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Event

Lenore Raphael featured in All-Steinway weekend (August 27) in Clarksburg, WV

Source: LenMar Promotions
August 17, 2011

Internationally renowned jazz pianist/Steinway Artist Lenore Raphael will headline an All-Steinway event. On Friday August 26 , Raphael performs in concert at The Bridgeport Conference Center in Bridgeport, West Virginia. Accompanying her on this concert will be Herman Burney on bass and Roger Humphries on drums. Ms. Raphael has been called “Simply one of the best pianists in the jazz mainstream..."John Gilbert, writer SONY/Columbia. In this concert, she will perform tunes from the Great American SongBook. On Saturday, August 27, ...

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Education

Acclaimed Jazz Pianist Peter Martin Launches Unique Approach To Music Lessons

Source: Sarah Daly
August 16, 2011

SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI—Renowned jazz pianist, composer, educator and arranger Peter Martin has announced his new online approach to music education at petermartinmusic.com/lessons. Through his innovative method of musical education, Mr. Martin provides eager jazz students the opportunity to fine-tune their musical mastery, offering full-length video lessons online in addition to one-on-one Skype lessons, a monthly Online Master Class and 2-Minute Jazz Piano Lessons. This complete online instructional program features exclusive members-only sessions that offer weekly instruction by Mr. Martin, along ...

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Recording

First Time on CD: Sony Masterworks Jazz Releases More Classic Reissues

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 16, 2011

Masterworks Jazz continues its celebration of the 40th Anniversary of CTI Records with reissues of four more classic CTI albums available on August 9. Available for the first time on CD are Airto's Fingers, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral's A Wider Alias, Joe Farrell's Outback and Randy Weston's Blue Moses. All four releases have been remastered for the first time using the original two-track analog tapes. Each 40th Anniversary Edition is packaged in a soft-pack sleeve that replicates each original ...

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Rising Reggae Artists The Green Release Advance "Love & Affection" EP (Easy Star)

Source: Press Junkie PR
August 16, 2011

Four extraordinary talents, one scene-shaking reggae band: That's The Green, four boys hailing from Hawaii who burst out last year with their self-titled debut album. Amazingly for a new band, the disc rocketed onto Billboard's 2010 Year-End Top 10 Reggae Chart, was honored as iTunes' Reggae Album of the Year, won Best Reggae Album at Hawaii's 2011 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, and has sold over 20,000 copies. Now the promise of The Green's youth-infused roots reggae revival is set to ...

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Recording

Guitarist Chuck Loeb Releases "Plain 'N' Simple", B-3 Organ Combo Date w/Harvey Mason, Pat Bianchi, on Tweety Records

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
August 16, 2011

Long before Chuck Loeb embarked on his remarkably diverse career that has included being Stan Getz's musical director, holding the guitar chair in the 80s fusion ensemble Steps Ahead and, most recently, joining supergroup Fourplay, he was a kid growing up outside New York City, fascinated by the classic jazz organ trio sounds of his childhood. Capping a two decade-plus discography of popular and often groundbreaking contemporary jazz recordings, Loeb fulfills a lifelong dream with the release of Plain 'n' ...

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Recording

Leron Thomas: Dirty Draws, Vol. 3

Source: Poppi Kikos
August 16, 2011

The trumpeter, singer, bandleader and provocateur Leron Thomas, a New Yorker originally from Houston, isn't making it easy on himself. His records, self-produced and often underproduced, are hard to sum up, and that's the point. They're perverse and searching and sketchy and sometimes quite lovely: straight-ahead jazz— he is a serious improviser, rhythmically strong and controlled in ballads—as well as R&B, tense indie-rock and several kinds of singer-songwriter music. He sings in croons and yelps, making acid commentary about competition ...

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Recording

Renolds Jazz Orchestra's "Three Penny Opera - Live in Aarau" Set for September 26 U.S. Release

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
August 16, 2011

The Renolds Jazz Orchestra (RJO) is a group of international musicians led by Fritz Renold and Helen Savari-Renold—musicians and organizers of the jazzaar music educational festival in Aarau, Switzerland. The orchestra is assembled for exclusive productions of original works and makeovers of standard repertoire to be premiered at jazzaar. The members of the orchestra hail from a variety of geographical and musical landscapes, chosen according to the need of the production at hand but each artist is always an established ...

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Andrea Wolper's New CD, "Parallel Lives", Set for September 13 Release on Jazzed Media

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
August 16, 2011

Innovative jazz singer (and songwriter) Andrea Wolper's new CD, Parallel Lives, is scheduled for a September 6 release on the Jazzed Media label. Co-produced by Wolper and Todd Barkan, this is her first album since 2005's well-received The Small Hours. Her working group—some of NYC's best musicians—recorded this album with her: Michael Howell, guitar; Kris Davis, piano; Ken Filiano, bass; Michael TA Thompson: soundrhythium. The set list ranges from Great American Songbook standards by Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer, Buddy Johnson, and ...

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