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DonnyJ Brings His Music To The World Stage
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All About Jazz
Acclaimed Recording Artist, Hitangshu Sarmah, known by his stage name DonnyJ, has made a string of significant partnerships to usher in the next era of his illustrious career. DonnyJ has worked with some of the hottest names in the music industry and has enjoyed massive media recognition along with steady growth in his fanbase, both in the United States and his home country of India. As many of you know, DonnyJ is one of India’s most-recognized recording artists, known for ...
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Introducing New Subscriptions From Rutz Music Works
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Markus Rutz
This week a new page called In The Loop has been launched from Markus Rutz Music Works. The subscription selections are The Chicagoan & The Global Citizen. These continue an ongoing newsletter and expands to include offerings for those who become subscribers. Engagement with music making is in the form of access to recording catalog, videos, sheet music, merchandise and live performances. With this style of support from music aficionados anywhere inside or outside of Chicago, more opportunities to create ...
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Five More Reissues From Candid
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Between 1960 and 1961, jazz author and critic Nat Hentoff worked for Candid Records as its A&R chief and in-studio producer. During that two-year period, he recorded 34 albums. What makes the albums special is that they were without commercial constrictions, meaning artists were free to record originals and with groups of their chosing. Many of the albums produced by Nat were released soon after they were recorded while others sat on the shelf for decades before the label's ownership ...
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Oh! Jazz Adds Afro-Cuban Rhythms from La Habana
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Michael Ricci
Starting in July, Oh! Jazz adds a window to Afro-Cuban rhythms and the vast talent of Cuban performers in collaboration with the awarded art center Fabrica de Arte Cubano. Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC) is one of Havana's most important performance spaces, art galleries and a great laboratory for interdisciplinary creation, with a marked social and community focus that in 2019 was selected among the 100 Best Places in the World by Time magazine. Located in a converted cooking oil ...
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Ronald Wayne Releases 'New Keys Old Keys Ep 1 Vol 1'--Single 'Hotter Than The Sun'
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Ronald Wayne
American musician, composer, and song writer Ronald Wayne will present another instrumental smooth jazz release—this time more traditional jazz. With already several releases out this year Ronald has both an EP and a single for jazz enthusiasts to enjoy. His new release New Keys Old Keys Ep 1 Vol 1 and “Hotter Than the Sun” will kick off the second half of the year of monthly nonstop smooth jazz music releases. including an You can join Ronald Wayne on this ...
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Ralph Gari on EmArcy in 1955
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
While I was away over the past two weeks, I spent a few hours at a terrific vinyl record store nearby run by guys with long hair and great taste. You know the kind of shop I'm talking about, where everything they spin on their vintage stereo system with 1970s speakers sounds fetching and you must own it. Fear not, I was merely killing time on a hot day, not hard shopping. But I did gather a bunch of titles ...
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Axon Radio Releases Naptown Hustle Featuring Paul Brown
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Axon Radio
Two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown and Billboard hitmaker Darren Rahn team up with the Indianapolis duo on “Naptown Hustle,” which began collecting playlist adds this week. While the video for contemporary jazz group Axon Radio’s new single looks like a modern love letter to their hometown, Indianapolis, the roots of “Naptown Hustle” run nearly one hundred years deep. The duo that makes up Axon Radio, drummer Travis Brant and bassist Cory Carleton, set out to honor Indianapolis’s jazz history by ...
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Ronald Wayne Releases 'Play It Lillith' - A Look Back At An Amazing Saxophonists
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Ronald Wayne
"Play It Lillith" is Ronald Wayne's most recent smooth jazz instrumental offering released on June 2, 2023. The song is reminiscing of the time when he experienced one of the most amazing female saxophone players he'd ever heard. So much, he had to compose and write an instrumental representation of his life-long memorable experience and share it with the world. Ronald Wayne's new release “Play It Lillith” is the fifth song and is part of his year-long nonstop instrumental smooth ...
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