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Bay Area's Park St. Trio Set to Release "3 Plus 5" on June 7, 2013
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Stephen Slater
Alameda, CA: Park St. Trio, one of the Bay Area's emergent jazz ensembles, will release its second album on June 7, 2013. The new album, “3 Plus 5," is more adventurous and highlights their growth as a band. The songwriting leans more modern while maintaining the strong melodies that makes their music enjoyable. The band has added five guest musicians to 3 Plus 5, including the outstanding Dave Eshelman, who directed the Cal State East Bay jazz program for many ...
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"Black Lace Blue Tears," Debut CD For Seattle-Area Jazz Singer Eugenie Jones, Due May 28
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Terri Hinte Publicity
With the release of her debut album Black Lace Blue Tears, Seattle-based Eugenie Jones emerges as a rising jazz vocal star with a deep-rooted sense of where she’s headed as an artist. Jones’s repertoire is based primarily on her own striking originals, and she also had a hand in all of the arrangements. The disc is due from Jones’s Open Mic Records on May 28. Throughout Black Lace Blue Tears Jones receives first-rate support from three of Seattle’s most gifted ...
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Bass Player Antoine Fafard To Release Second Album Occultus Tramitis Featuring Former Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson Members
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK - Much to the excitent of music aficionados across the globe, the second solo album by composer and bassist Antoine Fafard, 'Occultus Tramitis', will be released digitally on May 15 and on CD June 1, 2013. Featuring the contributions of a number of jazz- rock legends including Terry Bozzio (Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa), Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Gavin Harrison (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree), Scott Henderson (Tribal Tech), Simon Phillips (Jeff Beck, Toto), Chad Wackerman (Allan Holdsworth, Frank Zappa) ...
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Blossom Dearie: '61 And '65
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1961 and 1965, singer-songwriter and pianist Blossom Dearie returned to Paris on tour. She had first lived there from 1952 to '57—when she sang, played and recorded with the vocal group Les Blue Stars. In Paris, she also met and married Belgian saxophonist Bobby Jaspar and was introduced to producer Norman Granz, who signed her to a six-record Verve deal. Dearie returned to the States in '57 to begin recording for Granz and then in '64 recorded one delightful ...
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Tito Puente: "Quatro"
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over the years, Tito Puente's Latin-jazz albums for RCA have been in and out of print. The 2001 Complete RCA Recordings, Vols. 1 and 2 (6 CDs each) are going for hundreds of dollars each—if you can find them. Now, to celebrate the late percussionist-bandleader's 90th birthday, RCA has released Tito Puente, Quatro: The Definitive Collection—a box that features four of his biggest albums remastered on four CDs plus a fifth with bonus material from the sessions. The music not ...
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All-stars Unite To Form Potent Improv Group Slobber Pup; Rare Noise Debut Black Aces Set For June Release
Source:
Antje Hübner
AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE JUNE 5TH, 2013 AND THROUGH RARE NOISE RECORDS ON CD, VINYL AND HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD JAMIE SAFT Organ, Keys JOE MORRIS Electric Guitar TREVOR DUNN Electric Bass BALAZS PANDI Drums ABOUT THE LABEL - Rare Noise Records was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and listeners ...
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French Music Legends Magma Release EPOK 5 On DVD
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Paris, France - After the success of the DVDs EPOK 1-2-3-4, published in 2006 and 2007, the jazz club Le Triton again welcomed Magma in June 2011. This was for a nine concerts cycle to complete the DVD series “Myths & Legends."
EPOK 5 not only includes pieces from 1971, 1977 and 1978 but also Félicité Thösz , the latest MAGMA release, heard here in a version prior to the recording of the album. There are, in addition, 20 minutes ...
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Koby Israelite Balkanizes the Blues (and Vice Versa) on "Blues from Elsewhere"
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
If Jimmy Page played accordion, and if Taraf de Haidouks sang the blues, they’d be partying along side Israeli-born, London-based multi-instrumentalist Koby Israelite. With devil-may-care daring, the Balkan and blues-loving maverick brings together the coolest sounds of gritty roots, hard-hitting rock, and the joyous mayhem of a good East European wedding band on Blues from Elsewhere (Asphalt Tango). This is no novelty record, though, no gimmicky mash up. To Koby, it’s a natural, if unexpected sonic crossroads. “When I decided ...
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