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Steve Scholz - Debut Album " When You Feel It Within"
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Steve Scholz
Steve Scholz is releasing his debut album as a leader - featuring all original compositions. It has been described as an intimate blend of acoustic straight-ahead/latin jazz - with playful melodies, afro-cuban rhythms and the soulfulness of the blues - music that keep a coherent storyline and mood. Steve Scholz is currently on faculty at Contra Costa College and Diablo Valley College as the adjunct professor of jazz/popular piano. He was formerly a member of the graduate faculty at Florida ...
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Duke Pearson: Merry Ole Soul
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It's that time of year—when I pick my classic holiday jazz or pop album. The rules are simple: It has to be an old recording, it has to have escaped most people's radar, and it has to have retained a certain holiday charm—not too sappy and not too earnest. Just timeless fun that brings to mind crackling fireplaces, the smell of toasted marshmallows and the nip of snow. My 2012 pick? Duke Pearson's Merry Ole Soul. [Photo above of Duke ...
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New Release By The Hammer Klavier Trio "Rocket In The Pocket"
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Jan Matthies Music Management
The Hammer Klavier Trio (hKT) is one of Germany's premiere jazz piano trios. In fact they are the only jazz act from Germany that ever has been nominated for an award by the American Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) - “Best Video of the Year" in 2010. Having played a lot in Germany and Europe this nomination meant a lot to them and they put in all efforts to do a 1-week tour in New York City, USA in June 2011. ...
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Origin Records Has Just Released The Hal Galper Trio's Latest Foray Into Their Original "Rubato Style" Of Playing
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Hal Galper
Dear Fellow Travelers. Thanks for taking the musical journey with us. It’s a journey without a road map, where the road takes us wherever it wants to go. The destination? There is none. It’s the trip that counts. We strive to intuit the direction upon which the road takes us without imposing our ego’s on the music, to play, as Jeff Johnson says, without intention. Dave Liebman calls this “playing in the zone,” defined scientifically as a “dissociative“ mental ...
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Jazz On Film... Beat, Square & Cool, Vol. 2 In The Highly Acclaimed Jazz On Film Box Set Series
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Selwyn Harris
Beat Square & Cool—the 2nd box set in the Jazz on Film series following last year’s Film Noir—is not just a collection containing some of the greatest jazz-inspired film scores ever recorded, but it also tells the story of how jazz (mostly drawing from the bebop that was one of the defining American subcultural and artistic moments of the post-war era)became the soundtrack to key 'outsider' movies from the first wave of youth rebellion, teen angst and the emerging Beat ...
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Grammy Nominated Blues Innovator Bobby Rush Stakes His Claim As A Living Legend
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GRAMMY NOMINATED BLUES INNOVATOR BOBBY RUSH STAKES HIS CLAIM AS A LIVING LEGEND New studio album Down in Louisiana, due February 19, updates the sounds of the swamps and the juke joints JACKSON, Miss. — Bobby Rush’s new Down in Louisiana, out February 19, 2013 on Deep Rush Productions through Thirty Tigers, is the work of a funky fire-breathing legend. Its 11 songs revel in the grit, grind and soul that’s been the blues innovator’s trademark since the 1960s, when ...
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Muthawit Returns To The Post-2012 Election Musical Battlefield With The Epic Socio-Political Firebomb Recording, PMS Junkie
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4961 Polemics
Boston Fielder’s musical collective releases irresistible set of original avant rock, electronic n soul songs on URB ALT Media What has been said about MuthaWit: “If post-punk soul is a genre, then that’s what Muthawit is doing" - MTViggy “MuthaWit featuring Boston Fielder is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis and presto! - a carnival of twisted soul." - Magnet Magazine Anderson, Virgin Islands. The words “mission accomplished" have strangely come to represent unfinished ...
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Marshall Crenshaw Helps Pioneer New Subscription Vinyl And Digital Model
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conqueroo
Loyal fans help surpass Kickstarter goal, ensuring success for new model First EP of the series, I Don’t See You Laughing Now, set for January 22, 2013 release with November 23 exclusive to brick-and-mortar retail on Record Store Day’s Back to Black Friday NEW YORK, NY - “I wanted to think of a different way of working that would inspire me and keep me motivated,” Marshall Crenshaw says of his newest endeavor: a subscription- only service that addresses the recent ...
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