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Pianist Marc Cary Releases "For the Love of Abbey", June 11 on Motema Music
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DL Media
A STERLING SOLO PIANO TRIBUTE TO CARY’S MENTOR AND LONGTIME EMPLOYER, THE LATE ABBEY LINCOLN View video footage of Marc Cary performing live with Abbey Lincoln Marc Cary has gained a reputation as one of the most creative pianists of our time, a bandleader with musical interests that encompass jazz, go-go, hip-hop, electronic music, Indian classical music and more. But Cary is also an incisive and sought-after accompanist, a fact famously borne out by his 12-year tenure (beginning in 1994) ...
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Michel Camilo to Release Adventurous Solo Piano Album, "What's Up?", Available May 14 on Okeh
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DL Media
11-Track Project Spotlights a Collection of Originals, Latin and Jazz Standards OKeh will release GRAMMY, Emmy, and Latin GRAMMY® Award winning pianist and composer Michel Camilo‘s new album, What’s Up?, on May 14, 2013. The project is the Dominican Republic-born musician’s debut for the label and is OKeh‘s second overall release as part of the new re-launch initiative via Sony Classical, which focuses on documenting “Global Expressions in Jazz.” Produced by Camilo and recorded by GRAMMY Award winning engineer Phil ...
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Available Now: Composer/Saxophonist Joshua Kwassman Spins the Tale of Friendship on "Songs of the Brother Spirit" - His Debut Album of All Original Extended Compositions on Truth Revolution Records
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DL Media
Featuring Guitarist Gilad HekselmanThe journey from adolescence to adulthood can be a harrowing one. For composer and saxophonist Joshua Kwassman, that was true in a very literal sense, as a three-day bike trip, in August 2010, with an idolized childhood friend collapsed into chaos and shattered his youthful illusions. While that trek itself found Kwassman growing up in a hurry, his musical recounting of the experience marks the debut of a remarkably mature young composer. Songs of the Brother Spirit, ...
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Lisa Hilton "Getaway" Release With Larry Grenadier and Nasheet Waits
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Lisa Hilton
Pianist/composer Lisa Hilton is one of the most distinctive and individualistic voices in jazz today. Her new album, Getaway (Ruby Slippers, #1016), is her fifteenth as a bandleader. Here she's joined in a powerful trio effort featuring her current all-star bandmates, bassist Larry Grenadier (Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny) and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason Moran's Bandwagon, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Andrew Hill). This new album is a bold and exciting change of pace, Hilton bolstering her signature imagistic, lush, ...
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Joe Locke To Release Lay Down My Heart (Blues & Ballads, Volume 1) On May 14
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GoMedia PR
Vibraphonist's Third Release for Motéma Music Further Illustrates the Depth and Breadth of his Talent Lay Down My Heart, the third release from the prolific vibraphonist Joe Locke since his signing to Motéma Music in 2012, marks a complete and deliberate contrast from his two previous releases: the small-group outing Signing, his critically lauded 2012 label debut with The Joe Locke Geoffrey Keezer Group, and the large- scale Wish Upon A Star, which was recorded with Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra and ...
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New Music Release By Kathy Yolanda Rice Is No.1 On 5 CD Baby Top Indie Charts!
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Kathy Yolanda Rice
Paintbrush Records & Publishing, an independent label, released the smooth jazz single, “Love is Like a Sunny Day,” with worldwide distribution through CD Baby on March 5, 2013. The new single is Kathy Yolanda Rice’s second release on her label since 2004. The solo female artist was pleasantly surprised to find out that her song ranked at number one in multiple genres. Rice says, “I was very fortunate to have so many talented friends working with me on this project. ...
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Guitar Virtuoso Todd Grubbs Releases Two New Albums – "Best Of The Guests" and "Toddities Volume 2"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Tampa, FL: One of the most talented and innovative guitarists to emerge from Florida, Todd Grubbs has released two new albums digitally in March 2013 - 'Best Of The Guests' and 'Toddities volume 2'. Todd Grubbs, who studied at Berklee College of Music, has been voted ‘Most Outstanding Guitarist’ at the Tampa Bay Music Awards, as well as winning the ‘Most Outstanding Video’ two consecutive years in a row. His guitar prowess has been touted by critics and fans worldwide, ...
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Edward Simon's Upcoming Release: Trio Live In New York At Jazz Standard
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Sunnyside Records
Release Date: April 23, 2013 Studio recordings are wonderful documents of musicians and ensembles at certain milestones, yet they can be a bit unfair to both listeners and musicians who are interested in the natural development of the music. These recordings remain one of the only reliable ways to disseminate music but are generally recorded with newly learned material and time limitations. There would be little regard to evolution of the music. This meant that listeners have been limited to ...
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