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Rockwired.com’s Latest Edition Of Jazzed and Blue Presents: Broadway and Television Veteran Tom Wopat And Music From Curtis Stigers, Jane Badler And Marilyn Mcleod

Source: Rockwired Media LLC
August 1, 2011

The latest edition of Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features music and an exclusive interview with Broadway and television veteran Tom Wopat (The Dukes of Hazard). In this opening segment, Wopat discusses his forthcoming release 'Consider it Swung,' working with producer and bassist David Finck and plans for future recordings. The second half of this edition of Jazzed and Blue will feature music from such jazz and blues artists ...

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Stronghold Sound Presents - The Audio Refugee Compilation

Source: Press Junkie PR
July 31, 2011

Encompassing a wide variety of sounds including traditional African and Arab folk, reggae and dub-step, hip-hop and new cumbia, the SF-based Stronghold Sound presents its first in a line of releases, The Audio Refuge Compilation. Each track is both experiment and firm step in a direction that this group of global artists is putting forth to lovers of tradition and the dance floor.

Among the tracks on the release are a handful featuring the talented Alpha Oumar 'Bongo' Sidibe [Guinea] ...

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Stuttering to the Top of the Charts

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 31, 2011

The Stuttering Foundation, a nonprofit organization helping people who stutter since 1947, has recognized the song “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," a 1974 number one hit by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as being the most unique of the many rock songs featuring stuttering vocals.

Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, said recently, “Not only was 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' the first song with stuttering vocals to reach number one, but more importantly it was the first such song that was ...

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George Danquah African Funk Reissue Out August 9 on Secret Stash

Source: Press Junkie PR
July 31, 2011

Secret Stash Records is pleased to announce our next release: George Danquah's Hot & Jumpy. It will be available August 9th, 2011. See below for details regarding our plans for limited edition pre-orders!

Hot and Jumpy is one of the funkiest gems to come out of the incredible 1970's Ghanaian music scene. It is the only known album by this New Edubiase (3 hours NW of Accra) native. He appears to have arrived out of thin air, recorded one of ...

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July Issue of Scooby-Sax Newsletter Published

Source: Jeff Rzepiela
July 31, 2011

The July, 2011 issue of the Scooby-Sax Newsletter has been published. The latest issue of this educational resource focuses on the analysis of transcribed solos by Al Cohn, Hank Mobley, Zoot Sims, and John Coltrane on the tune, “Tenor Conclave." The four solos make a fascinating study in the similarities and differences among the tenor saxophone soloists. The analysis of these four solos on “I Got Rhythm" chord changes focuses on such techniques as chromatic approaches, guide tone lines, sequences, ...

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First LP Release from a Paris Based Band: Urbs

Source: Michael Ricci
July 31, 2011

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"From California with Love" CD to Benefit Japanese Earthquake-Tsunami Victims

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
July 31, 2011

July 13, 2011 Release Features Vocal Tracks by Sue Raney, Johnny Holiday, Leslie Lewis/Gerard Hagen, Kurt Reichenbach, Diane Hubka, Tierney Sutton, Dick Noel, Frankie Randall, Pinky Winters, and Chris Connor Includes Solo Piano Performances by Alan Broadbent, Christian Jacob, and Jim Cox All tracks are new and/or previously unreleased The story behind this project is a very simple one. The Sunday morning after the disaster, I phoned SSJ artist Diane Hubka to ask about the well-being of some of our ...

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George Wein’s Foundation Already Set for Newport Festivals in 2012

Source: Michael Ricci
July 30, 2011

By Dan Kassell As impresario and swing jazz pianist, George Wein is best known for creating the first Newport Folk Festival (NFF) in 1954 and Newport Jazz Festival (NJF) in 1959, supported almost entirely by jazz fans Louis and Elaine Lorillard and, at that point in time, nonprofit entities.

In a telephone interview, just before this August Fort Adams Jazz Festival in Newport Rhode Island, George Wein spoke from his New York office about the future of the Newport Festivals ...

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