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Jazz Trumpeter Brad Goode's 4th Delmark Album, "Tight Like This," Due September 21

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 5, 2010

Jazz trumpeter/composer Brad Goode debuts his exciting new quartet on Tight Like This, Goode's fourth Delmark Records CD and his twelfth as a leader. The Chicago native has assembled the band “I've longed for my entire career," one that shares his willingness to take risks “while maintaining respect for the form and the group sound." Tight Like This will be released September 21. Toronto pianist Adrean Farrugia, Chicago bassist Kelly Sill, and Brooklyn-based drummer Anthony Lee can play “any way ...

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Michael Simon Releases "New York Encounter"

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2010

A new CD by Michael Simon, after the well received Revelacin, New York Encounter is also the title song specially written for the recordings made in the Big Apple, inspired by the reunion of the Simon brothers reinforced by a “dream team" of outstanding artists from the actual jazz en latin music world. The repertoire varies from very groovy and energetic to straight ahead jazz and subtle pieces. Line-up: Michael Simon (Fra Fra Sound / Roots United)—trompet; Marlon Simon (The ...

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San Francisco-Based Jazz Vocalist Natasha Miller to Release New CD on 9/14

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
August 4, 2010

Sooner or later, most singers get the urge to make a standards record. “And they always try to make it different," says Natasha Miller, the sterling Bay Area-based jazz singer prized for her rich sound, streamlined phrasing and unforced feeling. “I wanted to make a standards album that was different different." Miller pulls that off brilliantly on her new CD, SpinVintage, a collection of classic songs that sound anything but standard. She puts a bracing and ironic spin on some ...

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Jerome Sabbagh Trio featuring Billy Drummond at Smalls on August 12th

Source: Jerome Sabbagh
August 4, 2010

Jerome Sabbagh Trio—Smalls—New York Thursday, August 12th @ 9:30 PM Jerome Sabbagh: saxophone Joe Martin: bass Billy Drummond: drums About Jerome Sabbagh Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris, France and moved to the States at the age of 20. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship for two years and studying with, among others, George Garzone, Bill Pierce, Dave Liebman and the legendary Joe Viola, he moved to New York in 1995. ...

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"Singular" Portico Quartet Add Stateside Dates; Watch Hypnotic Live Video

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2010

“SINGULAR AND TALENTED" (TIME OUT LONDON) PORTICO QUARTET ADD DATES TO FIRST EVER NORTH AMERICAN TOUR UK's Portico Quartet have added new dates to their first ever North American tour supporting Isla (Aug 31/ Real World Records), including stops in Cambridge, MA, Kent, OH, and Montreal. Watch this live footage of Portico Quartet performing “Line" on 'Band on the Wall' in Manchester to see their “Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy" (MOJO) in action ...

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Harold Rayford Opens Up about Private Moments

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2010

The world is getting ready to see a whole new side to Tyscot Records' gospel jazz artist, Harold Rayford. With the release of his brand new CD, I am the Instrument on August 3rd, longtime fans and even newcomers will not only notice a higher level of musicianship but they'll get to learn more about the man behind the music. In his candid EPK video, which is available now on youtube.com (and can be viewed below), the gospel jazz veteran ...

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Erik Friedlander's Digital CD, "Alchemy," Will Be Released on August 11 on Skipstone Records

Source: GoMedia PR
August 4, 2010

Acclaimed Cellist Continues to Celebrate his 50th Birthday With Strong, Eclectic Series of Single, Digital and Album Releases Alchemy is an ancient process of protochemistry and witchcraft which attempted to turn base metals to gold. Alchemy, Erik Friedlander's latest digital release, reverses the process, grabbing the cello roughly and breaking it down to its most basic elements-the scratching rough sound of a cross-cut saw, or the wispy scattering of pitchless pizzicato notes, and its singing, melodic tone. In this, his ...

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Three New Releases from Tigerasylum Records

Source: Tigerasylum Records
August 4, 2010

Tigerasylum Records is pleased to introduce 3 new releases. All can be purchased online @ tigerasylum.com for $6 Rusted Rainbow—Machine Translations of Texts Machine Translation of Texts—the by-product of two people of two nations. Aaron Hemphill (of Liars) along with Francesco Calandrino (of Oper'azione Nafta) together combine both mind, body, and machine to create what is at once a pure organism of life while simultaneously exposing itself as an autopsy of deconstructed ...

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