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Kristina Morales celebrates the release of her debut album "Wonderful World"
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Kristina Morales
Introducing Kristina Morales With the debut of her album, Kristina Morales' Wonderful World is brewing with unique arrangements and playful interpretations. The vocalist charms listeners with a vulnerable passion setting her music a part from the everyday and monotonous. Rooted in jazz, the band pushes through to new genres blending and sifting in a delicate ballet of color, rhythm and texture. With an incandescent brilliance, rising star Kristina Morales sings through reimagined ballads such as “Scarbourough Fayre" and “Amarilli, Mia ...
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Rad Jazz Music Introduces "The Tip Of The Sword"--The Latest Release From Conrad Herwig Featuring Richie Beirach and Jack DeJohnette
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hubtone PR
AVAILABLE NOW AS CD OR DOWNLOAD EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH conradherwig.com NEW YORK,NY—Trombonist Conrad Herwig, known for “Latinizing" the classic compositions of jazz greats John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, among others, presents The Tip of the Sword, a vital new release featuring Richie Beirach and Jack DeJohnette. It is a courageous recording—freely interactive, oftentimes fierce—that focuses on daring improvisation within a trio context. It showcases seven originals and it couples Herwig with one of jazz's legendary figures (pianist ...
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Insider's Picks: R&B Harmony
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the late 1940s, jazz and R&B wound up like the Parent Trap twins. Two different music forms separated when fans “divorced" and went their separate ways—some preferring to sit and listen intently to jazz while others went with a big-beat sound more suitable for dancing. In the years that followed, jazz and R&B developed two separate but parallel fan bases. Jazz fans tended to look down their noses at R&B, viewing it as monotonous, disposable music crafted for jukeboxes to ...
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Babel Label Releases "Indigo Kid"
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Paul Lewis
A young musician these days will often form a band with his or her musician friends and peers but miss out on an important old jazz tradition, that of learning from your seniors on the bandstand. Not so the upcoming young guitarist Dan Messore. As with another Babel artist and drummer Seb Rochford who chose the highly regarded ex-Loose Tubes saxophonist Mark Lockheart as a sideman for Polar Bear, it's to the young guitarist/composer Messore's credit, that his right hand ...
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Lyle Lovett - Release Me (2012)
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Something Else!
If you know anything about Lyle Lovett, the tongue-firmly-in-cheek title of his forthcoming release—his last for Curb Records, the only label he's ever recorded for—will come as no surprise. Neither will the fact that, by pure force of intellect, personality and humor, the Texas singer-songwriter is able to mold what can only charitably be called an odds-and-sods collection of leftovers and thematic left turns into something approaching a recommended purchase. But, Lovett does. Due on February 28, Release Me is ...
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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden (2012)
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Something Else!
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, despite their rocket-ride to Grammy fame in 2010, hadn't yet made an album that captured their live set's boot-scooting, blues-belting string-band revivalist verve—until now. Producer Buddy Miller brings a candle-lit ambiance to the proceedings, allowing the band to wander ever deeper into backwoods musical influences from across the Deep South. Again stirring in so-called “black" and “white" traditions alike, the forthcoming Leaving Eden is just as ear-ticklingly impressive as 2010's Genuine Negro Jig—but far more rustic, ...
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Paul Thorn to Release "What the Hell is Going On" CD on May 8
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conqueroo
On new album, Thorn tries something fun and different—covering songs he loves by other songwriters TUPELO, Miss.—Paul Thorn took an unexpected detour on the road to recording a follow- up to his most successful release, 2010's Pimps and Preachers. After writing many discs of semi-autobiographical tunes that have drawn comparisons to John Hiatt and John Prine, the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter—hailed as the “Mark Twain of Americana" — decided to do an album of covers. “I wanted to take a break ...
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U.K. Bandleader Chris Barber Receives Overdue U.S. Recognition with 2-CD Anthology on Proper Records May 8
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conqueroo
Features music from Barber's incredible 60-year career including previously unreleased collaborations with Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Jools Holland, Dr. John and Rory Gallagher LONDON, U.K.—To followers of 20th century British music, Chris Barber needs no introduction: The trombonist and bassist is the pre-eminent name in British trad jazz. A fixture on the British music scene since the early 1950s, he has led a number of excellent bands and can be heard alongside countless world-class players, a ...
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