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Pianist/Composer Luke Celenza to Release Debut Album, Back and Forth, Featuring 12 Original Compositions Bridging the Gap Between Jazz and Pop
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DL Media
“I hear in Luke Celenza a young gifted jazz musician who has the right inquisitive attitude and true potential to become one of the key players in the scene. He brings to the table a fresh sound and an uncommon restrained maturity in his music which I am sure will keep on delighting us for many years to come." —Michel Camilo Pianist and composer Luke Celenza speaks about the music on his independently released debut album, Back & Forth, with ...
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Trombonist Nick Finzer Releases Debut Album Exposition
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Nicholas Finzer
TROMBONIST NICK FINZER TO RELEASE “EXPOSITION” HIS RECORDING DEBUT AS A LEADER 22 JANUARY 2013 New York City Based Composer, Instrumentalist, Bandleader & Educator To Showcase Album At CD Release Gig and The National Sunday Feb 10 With the January 22, 2013 release of “Exposition” (Outside In Music OIM 1201), trombonist Nick Finzer delivers a debut recording that announces in no uncertain terms the addition to the international jazz community of a virtuoso instrumentalist, versatile improviser and a composer with ...
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UoU "Take The 7 Train" Released Today!
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Pete Zimmer
Tippin' Records Proudly Presents: UoU's Take the 7 Train (TIP1112) Released Today, January 22, 2013! UoU is: Daisuke Abe guitar, Takuji Yamada alto sax, bass clarinet Yoko Komori piano, Kuriko Tsugawa bass, Yoshifumi Nihonmatsu drums. A profusuion of aspiring jazz musicians from around the globe come to the United States, the birthplace of the genre, to study its tradition and learn from the masters. This not only expands jazz’s vital reach worldwide, but it also opens jazz itself to new ...
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"Lonely & Blue" Is A Lost Otis Redding Album, Due Out March 5
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conqueroo
Available on CD and blue vinyl, packaging evokes the look and feel of a late ’60s Stax/Volt album that Redding might have released at the height of his career LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Otis Redding’s Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding could pass for a title Stax/Volt might have released in the late ’60s. The look of the album reflects Stax’s design themes of the era. But in fact it’s a collection that never existed, until now, ...
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Stu Williamson: Two Januarys
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It was gratifying last week to hear that New York's Verse Music was remastering and re-issuing the entire Bethlehem catalog. The 1950s label not only consistently released superb albums on both coasts but also pioneered the early use of glossy color-saturated covers that tapped into consumer moods. This trend was the innovation of Creed Taylor, who was the label's East Coast producer from 1954 to '56. (Which reminds me, I'm so waiting for Herbie Mann's Love and the Weather.) Two ...
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Dom La Nena's "Ela" Out Now To Rave Reviews
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Chris M. Slawecki
With the release of her US debut Ela (Six Degrees), Brazilian born vocalist and cellist Dom La Nena “joins the sorority of whisperers that includes singers like Juana Molina, Hope Sandoval and Jane Birkin." (Jon Pareles, The New York Times) Ela was recently featured on PopDose.com, where Keith Creighton raved, “If Cat Power had a lost sister in the Southern Hemisphere, her name would be Dom La Nena." Jim Fusilli of The Wall Street Journal says of Ela, “At times, ...
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Otis Redding's 'Lonely & Blue' on Stax Collects Soul Ballads, out March 5
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conqueroo
Otis Redding’s Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding could pass for a title Stax/Volt might have released in the late ’60s. The look of the album reflects Stax’s design themes of the era. But in fact it’s a collection that never existed, until now, that homes in on one mood and one theme — heartbreaking, yearning ballads — of which Redding had many. The album will be released as a CD and blue vinyl LP on March ...
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Singer/composer Molly Holm Debuts With "Permission," Feb. 19
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Molly Holm has been a visionary presence on the Bay Area music scene—as an original member of Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra, as a featured singer with Terry Riley and Zakir Hussain, as a Mills College adjunct faculty member—for more than three decades. Her far-ranging artistic pursuits, however, have not included recording an album of her own—until now. Holm’s overdue and highly anticipated debut, Permission, showcases her unique, fully-formed jazz vocal artistry. The CD will be released February 19 on her Rinny ...
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