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Visionary Japanese Instrumentalist Keiko Matsui To Release Her Twenty-Second Album On January 25 Via Shanachie Entertainment
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1888 Media
With over a million and a half albums sold and sold out concerts around the globe, keyboardist Keiko Matsui is a citizen of the world and one of the brightest stars in instrumental music. On January 25th, Shanachie Entertainment will release The Road..., Keiko Matsui's first new recording in four years and a follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 South African inspired Moyo. This new self-produced opus (and 22nd album released in the U.S.) exhibits Matsui's profound affinity for melody while ...
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SNEAK PREVIEW: "The Abyss - Radio Edit" New Single by Mwalim
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Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
BOSTON—Billed as a “Sneaky Leaky Preview" by Daphunkeeprofessor himself, a radio edit teaser of “The Abyss" from Mwalim's forthcoming CD of the same title, a Deep Soulful House project interlaced with Mwalim's signature jazzy-funk (or funky-jazz) piano and vocal interplays. “The Abyss" on Soundcloud.com Mwalim's love of classic house music of the Paradise Garage and Shelter hey-days in New York City is eminently clear in this new project. To Get Your Copy of the sneak preview single, just click HERE ...
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Chris Parrello + Things I Wonder (Stray Dog Music, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
An international cast of characters makes up the group led by New York City based guitarist and composer Chris Parrello, and the group creates an enchanting amalgam of indie rock and modern jazz. Consisting of Karlie Bruce on vocals, Ian Young on saxophones, Kevin Thomas on bass, Aviv Cohen on drums, Rubin Kodheli on cello, Greg Glassman on trumpet and Rich Hinman on pedal steel, the unusual instrumentation allows the band to create varied and continually shifting sound-scapes. “Choices" opens ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Sounds of Saturn - Mars Via Parachute (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Sounds of Saturn, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based experimental trio, takes the road less travelled on Mars Via Parachute. In fact, often, they're not on any road at all. Instead, the record employs every trick in the noodle-rock playbook, from psychedelia and stadium-shaking riffs to thrilling science-geek constructions that include math-based tempos. As spacy as it all is, though, Mars Via Parachute isn't elevator music. “95 Pan-1," the album opener, begins with an ethereal wash of synthesizers but ...
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Listen up Preview: Robbie Robertson, "When the Night Was Young" (2011)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso We find Robbie Robertson, former guitarist with Bob Dylan and the Band, again hurtling through the Mississippi Delta, racing past old churches with scolding signs out front, hanging out with grifters and cardsharps, searching for something deeper, something real. This time, it's different, though. He's older now, with friends and youthful dreams long gone. So many hopes lay in pieces all around. And, in sorting through them, Robertson sees things now, new things, that I don't. “What ...
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The Very Best of the Rat Pack Available January 25th
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On Target Media Group
Iconic entertainers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.—the Rat Pack, a sheer force of nature on stage and film that defined suave masculine brio in the early 1960s. To commemorate this legendary act, Reprise Records will release an essential collection: THE VERY BEST OF THE RAT PACK on January 25. Featuring 18 Vegas-era favorites that spotlight each singer, The Very Best Of The Rat Pack captures the upbeat entertainment style synonymous with the trio. Showcasing swinging studio classics ...
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The Art and Seduction of "Love and Sax"
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Michael Ricci
Elan Trotman returns March 8th with a cozy collection of soul-jazz ballads previewed by two radio singles for smooth jazz radio and urban adult contemporary Boston, MA: Sensual saxplay—expressive and passionate pilots alluringly romantic melodies that levitate over slinky, seductive grooves on Love and Sax, the second contemporary jazz album from saxophonist Elan Trotman, which will be released on the artists own label on March 8th. The Boston-based native of Barbados wrote or co-wrote eleven of the discs dozen ballads ...
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Amy London Set To Soar with "Let's Fly"
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GoMedia PR
Vocalist's Second Motèma Music CD Drops Today, 1 -11 11 Let's Fly, the much anticipated follow-up to Amy London's acclaimed 2008 Motéma debut, When I Look in Your Eyes, is a swinging and sensual affair, replete with jazz and Brazilian standards, tasty re-imaginings of songs by Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro, and rare gems by bop legends Charles Mingus and Elmo Hope. London's considerable talents, developed through her many years as a first-call New York City jazz, Broadway and big ...
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