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Jhelisa New Single ‘Oxygen’ Out Now On Dorado Records
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Press Junkie PR
She’s back. Released today on Dorado Records, musical maverick Jhelisa returns with a triumphant masterpiece, “Oxygen,' a breath-taking, expansive, unapologetic 11-minute opus. Underpinned by her glorious, deeply seductive voice, remarkable in its power and spiritual force, the richly nuanced track journeys through sections of hypnotic rhythms, infectious hooks, probing jazz lines, African chanting, blues-drenched harmonica, pacey percussion and slower slices of sweet soul jazz. The sound is an exciting sonic assault featuring a masterful band that includes legendary bassist Oteil ...
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Virgil Gonsalves: Sextet and Big Band
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
We tend to think of West Coast jazz as a style centered exclusively in Los Angeles. While much of the relaxed, contrapuntal sound did evolve in the suburbs of the city in the 1950s, San Francisco also had a West Coast sound that was slightly more intensive. Artists who emerged from the San Francisco jazz experience in the late 1940s and '50s included Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Cal Tjader, Dick Collins, David Van Kriedt, Bill Smith, Vince Guaraldi, Eddie Duran ...
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Backgrounder: 'Bossa'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Continuing with my Backgrounder series, today I decided to share with you the 1966 Brazilian album entitled Bossa, by the Conjunto Copacabana Bossa, or the Copacabana Bossa Set. Produced and arranged by gutiarist Paulo Tito (above), the group included members of the Banzo Trio—Nelson Racy (p), Ditinho (b) and Howard França (d) as well as an unknown guitarist (Tito?), tenor saxophonist, flutist, trumpeter and vocalist. What I love about this album is its hotel feel. One senses that if we ...
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Dick Hyman and Austin High Revisited
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1922, five white high-school teens started a jazz revolution. All attended Austin High School on Chicago's West Side and were mad about jazz—the jazz that came up to the city from New Orleans in 1920. That's when Prohibition led to bootlegging, organized crime, and speakeasies and clubs run by gangsters who needed exciting music to keep patrons drinking. The Austin High Gang, as they became known, took New Orleans jazz and gave it a peppy bounce, making it ideal ...
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Bill Evans and João Gilberto
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Once upon a time there was a luxury department store called Barneys New York. The store first opened in 1923, but Barneys came into its own in the early 1980s, when a sizable number of baby boomers graduated from college and entered the Manhattan workplace. To make an impression and retain their individuality, the entry-level employees sought out trendy suits and ties, and dresses, shoes, jewelry and other items at Barneys with an Italian and Japanese twist. Fashion-forward design soon ...
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Sal Mosca and the Larry Bluth Trio
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in 2020, bassist and long-time e-pal Don Messina emailed me about a couple of tapes in his possession that hadn't been released. One was by the Larry Bluth Trio from 2001. The other was a collection of solo recordings by Sal Mosca in 1970 and 1997. My ears went up upon hearing about both tapes. What the two had in common was Lennie Tristano. Bluth and Mosca were both students of Tristano, a blind New York pianist who in ...
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Five Reissued Candid Albums
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Archie Bleyer's Cadence Records, the Candid label was headed by Nat Hentoff, who was given complete control of who and what he wanted to record. By then, Nat was well established as one of the country's leading jazz writers and civil rights activists. Nat recorded 34 albums, among them important records by a range of jazz artists, including Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Phil Woods, Don Ellis and blues artists ...
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Do TikTok Users Care About Jazz? The Montreux Jazz Festival Thinks So
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HypeBot
The famous Montreux Jazz Festival has partnered with TikTok for a series of live performances of new and emerging artists. The Montreux Jazz Festival (MJF) has announced a UK and European partnership with TikTok surrounding new initiative, MJF Spotlight. The initiative was launched in 2021 by MJF to support new and emerging artists and new music in the form of content creation and live performances. MJF will be releasing a series of live performances on the TikTok platform under the ...
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