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Update: Anne Mironchik Pre-Release Sales Now at CD Baby

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

Anne Mironchik's tasty album of original tunes is now available at CDBaby. Whether you're a fan of traditional swing, funk, Latin or smooth jazz you'll love this album. Anne's mix of toe-tappin' and touching jazzy original, crowd-pleasing and critically acclaimed songs will touch your heart and soul. With roots in rock, blues, R&B and country, think of her like “Carole King with extra swing!" Between now and July 4th, Independence Day, Anne is offering limited copies of this independently produced ...

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One Track Mind: Ethan Keller "Rock and Rock Will Save Your Soul" (2010)

Source: Something Else!
April 26, 2010

By PicoWe've used this space for bringing telling the world about the recorded accomplishments of artists both popular and obscure, and for us, at least, the talented ones who haven't emerged yet are usually the ones that are most fun to write about. With those types, there's a greater chance you're telling the story to people who hadn't heard it before and nothing can make a music critic glow with pride if said artist since hits the big ...

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Gregory Porter Will Release Motema Debut, Water, on May 11

Source: GoMedia PR
April 26, 2010

Critically Acclaimed Vocalist Celebrates CD's Release At Smoke in NYC May 3 and Stars in “Low Down Dirty Blues" in Chicago from May 27 - July 3

With a voice that can caress or confront, embrace or exhort, Gregory Porter exhibits such an incredible degree of vocal mastery that no less a jazz luminary than Wynton Marsalis has gone on record to call him “a fantastic young singer," which makes the fact that Water (out on May 11 from Motema ...

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Sones de Mexico Ensemble Creates a Fiesta Mexicana on New Album

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
April 26, 2010

Ancient Aztec Myths, Cowboy Mice, and Dancing Iguanas: Sones de Mexico Ensemble Creates a Fiesta Mexicana for Children

What do a crawfish, a cowboy mouse, and a 100-year-old woman have in common? They are all characters in Fiesta Mexicana: Mexican Songs & Stories for Ninos & Ninas and their Papas & Mamas (release April 24, 2010), the latest recording by Sones de Mexico Ensemble. The same band that three years ago ventured into uncharted waters with Mexican folk retoolings of ...

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Tyrone Smith's "Playing It by Ear" Available on May 11th

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

Produced by Grammy Award winning producer Jack Kreisberg. Tyrone Smith is a melodically aware saxophonist who combines melody with rhythmic complexities that appeal to both jazz & R&B listeners, including fans of Maceo Parker, David “Fathead" Newman, Fred Wesley, Grover Washington, Jr., Kirk Whalum, and Marcus Miller. Smith has performed live with Charlie Persip, Al Jarreau, Bernard Purdie, Joss Stone, Benny Powell, Junior Mance, Lonnie Plaxico, The Roots, and has opened for comedian Sinbad. Recognized and awarded by both DownBeat ...

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Waitiki 7 Releasing New Album "New Sounds of Exotica"

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
April 22, 2010

New Sounds of Exotica: Tiki Classics Get Shaken, Stirred, and Perfected by the Masterful WAITIKI 7

Take one part diverse players with intense focus and killer chops, and one part neglected mid-century multi-ethnic hybrid music with origins on America's harmonious island paradise. Add a dash of Technicolor tropical dreamscape, a twist of wild birdcalls, and stir soulfully.

WAITIKI 7 serves up this polychrome cocktail, taking a new serious spin on exotica, the musical genre that leaped from Hawaii's fashionable bars ...

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Correspondence: Stryker on Childs

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
April 22, 2010

In response to yesterday's Rifftides post, music critic Mark Stryker of the Detroit Free Press sent a message that included a column he wrote earlier this year. With his permission, we bring it to you.

Very nice piece on Billy Childs' new album. I'm anxious to hear it. Billy just wrote a Violin Concerto that was premiered by Regina Carter and the Detroit Symphony in January. I wrote a short preview/profile of Billy in advance of the performance. There's no ...

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Brandon Wright - Boiling Point (2010)

Source: Something Else!
April 22, 2010

By PicoFresh, new talent worth listening to is often hard to spot. Good thing the folks at jazz label Posi-Tone Records specialize in bringing to our attention promising young talent who will keep the flame of jazz going for another generation. Their issuance yesterday of the first album by saxophonist Brandon Wright is the first step in a long, satisfying solo career, but it's also another hopeful sign that jazz will remain vital and alive for years more ...

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