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Eric Clapton's "Give Me Strength: The 1974/75 Recordings" 6-Disc Box Due November 26
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Universal Music Enterprises
In early 1974, after a three-year absence that followed Eric Clapton’s major success with Derek and the Dominos’ seminal album Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs, which sealed his stature as one of rock's most revered guitarists, a rejuvenated and musically refreshed Clapton stepped into the recording studio and staged a massive resurgence with his 1974/1975 trilogy of albums — 461 Ocean Boulevard, which featured his first No. 1 hit single “I Shot The Sheriff,” There's One In Every Crowd ...
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"The Spiritual Side Of Wynton Marsalis" to be Released October 22
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Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy
Pulitzer Prize and nine-time Grammy Award®-winning musician, and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis digs into his rich collection of spiritually inspired recordings at the Columbia and Sony Classical labels for The Spiritual Side Of Wynton Marsalis. This special collection of 15 divine tracks will be available everywhere October 22 through Columbia/Sony Classical/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. The release of The Spiritual Side Of Wynton Marsalis coincides with the month-long Abyssinian: A Gospel ...
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Jazz Icon Herb Alpert is "Steppin' Out" with New Album November 19
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Rogers & Cowan
Grammy®-winning jazz great Herb Alpert is Steppin’ Out on November 19 with a new album on Shout! Factory. Combining pop instrumentals and timeless jazz along with Latin-influenced rhythms reminiscent of the Tijuana Brass, Steppin’ Out explores standards from the American Songbook as well as Alpert’s own catalog, and features his wife, the Grammy®-winning vocalist Lani Hall, on several tracks. Steppin’ Out includes 16 songs, including a contemporary version of Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” a video for which has ...
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Terry Teachout on Ellington (PT. 2)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The impact, influence and sheer longevity of Duke Ellington's jazz career is astonishing, rivaled only perhaps by Louis Armstrong's. From his first recordings in 1924 until his last at Georgetown University in 1974 just three months before his death, Ellington was essentially responsible for creating jazz's national highway system. Thanks to the trails he blazed, other bands, arrangers and soloists followed with enormous success. He also smashed through the commercial ceiling, making jazz viable as dance music and marketable to ...
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Cigdem Aslan Touches History with "Mortissa"
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
A century or more ago, in cities like Smyra, Thessaloniki, and Istanbul, Greeks and Turks lived peacefully side by side during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. People laughed and loved and sang together. In the bars and the hash houses, they played the music that was the root of what came to be called rebetiko, songs about poor people like themselves, the criminals and lovers, the musicians, the beauties and the strong women known as mortissas. Çiğdem Aslan ...
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Tev Stevig's Fretless Frailing Brings The Balkans Home
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
For Boston-based musician Tev Stevig, an epiphany occurred when he first heard the fretless guitar. For years, Stevig had explored American music from old time folk music to jazz, as well as the sounds of the Balkans and the Middle East. He wanted to bring together all of his musical passions and with this instrument he saw a path to realize his intentions. Stevig now introduces his album entitled Jeni Jol (“the New Path”) to the world, the first in ...
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Flutist, Bill McBirnie, Releases A New Album - Find Your Place
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Bill McBirnie - Extreme Flute
The Bill McBirnie Trio featuring Bernie Senensky and Anthony Michelli Find Your Place Bill McBirnie's new album, Find Your Place, departs in a significant way from his previously acclaimed acoustic jazz projects ("Mercy" with Robi Botos; “Paco Paco" with Bernie Senensky; and “Nature Boy" with Mark Eisenman). In FIND YOUR PLACE, Bill places the flute in a very unlikely role...as part of an organ trio! For this singular format, Bill has recruited two outstanding fellow Canadian musicians, Bernie Senensky on ...
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ArtistShare Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary -- Blue Note/ArtistShare Announces 1st Fan-Funded Project
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Brian Camelio
Yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of ArtistShare, the internet’s first fan funding platform and first to release a fan-funded grammy-winning album Jim Hall; Maria Schneider & Dawn Upshaw; Dianne Reeves and the Newport Jazz Festival project; and Ariel Pocock nominated for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards ArtistShare looking to add to already impressive track-record of 6 Grammy awards for fan-funded albums Fabian Almazan’s fan-funded “Rhizome” cd to be the first release under the joint Blue Note/ArtistShare label will feature young ...
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