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"Speak" - New Fred Hess Big Band Album

Source: Fred Hess
August 7, 2012

SAXOPHONIST/COMPOSER FRED HESS RELEASES 3rd BIG BAND CD AS A LEADER: “SPEAK” (ALISON RECORDS 117), ON AUGUST 6th Big Band features John Fedchock, Ron Miles, John Gunther, Marc Sabatella, Peter Sommer, and Matt Wilson. “Highly original! Jazz entertainment at its best! This is an excellent CD collection of what contemporary big band music is doing, and its incredibly imaginative —Lee Prosser, JazzReview.com “All too often, we get so hung up on labels that we forget to listen to the music. ...

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Jerod Sommerfeldt and David McDonnell Diving Bell's Eponymous Debut Release

Source: Ladzes
August 6, 2012

Diving Bell is the collective of Jerod Sommerfeldt (laptop) and David McDonnell (saxophone, electronics). Diving Bell Tracklist: Mangonel Christi’s Favorite Kalimba Caligula’s Sunken Galleys Haast’s Eagle Focusing on the creation of algorithmic and stochastic processes, utilizing the results for both fixed and real-time composition and improvisation, Jerod Sommerfeldt’s music explores digital audio artifacts and the destruction of technology, resulting in work that questions the dichotomy between the intended and unintentional. He is ...

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Pre-Release Deal For "Remote Location" By Scott Mclemore

Source: Scott McLemore
August 5, 2012

An American drummer living in Iceland, Scott McLemore has a new album. “Remote Location" features a quintet of Icelandic musicians, including Sunna Gunnlaugs on piano, Óskar Guðjónsson (known for his work with Mezzoforte and Skúli Sverrison), guitarist Andrés Thor and bassist Róbert Thórhallsson. The CD will be released on the Reykjavik Jazz Festival, August 28th, but until then it is available for pre-order exclusively from Bandcamp, including an immediate download of the album and a 5 page pdf of extended ...

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Joey Defrancesco, Larry Coryell and Jimmy Cobb Release Wonderful! Wonderful! On Highnote Records.

Source: Two for the Show Media
August 4, 2012

Joey DeFrancesco has come a long way from All of Me, his recording debut as a leader made in 1989 as a fresh-faced 17-year-old. From the get-go, the Philadelphia native established his credentials with virtuoso technique and an innate soulfulness that he brought to bear on the Hammond B-3 organ. Throughout his early career, Joey was widely recognized as spearheading a renewed interested in the Hammond organ, and building a bridge from the instrument's golden period of the 1960s and ...

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Roni Ben-Hur & Santi Debriano - Our Thing Featuring Duduka Da Fonseca

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
August 3, 2012

A Sublime Musical Conversation Exploring Many Facets of the Jazz Diaspora, New CD from Motema on August 14, 2012 CD RELEASE CELEBRATION: September 11 @ The Jazz Standard Roni Ben-Hur & Santi Debriano Featuring Duduka Da Fonseca Performing music from Our Thing Sets @ 7:30 & 9:30 PM The idea and inspiration for Our Thing was born in the summer of 2011 within the walls of the beautiful Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Sardaigne, a 12th century church atop the tiny village of Saint ...

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Tony Barba's New Album Facetime Now Available!

Source: Tony Barba
August 3, 2012

Facetime is now available through Layered Records. This Rock/Jazz trio features Tony Barba on tenor sax and bansuri, Patrick Mulcahy on electric bass, and Conor Elmes on drums. From Layered's website: A veteran NYC saxophonist/composer now residing in Chicago, Tony Barba has leapt between improvised music, punk rock, jazz (or pretty much anything that can be honked out through a saxophone) and somehow landed on the sound for his new trio's album, Facetime. The record is an amped up romp, ...

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Americana Duo Birds Of Chicago To Release Self-Titled Debut October 2

Source: 1888 Media
August 3, 2012

NPR eTown Episode To Air Beginning August 8 U.S. Tour Aug 21-Nov 10 Includes Two-Month Stint With Sean Hayes Hometown Record Release Show On November 10 At Old Town School Of Folk Music Chicago, IL: Birds of Chicago, a collective based around singer-songwriters/ instrumentalists JT Nero and Allison Russell, are set to release their eponymous debut album on October 2, 2012. Comprising twelve original songs, Birds of Chicago immediately soars into flight with the protracted leap of its lead track, ...

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Four Powerhouse Voices Come Together On Trombonist/composer Joe Fiedler's New Recording Big Sackbut

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
August 2, 2012

Available on the Yellow Sound Label on September 18, 2012 Big Sackbut is the self titled debut recording from this group, Featuring Joe Fiedler, Josh Roseman, Ryan Keberle & Marcus Rojas CD Release Celebration at The Jazz Gallery - Saturday, September 8 Big Sackbut, featuring Joe Fiedler, Ryan Keberle, Josh Roseman (trombones) & Marcus Rojas (tuba) Few musicians possess the incredibly diverse and vast resume that trombonist/composer Joe Fiedler boasts. The perennially in-demand artist has worked with “everyone", from Wycleff ...

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