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Jazz Singer Cheryl Barnes To Release Debut CD, “Listen To This,” On February 18th
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Muse Media
Album Features Remarkable Cast Of Players Including John Beasley, Rahn Coleman, Brandon Fields, John Hammond, Rickey Minor and More Los Angeles, California - “Listen To This,” the debut CD from eclectically-trained Jazz vocalist Cheryl Barnes, is set for release February 18, 2014, via Barnes & Cabasso Music. Highlighting twelve tracks steeped in Jazz and Blues, “Listen To This” was produced by music industry veteran Rahn Coleman, recorded at Mystic Knight Recording Studios in Los Angeles and features a stellar list ...
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Motema Music Releases Award-Winning Composer Rufus Reid’s Quiet Pride - The Elizabeth Catlett Project, A Star-Studded, Large-Ensemble Suite, On February 11, 2014
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GoMedia PR
His Five Movement Suite Pays Tribute to the Life and Work of Elizabeth Catlett, One of the Most Important African American Visual Artists of the 20th Century The inspiration for the epic, large ensemble work, Quiet Pride was Reid’s fascination with the sculptural work of Elizabeth Catlett, the great African American artist and civil rights activist, whose works can be found in the collections of the White House, the Museum of Modern Art, and of private collectors such as Bill ...
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Audiograph Album Release, Fidel Cuellar And Luiz Ebert's Leader Debut
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Fidel Cuellar
New York, NY - Audiograph, the debut album of New York based South American musicians Luiz Ebert and Fidel Cuellar is a collection of musical portraits. Featuring a world-class jazz quintet, Audiograph’s sound is open and lyrical, playing with textures, layers, form and improvisation. “With simple and evocative sonic images” (Jorge Arevalo Mateus, Grammy award winning producer and ethnomusicologist). Audiograph was written to recreate the experience of browsing through a photo album. It is a call to see through our ...
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Charlie Ventura on Baritone
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Saxophonist Charlie Ventura has gotten a bum rap. For too long he's been thought of as a Coleman Hawkins clone and his vast contributions to jazz and R&B have been overlooked or ignored. His name no longer comes up in jazz circles, and his recordings are rarely heard or praised. I can't think of the last time a serious jazz radio show featured him. It's as if Ventura had been run out of town on a rail. What a shame. ...
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Eric Clapton "Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013" Available On DVD, Blu-Ray And, For The First Time, On CD
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1888 Media
Rhino Presents Highlights From Eric Clapton’s Ultimate Guitar-Concert Event On DVD And Blu-Ray Sets And, For The First Time, On CD Includes Performances By Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr., Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Keith Richards, Los Lobos, Vince Gill, And More All Versions Available On November 19 LOS ANGELES, CA – Last spring in New York City, Eric Clapton once again assembled an unparalleled lineup of the world’s most celebrated guitarists for the fourth ...
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Steve and Eydie: That Holiday Feeling!
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Long-time JazzWax readers know that each year at this time I pick my favorite vintage holiday album. To make the grade, the album has to be from the '50s or '60s and have the perfect mixture of pop, jazz and swing—with a dash of Rockwellian sentiment. It also has to do a swift job of taking us back to a time when stuffed animals were oversized, candy was homemade, black rubber snow boots had metal clasps and fireplace blazes had ...
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Cava Menzies & Nick Phillips Present Moment To Moment - A Mesmerizing Album Of Jazz Ballads
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Antje Hübner
New York, NY - Ballads reign on Moment To Moment on the extraordinarily self-possessed new album by pianist Cava Menzies and trumpeter Nick Phillips. But this recording is much more than just a “ballads album.” Many artists have produced albums filled with love songs and torch tunes at slow tempos; theyʼre designed to pull at the heartstrings, or turn up the nostalgia, or to highlight the introspective phrasemaking that ballads allow. But very few succeed at also doing what this ...
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Thanksgiving Jazz Feast
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Once again, it's time for our annual JazzWax Thanksgiving dinner. Except here, there's no crackling fireplace or smell of roast turkey, stuffing and candied yams. Instead, we feast on music with titles that are perfect for this American holiday... Are We There Yet?—Tony Coe Quartet Just Arrived—Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) Chasin' the Bird—Charlie Parker What Is That, Smells Like Gravy—Johnnie Temple Watching the Knife and the Fork Spoon—Don Redman Don't Sleep on the Roast, Baby—Maurice Vander Cranberry Rock—Clark Tracey Flute ...
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