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Social Network Created Jazz CD Release
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Dave Wright
Oakland, CA: Jazz Social is a unique CD recording project created entirely online via a social networking site. Initiated by guitarist Dave Wright and facilitated by the social networking site for musicians, Kompoz.com, this recording project features Dave on guitar performing his original compositions accompanied by host of musicians from around the world! Written, created and recorded online between September 2012 and May 2013, Jazz Social features eight original compositions in the “Mainstream Jazz" genre featuring standard Jazz instrumentation including ...
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Bill Hitz: This Swingin' Age
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
As readers know, I love obscure big band albums from the 1950s. For example, back in February 2012 I posted about Marion Evans' Ted McNabb & Co., a hard swinger with beautifully stitched arrangements from 1959. Today, I want to tell you about Bill Hitz's Music for This Swingin' Age, from 1956. Bill who? Hitz was a clarinetist and alto saxophonist who recorded with Gene Krupa in 1945, Herbie Fields in 1946, Sarah Vaughan in 1950 and Ralph Flanagan in ...
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"The Poet," 3rd CD By Rising Star Trumpeter Marquis Hill, To Be Released Oct. 22
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Already an established presence in his native Chicago, trumpeter/composer Marquis Hill will see his star continue to rise on the national jazz scene with the release of The Poet, his third CD in as many years. The dynamic session, featuring his working band, the Blacktet, is due October 22 from Skiptone Music. Hill spent considerable time and care preparing his band for the recording of The Poet, including performing songs from the upcoming album during a February engagement at Chicago’s ...
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SAM Releases Debut "Another Life" Split into Two Volumes
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Chris M. Slawecki
The progressive-rock improvising trio SAM, formed by bassist Julie Slick, guitarist Peter Alexius and Chapman Stick player Marc Mennigmann, announce to release of their debut album called Another Life split in two volumes. Both volumes will be available on BandCamp, iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby, and several other digital record stores. The release of a physical 2 CD box is planned for the end of 2013. Another Life Vol. 1 and Another Life Vol. 2 are a selection of the best improvisations ...
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Newpoli: Music Beyond The Tarantula’s Bite
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
Sometimes you don’t understand what you have until you leave it behind. It can be people, places. It can even be the music. That’s definitely the case with Newpoli. When the founding members left Italy to study jazz at Berklee College of Music, they never imagined that they’d end up performing the folk music of their homeland. But the pull of southern Italy was strong. “Rediscovering folk music was a shock, no one expected it,” admits vocalist Carmen Marsico, one ...
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Golub’s "Pusherman" Goes No. 1
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
First single from the soul-jazz guitarist’s “Train Keeps A Rolling” album tops the Billboard chart. New York, NY: If “It ain’t no. 1 until it is no. 1 in Billboard,” guitarist Jeff Golub can justifiably claim to have a no. 1 single with his ripping retelling of the gritty Curtis Mayfield street chronicle, “Pusherman.” The first single from Golub’s newly released “Train Keeps A Rolling,” which he recorded with jazz-rock keyboard pioneer Brian Auger,” “Pusherman” pulls into the no. 1 ...
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Guitarist Ricardo Grilli Debuts Oct. 15 With "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler"
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Terri Hinte Publicity
In the seven years since leaving his native São Paulo for Boston and then New York, guitarist Ricardo Grilli has found his voice as a distinctive jazz player and composer. His glowing debut album, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, which his Dark House label will release on October 15, chronicles that journey in rich detail. Grilli’s restless creativity is manifested in his love of odd meters, offbeat structures, and themes that keep circling back on themselves like the ...
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The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine Releases "It's About Time" -- Includes un-recorded Maynard Ferguson Composition
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Ira B. Liss
San Diego, CA: TallMan Productions is thrilled to announce the release of the latest album from The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, It's About Time available everywhere on August 8, 2013. It's About Time is the 4th CD release by The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, an 18- piece Big Band that has been swinging the Southern California music scene for the last 34 years. Featuring some of San Diego's best jazz musicians and voted Best ...
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