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Monday Recommendation: Edward Simon

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 30, 2014

Edward Simon, Venezuelan Suite (Sunnyside) Few jazz albums have been devoted to the music of Venezuela. Victor Feldman’s superb The Venezuelan Joropo (1967) was an exception. Latin musicians were impressed with the authenticity that Feldman achieved using Los Angeles colleagues to interpret traditional Venezuelan music. When it comes to authenticity, however, Edward Simon has an advantage. He is a native of Venezuela who has established himself in the US as a versatile pianist, composer and arranger. Venezuelan Suite has four ...

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Four Digital-only World Jazz Fusion Albums By Gino Foti Released On Net Dot Music Label

Source: Gino Foti
December 24, 2014

Net Dot Music, Inc. announces the simultaneous release of four digital-only full-length albums in several jazz and world music sub-genres by bass guitar and keyboard player Gino Foti. The collection, compiled from his catalog of the past decade, blends traditional ethnic sonorities and modern jazz fusion influences into new experiments of cultural hybridity, with each individual album complementing the others by design. Asian Mosaic - Like the universal Yin-Yang concept, balance, dynamism, and inner harmony are the primary features of ...

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Recent Listening In Brief…

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 21, 2014

Frank Zappa (1940-1993), a gifted musician who dipped his toe into jazz, never demonstrated more than a smidgeon of what he knew about the genre. But he left us with the memorable observation, “Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.” A web search shows that lesser wits have adapted Zappa’s line to all kinds of topics from politics to marketing management and, of all things, science journalism. None of those endeavors seems to be dying, either. For years, people have ...

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Whirlwind Recordings Releases

Source: Michael Janisch
December 20, 2014

Whirlwind Recordings releases First Meeting: Live in London, Volume 1, a collaborate album by Lee Konitz, Michael Janisch, Dan Tepfer and Jeff Williams. Recorded live in London at the Pizza Express Jazz Club. ABOUT THE ALBUM Lee Konitz is “one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition" (John Zorn). His recorded legacy is massive and uniquely influential, stretching back to his recordings in the late 1940s with the Claude Thornhill Band, Lennie Tristano and ...

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Jazz Of "Many Colors" By Joyce Spencer New CD Pre-Order

Source: Joyce Spencer
December 19, 2014

Dallas/Ft Worth entertainer and independent recording artist, Joyce Spencer, is back with her much anticipated second CD release entitled Many Colors, bringing the many colors of jazz from traditional to contemporary and smooth to funk/fusion, along with three covers (John Coltrane, Billy Cobham and Billie Holiday) and seven original tracks. The original music, including lyrics, were all written and produced by Joyce Spencer, and the CD is slated to be released on January 15, 2015. No matter what “groove", Joyce's ...

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Soaring Music Launches Bassist Greg Nathan's Website in Support of "I'll Think Of Something"

Source: Greg Nathan
December 19, 2014

Greg Nathan, son of Charles Nathan, (songwriter who penned the music to Perry Como's 1953 hit, “Say Your Mine Again,") and Tonie Nathan, (the first woman in history of the United States to receive an electoral vote for U.S. Vice President while running on the 1972 Libertarian Party ticket,) has opened a website to facilitate holiday sales of the acclaimed CD I'll Think of Something, named after a song from Charles Nathan's musical “Where the Heck's the Plot?" produced in ...

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Saxophonist Anton Schwartz's "Flash Mob" Featured on the All About Jazz Home Page

Source: All About Jazz
December 19, 2014

Don't miss one of the best jazz CDs of 2014! Available for a full week on the All About Jazz home page. Look for the Flash Mob SoundCloud player directly under the Featured Stories box Anton Schwartz's first solo release in seven years, Flash Mob, had a long Top Ten run on the U.S. Jazz Radio charts and made DownBeat's Best of 2014 list. And it's no wonder why—it's just so much fun to listen to, for the trained jazz ...

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17 Boxed-Set Discoveries

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 18, 2014

Earlier this week I featured my favorite new CD discoveries. Today, my favorite boxed sets from 2014 in a range of genres, from country and jazz to rock and folk, for those still looking for a gift idea... Ronnie Milsap: The RCA Albums Collection (Sony). I like my Nashville country straight up. Because I'm a romantic, I veer toward the classic. A big deep masculine voice or powerful female voice singing about passing through, moving on, dirty little secrets, feverish ...

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