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Singer Phil Perry Says Yes With New Album On March 12 Via Shanachie Entertainment
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1888 Media
Soulful Mix of Originals And Inspired Reinterpretations Of Classic Songs By Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Michael McDonald & Carly Simon And Sam Cooke Featuring Special Guests Chanté Moore And Najee New York, NY: A great vocalist has a way of inhabiting a song, living it and making it their own. It takes especially great powers of interpretation for a singer to take a song definitively recorded by a legendary artist and give it new life with a fresh interpretation. Phil ...
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With Love In Every Shade From Paris Combo
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Eclectic global jazz quintet returns March 12th with their aptly titled fifth studio album, “5,” that will be supported with a U.S. concert tour New York, NY: Love is a universal language and Paris Combo confirms that music is as well. The five-piece French band that has garnered global acclaim and an immense following for its unique mélange of colorful cabaret, elegant jazz, multicultural world music and sassy alterna-pop will release their fifth studio album, the appropriately titled “5,” on ...
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Guitarist/Composer Bill Horvitz Pays Homage to Late Brother Philip Horvitz on Latest Album, "The Long Walk", Available April 2 on Big Door Prize Records
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DL Media
Eight years after his brother’s untimely death, guitarist and composer Bill Horvitz pays homage to Philip with his latest release, The Long Walk, set for national release, April 2. Special tribute performances are being planned for the SF Bay Area (March) as well as New York (June). The Long Walk is a suite of eight pieces composed by Bill Horvitz for the 17-piece Bill Horvitz Expanded Band as a tribute to his youngest brother Philip Horvitz, who passed away suddenly ...
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Return Of The Del-Lords: The "Elvis Club" Is Open For Business Again
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conqueroo
Fabled New York rockers the Del-Lords return with their first new album in more than two decades NEW YORK, NY: ”We didn’t start with any agenda, other than to make a great record,” Scott Kempner says of the Del-Lords’ unexpected return to action following a two-decade layoff, which has yielded Elvis Club, the band’s first new album since 1990. The album is set for release on May 14, 2013 on GB Music through RED Distribution. Elvis Club finds the New ...
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Indonesian Guitar Legend Dewa Budjana Releases "Dawai In Paradise" on MoonJune Records
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Chris M. Slawecki
MoonJune Records is proud and pleased to present the incredible artistry of legendary world-class guitarist, Dewa Budjana. Renowned throughout his native Indonesia, his status as a maestro is well-deserved and immediately apparent. Dewa's fifth solo album, Dawai In Paradise, explores his vast, diverse array of guitar stylings in a host of fresh, powerful, intriguing musical settings. A showcase of astounding, brilliant music is performed by a host of great musicians — including Grammy-winning artists drummer Peter Erskine (Weather Report; Steps ...
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Agogo Records Announces Mop Mop "Isle Of Magic"
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Press Junkie PR
Anyone familiar with Mop Mop will already know that their refined style has already lend them a unique place somewhere between the worlds of jazz, funk, Latin and the Italian Postmodern style allowed the band to enter the international film business as part of Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love movie soundtrack. But with this latest LP Isle Of Magic, Mop Mop digs even deeper to bring us one of their most engaging and organic records yet. Mop Mop’s fourth ...
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Antonio Adolfo - "Finas Misturas/ Fine Mixtures" (AAM 0705)
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Michael Ricci
The immortal composer/arranger/ pianist Tadd Dameron was once overheard telling his ensemble “It has to swing, sure, but it has to be beautiful.” That quote could be a sub-title for composer/arranger/pianist Antonio Adolfo's brilliant new CD, Finas Misturas (fine mixtures) on AAM Music (AAM 0705). Drawing heavily on a musical history that combines his Brazilian heritage with his 40+ years in Jazz, Adolfo offers an outstanding set of four originals and six compositions by five highly notable Jazz Masters. Antonio ...
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18x Platinum Selling Artist Herbert Grönemeyer Makes US Debut On Feb 26th With I Walk Featuring Bono, Antony Hegarty And James Dean Bradfield
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1888 Media
German superstar Herbert Grönemeyer makes his U.S. recording debut on Tuesday, February 26th with the release of his new album entitled I WALK. This 13- song album, features for the first time in English, some of the most impressive songs from the award-winning songwriter’s vast catalog alongside two new songs. With the album’s lead- off track, “Mensch,” Grönemeyer is joined on vocals by U2’s Bono, one of the special guests on the record, along with Antony Hegarty of Antony and ...
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