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Sol Roots Performs For Blackrock Center For The Arts Concert Series on July 8, 2023

Source: 9th Floor Music
July 5, 2023

On Saturday July 8, the Sol Roots band brings a blend of New Orleans influenced funk, heartfelt jazz and soul, deep blues and hypnotic rhythms as part of BlackRock Center for the Arts' popular outdoor concert series! Come with friends for delicious food, cool drinks, socialize, or bring your own picnic, and enjoy an refreshing outdoor concert with award-winning funk, jazz, soul, and blues performed by the Sol Roots band! This Saturday concert will also include friends and special guests ...

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Charles Carlini Presents Guitar Masters And Piano Jazz Memberships For Unforgettable Musical Experiences At Zinc Jazz Club

Source: Decibel
July 4, 2023

Renowned impresario Charles Carlini is proud to announce the launch of two extraordinary membership programs: Guitar Masters and Piano Jazz. Music enthusiasts will now have the exclusive opportunity to gain access to a series of mind-blowing shows, featuring virtuosic guitarists and accomplished jazz pianists, all at a discounted price. These remarkable events will take place at Zinc, one of New York City's premier jazz clubs, located at 82 West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012. Guitar Masters Membership Imagine immersing ...

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Music Industry

Axon Radio Releases Naptown Hustle Featuring Paul Brown

Source: Axon Radio
July 3, 2023

Two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown and Billboard hitmaker Darren Rahn team up with the Indianapolis duo on “Naptown Hustle,” which began collecting playlist adds this week. While the video for contemporary jazz group Axon Radio’s new single looks like a modern love letter to their hometown, Indianapolis, the roots of “Naptown Hustle” run nearly one hundred years deep. The duo that makes up Axon Radio, drummer Travis Brant and bassist Cory Carleton, set out to honor Indianapolis’s jazz history by ...

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Website

All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: June 2023

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2023

All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the tracks featured in June, 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 Tracks The Upside of Lonely Brian Nova From: The Upside Of Lonely 04:34 One Day at a Time Ray Vega From: East West Trumpet ...

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Recording

Buddy Rich’s 'Birdland' Lp To Be Re-released On Limited Edition Translucent Red Vinyl July 21, 2023

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
July 1, 2023

Lightyear Entertainment and Lobitos Creek Ranch, in association with Scabeba Entertainment and the Buddy Rich Estate, have announced the release of a special limited-edition version of the best-selling live album Birdland featuring Buddy Rich and his Killer Force Band at the peak of their performing years. The new release will be a 180-gram audiophile translucent red vinyl collector’s edition. It will be released July 21 through Virgin/Universal Music Group and will temporarily replace the original black vinyl version, which has ...

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Festival

'Jazz Is Everywhere' At Festival International De Jazz De Montréal 2023

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
June 29, 2023

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM), presented by the TD Bank Group in collaboration with Rio Tinto, invites you to discover Jazz is Everywhere presented by TD with the financial support of Canada Economic Development, an innovative and accessible experience starting June 29 that allows people to access and enjoy all of jazz’s relevance and contemporaneity, including its influence on other musical styles and historical importance. It features three components: an augmented reality tour, a revamped the Wall ...

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Event

'Listen To This' Exploring The Early Electric Period Of Miles Davis

Source: Mary Curtin Productions
June 29, 2023

For the past year, improvising keyboardist Dave Bryant, curator and host of the “Third Thursdays" series of monthly harmolodic jazz concerts, has also been involved with the “Listen To This" musical project, which explores the rich musical legacy of Miles Davis, particularly from his early electric period 1968-1975. The project includes founder Jerome Deupree of Morphine and Either/Orchestra (drums), Russ Gershon of Either/Orchestra (woodwinds, organ), Rick Barry of Bim Skala Bim and Lookie Lookie (percussion), Todd Brunel of Know Orchestra ...

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Performance / Tour

World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Announces August Line-Up Including Johnathan Blake’s Latest Blue Note Album, Performances By Special Guests Brad Mehldau, Lenny White, Emmet Cohen, And More

Source: AMT Public Relations
June 27, 2023

Rated the #1 Jazz Club in New York City (Secret NYC), Smoke Jazz Club welcomes some of today’s leading artists to the stage during the month of August. SMOKE is thrilled to welcome back its former Hammond B-3 organist-in-residence Emmet Cohen this time welcoming beloved saxophonist Houston Person for one-night only Aug 23. Johnathan Blake, one of the most accomplished drummers of his generation, celebrates his sophomore Blue Note album in a four-night run Aug 24-27. For the most updated ...

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