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Australian Prog Artist Ben Craven To Release New Single Through Innovative Music Delivery System TuneLeak
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Brisbane, Australia – Much to the excitement of prog music aficionados across the planet, Australian cinematic progressive- rock singer-songwriter Ben Craven is releasing his new single through an innovative new music delivery system he's developed called TuneLeak. Ben Craven's new single titled “Critical Mass Part 2” is now available through TuneLeak. Ben explains, “This project is being driven by music industry commentators saying the album is dead. I agree it's an endangered species, at least commercially. As a musician and ...
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Sarah Marie Young - Album Release Little Candy Heart
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Astrid van Kimmenade
The music video of the single “Lo And Behold" of Sarah Marie Young's album Little Candy Heart premieres today. The album will be released 14 October on SnipRecords as (high resolution) download. Sarah is a well known, versatile Chicago vocalist and winner of the Montreux Jazz Vocal competition (2011), judged by Quincy Jones. One year after Young’s self released album Too Many Februaries (2013) she was sought out and signed by Dutch high resolution record label SnipRecords. From this relationship ...
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Spirojazz's "City Of Dreams" Pays Homage To Chicago With Funk, Blues, And World Music Influences
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Eric Taylor
Spirojazz's City of Dreams is not music to sleep on; after all, it reflects a city that doesn't sleep, so tough that one of its great men brushes snow days off. Here the dream is not just audacious but realized in all tracks. A strong Motown feeling is evoked by the rhythmic music, making a danceable disco-like offering that has both a heavy African beat overlaid with electronica, wind and strings in a blend that mixes Manu Dibango with Nana ...
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Keyboardist Dan Siegel Returns With A Lush Collection Of Astute Jazz Etched In Melodically Rich “Indigo”
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Irvine, CA: Having recorded a catalogue of Top 10 albums in a vivid spectrum of jazz hues with topflight musicians for 35 years, Dan Siegel only emerges when he has something engaging to say with his poetic piano and crafty keyboards. Back with his first new statement in five years, Siegel’s DSM record label will release “Indigo” on October 14, a set comprised of ten new compositions that he wrote, arranged and shared production chores with Grammy-nominated bassist Brian Bromberg. ...
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Pianist Mike Longo To Release New CD, "The Mike Longo Trio Celebrates Oscar Peterson Live," Oct. 7
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Pianist Mike Longo had the distinct privilege of studying, for six intense months in 1961, with his idol Oscar Peterson in Toronto. Among several key principles imparted by Peterson to his pupil was the importance of “not playing like anyone but yourself,” says Longo. “He told me that people who are trying to play like Art Tatum are making a big mistake in that they are trying to be Art Tatum instead of trying to be as good as Art ...
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Equilibrium Return With "Liquid Light"
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GoMedia PR
European Trio - Sissel Vera Pettersen, Mikkel Ploug and Joachim Badenhorst - Will Release Third Songlines CD on October 14 “...music of exploration...There are elements of serenity from many different avenues of influence on each of the members... Equilibrium has made it sound so easy and so beautiful...Highly Recommended and a must have for everyone." —JazzWrap Liquid Light the third release by the European trio Equilibrium (Norwegian vocalist Sissel Vera Pettersen, Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug , and Belgian reed player ...
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"Oh, Pierre!" - New Music From Space Genetics
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Eric Haltmeier
Continuing in their tradition of exploring the crossroads of jazz, electronic music, and free improvisation, Space Genetics—the experimental music duo of Paul Scea and Eric Haltmeier—have released Oh, Pierre!—their fifth album to date. Consistently pushing back against the confines of any one particular stylistic framework, the eight original compositions that make up 'Oh, Pierre!' are interwoven with ambient synthesizer soundscapes, off-kilter electronic percussion grooves, and digitally-altered woodwind improvisations. Continually evolving since their first release in 2009, Eric Haltmeier and Paul ...
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Vocalist Hilary Gardner Exhibits Effortless Vocal Brilliance & Sophistication On Her Debut Recording - The Great City
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Vocalist Hilary Gardner Exhibits Effortless Vocal Brilliance & Sophistication on Her Debut Recording - The Great City Available September 30, 2014 on Anzic Records Featuring Ehud Asherie (piano), Randy Napoleon (guitar), Elias Bailey (bass), Jerome Jennings (drums), with special guests Jason Marshall (saxophone), Tatum Greenblatt (trumpet) & Jon Cowherd (organ) “...an absolutely first-class singer. She swings effortlessly without making a big deal of it, and she has a knack for hunting down off-center tunes . . . Yet she's just ...
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