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Pianist Miguel Rodríguez Presents Debut Album
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Dox Amsterdam
Influenced by the vast range of musical styles arising out of his hometown of Madrid, pianist Miguel Rodríguez has come up with his own style. This distinct mix of improvisation, flamenco and Latin is apparent on the self-titled debut Miguel Rodríguez recorded with his band. The album will be released in digital format on 22 February. After his piano studies at the Rotterdam and Amsterdam conservatories, Miguel Rodríguez saw no reason to return to his native Spain since he considered ...
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Ashley Alexander Big Band
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In August 1988, trombonist and educator Ashley Alexander went for a walk in the woods at a jazz camp in Saskatchewan, Canada and never returned. When camp officials searched for him, they found Alexander's body nearby. The 52-year-old music professor at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif. reportedly had a history of heart trouble. While in Los Angeles seven years earlier, Alexander and his big band recorded Secret Love for AM-PM Records, a venture of producer Albert Marx's. The ...
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Soprano Saxophonist Marion Meadows Returns On February 26 With Whisper, His First New Album In Four Years
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1888 Media
Label Debut For Shanachie Features Special Guest Bob Baldwin And Includes Soulful Renditions Of Jazz Classics By Freddie Hubbard And Dave Grusin Lead Single Is “Black Pearl” Albert Einstein once said “We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” For multi-talented saxophonist and consummate creative spirit Marion Meadows, the allure of music was never too far. The charismatic, strikingly handsome, eloquent and debonair musician, who happens to moonlight as a brilliant digital designer/photographer, ...
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"Roads & Codes," By Ian Carey Quintet+1, To Be Released By Kabocha Records Feb. 19
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Terri Hinte Publicity
For the last decade, Bay Area trumpeter/composer Ian Carey has been developing his singular, post-bop-inflected music with a stable quintet of formidable improvisers, documented in the CDs Sink/Swim (2005) and Contextualizin’ (2010). In recent years Carey has wanted to explore more complex writing, and move further away from head-solo-head conventions. The result is Roads & Codes, Carey’s most ambitious and fully realized recording to date, which will be released February 19 by his Kabocha Records label. Recorded in an 11-hour, ...
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New Album Michel Lambert Journal Des Episodes
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Lambert
MONTREAL, QC (CANADA) — On February 5, 2013, Jazz from Rant will release the latest recording by jazz composer, drummer and artist Michel Lambert, entitled Journal des Épisodes. This remarkable iconoclastic musical adventure contains 92 titles. Journal des Épisodes is a year long daily musical diary kept by Michel Lambert. Each diary entry contains a musical score for symphony orchestra and a drawing. The album cover shows one of the journal entries. Here, in this new album, the music has ...
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Randy Simon Jazz Project Releases "Nyhavn Live"
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Randy Simon
Nyhavn Live is a 2-CD set of new jazz tunes performed for a live audience by a stellar quintet of Upstate New York musicians. This is the fourth release by the Randy Simon Jazz Project, which features the original compositions and arrangements of Randy Simon. Nyhavn Live features a mix of upbeat Latin tunes, wistful ballads, and straight-ahead swinging jazz numbers played by an ensemble of piano, trumpet, saxophone, bass and drums. All five musicians get a chance to display ...
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Drummer Mark Murdock Releases New CD "Cymbalic Encounters" Featuring Brand X's John Goodsall, Percy Jones and Kenwood Dennard
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Tokyo, Japan - Prog fans worldwide are buzzing with excitement over the new CD release by drummer/songwriter/producer Mark Murdock titled 'Cymbalic Encounters'. Says Mark, “The concept of 'Cymbalic Encounters' represents the 'Encountering of Symbolic Musicians' as my greatest success in music has been keeping company with great musicians." “Mark Murdock's 'Cymbalic Encounters' fulfills a longtime elusive goal. I tried to feature more the inherent UK prog (progressive rock) element of the fusion band, Brand X - with little success. Mr. ...
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Benoit Delbecq & Fred Hersch Double Trio's "Fun House" and Chris Clark's Debut "Cedar Wisely" Coming from Songlines
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GoMedia PR
Songlines will release a pair of extremely diverse yet equally exciting albums on March 12. Fun House, the first recorded collaboration between the critically acclaimed pianists Benoit Delbecq and Fred Hersch, finds them performing in a rare double-trio configuration. It's a ground-breaking encounter and between jazz piano and the sonic resources of contemporary classical music, between American tradition and the European avant-garde. Hersch's quest for absolute beauty and impeccable virtuosity have become legendary. Delbecq is one of Europe's most prominent ...
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