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"Lifetimes," New CD By Brubeck Brothers Quartet, To Be Released July 24
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Since the early 1970s, Chris and Dan Brubeck have performed and recorded frequently with their father Dave in Two Generations of Brubeck, the New Brubeck Quartet, and Trio Brubeck. Now, on the Brubeck Brothers Quartet’s new CD LifeTimes, they and “honorary brothers” Mike DeMicco (guitar) and Chuck Lamb (piano) have chosen to honor Brubeck père by reimagining a number of his best-known songs. “Dave Brubeck’s music is rich with challenging chord progressions and beautiful melodies,” says Chris. “Dave is one ...
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Random Touch’s "Flock" Concludes Their Career With A Bang
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Asheville, NC - Thirty-three years of collaboration and sixteen releases culminates in the masterpiece Flock, Random Touch’s final album. The ten tracks range from the bigger-than-life “Arena” to the uninhibited joy of “Dance of the Elementals” to the psychedelic final track, “She Wore Sheepskin”. In-between is found all manner of genre bending complexity and unnerving cinematic suspense. Scott Hamill’s mastery of the bass guitar is notable on the album. Its pervasiveness recreates the traditional jazz trio, and yet jazz could ...
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Jamie Ousley's "Hymn Of The Tides" Featured At The Franciscanized World
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Phil Kolter
Green Bay, WI: Franciscan Sisters’ July featured song for young adults is “Hymn of the Tides” by Jaime Ousley. It is available as a free download at Franciscanized World. Composer Jaime Ousley, a Miami based ascending jazz bassist and composer, reflected that “As I continue to learn to be a “jazz” composer, I find the most peace and satisfaction in my compositions when I can let the music that’s in my heart out into the world. This hymn-style of music ...
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Fred Tompkins Releases New Album Flute Settings
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
St. Louis based composer and flautist Fred Tompkins has released a new album, Flute Settings. Local musicians joining Tompkins in performing on the album include keyboard player Jim Hegarty, drummer Charlie Dent, saxophonist and clarinetist Dave Cheli, and steel pan player Boyd F Becker-Nunley. Flute Settings features five of Tompkins' original compositions, one piece each by Hegarty and Becker-Nunley, and an interpretation of Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman." You can hear samples from the album at Tompkins' website, linked above. Flute ...
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Charles Mingus - The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 6 CD Limited Edition Collection Available September 18, 2012
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Michael Ricci
One Of Our Most Significant Releases Ever From One Of The Few, True Geniuses - Charles Mingus We all know about small, medium and large. Coach, Business, and First Class. And then there's urgent, critical, and life-threatening. At Mosaic, we have three stages, too: rare and historically important; acclaimed milestone; and undeniably monumental epic masterpiece. We've uncovered another one of those epic masterpieces. We are pleased to announce Charles Mingus - The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 (Town Hall, Amsterdam, Monterey ...
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Daren Burns Releases First Solo Album "Fear Is Not The Natural State Of Civilized People” On Urban Nerds Records, Features Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.
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Daren Burns
Bassist, composer and educator Daren Burns (John “Drumbo” French of Captain Beefheart) has released Fear is not the Natural State of Civilized People, on Urban Nerds Records, a label Burns founded in 2009. Burns’ first solo album of original instrumental material, this intense and expressive 4-part suite realizes a creative path that began in 2006. The recording highlights Burns' unique visual composition style and displays his use of structured improvisation. Burns uses this technique to maintain compositional control while allowing ...
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New Orleans Legends The Preservation Hall Jazz Band Celebrated With 50th Anniversary Box Set
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Michael Ricci
FIVE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS RESCUED FROM STUDIO AND RESTORED AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA � SESSIONS FEATURE PETE SEEGER (ON “WE SHALL OVERCOME"), RICHIE HAVENS, TOM WAITS, ANDREW BIRD, AND YIM YAMES (OF MY MORNING JACKET) Available everywhere September 25, 2012, through Legacy Recordings NEW YORK, NY: Fifty years after a former art gallery on St. Peter Street became a haven and platform for the surviving musicians who made New Orleans the birthplace of jazz, THE PRESERVATION HALL 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION box ...
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It’s Another Contemporary Jazz Home Run For Project Grand Slam With The Joyfully Melodic And Grooving "Spring Dance"
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Miles High Productions
Los Angeles, CA: When is the last time a jazz ensemble named after the nefarious scheme of a James Bond villain packed such a solidly melodic and grooving punch? Project Grand Slam, named by leader Robert Miller as a play on “Goldfinger”’s plan to steal all the gold from Fort Knox, is probably the first—and he and PGS are up to plenty of melodic and grooving wonder this summer on Spring Dance, their explosive new album on Cakewalk Records. The ...
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