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Prog Ensemble Theo Featuring Renowned Keyboardist Jim Alfredson Release Debut CD "The Game Of Ouroboros"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 9, 2015

Lansing, MI – Jim Alfredson is best known for his work with acclaimed jazz trio organissimo and is considered among the best Hammond organists working today. His newest project is a solo album known under the name THEO that originated as a rediscovery of Alfredson's affection towards the classic era of progressive rock. Inspired by classic bands like Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and Genesis, THEO brings epic songwriting and sweeping narratives back to the forefront with contemporary sensibilities ...

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Brazilian Vocalist & Cellist Dom La Nena Announces New Album And North American Tour

Source: Matt Gross
January 9, 2015

Co-produced by Dom and Brazilian composer/singer/guitarist Marcelo Camelo, SOYO is the follow up to debut album, Ela, which NPR Hailed As A “Sonic Masterpiece." Dom La Nena has drawn comparisons as varied as “a young Brian Wilson” (Wall Street Journal), “a burnished, bossa Joanna Newsom” (Time Out New York) and “the shadow of Lhasa” (Voir), yet her music and style remain distinctly her own. Her debut album, Ela – which NPR hailed as a “sonic masterpiece”—introduced Dom’s delicate vocals and ...

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Donna Lewis Returns With New Jazz Album, "Brand New Day"

Source: Matt Gross
January 8, 2015

Platinum singer-songwriter reimagines her own material and songs by David Bowie, Neil Young, Damien Rice, Gnarls Barkley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chocolate Genius, Burt Bacharach and Harry Nilsson. The Welsh-born singer Donna Lewis is one of those rare artists whose immense success on the pop radio charts disguises an exceptional and serious musicianship and breadth of repertoire. Lewis’ new album, Brand New Day, reveals the range of her artistry, and may surprise listeners who know her only for her pop hits ...

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Nora Germain: Little Dipper

Source: Michael Ricci
January 7, 2015

By John Wesley Reed Jr. Nora Francesca Germain was born 1991 in Madison, Wisconsin. Now based in Los Angeles with a BA in Jazz Studies from USC Thornton School of Music, she was the first violinist alumna of the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Mentor and collaborator Marshall Hawkins, former bassist for Miles Davis and Shirley Horn, presented Germain with the Inspirational Jazz Student Award at age 17. Introduced to the violin at age 2, she evolved from a family of violinists ...

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Jerry Fielding: 'Fielding's Formula'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 6, 2015

When the 12-inch LP was relatively new in the mid-1950s, jazz labels needed as much content as they could get their hands on to fill production quotas. So they were willing to take chances with artists who had bright ideas and proven track records. After all, even though magnetic tape had dramatically reduced recording overhead, time was still money. An especially fruitful year for these hip small-group and big band recordings was 1956, when many labels dropped the 10-inch album ...

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Trombonist/Composer Marshall Gilkes To Release Köln Featuring The WDR Big Band

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 6, 2015

On February 10, 2015, trombonist/composer Marshall Gilkes proudly releases his fourth album as a leader, simply titled for the home base of The WDR Big Band, KÖLN. This set of stunning compositions marks Gilkes first recording fronting a big band, but he is no stranger to this setting, being a regular member of Maria Schneider's Grammy Award-winning orchestra, (Schneider describes him as, “one of those musicians who continually just drops my jaw and leaves me shaking my head in disbelief"), ...

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Drummer Dylan Howe To Release Subterranean - New Designs On Bowie’s Berlin

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 6, 2015

London, UK - Drummer Dylan Howe, son of YES guitar legend Steve Howe, has recorded a radical new take on the instrumental cuts from David Bowie's 1977 albums 'Low' and 'Heroes'. 'Subterranean' is Dylan Howe’s first studio album in ten years. It is made up of his arrangements of Bowie’s influential music from his ‘Berlin Trilogy’ and has been seven years in the making. Some of the music featured on this album was previewed live at the London Jazz festival ...

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Bud Powell: Birth of Bop Piano

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 5, 2015

On May 2, 1945, pianist Bud Powell was in a New York studio recording with tenor saxophonist Frankie Socolow. Four months earlier, Powell had endured a beating by the police in Philadelphia while on tour with the Cootie Williams Orchestra. After playing a dance in January, Powell had been found drunk in a train station by Philadelphia railroad police, who subdued him after struggling to arrest him for disorderly conduct. The next day, Powell was released by the police into ...

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