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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: May 2023
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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 Tracks The Upside of Lonely Brian Nova From: The Upside Of Lonely 04:34 Decathexis Brad Goode From: The Unknown 04:53 God Bless ...
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Jazz Vocalist Angela Verbrugge Set To Entertain With Quirky Repertoire At Pizza Express Live On June 3 And 4
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Angela Verbrugge
Pizza Express Live Soho Presents A Canadian Jazz Vocalist And Lyricist Inspired By Cole Porter: Angela Verbrugge With Nyc Bebop Jazz Pianist Ray Gallon Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4. Pizza Express Soho in London / 10 Dean Street London / 8PM Tickets available—£25 at pizzaexpresslive.com Victoria, BC based, Angela Verbrugge , returns to London’s award-winning jazz club, Pizza Express Live, on June 3 and 4 for a back-to-back engagement accompanied by acclaimed New York City jazz pianist Ray ...
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June 17: New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Program Shines A Spotlight On Alumni With Live At The Burren
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Program shines a spotlight on alumni with Live at the Burren on Saturday, June 17. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with a performance by the Lucy Little Trio featuring Little (violin), Miguel Landestoy (piano), and Kelly Bray (trumpet). A solo performance by NYC-based singer/songwriter Katie Martucci follows. Headlining the show is Grammy-nominated vocalist Farayi Malek, a NEC faculty member and CMA alumna whose music has been described as “skillfully managing to walk the ...
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Automatic Man Legend Todd Cochran Releases 'From The Vault: Notes For The Future'
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Notes for the future are the “imagined sometime in the past” tropes of a storyteller. Freed from every day “isms” of convention and released from the symbolic containment of the vault, the music is an allegorical exploration in futurism. The stream running throughout the musical narrative is a speculative commentary about our human search for meaning, and we’re reminded that as a version of our ancestors’ vision, this quest never ends. From The Vault is structured around a sequence of ...
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Jose Castro, Leading Mexican Music Producer And Composer, Now A Leading Force In The Music And Video Game Industries
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Jose Castro
In a world where music and gaming converge, one artist has emerged as the top of the field. Jose Castro, the multi-faceted music producer, engineer, and composer from Mexico has cemented his position in the music and video game industries in Mexico and the United States. The most famous Mexican musician to make his mark on the video game industry, Castro’s astounding array of achievements, his ability to fuse modern jazz with world music, and his ability to make magic ...
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Multi-instrumentalist Julian Calv Releases Limited Edition 7” Vinyl Single Through Deko Entertainment Carrying On The Legacy Of Moondog (aka The Viking Of Sixth Avenue)
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Julian Calv was a music major recently graduated from Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA. He now resides in the art community of Woodstock, VT. Calv can occasionally be seen on Church Street in Burlington, VT, busking much in the way Moondog, aka the Viking of Sixth Avenue, had done in NYC during the '50s and '60s. Calv has studied every aspect of the avant-garde musician’s creative life. In addition to composing and performing, Moondog’s life included the invention of several ...
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Mexican Composer And Producer Jose Castro Is Set To Make Waves In The United States
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Jose Castro
In an exciting development that will undoubtedly reverberate through the music and video game industries, Mexican composer and music producer Jose Castro is poised to make a resounding impact on the music and video game industries in the United States, having accepted leading positions at some of the industry’s most-recognized production companies, including Silver Gun Records, Cortes Productions, Bears & Guts, Piecrust Studios, and internationally-recognized music producer Nico Farias. For years, Castro has been steadily adding achievements to his resume ...
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Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge Present 'The Folly Of Desire'
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Vivo Musique Internationale
NEW SONG CYCLE INQUIRING THE LIMITS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau’s music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. The ...
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