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Recording

Legendary Flower Kings Vocalist Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion To Release Second Album 'Powerplay'

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 17, 2012

Sweden—Much to the excitement of the progressive rock community around the world, legendary Flower Kings vocalist Hasse Fröberg and his group Musical Companion are releasing a new album. 'Powerplay' is the second album by Swedish progrockers Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion. About a year after the release of their critically highly acclaimed debut 'Futurepast' (Sept. 2010), the band entered the studio to cut the backing tracks for 'Powerplay' (April 2012). The line-up of the band is still the same, Hasse ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club Presents Alto Saxophonist Jim Snidero

Source: Sara Donnelly
February 16, 2012

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University in partnership with the Peabody Institute has launched a new jazz series, Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club, an exciting concert experience for its alumni, associate members, and guests. The spring series will feature four outstanding concerts beginning with two sets by the Jim Snidero Quartet on February 25th for general and student admissions. Originally from Camp Springs, MD and hailed as an “alto sax virtuoso" and “master musician" by Downbeat Magazine, Jim Snidero ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club: New Series Launched by Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Institute

Source: Sara Donnelly
February 16, 2012

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University in partnership with the Peabody Institute has launched a new jazz series, Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club, an exciting concert experience for its alumni, associate members, and guests. The Spring 2012 season will feature four dates by outstanding artists beginning with two sets by the Jim Snidero Quartet on February 25th for general and student admissions. For Artistic Director, Gary Thomas Peabody's Director and Chair of Jazz Studies, Jazz at the Johns Hopkins ...

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Video / DVD

Santana Lands February 21 in a Captivating Set of Greatest Hits!

Source: Andie D'Avino
February 16, 2012

Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Santana Live At Montreux 2011 on a 2DVD set & Blu-ray in a exhilarating set of jazz, Latin, funk, soul and rock 'n' roll. The 23-song show weighs heavily on the side of the songs that fans of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist (inducted in 1998) have loved over the years. Filmed in high-definition and recorded in DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital 5.1 and LPCM Stereo, it's a total jam-packed evening of ...

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Recording

Real Gone Music Announces March Reissues

Source: conqueroo
February 16, 2012

Real Gone Music, the reissue label that has won many critical kudos in its initial months of operation, has announced its March 2012 releases. Featured are B.J. Thomas' The Complete Scepter Singles, Frankie Avalon's Muscle Beach Party: The United Artists Sessions, The Tubes' Young & Rich/Now, Rick Springfield's Beginnings, David Axelrod's Messiah, Wishbone Ash's Live Dates II and Clint Eastwood's Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites. Street date for all is March 27, 2012. From his 1966 recording of Hank ...

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Recording

John McLaughlin, Jan Hammer, Mike Stern and others on the New Gary Husband Album

Source: Souvik Dutta
February 16, 2012

Multi-dimensional drummer, keyboardist, composer and arranger Gary Husband hits his stride with Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2, his latest release on Abstract Logix Records. Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2 features an explosive all-star line-up of guest musicians such as John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Jan Hammer, Robin Trower, Jimmy Herring, Wayne Krantz, Mark King, Alex Machacek and Mike Stern. Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2 does not merely pick up where 2010's Volume 1 left off. Volume 2 expands upon Husband's musical ...

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Radio

Porgy and Bess Part I This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
February 16, 2012

Riverwalk Jazz presents a two-part special—The Jim Cullum Jazz Band's acclaimed jazz transcription of George Gershwin's American folk opera Porgy and Bess. Theater legend William Warfield, the award winning bass-baritone famous for his memorable stage role as Porgy, appears as narrator in this encore presentation. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. DuBose Heyward, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, wrote the ...

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Performance / Tour

SFJAZZ Announces SFJAZZ Collective Spring 2012 Concert Tour

Source: Michael Ricci
February 16, 2012

SAXOPHONIST ANTONIO HART TO SUBSTITUTE FOR ORIGINAL COLLECTIVE MEMBER MIGUEL ZENÓN PERFORMANCES DEVOTED TO REPERTOIRE OF STEVIE WONDER AND COMPOSITIONS BY COLLECTIVE MEMBERS Antonio Hart—Alto Saxophone Mark Turner—Tenor Saxophone Avishai Cohen—Trumpet Robin Eubanks—Trombone Stefon Harris—Vibraphone Edward Simon—Piano Matt Penman—Bass Eric Harland—Drums SAN FRANCISCO, CA: SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast and presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival and SFJAZZ Spring Season, ...

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