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Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 6, 2007

PLANET ARTS

As we move into a new year we are thankful to have worked on some very exciting projects in 2006:

The Jimmy Heath Big Band, Turn Up The Heath (currently # 3 on the JazzWeek charts)

The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Up From The Skies: the Music of Jim McNeely Nominated for two GRAMMYS: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Best Instrumental Arrangement

The Goningen Art Ensemble, Jazz In Jazz Out (with Joris ...

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Ropeadope Set to Launch Digital Exclusive Label in 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2007

ROPEADOPE To Launch Digital Download Exclusive Label ROPEADOPE DIGITAL In 2007

Debuting In February With Seven Releases By: Aunt Jessica, DJ Klock, Electric City, The Frequency, Skip Heller, Larval & Reminder

Brooklyn, NY - ROPEADOPE, the trend-setting independent record label, clothing company, Internet destination and all around lifestyle-defining endeavor, will launch a digital download exclusive label imprint, Ropeadope Digital, in February 2007. It will make its debut with releases from seven artists, including Aunt Jessica, DJ Klock, Electric City, The ...

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Ejazznews.com Top 50 Jazz 2006

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2007

1. Kenny Garrett - Beyond the Wall (Nonesuch) 2. Stefan Harris - African Tarantella Dances with Duke (Blue Note) 3. Chris Walden Big Band - No Bounds (Origin Records) 4. Hilario Duran Latin Jazz Band - From the Heart (Alma/Universal) 5. Keith Jarrett - The Carnegie Hall Concert (ECM) 6. Taylor Eigsti - Lucky To Be Me (Concord) 7. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra - Up from the Skies (Planet ...

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David Berger on Jazz & Pop

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 4, 2007

As I sit here about to embark on a new school year at the Juilliard School, where I teach, I would like to try to put the issue of jazz (America's indigenous art form) and its relationship to popular music into focus or at least reflect upon and sort out some facts and issues (musical and personal) that concern me.

From the 1920s through the 1940s, jazz and popular music shared the great American songbook. Everyone in America knew thousands ...

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Red Cat Publicity Celebrates Its Second Year!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 2, 2007

RED CAT PUBLICITY JASoN PAuL HARMaN BYRnE 55 92nd Street, #5C, Brooklyn, New York, 11209, Tel 347 578 7601, Email [email protected]

Red Cat Publicity Celebrates Its Second Year!

2007 To Feature New Releases from Miles Okazaki, John Fedchock, The Neil Cowley Trio, Avishai Cohen, Roni Ben-Hur, and many others!

This January, fifteen-year music industry veteran Jason Byrne celebrates the two-year anniversary of Red Cat Publicity, a one man show offering creative and energetic publicity services to ...

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Zeppelin Zone Takes Off

Source: Soul on Track
December 31, 2006

Dutch vocalist-composer Heleen van den Hombergh (composer of “Rush in the Woods") has formed a new band, called Zeppelin Zone.

At the very end of 2006 Heleen started working with creative bass player Frans van der Hoeven, versatile guitarist Erik Rutjes, and inventive percussionist Bart Fermie. Zeppelin Zone performs Heleen's latest work and combines world, jazz and heavy pop sounds, with light footed grooves, open meditations and howling guitars. The name Zeppelin Zone seeks to reflect a sensation of feet ...

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New Haven's Firehouse 12 to Launch New Label in 2007

Source: Improvised Communications
December 27, 2006

Beginning this April, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will begin issuing a mix of physical and digital-only recordings under the banner of its new label, Firehouse 12 Records. Co-founded by Firehouse 12's owner/resident recording engineer Nick Lloyd and acclaimed cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum, the label was created to “capture creative music in its native environment." Its first two physical releases, scheduled for April 3rd, will be a nine-CD-plus-one-DVD box set documenting the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet's four-night stand at New York's Iridium ...

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3-Peat For HighNote/Savant Whose CDs Receive Most Jazz Radio Airplay In The US For 3rd Consecutive Year

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
December 21, 2006

NYC-Based Record Company Ends 2006 With 14 Titles On JazzWeek's Year- End Top-100 Jazz Radio Chart & 10 In Top-50 (For the third consecutive year HighNote/Savant Records was the most listened-to jazz label in the US, finishing 2006 with 14 titles on JazzWeek's Top-100 Chart, 10 in the Top-50. JazzWeek's year-end chart appears in the December 25, 2006 issue of the nation's leading jazz broadcasting trade publication.

Each year since 2004 HighNote/Savant, a Manhattan-based jazz record company founded and run ...

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