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Etana Delivers Commanding Performance At Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival And Will Shoot New Video Off Her Long Awaited Album Better Tomorrow Out February 26

Source: Press Dept
January 30, 2013

Etana shined on the second night of the annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival held at Greenfield Stadium in Trelawny on Friday, January 25. According to the Jamaica Gleaner the “graceful Etana" delivered a “commanding performance" to the jam-packed audience inside the 25,000 capacity venue. The reggae soulstress joined the long list of star-studded names - including Dionne Warwick, Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Michael Bolton, Romain Virgo and Monica - who took the stage at this three-day extravaganza. The ...

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Tania Maria: 'Canto'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 30, 2013

I'm not sure why singer-songwriter-pianist Tania Maria has just released a CD in the States of tracks recorded in 2005 and 2008, but it really doesn't matter. Her work on Canto is superb, sensual and beckoning. Maria remains largely unknown to many jazz fans in the U.S.—despite her powerful, robust voice, her syncopated jazz piano style and her intoxicating melodic compositions. My guess is it's the “female artist" thing. Many jazz fans still tend to view women players as a ...

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Fleetwood Mac To Reissue Landmark Album Rumours In Expanded And Deluxe Versions On January 29

Source: 1888 Media
January 30, 2013

LOS ANGELES – Fleetwood Mac, one of rock’s most enduring, beloved and successful bands, will circulate a fresh round of Rumours next year with expanded and deluxe versions of the album in celebration of it’s 35th anniversary. Rumours made the band one of the most iconic bands of the 1970s and garnered wide critical praise, earned the Grammy® for Album of the Year, and has now sold more than 40 million copies worldwide since its 1977 debut. In celebration of ...

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New Album From Iceland; Latin Faculty – Latínudeildin

Source: JJ Soul Band
January 30, 2013

LATIN FACULTY – LATÍNUDEILDIN (2012): CD-1: English lyrics by JJ Soul, Portuguese lyrics by Jussanam da Silva and two instrumental songs. CD-2 includes the same songs with Icelandic lyrics written by various authors. Nine vocalists perform on the album, veterans like Gudrún Gunnars, Eivor Pálsdóttir and Thor Breidfjörd and younger generation jazz-singers like Marína Ósk and Erla Stefáns. The musicians include Jóhann Ásmundsson (of Mezzoforte) on bass who also engineered and mixed the album, Einar Scheving on drums, Vignir Thor ...

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Jazz Legends Michael Wolff And Mike Clark To Release "Wolff & Clark Expedition" Debut CD

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 28, 2013

Available February 19 on RANDOM ACT RECORDS New York, NY – When two of the best musicians on the planet decide to combine their estimable talents to create a band without boundaries, the result is the WOLFF & CLARK EXPEDITION. Dizzy Gillespie famously said that jazz must have “one foot in the past and one in the future.” With the Wolff & Clark Expedition, the music embraces the past, ventures into the future, but remains rooted in the improvisatory present. ...

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"Standards" by Paul Bura 4tet

Source: Noromusic
January 30, 2013

Paul Bura - Violin Robert Lakatos - Piano Krisztian “Pecek" Lakatos - Bass Andras Mohay - Drums Featuring: Lajos “Kathy" Horvath's Jr. String 4tet Paul Bura started his musical studies in Amsterdam based Sweelinck Conservatory. Graduated in Brussels Royal Academy of Music, Igor Oistrakh student. In Belgium the BRTN Symphony soloist, and later in the Netherlands, Hilversum Metropol Orkest soloist. Active jazz musician in many European jazz festivals and jazz clubs. Robert Lakatos: His ...

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Artie Shaw: Rhythm Makers

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 25, 2013

If you want to know what America was like at different points in time, listen to the music. While sheet music and recordings are hardly perfect reflections of our culture—demographic and regional tastes are never unified nor do they shift in lockstep—music can offer compelling clues. After all, music's primary purpose is to appeal to listeners—challenging artists to nibble around the edges to find the soft spots while remaining true to their aesthetic. In the years leading up to America's ...

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"Baboon" -- Latest Album Of Enrico Sartori Tobias Delius Tristan Honsinger, On Rudi Records

Source: massimo iudicone
January 25, 2013

BABOON Enrico SARTORI Tobias DELIUS Tristan HONSINGER RRJ1012 Rudi Records Jan/2013 Enrico Sartori: alto sax, bb & alto clarinets Tobias Delius: tenor sax, bb clarinet Tristan Honsinger: cello Rudi Records catalog is proud to welcome two significant exponents of the European improvised music scene: English saxophonist Tobias Delius and the American cellist Tristan Honsinger who had both made Holland their home before moving to Germany. The trio is completed by the Italian ...

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