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Vocalist Carol Duboc Offers Insight into Trials and Triumphs of Love with New Album, "Smile", on Gold Note Music, Inc.
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DL Media
Since her emergence onto the adult contemporary/urban jazz scene in the early 2000s, Carol Duboc has generously shared her wisdom and insight about love and romance in song-via both compelling original material and uniquely stylized covers of pop classics, as on her most recent recordings Songs For Lovers (2008) and Burt Bacharach Songbook (2009). On her multi-faceted new album Smile, the sultry singer and songwriter-who penned songs for top pop/R&B artists like Patti Labelle, Chante Moore, Stephanie Mills and Jade ...
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Mosaic Records Celebrates the John Coltrane Quartet - "The Complete Sun Ship Session" Released for the First Time
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DL Media
Mosaic Records is set to release The Complete Sun Ship Session which includes newly discovered and previously unissued alternate takes from one of the final studio sessions by the John Coltrane Quartet. The three LP set will be released May 21 and is also being made available on a two CD set through Verve Records on April 16. Sun Ship, recorded August 26, 1965, captures one of the last sessions by the Classic John Coltrane Quartet (Coltrane, pianist McCoy Tyner, ...
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Antonio Adolfo: "Finas Misturas"
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Brazilian pianist, arranger and composer Antonio Adolfo became a professional musician in Rio de Janeiro at age 17 and has since recorded 25 albums as a leader. His teachers were Eumir Deodato and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Adolfo's songs have been recorded by Sérgio Mendes, Stevie Wonder (Pretty World), Herb Alpert, Earl Klugh and Dionne Warwick. What makes Adolfo's music special is the high proportion of sophisticated jazz sifted together with his Brazilian heritage. On his new album Finas Misturas ...
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"Melba!," A Tribute To Melba Liston By Saxophonist/Composer Geof Bradfield, To Be Released By Origin Records April 16
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield’s new CD Melba!, which Origin Records will release on April 16, has been a long time coming. Bradfield’s suite for jazz septet, a tribute to the great yet underheralded arranger/trombonist Melba Liston (1926-1999), received its premiere performances last summer in Chicago and other Midwest cities. It was supported by a commission from Chamber Music America’s 2011 New Jazz Works program (with funding by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation), allowing Bradfield to research the rich Liston trove at ...
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April Showers Bring "Summer Rain"
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Saxophonist Jeanette Harris’ fourth album warmly received by radio programmers and reviewers Fresno, CA: Spring has just sprung yet “Summer Rain” has arrived. The soulful urban-jazz album written and produced by saxwoman Jeanette Harris was released today by J&M Records and is winning new fans through growing radio airplay, including Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and enthusiastic reviews. With a fast-filling concert calendar, the “Rain” will be flowing spring, summer and fall as Harris has gigs booked April through October’s Catalina ...
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The Le Boeuf Brothers Release - Le Boeuf Brothers Remixed - Available: April 30 On Nineteen-Eight Records
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Featuring new remixes by Remy & Pascal Le Boeuf, David Binney, Tim Lefebvre, “Wolff Parkinson White" (AKA: Jochen Rueckert), Kissy Girls, Lucky Luke & Armand Hirsch The Le Boeuf Brothers will be appearing at: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on April 3 and The 55 Bar on April 7! “This group has an impressively self-assured new album, “House Without a Door" which reaches for the gleaming cosmopolitanism of our present era." - The New York Times “A rich brand of modern jazz, ...
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International Jazz Artist Kristin Korb Releases New Album "What's Your Story?"
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Dernier PR
What's Your Story? the sixth album from internationally recognized jazz artist Kristin Korb answers that very question with 12 timeless tunes that celebrate her story as a jazz vocalist and bassist. What’s Your Story? will be released on Korb’s own label, Double K Music, in the U.S. and Europe on April 2, 2013. The album will be available on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, kristinkorb.com and select retail outlets. A singing double bassist with a deep sense of swing, Korb combines ...
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A New Matthew Shipp Thirsty Ear Release Is Slated For Fall 2013
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Chris Rich
On Wednesday February 20, pianist/composer Matthew Shipp recorded his next Thirsty Ear record, Piano Sutras, at Park West Studios in Brooklyn. Jim Clouse was the recording engineer and Thirsty Ear owner Peter Gordon was the producer. It's a solo piano recording of originals by Mr. Shipp plus a couple of standards. Shipp said, “I continue to pursue my own unique brand of piano language and feel intense growth. I developed a set of compositions for this CD that compel a ...
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