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Nelson Riddle: 'Changing Colors'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Nelson Riddle slowed down a bit in the 1970s. After spending the two previous decades arranging dozens of albums credited to him and probably dozens more for lucrative ghost projects, Riddle worked on just one or two albums a year in the '70s before his comeback with Linda Ronstadt's three hit Songbook albums starting in 1983. For Riddle, there were a couple of 101 Strings dates in 1970, an Ella Fitzgerald session (Dream Dancing) in 1972 and a Michel Legrand ...
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Salsa Legend Rubén Blades Performs "Tangos"!
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Sunnyside Records
Salsa legend Rubén Blades performs his classic compositions as tangos on the upcoming Sunnyside release, Tangos (June 24)! The best songs are those that provide messages that reach beyond the genre into which they are born. There are lyrics that can move people deeply, even when the composer and listener are separated by oceans. The tremendous poet, composer and actor Rubén Blades is the sort who can plumb the depths of human emotion. Over his industrious and varied career, Blades ...
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Previously Unreleased Music From Afro-Cuban Legend Aldo Del Rio!
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Sunnyside Records
Previously Unreleased Music from Afro-Cuban Legend Aldo del Rio to be released on Sunnyside Records on June 10, 2014! The best method in which to experience a culture is to go directly to the source. There is no better place to spend time absorbing the nuances of art and song than where they evolved. There might not be any location more important to the development of modern music than the island nation of Cuba with its unique amalgamation of races ...
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Hakan Brostrom With The Norrbotten Big Band Featuring Marilyn Mazur-"Episodes From The Future And The Past"
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Art of Life Records
Art Of Life CD & Digital Download Release Following up on his 2010 quartet release Refraction, featuring pianist Joey Calderazzo, Art of Life Records is pleased to present, Episodes from the Future and the Past, a new live recording by saxophonist, composer and arranger Håkan Broström. The 72-minute album was recorded live by Swedish Radio on October 19th, 2012 at Folkets Hus, Haparanda, Sweden and October 20th, 2012 at Kulturens Hus, Luleå, Sweden and features the 16-piece Norrbotten Big Band ...
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New Release Marketing Drivers: What Your Label Manager Needs to Know
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HypeBot
By Ben South, The Orchard's Senior Manager of Client Relations, UK. So, your biggest priority of the year is approaching: a new album from the most prominent artist on your roster. You’re feeling organised; with 3 months to go before release date, the album is mastered and in production for physical. The digital is uploaded and ready to submit. Press and online teams are hired and have begun their campaigns. You’re releasing a single 2 weeks before street and have ...
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New Release By Dave Knife Fabris with Ran Blake
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Dave Fabris
Lettuce Prey (Great Winds/Musea 3169) is music that is supported equally by the three legs of Rock, Jazz and Classical. It has the guts and glory of rock heroes like Jimi Hendrix (whose tune, Angel, is featured as a guitar solo on this CD). It possesses the surprise and intrigue of Jazz improvisation (like Ornette Coleman's Sadness - presented here in a jazz quintet format). Lastly, it exudes the intricacy and depth of contemporary Classical music - Ives, Prokofiev, and ...
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Concord Music Group Team Ups With Independent Record Retailers For Collectors' Special
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conqueroo
Exclusive PEANUTS record player to be sold as perfect companion to 50th-anniversary remastered vinyl of Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Fantasy Records, via Concord Music Group, is pleased to announce a collaboration with select record stores to sell an exclusive accompaniment: a remastered vinyl reissue of Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown featuring the Vince Guaraldi Trio (available separately on May 13, 2014), paired with Crosley’s PEANUTS Cruiser turntable. PEANUTS fans and record ...
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Roland Kirk: Limelight/Verve Albums
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
With the exception of Sun Ra, few jazz artists were more visually arresting than Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Blind from adolescence, Kirk wore dark glasses and often performed with multiple reed instruments hung around his neck or lodged in his mouth. Uninitiated listeners automatically assumed Kirk's music wouldn't be easy to grasp or likable. The funny thing about Kirk is that his music was always gentle, whimsical, lyrical and engaging. All those instruments around his neck? He often played them in ...
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