclaimed Classical Pianist And Steinway & Sons Recording Artist Lara Downes Provides A Different Take On The Music Of Billie Holiday
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Muse Media
When classical pianist Lara Downes was 8 years old, she wrote in her diary that her favorite song was Billie Holiday’s “I Cover the Waterfront." Ever since, says Downes, she has been enthralled with “the distinctive qualities of mood and phrasing, line and color” heard in Holiday’s singing. Now, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth, Lara Downes offers A Billie Holiday Songbook, a deeply personal tribute to an icon of American music (Steinway & Sons Records) ...
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Les Brown Plays Richard Rodgers
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Les Brown's albums in the late 1950s and early 1960s are largely hit and miss. Some have punch while others sort of go through the motions. But when they hit, they're way out of the park. No other band had a swinging Hollywood sound like Brown's. Maybe it's because many of the recording band's West Coast players were working in TV at the time and slick as glass. Or because swing never left the West Coast ethos and survived all ...
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Varèse Sarabande Releases "Keep On Keepin'" On Soundtrack
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Krakower Poling PR Corp
Co-Produced by Quincy Jones, The Album Features Performances By Clark Terry (With Duke Ellington, The Count Basie Orchestra, Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars) and Justin Kauflin With Original Score by Justin Kauflin and Dave Grusin Varèse Sarabande will release the Keep On Keepin’ On—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, digitally and on CD February 24, 2015. The film features performances by Jazz legend Clark Terry and his protégé Justin Kauflin, with original score by Justin Kauflin and Dave Grusin (HOPE FLOATS, ON ...
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Debut CD By Pianist, Composer & Bandleader Levon Mikaelian’s World Jazz Fusion Band United Shades Of Artistry Set For Release April 07, 2015
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MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
Baltimore and Washington, D.C. are not cities that immediately come to mind when imagining fertile grounds for the birth of World Jazz bands. Yet these metropolitan areas boast as diverse a multi-cultural population as any region of the U.S. and generations of musicians have been nurtured at both jam sessions within the Capitol Beltway as well as up I-95 within the hallowed halls of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. United Shades Of Artistry, the self-titled debut recording of ...
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Tenor Saxophonist, Composer & Bandleader Dahi Divine To Release Debut Recording “the Element” April 07, 2015
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MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
The list of notable jazz artists who where born, raised or have resided in Philadelphia is extensive and includes such legendary masters as Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Sonny Fortune, Archie Shep, McCoy Tyner and Sun Ra as well as today’s keepers of the flame like Christian McBride, Jaleel Shaw, Terrell Stafford, Tim Warfield and Orrin Evans. One can add to this illustrious lineage a young man at the forefront of the latest generation of ...
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Billy Cobham To Release Two Live Albums From 1992 Tokyo Concert
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles, CA – Much to the excitement of drummers and jazz aficionados worldwide, drum legend Billy Cobham will be releasing two live albums on Cleopatra Records. The first is Mirror's Image on February 17 (CD & VINYL), followed by Reflected Journey on April 28 (CD). The albums are two parts of the same show recorded in Tokyo on February 15, 1992 What an amazing career Billy Cobham has had. From his auspicious start in the late '60s touring and ...
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Slovak Bass Legend Juraj Griglak Soars On New Album "Time To Fly"
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Eric Taylor
Living legends have a reputation to live up to, but Slovak bass icon Juraj Griglak certainly accomplishes that on his latest album, Time to Fly. Renowned for his bass wizardry, especially his ability to weave through various musical styles such as jazz, funk, classical, and folk, Griglak never ceases to impress on this release. Those oblivious to the specifics of Griglak’s technical prowess will be reeled in by his invigorating and mesmerizing performances. The title track leaps from a whisper ...
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Pianist Yelena Eckemoff Returns with "Lions"
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All About Jazz
Pianist Yelena Eckemoff Returns with Lions, Her Most Ambitious Marriage of Music and Narrative Yet. “Themes of nature, sounds of isolation, stark settings, and blurred lines between compositional and improvisational elements are visible on all of Eckemoff's trio dates, but no two records sound exactly the same ... Mystery, blooming musical thoughts and vaguely haunting notions are at the heart of this captivating album." —Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz “Eckemoff’s classical background is audible in the intricacy and proportion and ...
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