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Music Arts Management Presents Yaron Gershovsky

Source: Music Arts Management
July 20, 2012

Knoxville, TN: Starting August 2012, Music Arts Management will provide worldwide representation for the jazz keyboard player, composer, and arranger Yaron Gershovsky. Already well-known as the long-standing musical director and pianist of the acclaimed vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, Yaron Gershovsky will work with Music Arts Management to present the Yaron Gershovsky Trio along with a series of newly-developed jazz education programs. The Yaron Gershovsky Trio features Gershovsky’s compositions and keyboard playing along with experienced jazzmen David Finck on bass ...

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Takoushis - Karapatakis Project "Seven Miles East"

Source: Marios Takoushis
July 20, 2012

"Seven Miles East" is the new album by pianist Marios Takoushis and bassist Gabriel Karapatakis. Following their debut album “Sympnoia", this new project aims to develop their music based on the fundamentals of jazz - interaction, improvisation and individual self-expression. At the same time, their source of inspiration for fresh ideas and compositions comes from the Mediterranean culture and tradition and from the use of traditional ethnic instruments. New dynamics are created by the co-existence of the piano, fretless bass ...

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Alvin Lee still on the Road to Freedom

Source: conqueroo
July 19, 2012

More than four decades have passed since Alvin Lee stood front and center at the famed Woodstock festival with his band Ten Years After and told half million or so fans, “I’m Going Home . . . by helicopter.” Forty-three years later, Alvin Lee hasn’t arrived at his destination yet, as the title of his new solo album, Still on the Road to Freedom, available August 27, 2012 on Rainman Records, will attest. “I don’t think I ever will,” he ...

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Neil Cowley Trio - The Face Of Mount Molehill

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
July 19, 2012

Cementing his position as a dazzling composer of extraordinary talent, Cowley and his trio scale the gargantuan face of Mount Molehill where they explore the heights of everyday trivia, and score it to a soaring overture of epic proportions On Tour in the States in October 2012. “Nothing but thrills and excitement . . . we're finally experiencing a worthwhile British Invasion (of modern jazz). Check them out." —Magnet Magazine (on the band's performance at the 2012 Montreal Jazz Festival) ...

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Guitar Legend Alvin Lee Still On The Road To Freedom With New Solo Album

Source: Brian O'Neal
July 19, 2012

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Kay Starr: 'I Cry by Night'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 19, 2012

Like many gifted singers of her generation, Kay Starr wound up a hard-boiled pop vocalist. When the LP era took hold in the early 1950s and the 12-inch LP appeared mid-decade with the ability to support a color photo on the jacket cover, many female singers with jazz and big-band chops chomped down on the commercial bit and hauled in wagon-loads of popular music recordings. The list is too long to cite in full here, but we certainly can includes ...

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St. Helena by Tim Kuhl Now Available

Source: Tim Kuhl
July 19, 2012

St. Helena is the fourth release, on eleven2eleven records, by Percussionist and Composer, Tim Kuhl. This seven song collection work organically as one composition. An experience that value deeply in something subtle and even cinematic. This release expands on the sonic possibility's from Kuhl's previous efforts including Ghost, King, and Doomsayer. The album feature musicians in Brooklyn based bands Minerva Lions, Knights on Earth, and also have performed with the likes of Tim Berne, Michael Formanek, Gerald Cleaver, Yuka Honda, ...

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Giving Praise Through Jazz: Bassist Sean O'Bryan Smith’s “Reflection” Is A Diverse Inspirational Offering

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
July 19, 2012

Nashville, TN: A first-call sideman who has played with an array of headliners steps out on faith as a frontman on “Reflection,” the second solo set by bassist Sean O’Bryan Smith that was released today on Groove Therapy Records. The 12-song mix of church evergreens and gospel hits along with a few well-crafted originals spotlights fine musicianship from legends and hit-makers that present the material produced and arranged by Smith as contemporary jazz instrumentals, funky R&B grooves and enlightened pop ...

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