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15-year Old Award-winning Songwriter Hayley Reardon Releases First Single From Debut Album

Source: 1888 Media
July 6, 2012

Where The Artists Go Issued For Limited Time As Free Download Via Bandcamp Digital Single Due July 17 Via Kingswood Records Assumes Role As National Peer Spokesperson For PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center Boston, MA: Acclaimed 15-year old singer-songwriter Hayley Reardon has issued the title track from her debut album Where The Artists Go as a free download via BANDCAMP for a limited time before the official single, that includes three different versions, is released on July 17 via Kingswood ...

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"Solar" (Davis) or "Sonny" (Wayne)?

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 5, 2012

A long-running discussion (or argument) about the authorship of a major jazz tune may have been resolved once and for all. The tune is “Solar,” copyrighted in 1963 with name of Miles Davis as composer, nearly a decade after he recorded it. It is a 12-bar piece based, with certain departures, on the harmonic structure of “How High The Moon.” Here, from the compilation album Walkin’, is the trumpeter’s 1954 recording with Davey Schildkraudt, alto saxophone; Horace Silver, piano; Percy ...

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Adam Miller's New Solo Guitar Album "Delayed"

Source: Adam Miller
July 5, 2012

Musicians & press all over the world are saying the same thing, “It’s only a matter of time before the world sees & hears the talent that is, Adam Miller”. It’s this talent that has seen him share the stage & guitars with Les Paul, Tommy Emmanuel, Martin Taylor, Matt Schofield, Charlie Hunter, Bruce Mathiske, Adam Levy (Norah Jones), Joe Robinson, Kevin Wilson (Stevie Wonder), the list continues... Miller’s fourth studio album was released June 2012. Entitled “Delayed” it ironically ...

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Beach Boys + David Bowie

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 3, 2012

Last month, on the same date, EMI Music released two fascinating rock albums—one a new recording by a '60s rock band and the other a remastered classic by one of the most influential artists of the '70s. The new one is the Beach Boys' That's Why God Made the Radio, and the remastered CD is David Bowie's masterpiece The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Startdust and the Spiders from Mars (1972). Both are concept albums—one celebrating the romantic possibilities of ...

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Oxygene8 To Release Innovative New Album Loop1

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
July 3, 2012

Scottsdale, AZ: Possibly one of the most ambitious and innovative albums to be released in 2012 is the highly anticipated new CD by experimental prog/art-rock ensemble Oxygene8 titled loop1. The loop1 project began quite simply with the vision that the entire CD would be one long loop, sans divisions,an upward spiral—one huge dynamic movement of sound. Band leader and stickist/bassist Linda Cushma's vision for the work seemed a ridiculously enormous undertaking, considering scheduling, budget and time constraints. “Every element of ...

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Cal Tjader: Breeze from the East

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 2, 2012

It's somewhat unfair to peg Cal Tjader's 1960s albums as “lounge" or “space-age pop." Artists who most often come to mind when these contempo-retro terms are used today are Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman. Tjader's vibes and the types of albums he recorded in the '60s were more sophisticated and jazzy than the typical umbrella-drink albums that exotica artists cranked out. Yet Tjader's output during this period certainly belong in the pop camp—perhaps jazz-pop would be closer to ...

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Tenor Saxophonist Michael Pedicin's New CD Features His Working Band "Live At The Loft"

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
July 2, 2012

Tenor saxophonist Michael Pedicin fulfilled a longtime dream last fall by releasing an album of all ballads, a challenging form of which he is a master purveyor. In the process Pedicin, whose 40-plus-year career has included tours with Dave Brubeck and Maynard Ferguson, experienced a new ease with the recording process and quickly made plans for his next CD. The result, Live at the Loft, is a bracing club date with his working group that his Jazz Hut label will ...

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The Impossible Gentlemen (Simcock, Walker, Swallow, and Nussbaum) Announce US Release of New Recording.

Source: Two for the Show Media
June 30, 2012

"the quartet, fulfilled all its promise - and then some. Walker's contribution to this ensemble was nothing short of sensational, through plenty of quiet, but compellingly lyrical music, as well as some post-bop gallops and a spectacular roaring blues. Simcock set the improv bar early on with a surging, McCoy Tyner-like solo on his own convoluted-bop theme, and Walker's fast Laugh Lines revealed his rare balance of meticulousness, spontaneity, storytelling and tonal bite as a soloist." —The Guardian UK “Gwilym ...

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