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All About Jazz Launches On Demand Audio Player

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2012

Musician? Place your music in front of the largest collection of jazz enthusiasts and consumers in the world. All About Jazz has partnered with Warp Radio to help musicians and record labels present their music directly to jazz fans through the All About Jazz audio player. The player, which features tracks uploaded by a musician or their record label, appears on a musician's profile page and all articles, news announcements and event listings associated with that musician. The musician or ...

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Obituary

Bob Brookmeyer R.I.P.

Source: SloaneView
January 4, 2012

A Highly Personal Recollection With the sad news of the death of Bob Brookmeyer, vivid memories of our occasionally turbulent relationship flooded my thoughts. We met in 1961 when he and several other prominent jazz musicians were members of the band playing Bill Finegan arrangements for my first album on the Columbia Records label. Although Bob did eventually achieve sobriety, he was then drinking heavily, and he could be short-tempered and petulant when just moments before he'd been wise and ...

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Book / Magazine

"Half-Blood Blues," A Novel by Esi Edugyan

Source: Justin Hargett
January 4, 2012

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST 2011 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE “Unforgettable... Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal... [A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." —The Times (London) “Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism... Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its ...

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Recording

Rick Nelson, Mark Lindsay, Sean Bonniwell and Hank Thompson Headline New Real Gone Music Reissues

Source: conqueroo
January 4, 2012

February releases also include Hank Thompson (on 160-gram vinyl), McGough & McGear (from U.K. band Scaffold), funkster Eddie Hazel and Red Bird Records girl groups. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Rick Nelson's The Complete Epic Recordings and Mark Lindsay's The Complete Columbia Singles headline the February release schedule for Real Gone Music, the new indie label helmed by reissue veterans Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana. The February rollout will include the late Sean Bonniwell's only solo album, Close (recorded under the name T.S. ...

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For Sale

J. Dash's "Tabloid Truth" to be Exclusively Released Through Wal-Mart

Source: Susan Blond, Inc.
January 4, 2012

Emerging Superstar Launches Debut Album Fueled by the Success of Viral Dance Craze and Industry Rumblings of “A Multitude of Hit Singles" from Upcoming Album New York, NY: Emerging superstar and music sensation, J. Dash, just capped off an incredible year by surpassing 250,000 sales of his debut single “WOP," thanks in part to sales of 10,000 downloads on Christmas day alone. The song, which has been bringing in new fans for months, created an international dance craze while the ...

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Recording

New Dan Wilensky Quartet Record: "Back In The Mix"

Source: Dan Wilensky
January 4, 2012

Dan Wilensky's Back In The Mix features Mark Soskin (piano), Dean Johnson (bass), Tony Moreno (drums), and special guest Russ Johnson (trumpet) in a musical tour de force. Wilensky's 4th recording as a leader includes new arrangements of Cole Porter's “Falling In Love With Love," Gross and Lawrence's “Tenderly," “Lament" by the great J.J. Johnson, and six new Wilensky originals. The creative virtuosity of long-time band mates Dean Johnson and Tony Moreno propel the group to greater heights. Russ Johnson, ...

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Performance / Tour

The MuthaWit Orchestra celebrates MLK Holiday with "These Songs of Freedom" featuring songs by Marley, Mayfield and other revolutionary Artists

Source: 4961 Polemics
January 4, 2012

The MuthaWit Orchestra performs for BAM's 26th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Event What has been said about The MuthaWit Orchestra: “MuthaWit is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis and presto!—a carnival of twisted soul." —Magnet Magazine “Boston Fielder and MuthaWit are Gods in the universe they have created and these songs, which you must hear, are their Adam and Eve, cloned to a fallen and disrupted infinity." —The Wire UK New York, ...

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Book / Magazine

Rick Britto Releases a Contemporary Jazz CD "For Your Love"

Source: Rick Britto
January 4, 2012

For Your Love featuring jazz saxophonist, Rick Britto is a Contemporary Jazz recording of all fresh and exciting originals songs for lovers to enjoy! The album covers many styles of Contemporary Jazz music crossing from R&B and Soul to Funk and Hip Hop even Reggae and Latin grooves which all make up the foundation of the recording. The recording features some of Britto's dear friends from near and a far as guest artist throughout the album. Composer and producer, Nesta ...

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