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Songstress Shelea Announces The Release Of Her Debut Album, Love Fell On Me, Available June 18, 2013

Source: Kelly Krueger
May 30, 2013

SONGSTRESS SHELEA ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF HER DEBUT ALBUM, LOVE FELL ON ME, AVAILABLE JUNE 18, 2013 Love Fell On Me Features Brian McKnight, Stevie Wonder and A Collaboration with Narada Michael Walden Vocalist Sheléa (shuh-LAY-uh) announces the release of her debut album, Love Fell On Me to be released on June 18 with Breath of Life Records via CEN/RED Distribution, a division of Sony Music. One of the first singles, “Love The Way You Love Me” is a soulful ...

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Jonathan Scales Fourchestra Announces Self-Titled Summer Album Release To Feature Guest Collaborators Victor Wooten And Howard Levy

Source: Crissa Requate
May 23, 2013

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra are no strangers to pushing musical genre boundaries and on July 9th, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra will release a self-titled album of cerebral tunes that further blur the lines of jazz. Each member of Jonathan Scales Fourchestra contributes a distinctive voice to the ensemble. Wielding steel pans, Jonathan Scales incorporates a contemporary jazz attitude into arrangements that tap into funk, rock, jam, and Latin sensibilities. Drummer/ percussionist Phill Bronson grounds the trio’s compositions with an agile, metronome-like sensitivity ...

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Mitchell and Ruff: Brazilian Trip

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 23, 2013

I'm not sure why the jazz duo of Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff weren't better known in the '50s and '60s, when they did most of their recording—or why they still aren't household names. Part of the reason, I suppose, is that the delicate combination of Mitchell (piano) and Ruff (French horn and bass) wasn't exactly a happening sound back then. Delicate and sensitive with touches of classical influence, the duo's jazz wasn't pop flavored in the late '50s or ...

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Music Therapy: Duboc Delivers A Revealing “Smile”

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
May 23, 2013

Jazz singer-songwriter teams with Jeff Lorber for a deeply personal album about the demise of her marriage Los Angeles, CA: Thinking that everything had fallen apart, the tears streamed down Carol Duboc’s face as she wrote the lyrics to “Smile,” the title track to the soulful jazz vocalist’s stunning sixth album that was released Tuesday (May 21) by Gold Note Music. She gazed at her young daughter’s smile and found hope. Hope infuses the painfully honest and courageously candid collection ...

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Jutta Hipp in Germany: 1952-'55

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 22, 2013

Jutta Hipp is another forgotten '50s jazz pianist with an odd past. She recorded briefly but gave up on jazz in 1956 for reasons that remain mysterious. The German-born Hipp spent her teens under Nazi rule and performed in Germany after the war. She recorded in Germany sporadically from 1952 to '55, and a year later she caught the ear of producer Leonard Feather, who was in Duisburg, Germany. Feather urged Hipp to come to New York. Hipp did just ...

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Composer Steve Lindeman's Modern Big Band Debut, "the Day After Yesterday," Due June 11

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 21, 2013

Steve Lindeman’s distinctive approach to modern big band composing is on ample display on his impressive debut CD, The Day After Yesterday, to be released by Jazz Hang Records on June 11. The Brigham Young University professor’s originals are performed by BYU’s Synthesis under the direction of Ray Smith, who also produced the album. Nearly all of the compositions on the stylistically far-reaching disc had their genesis in Lindeman’s participation, from 2008 through 2011, in the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop. ...

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Heart To Heart - Alan Broadbent's New Solo Piano Album

Source: Jan Matthies Music Management
May 21, 2013

Two-time Grammy Award winning jazz pianist, composer and arranger Alan Broadbent has long been a major force behind the scenes in jazz, whether it was accompanying Irene Kral on some of the most exquisite vocal albums ever recorded, contributing arrangements to Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, Jane Monheit and Sir Paul McCartney or playing piano for Charlie Haden's Quartet West. 14 CD‘s released under his own name are proof that he is not only working in the background. Four of his ...

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Nils Lindberg: "Trisection" (1962)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 20, 2013

Today I'm going to tell you about one of the finest jazz albums recorded in the early '60s—an album that is likely unfamiliar to you but will surely become one of your favorites. The album is Trisection by Swedish composer, arranger and pianist Nils Lindberg. (Tomorrow I'll have an interview with Nils from Stockholm about the music.) Sweden has a long jazz history and remains one of the oldest and most prolific jazz centers outside of the U.S. The country's ...

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