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Craft Recording Celebrates the Enduring Legacy of Savoy Records and the Revolutionary Bebop Era with 'The Birth of Bop'
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DL Media
Featuring Painstaking Recreations of the Five 10-Inch LP Compilations That Were Originally Released by Savoy in 1952 and 1953, This Collection Includes 30 Newly Remastered Tracks Spanning 1944–1949 Craft Recordings proudly celebrates the legacy of Savoy Records with an all-new collection that chronicles the groundbreaking era of bebop (or bop) music. An essential introduction to this vital period in jazz music, The Birth of Bop: The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection features 30 choice cuts from many of the genre’s pioneers, including Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Allen Eager, Fats Navarro and more. Spanning 1944 ...
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Gretchen Carhartt Valade Detroit Businesswoman and 'Angel of Jazz'
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DL Media
Metro Detroit and the global jazz community lost one of its greatest champions this week. Gretchen Carhartt Valade, businesswoman, and philanthropist, died peacefully on December 30, surrounded by family at her Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. home. She was 97. Known by many in the arts community as the “Angel of Jazz,” Gretchen C. Valade will be remembered for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, culture, and business landscape of Metro Detroit and the global jazz community. As chairman emeritus of ...
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Giacomo Gates Sings The Song, Tony Adamo Writes The Music
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Tony Adamo
Jazz troubadour and terminal hipster Giacomo Gates just keeps getting better and better. Gates is one of the top male jazz singers around today. He's a talented, skillful, and a rock-solid professional. With his vocalese and bebop attitude, he sings, scats, dropping his swinging baritone voice into every lyric he sings. A few years ago, singer, spoken word recording artist Tony Adamo asked Gates to stop by and dig Adamo’s recording session for his CD, Tony Adamo And The New ...
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We'll Meet Again—American Jazz Standards with Jaimee Paul and Leif Shires at John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts on February 4, 2023
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Maura Dunno
Join the Pan American Symphony Orchestra for an evening of American jazz nostalgia with Nashville sensation, Jaimee Paul, singing favorites of the 1940’s such as the wartime hit, “We'll Meet Again." The performance will also feature selections from a swinging orchestral work, the “Zodiac Suite," by Mary Lou Williams, the talented, prolific African-American jazz composer, pianist, and arranger for Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and others. Considered a musician's musician, Williams was highly regarded for her swing-era music and ...
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Vocalist Donna Singer Fronts Hard Swingin' 'Dance Band Boogie'
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Donna Singer is an electrifying and dazzling jazz show-stopper. She graduated from the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, with formal studies at Juilliard. Her European concerts include dates in Paris, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy and Wales. She has performed at the Metropolitan Opera Guild Recital Hall in Lincoln Center, Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell and at Carnegie Hall. She has engaged audiences in many more U.S. cities including Phoenix, Miami and Nashville. Singer has handpicked some of the finest musicians in ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: December 2022
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the songs featured in December, these ten represent our reader's favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! Top Songs Blues For Tony Allan Holdsworth & Alan Pasqua From: Proto-Cosmos 09:27 A Long Journey Giuseppe Magagnino From: My Inner Child 08:26 ...
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Jack Wilkins, famed guitarist, home again after second visit to hospital in a year
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All About Jazz
Four years ago, legendary jazz guitarist Jack Wilkins, 78, found out he had stage four kidney disease and has been quietly dealing with that since. Despite surviving Covid-19 without catching it, in late 2021 he took a pain pill for recent dental work, stood up too suddenly, and found himself on the floor of his kitchen. A day later he was in the hospital with a broken hip. There followed months of rehab, but he bounced back. Then in late ...
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Guitarist Dave Stryker to release 'Prime' with Jared Gold and McClenty Hunter on Strikezone Records
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Fresh off their summer tour opening for Steely Dan, guitarist Dave Stryker releases Prime—the first recording featuring his working trio. Along with Jared Gold on organ and McClenty Hunter on drums, Stryker offers eight new compositions and the beautiful standard “I Should Care.” From the burning title track “Prime” to songs penned for his first boss Jack McDuff (“Captain Jack” and “Dude’s Lounge”) as well as “Mac” for his drummer and the original trio versions of “Hope” and “As We ...
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