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Keyboardist/Composer Mike Prigodich Releases New CD "A Stitch in Time" from Mexican Mocha Music.

Source: Two for the Show Media
June 21, 2011

Mexican Mocha Music CD Release Date: July 26th, 2011 Over the past two years Mike Prigodich's jazz-fusion compositions have begun attracting attention from many well-known national artists. For him, becoming a cancer patient in 2008 was the big wake-up call that got him to start writing new music, construct a band, start booking gigs, and pursue his dream of becoming a professional jazz musician. According to Prigodich, fellow cancer survivor Lance Armstrong inspired all this. Mike went on to raise ...

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Half Note Records Issues A New Release By Randy Brecker, The Jazz Ballad Song Book, Featuring The Danish Radio Big Band And The Danish National Chamber Orchestra

Source: hubtone PR
June 20, 2011

AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE JULY 19, 2011! New York—Half Note Records is pleased to present trumpeter Randy Breckerʼs latest musical venture, a collaboration with the Danish Radio Big Band (DRBB) and the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. This formidable partnership provides a special opportunity for Brecker, actuating what many will consider to be a “career record." Breckerʼs incomparable contribution to contemporary music spans several decades. The Jazz Ballad Song Book explores the contours of ten compelling American songs, penned by ...

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Johannes Zetterberg - Painter's Portrait

Source: Michael Ricci
June 20, 2011

Two years after the release of the highly acclaimed debut “Luna Nueva", bassist & composer Johannes Zetterberg is set to release his much-anticipated sophomore album “Painter's Portrait". Together with special guests Bob Mintzer (Yellowjackets, Jaco Pastorius, Buddy Rich et al.), Steve Weingart (Dave Weckl Band, Steve Lukather et al.), Brandon Fields (George Benson, Tower of Power, Earth, Wind & Fire et al), Jason Rebello (Sting, Jeff Beck, Wayne Shorter et al.), and a host of Swedish session musicians, he once ...

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Celebrating CTI Records 40th Anniversary - Part 4

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
June 20, 2011

Masterworks Jazz continues the 40th anniversary celebration of the great CTI Records with another four newly re-mastered discs including George Benson's Body Talk, Hubert Laws's In the Beginning, Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life, and Stanley Turrentine's Don't Mess with Mister T. Originally produced by Creed Taylor and in most cases recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder, the Masterworks Jazz series is supervised beautifully by Richard Seidel and masterfully re-engineered by Mark Wilder and Maria Triana. As before, the reissues are ...

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Burning Gums - Burning Gums (2011)

Source: Something Else!
June 20, 2011

A stylistic tour de force, this self-titled trio effort manages to take in many of jazz music's most notable influences, even tosses in a dash of Pacific island flavor, but it never falls into the rote imitative traps of so many of today's more traditionalist recordings. That's a credit to Burning Gums' executive producer Ron Jackson, a guitarist of mature yet inventive dexterity. “Samba de Oueijo" finds Jackson leading the threesome through an echoing, atmospheric journey across a humid nightscape. ...

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Jazz Vocalist Kathy Sanborn’s “Magnetized” to Be Released July 5, 2011

Source: Kathy Sanborn
June 19, 2011

"Magnetized," the latest vocal jazz song from sultry pianist/vocalist Kathy Sanborn, releases July 5, 2011 as an MP3 single. To be available through the usual MP3 outlets such as Amazon and CD Baby, “Magnetized" is the first follow-up release to Sanborn's critically acclaimed album, Blues for Breakfast. Released in March 2011, Blues for Breakfast recently became a bestseller on Amazon.com, reaching #4 on Amazon's Vocal Jazz charts. Sanborn's latest release, “Magnetized," describes an electrifying attraction of love that can't be ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: So what does Revelator reveal?

Source: Alan Bryson
June 19, 2011

Two wings of equal strength endow a bird with the capacity to truly soar. This principle also helps to explain why Revelator (Sony, 2011), the debut album of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, has soared to #1 for blues releases on Amazon, #2 in rock, and #3 in all of music. This band brings together vocalist Susan Tedeschi, whose previous release in 2009 earned her a Grammy nomination, with slide guitarist Derek Trucks, who won the Grammy for his 2009 release. ...

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Father's Day Special: Bruce Springsteen, "You're Missing" (2002)

Source: Something Else!
June 19, 2011

This song, issued in the wake of the devastating attacks on New York City in 2001, nearly overwhelmed me with grief the first time I heard it. I thought of my father. He's been dead more than 20 years, and I must admit that—like everything from that long-ago time—there are moments when it is hard to fully grasp his memory. I think of him more and more in the abstract, through an old saying, or the details of an old ...

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