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World-Renowned SMOKE Jazz Club Announces October Schedule Including Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker Celebration
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AMT Public Relations
Album Release Concert: Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators (Sep 29-Oct 2) Bird & Diz: Dizzy Gillespie Celebration (Oct 14-16) The Music of Monk: Lovano, Hays, Street, and Foster (Oct 20-23) and more... One of New York City’s premier live music venues, Smoke Jazz Club, presents a stellar line-up of both legendary jazz performers and emerging voices during the month of October. Acclaimed for its essential music programming and inspired setting, Smoke Jazz Club recently reopened to much fanfare after ...
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Pianist-Composer George Colligan's 'King's Dream,' His 36th Album As A Leader & 5th As A Solo Pianist, Due November 11 On PJCE Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
George Colligan expresses the complexities and conflicting emotions of our confusing, sometimes chaotic times with the November 11 release of King’s Dream (PJCE). Though not quite a sequel, the album builds on many of the themes presented on his previous solo album, 2018’s Nation Divided. The 11 original compositions on King’s Dream (Colligan’s 36th album as a leader) are not all new: Some of them go as far back as 2008. But like all the best improvised jazz, the tunes ...
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JMood Records Releases Roberto Magris' 'Duo & Trio' Featuring Saxophonist Mark Colby
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Paul Collins Artist Management International
“I enjoy a good wine, says Paul Collins of JMood Records. Whenever I have a chance to attend a wine tasting, I look forward to the sommelier explaining various aspects of the wine. Things such as, the grape, the region, the vineyard and owners, the aging process, hints added, what to pair it with and lastly, tasting the product. With our new product, we have captured several textures and complexities of the jazz legacy and preserved them in time. Packaged ...
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Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock, Tim Lefebvre, Aka KCL Kicks Off Tour Next Week In New York City
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Souvik Dutta
KCL, aka Wayne Krantz (Steely Dan, Michael Brecker), Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Toto), Tim Lefebvre (Tedeschi Trucks, David Bowie) are a genre-defying iconic band firmly positioned at the vanguard of their craft, pushing their stylistic roots in rock, jazz, fusion & blues beyond their boundaries. Cutting live recordings from the club and posting them online in the early days of the internet and touring only sporadically, KCL developed a thoroughly original style of interactive group improvisation inspired in part by ...
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Eastman School of Music Appoints Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media
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Michael Ricci
The Eastman School of Music has recently announced Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media. Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has been described as “an original voice on the international jazz scene… [and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,” by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. Christine will make the move from Montreal to Rochester, joining nine other new full-time faculty at Eastman. “I am excited to be working, teaching, and learning with colleagues and students ...
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NYC Drummer Graham Doby 'Weathered Crown' New Release! Straight-Ahead To Funk!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Graham Doby is a NYC-based drummer and composer. His sound has been described as “tremendously agile," with poly-rhythmic jazz fluidity grounded in funk and rock four-on-the-floor groove sensibility. Doby has shared the stage with The Impressions, George Clinton, Trombone Shorty, Thank You Scientist, and Antibalas. A drummer for over 20 years, Doby has cultivated his own diverse creative community that shares resources and networks in addition to talents and styles. Doby's new album Weathered Crown features a changing cast of ...
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Brian Eaton Unveils New Album, ‘All The Earth Will Mourn,’ With Help From A Couple Of His Favorite Artists
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All About Jazz
The new album, All The Earth Will Mourn, by musician/composer/producer Brian Eaton is out now on digital platforms via his label, Eatin’ Records. The album explores jazz fusion in new directions creating a tapestry of emotion and expectation with creative interpolations of nuance and rhythm and is influenced by the fusion and prog rock music Eaton embraced as a young musician. Seven-Time Grammy winner Paul Wertico (Pat Metheny Group) raved, “All The Earth Will Mourn is a beautiful sounding album ...
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Jazz Po Polsku Live Sessions 2022 Schedule Announced
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Jakub Krzeszowski
Every Sunday, from September to December, we will see a new series of concerts in two Warsaw venues—BARdzo Bardzo and Jassmine. As part of the Jazz Po Polsku project, 25 performances will be recorded with the participation of the audience and released in China and Korea. The series begins on the first weekend of September with concerts by Stanisław Słowiński Quintet, Imagination Quartet and Jakub Mizeracki Trio. As part of the Jazz Po Polsku project “Live Session for China and ...
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