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The impulse! Renaissance Presents: Charlie Haden-Jim Hall
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Michael Ricci
Stunning Previously-Unreleased 1990 Recording Captures Two Masters In Performance At Montreal Jazz Festival On September 30, the newly reactivated impulse! label will release Charlie Haden-Jim Hall, a previously-unreleased recording of a stunning duo performance by these two recently departed masters at the 1990 Montreal International Jazz Festival. impulse! is a division of Universal Music France which is distributed by Blue Note Records in the U.S. “This album documents a rarified journey,” writes pianist Ethan Iverson in the album's liner notes. ...
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Guitar Virtuoso Peppino D'Agostino To Release Highly Anticipated New CD Penumbra
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
San Francisco, CA - Much to the excitement of guitar players worldwide, acoustic guitar virtuoso Peppino D'Agostino will be releasing his eagerly awaited new album 'Penumbra' on Mesa/Bluemoon on August 5, 2014. Along with original material, the new CD features work by Roland Dyens, Maurizio Colonna, and two compositions written especially for D'Agostino by Latin Grammy award-winning Brazilian guitarist Sergio Assad. Peppino D'Agostino doesn’t just play the guitar. He composes, arranges, collaborates, improvises and has even been known to sing ...
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Wil Blades To Release "Field Notes" On Royal Potato Family
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Calabro Music
No less a jazz organ authority than the legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future," anointing him the heir apparent “to carry on the legend [and] the legacy of the organ, of the B-3." Blades shoulders that responsibility with nonchalant virtuosity and infectious groove on his forthcoming studio album, Field Notes, out August 19 from Royal Potato Family. The nine songs report back from the rich incubator that is the road, with pieces written from snippets recorded ...
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Phil Sunkel: Jazz Concert Grosso
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Phil Sunkel was a swinging trumpeter and cornetist who never overblew his horn. Like Dick Collins, Sunkel was a tone guy who had a knack for picking choice notes and playing them beautifully, whether working up the scale or down. Sunkel began recording in the mid-1950s and led his first session—Phil Sunkel's Jazz Band—in June 1956 for ABC-Paramount. He then was a sideman on many superb dates, including Aaron Sachs's Clarinet & Co., The Gerry Mulligan Concert Band, Billy VerPlanck's ...
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Victoria Blythe Releases James Brown's I Feel Good On New Five-song Ep
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Victoria Blythe
On August 1, Universal Pictures released the James Brown biopic “Get on Up.” In recognition of this event and for airplay in connection with it, acclaimed SF Bay Area singer Victoria Blythe released her new cover of James Brown's “I Got You (I Feel Good)”. Blythe slows down and heats up Brown's classic track with just her sultry, nimble voice, dressed in nothing but a stand-up bass. Blythe is releasing the track as a download only, as part of a ...
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Prog Icon Neal Morse To Release Eagerly Anticipated New Solo Album
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Cross Plains, TN – Much to the excitement of Prog fans worldwide, Neal Morse will be releasing his eagerly anticipated new solo album Songs From November on August 19, 2014! Even a style as broad and accepting as Progressive Rock has its boundaries. Prog icon Neal Morse decided to break that mold and create a challenging new album. 'Songs From November' may be his bravest outing to date. Musically, creatively, and production-wise, it’s like nothing he’s ever done. Can you ...
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New Release By Mikkel Ploug & Lars Graugaard
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Kaylee Wesley Pearson
Clang has released Ngelo by Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug and the Danish musical chameleon Lars Graugaard. All tracks on Ngelo are edited improvisations that provide a listening experience that combines the liveliness of the moment with a concise structure, either with a well-defined atmosphere or of a particular compositional aim. The three ballad-style tracks are highly interactive with Lars’ computer generating all accompaniment through real-time analysis of the guitar, including bass-lines and the various counterpoints. A second group ...
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Veteran Cuban Musician Rey Cabrera Spices Up The Summer With A Brand New Album
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles, CA - Cuban born vocalist and master of the tres, a traditional Cuban style guitar, brings his finest latin jazz music to the North American audiences this coming August 5th. The extraordinary new album, Cabrera’s third full-length as Rey Cabrera y Sus Amigos, is entitled Controversia, and will be released on both CD and digitally by Goldenlane Records, a subsidiary of Cleopatra Records, Inc. Born 1943 in the Oriente mountains that surround Santiago de Cuba, Cabrera inherited his ...
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