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National Recording Artist and Saxophonist Brandon Primus New CD Release

Source: Janet M Walters
January 25, 2012

Brandon Primus a former Showtime at the Apollo winning jazz saxophonist and instrumentalist has released his first music CD. Primus is a big name who has earned countless prestigious awards over his career and is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music Boston, MA. Known as the Soulful Strut Saxophonist for his signature moves on stage, he is emerging on the scene as one of the most gifted and up and coming, jazz artist in contemporary and urban jazz. ...

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Emotive Explosions in Blastin' Sounds! Harry Bates Releases Incendiary, Intuitive and Eclectic Tracks

Source: Creativity in Music
January 25, 2012

CINCINNATI, OHIO — The Supreme Sounds From Blastin' Sounds is the upcoming release from Cincinnati native Harry Bates. It is due out early in 2012. Also known as Blastin Sounds, Harry is releasing several tracks early — with good reason he explains, “I want to enlighten as many people as I can to the fact that they have the ability to change the world." His tracks are filled with emotive explosions in Blastin' Sounds. As both a songwriter and performer, ...

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Abigail Riccards - Soft Rains Fall (2011)

Source: Something Else!
January 25, 2012

When I first listened to Chicago-based jazz singer Abigail Riccards I had that strange and wonderful feeling of temporarily “forgetting who I was." This is the kind of power that music can have, forcing the attention down to a tiny (and yet immense) point of interest, causing the listener's surroundings to vanish. Riccards' 2008 debut recording When the Night Is New, presented her incredibly expressive voice in a relatively traditional setting involving drums, bass, piano, guitar, and a horn or ...

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Jeff Lorber Fusion - Galaxy (2012)

Source: Something Else!
January 25, 2012

Keyboardist, composer, producer, arranger and bandleader Jeff Lorber has been propagating fusion jazz for so long, the term “Jeff Lorber Fusion" seems almost redundant. Long dismissed by jazz purists and “heavier" fusion fans alike, Lorber has actually provided a bridge from so-called “lite" jazz to more serious, improvisational forms of jazz, as his Berklee-bred chops are top notch, and many of his compositions contain twisty harmonic lines, quicksilver tempo changes and serpentine solos that would confound many musicians of the ...

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Germany's Acclaimed Triosence Joins Forces with Vocalist Sara Gazarek on "Where Time Stands Still"

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
January 25, 2012

While the instrumental group Triosence has already built a strong following over the past decade in Germany, their latest outing promises to attract Stateside attention for the first time. For Where Time Stands Still, the group reached out to Seattle-born singer Sara Gazarek, a rising star on the contemporary jazz scene in the States. The resulting collaboration is a match made in heaven, with Gazarek's crystalline vocals and evocative lyrics supplying an even more personal touch to Triosence's appealing sound. ...

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Hristo Vitchev / Weber Lago Highly Anticipated New Album "Heartmony" Is Now Available

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 25, 2012

Heartmony is modern jazz guitarist Hristo Vitchev's fourth album as a leader. After his critically acclaimed quartet's debut record Song for Messabria and his first duo session with pianist Weber Lago The Secrets of An Angel, Hristo recorded The Perperikon Suite with his quintet (a large scale jazz suite specifically written for the 53rd edition of the Monterey Jazz Festival). This year he releases his second outing with Latin Grammy Nominee Weber Lago. Heartmony is a truly intimate and colorful ...

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Nonesuch Releases Caetano Veloso and David Byrne "Live at Carnegie Hall" on March 13; Pre-Order Now

Source: Michael Ricci
January 24, 2012

In the spring of 2004, Caetano Veloso curated a week of special concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall as one of its prestigious Perspectives artists. As part of the series, he invited his longtime friend and collaborator David Byrne to join him for an evening in Isaac Stern Auditorium. The concert was recorded for broadcast on NPR and now will be released by Nonesuch as Caetano Veloso and David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall on March 13, 2012. The singer/guitarists ...

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Al Hibbler: Holding a Thrill

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 24, 2012

Before Sam Cooke, before Clyde McPhatter, before Ray Charles and before Earl Coleman there was Al Hibbler. Blind from birth, Hibbler began his recording career in 1942 with Jay McShann's band, when Charlie Parker was in the reed section. Then in 1943, he joined Duke Ellington, a tenure that lasted until 1950. A dispute with Ellington over compensation led to Hibbler's departure and the start of a successful solo recording career that lasted until the end of the decade. Today, ...

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