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Amy Cervini Announces Residency & Canadian Tour Following a Sold-Out Engagement at The 55 Bar
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Singer Amy Cervini Announces Residency & Canadian Tour Following a Sold-Out Engagement at The 55 Bar in NYC Cervini's Homage to Hip Jazz Pixie Blossom Dearie, Digging Me, Digging You Receiving Unanimous Critical Acclaim Amy Cervini—whom The New York Times describes as “a thoughtful and broad-minded jazz singer" for her free-spirited, genre-blind approach—recently celebrated her new recording Digging Me, Digging You: A Tribute to Blossom Dearie, with two sold-out nights at The 55 Bar in NYC (March 6 & 7), ...
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Jazz Pianist Sunnie Paxson’s Hot "Bohemian Sun" Is Rising
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Diane Hadley
Since the beginning of the year, innovative contemporary jazz pianist, songwriter, producer and performer Sunnie Paxson has been methodically moving up the Jazz Week and Smooth Jazz charts with her new album, Bohemian Sun, released on the Roxboro Entertainment label. The CD has been gaining in radio play both domestically and internationally. Currently she ranks 23 on SmoothJazz.com's Radar Chart and 32 on the Jazz Week (February 28) charts as submitted by national radio stations and is moving up the ...
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Los Angeles-Based Jazz Vocalist Sara Leib Releases 2nd CD, "Secret Love," March 20
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Terri Hinte Publicity
At its core, jazz is a music of personal expression, a concept that singer Sara Leib clearly embraces. On her new CD, Secret Love—due out March 20 on OA2 Records—the glowing-toned mezzo-soprano gives an array of classic and contemporary material fresh, distinctive sounds. One way that Los Angeles native Leib gives a new slant to her repertoire is to render some tunes in unusual time signatures. Cole Porter's “Night and Day" switches from 6/4 to 5/4 every eight bars, while ...
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Pianist/Composer/Producer Lisa Hilton Releases New Recording "American Impressions"
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Kim Smith Public Relations
Pianist/composer/producer Lisa Hilton releases new recording AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS featuring J.D. Allen, Larry Grenadier and Nasheet Waits On March 27th, 2012 pianist, composer and producer Lisa Hilton releases American Impressions—her 14th album as a leader and second with her band featuring, J.D. Allen on tenor saxophone, Larry Grenadier on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. In the spirit of George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and other American composers, Hilton's second release with this ensemble focuses on impressions of everyday life in America. ...
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Real Gone Music's April Reissues Include Little Willie John, Ad Libs, Cowboy Copas
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conqueroo
Also due are two more Grateful Dead Dicks Picks sets, Volumes 30 & 31 LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Real Gone Music will issue Little Willie John's Complete Hit Singles A's and B's, a definitive compilation of the influential R&B singer's King Records sides as well as King-Starday label mate Cowboy Copas' Complete Hit Singles A's & B's, featuring 30 of the country legends' sides from 1946-63, both slated for April 17, 2012 street date. On May 1, doo-woppers the Ab Libs will ...
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Pianist Alan Blackman Releases "Alone Together - The 2 Piano Project"
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Alan Blackman
Announcing the release of exciting new album from Baltimore pianist Alan Blackman. Four years ago he started a two piano series at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland as a way to bring in some of his favorite pianists and explore this unique format. This recording features two tracks by four different piano players; Vardan Ovsepian, Clay Giberson, Harry Appelman, and Sunna Gunnlaugs. The variety of textures, colors, and songforms range from free improvisation(read:string brushing,and muting) to traditional standards like ...
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Spyros Manesis Trio Debut Cd "undelivered", Released By Jacc Records
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Spyros Manesis
With Joao Hasselberg on bass, Kaspars Kurdeko on drums and Spyros on piano, the trio which formed in Amsterdam in 2010 has recorded its debut album for the Portuguese label JACC Records. The album, Undelivered was officially released in Europe. Greek pianist Spyros Manesis composes new music, arranges old jazz standards and plays the piano together with Portuguese double bassist João Hasselberg and Latvian drummer Kaspars Kurdeko, who embrace Spyros's musical ideas with deep musicality and remarkable dedication. The understanding ...
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Impulse! Records Introduces Newest Batch in 2-on-1 Series from Legendary Impulse! Artists
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Universal Music Enterprises
Impulse!/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) recently introduced the second batch of its 2-On-1 series. Each CD features two classic albums from some of Impulse! Records' legendary jazz and blues artists. Included in this first batch are releases from Alice Coltrane, Blue Mitchell, Charles Mingus, Chico Hamilton, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard, Howard Roberts, John Handy, Keith Jarrett, Marion Brown, Mel Brown, Michael White, Sonny Criss, Sonny Stitt and a jazz supergroup featuring arranger Oliver Nelson working with pianists Hank Jones and Steve ...
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