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Guitarist / Bassist / Composer Barend Tromp To Release New Album 'Odd Time Concepts' On June 6, 2025
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Barend Tromp is a guitarist, bassist, and composer from the Netherlands whose music transcends borders and genres. With a background as diverse as his sound, Barend studied classical guitar at the Conservatory of Tilburg and attained a masters in Music Science at the University of Amsterdam. His passion for musical exploration led him to India and across Europe, where he studied the sitar under renowned masters. These influences—from Western classical to Indian raga—deeply inform his bass playing, resulting in a ...
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Still Places Available On Europe's Biggest And Most Inclusive Jazz Education Event—Sligo Jazz 2025
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Sligo Jazz Project
Sligo Jazz Project’s annual Summer School and Festival runs from 22-27 July 2025, bringing a team of 33 world-class musicians from all over the world to teach and perform in Sligo over six days. From 22–27 July 2025, Sligo will once again become a global hub for music lovers, students, and jazz legends, as it hosts Europe’s largest and most inclusive Jazz Summer School alongside its internationally renowned Jazz Festival. The countdown is on for world-class jazz education and live ...
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All About Jazz Launches Jazz Forward Award Program
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz, a driving force for jazz music since 1995, is thrilled to honor and celebrate industry trailblazers who actively promote jazz awareness, discovery, and culture through its prestigious Jazz Forward award program. Carefully selected by a team of industry visionaries, recipients don't just receive an award; their achievements are showcased in All About Jazz's weekly newsletter, featured prominently on the All About Jazz website and forever enshrined on our Jazz Forward award recipients page. Representatives also appear as ...
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African Hero Myths Meet A 4tet
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Dog Ranch Music PR
Gwen Laster was contemplating Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero's Journey one day, and found herself wondering if there was a ‘Hero's Journey’ for African Americans. It turned out that there was, and Clyde W Ford’s The Hero With an African Face became not only a personal inspiration but also a direct influence on Gwen Laster’s New Muse 4tet’s upcoming album Keepers of the Flame (May 10, 2025, self-release). Born in October 2015 and founded by Violinist/Composer Laster, Gwen Laster’s New ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: May 2025
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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 May, 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 I'll Be Always With You Arturo Sandoval From: Alma Libre 05:15 Rising Daniel Garbin From: ...
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Iconoclastic Composer Yelena Eckemoff Celebrates 15 Years As A Critically Acclaimed Independent Artist
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
In 2010, jazz pianist Yelena Eckemoff made a brazen decision for the time. She would produce all of her albums independently, despite the interest major jazz labels had shown in representing her. Today—22 masterful albums featuring more than 50 world-class musicians later—Yelena’s artistic vision has come to fruition: an oeuvre of works completely her own. Yelena understood early on that to communicate her musical vision, she would need a certain measure of creative freedom in her projects. As something of ...
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Jimmie Vaughan’s 'Do You Get The Blues?' Gets A 25th Anniversary Reissue On July 25th
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The Last Music Company
Jimmie Vaughan ’s Grammy winning album, Do You Get The Blues? is slated for a reissue by The Last Music Company July 25th in the run-up to the 25th Anniversary of its initial release. A first-issue Vinyl was previously released in 2021, on the occasion of Jimmie’s 70th birthday. Now, in 2025, the album, updated with his own liner notes, will be available in CD and digital formats. At the time of its original release, Do You Get The Blues? ...
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Jimmy Greene Quintet – 'As We Are Now' Album Release Celebration At The Artists Collective On Thursday, June 12th, 2025
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Lori Reynolds
Exactly thirty-five years after his first life-changing encounter with Jackie McLean at the Artists Collective, saxophonist Jimmy Greene returns to the Collective with his quintet on June 12 to celebrate the release of his latest album, As We Are Now (Greene Music Works). Joining Greene for this special night are the same all-star musicians who appear on the recording: guitarist Mike Moreno, pianist Aaron Goldberg (original member of the Artists’ Collective Twin Towers Quintet, alongside Greene, in 1994), bassist Dezron ...
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