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Resonance Records to Issue Unreleased Live Performances by Legendary Pianist Bill Evans "Live At Art D'Llugoff's Top Of The Gate" - Available June 12

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2012

HISTORIC PERFORMANCES CAPTURED BY LABEL PRESIDENT GEORGE KLABIN MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO With Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate, Resonance Records offers listeners a table at the front of the stage for a stellar performance by one of jazz's greatest trios. It's October 23, 1968 in Greenwich Village, and legendary pianist Bill Evans is joined by bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell for two top-notch sets, represented here in their entirety. Aired only once, on Columbia ...

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Bromberg Swings For The Cycle

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
June 5, 2012

Three album releases and the world’s first radio station devoted to the bass make this an extraordinary summer for the Grammy nominated bassist Sherman Oaks, CA: Like a power hitter enjoying an exceptional day at the plate, Brian Bromberg imbibes rarified air. The Grammy nominated bassist-producer-composer-arranger who has achieved accolades, respect and success commercially and artistically as a solo artist in both straight-ahead and contemporary jazz will release three uniquely different, artistically divergent albums this summer. First up is “Compared ...

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Tom Teasley Continues To Expand Musical Boundaries On "All The World's A Stage"

Source: Cary Goldberg
June 5, 2012

New CD, the Eighth from Acclaimed Percussionist, Will be Released on July 10 All the World's a Stage is more than merely the title of multi- instrumentalist Tom Teasley's eighth CD - it's an apt metaphor to describe the career of this prolific composer/percussionist/musical ambassador. With the July 10 release of this new CD, on which Teasley plays a dozen different instruments on a collection of nine original tracks, he once again taps the multi-cultural collage of influences that have ...

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Clare Fischer: Extension (1963)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 5, 2012

West Coast jazz artists of the '50s and early '60s tend to be viewed stereotypically as plaid-shirted hot-dog musicians relentlessly recording upbeat contrapuntal originals. In truth, West Coast labels produced quite a number of heavy dates during this period, including Russ Garcia's Wigville (1955), Jimmy Giuffre's Seven Pieces (1957), Ornette Coleman's Something Else!!! (1958) and Fred Katz's Folk Songs for Far Out Folks (1958). One such album you may not know is Clare Fischer's Extension, a Pacific Jazz release which ...

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David Krakauer releases Pruflas: The Book of Angels Vol. 18 Music by John Zorn on Tzadik Records

Source: Jensen Artists
June 4, 2012

Clarinetist David Krakauer, praised internationally for his astounding ability to play in a myriad of music genres with “prodigious chops” (The New Yorker) and “soulfulness and electrifying showiness” (The New York Times), has recorded for the Tzadik label a collection of tunes selected especially for him to play by John Zorn from his milestone work, The Book of Angels. The Book of Angels is the second book of 300 songs for Zorn’s band, Masada, composed over a period of a ...

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MoonJune Records Announces Three New Releases

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
June 4, 2012

Allan Holdsworth: Hard Hat Area (re-mastered): Originally offered in very limited print and distribution in the USA, this great effort has been remastered and repackaged in digipak format (with intriguing new liner notes provided by Barry Cleveland). While the music on Hard Hat Area may seem a logical extension of the sophisticated, highly idiosyncratic style of jazz-fusion that Allan developed on his previous seven albums, it possesses a major difference: It was recorded by the guitarist's touring band, which had ...

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Ed Partyka, Nubox & Concept Art Orchestra

Source: Concept Art Orchestra
June 4, 2012

Ed Partyka, nuBox & Concept Art Orchestra Bigbandtronics – Prague Edition Six Movements of Sonification A unique combination of modern big band and electronic club music called BIGBANDTRONICS is being released. On his new album, Bigbandtronics – Prague Edition, American conductor Ed Partyka combines jazz big band with contemporary electronic dance music. In cooperation with the best musicians of the young Czech jazz generation he has picked up the threads of a similarly ambitious 1970s project, ...

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Choban Elektrik Releases Self-Titled Debut

Source: FlipswitchPR, LLC
June 3, 2012

If a prog rock power trio had ever sprung up in the mountains of Albania, it would have sounded like Brooklyn’s Choban Elektrik (“Electric Shepherds”). Using the vintage grit and funk of Hammond organs and Fender Rhodes to open up new facets of Albanian, Macedonian, Greek, and Armenian tunes, the band makes this unlikely pairing feel organic and obvious, thanks to their intense focus and anything-goes approach. “We never set out to do this,” explains masterful keyboard player and arranger ...

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