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Singer-Songwriter Sam Morrow To Release Haunting Debut Album On April 29 Via Forty Below Records
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1888 Media
10-Song Opus Produced By Eric Corne (John Mayall, DeVotchKa, KaiL Baxley) Record Release Show At Hotel Café In Los Angeles Scheduled For May 1st Los Angeles, CA: On April 29, Forty Below Records, home to albums by John Mayall, Bonson Berner and KaiL Baxley, will issue the extraordinary debut album by singer-songwriter Sam Morrow. Entitled Ephemeral, the release marks the first one issued under an arrangement with Sony/RED Distribution and MRI, home to partnerships with artists such as Billy Bragg, ...
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Two New Duo CDs By Bassist/Composer Jeff Denson Due April 15
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Best known for his work in the celebrated cooperative trio Minsarah (which he founded with Florian Weber and Ziv Ravitz) and his seven-year tenure in the Lee Konitz New Quartet, bassist and composer Jeff Denson has also led a highly regarded quartet featuring Weber, Ralph Alessi, and Dan Weiss. Now Denson is preparing to showcase other aspects of his virtuosity and exquisite musicality with the April 15 release, by the San Diego-based pfMENTUM label, of two very different duo albums, ...
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Melphi Presents Debut Album Through The Looking Glass
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Astrid van Kimmenade
Easy listening songs full of jazz and soul MELPHI is a contemporary Dutch band representing singer Lotte van Drunen, pianist Rogier Telderman, bassist Jurriaan Dekker, and drummer Willem van der Krabben. Their music can be characterised by good musical interaction, original compositions and the powerful and versatile voice of singer Lotte. Their album will be released on 4 April by record label SnipRecords as a digital (high resolution) album. The album introduces the listeners to MELPHI’s world; Lotte sings what’s ...
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Jaco Pastorius' "Modern American Music" Coming April 19 on CD and Vinyl
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conqueroo
When Jaco Pastorius’ solo debut appeared in 1976, a new standard in both jazz and the electric bass guitar was born. Many of the tracks on that eponymous album had their genesis two years earlier when a 22-year-old Pastorius and friends used after-hours time at Criteria Studios to work out songs and jam. Eventually, six of those session tracks were pulled to an acetate. Many of the songs would later find their way onto Jaco’s self-titled debut, but some remained ...
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Art Van Damme: A Perfect Match
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jammed with writing assignments this week, I spent yesterday working and listening to accordionist Art Van Damme. It makes no sense to tell you how much Van Damme swings, since all great jazz accordionists swing. What made Van Damme singular were his thick chord voicings and his groovy attack, which sounded almost vocal. So teaming with guitarist Johnny Smith on A Perfect Match (1962) was a brilliant pairing. Van Damme's meaty, sighing chords and Smith's ringing, bell-like guitar notes sound ...
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Jack Jenney: Star Dust
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
After Hoagy Carmichael recorded his hypnotic Star Dust in October 1927 and May 1928, the song caught on and began to be cut almost monthly in studios by jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong in 1931 and Art Tatum in 1934. As a result, the sheer number of Star Dusts makes it tough to name a definitive version. Certainly Clifford Brown's with strings is up there. So is John Coltrane's, Jimmie Lunceford's, Ben Webster's and Sonny Stitt's. But perhaps my ...
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Trumpeter/Vocalist Ilya Serov Casts Spell On New CD
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Eric Taylor
With a voice as silky as his trumpet playing, Ilya Serov casts a seductive spell on his debut album, September in the Rain. The Los Angeles-based Serov possesses that rare gift of being able to sing as well as utilize the trumpet with graceful precision. Such a talent is not common, and Serov employs both in equal measures. Other trumpeters would have produced a record of chilled-out instrumentals; however, Serov ventures further, combining the icy trumpeting of Chet Baker with ...
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Terry Waldo - "The Soul Of Ragtime" - Out Today!
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Tompkins Square
Tompkins Square has released music across many genres: Folk, gospel, jazz, blues, old-timey, British pop, American Primitive, Cajun, Greek, singer/songwriters. But this is the first Ragtime album released by the label, from perhaps the most important living artist in the genre, Terry Waldo. Terry's new album The Soul of Ragtime is the culmination of decades of performance and study. Ragtime is one of America's truly unique and precious art forms. Comprised of original and traditional tunes, the album is stylistically ...
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