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Concord Issues Five New Original Jazz Classics Titles: Miles Davis/Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Wes Montgomery, Chet Baker and Bill Evans Trio
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conqueroo
Remastered recordings set for release on September 28, 2010 Concord Music Group is scheduled to reissue five new titles in the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on September 28, 2010. Originally launched in March 2010—and enhanced with 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, along with insightful new liner notes — the series showcases some of the most pivotal recordings of the past several decades by artists whose influence on the jazz tradition is beyond measure. The five new titles in the ...
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Jazz Vocalist Rob Keiter Offers Hope and Healing in "The Glory of Love"
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
His debut collection of classic love songs is due October 26th Oklahoma City, OK: As Rob Keiter stood at the microphone to record his vocals for This Nearly Was Mine, the opening track of his The Glory of Love album, a torrential flood of tears burst forth unexpectedly. Although he could not contain his raw emotions while singing the heartfelt words about love lost, he sang anyway. What was captured on the recording was something special and it established the ...
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Chris Dingman's Waking Dreams to perform at Cornelia Street Cafe on September 30th
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Chris Dingman
CHRIS DINGMAN'S WAKING DREAMS with Loren Stillman, Fabian Almazan, Aidan Carroll, and Eric McPherson WILL PERFORM SEPTEMBER 30th at CORNELIA STREET CAFE Thursday, September 30th, 2010 2 Sets: 8:30pm and 10pm Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014 Tickets: $10 Info: corneliastreetcafe.com “Dingman is downright hypnotic" —John Barron, All About Jazz “Dazzling... with a fondness for airtight logic and burnished lyricism" —Nate Chinen, New York ...
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Bistro-Award Winner the Linda Kosut band at Don't Tell Mama (NYC) on September 26th
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Jizel Music
“amazing Bay Area canary brings her skills as an actress to her insightful interpretations of songs underscored with a fusion of jazz, pop and folk." Don Heckman, International Review of Music ..." a new female jazz singer who commands one's attention ... a vocal performance which deserves mention Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene August 24, 2010, San Francisco. BMI/Bistro Award winner jazz/cabaret vocalist Linda Kosut returns to New York City with a one-night-only performance at Don't Tell Mama on Sunday, ...
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"Alive" By Phronesis Released in USA and Canada
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Jazz Services UK
Phronesis have the ability to excite, inspire and move people in a way that few bands are able to do. Since the release of their second album Green Delay in 2009, Phronesis, led by Danish doublebassist Jasper Høiby, have captured the hearts and minds of British audiences and have developed a fierce reputation as one of the most formidable trios in the UK. With recent acclaimed performances at the Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris and the North Sea Jazz Festival ...
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arsenalARTS Berklee Jazz Announces Fall 2010 Concerts
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Joanne Barrett Public Relations
The NWJCO Daniel Ian Smith (leader/saxophones/flutes), Dino Govoni(saxophones/flute), Ken Cervenka (trumpet/flugelhorn), Walter Platt (trumpet/flugelhorn), Tim Ray (piano), Keala Kaumeheiwa (acoustic bass), Steve Langone (drums and cymbals) and Ernesto Diaz (percussion) was organized over 11 years ago by Daniel Ian Smith as an aggregation dedicated to the performance of new music. The group garnered considerable attention after its first performance (Sanctuary Composers Forum) and word spread that this world class ensemble was truly one of a kind and quickly adapted and ...
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Ran Blake with Ricky Ford & Steve Lacy: That Certain Feeling (George Gershwin Songbook), available September 2010
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Werner Uehlinger
Songs—with or without lyrics—being no less than stories, and the best songs of George (and frequently Ira) Gershwin being stories of the first order, any number of these exhilarating moments are to be heard on this disc, a result of the material (Gershwin's) inspiring the imagination of the improviser, Ran Blake. Blake's art is wholly a product of his acute attention (to the stories, images, and utterances of his imagination) and integrity (in the formal process of making music, spontaneously). ...
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ICP Orchestra: "Jubilee Varia" on Hatology 667, Available September 2010
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Werner Uehlinger
On first hearing this CD may sound to you like an ill-programmed mess, with the improvisations up front and the catchy numbers buried deep. But with ICP, over the long haul or short, the more you hear it, the more apparent its trajec tory becomes, the more orderly and less chaotic it sounds. Or, the more you hear ICP's improvised “instant compositions" and their instant demolitions of Misha's highly whistleable tunes, the less clear it becomes what's order and what's ...
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