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World Music Artist Marcus Corbett Releases Highly Anticipated Debut Album Strung Deep
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK: Much to the excitement of music enthusiasts worldwide, Folk-World music artist Marcus Corbett has released his highly anticipated debut album Strung Deep. Based between Marlborough and Oxford in the UK and Pune in India, and having gigged the length and breadth of the UK and on the western coast of India, Marcus has quietly been gaining an esteemed reputation for his esoteric, unique blend of Indian classical music and British folk. Says Marcus, “I have studied Indian Classical ...
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Oud Awakening: Nashaz Furthers the Tradition of Blending of Jazz and Arabic Music
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rock paper scissors, inc.
A puzzling and intriguing challenge from an Egyptian cab driver in New Orleans inspires an impulse purchase of an alluring album in a used CD store. The album inspires a search for a difficult to find instrument, which in turn takes a jazz player to a radically different approach. This unlikely turn of events ultimately led jazz guitarist Brian Prunka to switch gears, obsessively learn as much about Arabic music as he possibly can, and begin down two paths: a ...
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Jessy J Inspires With Second Chances, Her Debut Album For Shanachie Entertainment, Releasing September 10, 2013
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1888 Media
Second Chances Features Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Jimmy Haslip and Johnny Britt. Album Includes Renditions of Classics by Roberta Flack & Sérgio Mendes Tour Dates, September 10 - December 6, 2013, Include A Show With George Benson and A Show With Sheila E Los Angeles, CA: Jessy J burst onto the contemporary jazz scene in 2008, blending her love for Latin rhythms and jazz on her chart-topping, award-winning debut album Tequila Moon. Jessy earned the Radio & Records' ‘Debut Artist ...
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Sam Most on Bop Clarinet
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When Sam Most died in June, obituaries praised him for bringing the flute into the modern jazz age. Though Jerome Richardson predated Most on flute in a small group with Lionel Hampton in 1950, Most was first to pull the instrument out of its floral, bucolic role and give it a bop twist on Undercurrent Blues. The early 1953 track for Prestige was so radical at the time that Herbie Mann paid tribute in a later interview: “When I started ...
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Jazz Vocalist Ed Reed's Tribute To The King Cole Trio, "I'm A Shy Guy," Due Oct. 1
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Terri Hinte Publicity
In choosing the repertoire for I’m a Shy Guy, his fourth album, the acclaimed Bay Area jazz vocalist Ed Reed reached way back to an early inspiration and musical hero: Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio. “Nobody else sounded like that,” Reed recalls, “and the musicianship was just fantastic.” Reed’s affinity with the material is obvious from the first notes of the new CD, which will be released by the singer’s Blue Shorts label on October 1. “Once ...
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UK Prog Group Haken Release New Album The Mountain
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles, CA - It’s been a long wait, but September 17th finally sees the brand new third album from progressive metallers Haken released in the USA. Entitled ‘The Mountain’, the record features the fantastic track ‘Cockroach King’, a video for which will be released in a few days. The band had this to say about the album: “The release of this album is an incredibly proud moment for us. There were times during the writing and recording stages when ...
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Miles Davis "The Original Mono Recordings" Available November 12!
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Michael Ricci
MILES DAVIS’ THE ORIGINAL MONO RECORDINGS COLLECTS NINE OF MILES' EARLIEST COLUMBIA ALBUMS, RECORDED 1956 TO 1961 Landmark box set presents nine albums remastered in original, brilliant sound, as they were intended to be heard in the 1950s and ’60s Available everywhere November 12, 2013, through Columbia/Legacy Nine of Miles Davis’ earliest albums on Columbia Records, encompassing music that he recorded for the label in monaural sound from 1956 to 1961 (and released from 1957 to 1964), will be issued ...
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The Prog Collective Release New Single Shining Diamonds From Their Forthcoming Album
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles, CA: The prog rock super group, the Prog Collective, directed by YES/CIRCA: member Billy Sherwood, whose debut became the surprise hit of 2012 returns with a brand new album on September 10th featuring an even more impressive lineup of stellar musicians and artists lending their talents to this incredible project! Featuring virtuosic performances by Rick Wakeman, Steve Stevens, Chris Squire, Peter Banks, Steve Morse, Larry Fast, Alan Parsons, Sonja Kristina, Jordan Rudess, Steve Hillage, John Wesley, Nik Turner, ...
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