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Markus Rutz Plays one Saturday In September: Live From Merrimans’ Playhouse—Available Now
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Markus Rutz
With this fifth recording as a leader, Markus Rutz invites listeners to a seat for a live performance from “A Home for Jazz” in the Midwest, Merrimans’ Playhouse in South Bend, Indiana. Many performances are stellar nights of good feeling and shared experience that exist only in that time and space where others do not have the opportunity to hear the magic. Well You Needn’t fret because the fire and Serenity of the evening was documented on these tracks recorded One Saturday in September at this ...
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Celebrating Origin Records at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
Origin Records is a Seattle-based independent jazz label, run for musicians by musicians. Their expansive catalog over sibling labels Origin & OA2 Records, covers a wide range of jazz from an international collection of 370 artists. All About Jazz interviewed the founders John Bishop and Matt Jorgensen in 2018 and you can read their story here. Approaching their 25th year as a record label, readers can discover some of the very best in modern jazz by listening to any of ...
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Bill Charlap And Bill Charlap Trio Celebrate The Theater Songs Of Leonard Bernstein At New Jersey Performing Arts Center on January 29
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AMT Public Relations
Saturday, January 29th at 7:30 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Leonard Bernstein composed some of the most memorable theater scores of his generation—West Side Story. Candide. On the Town—but who was the man behind the music? This edition of NJPAC’s Conversations in Concert, hosted by theater insider Ted Chapin, promises to be a thought-provoking evening of stories about the iconic composer-conductor complemented by Bernstein songs. Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie, will pull back the curtain of her father’s complex ...
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Vocalist Patrina Morris New Single - 'It's Like Sunshine' - Bossa Jazz From Portugal With Love!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Patrina Morris was born in India to Anglo-Indian parents and moved to England when she was just six months old. She was brought up in North London and lived there until as a teenager she was spotted by a model agent while working in a restaurant to pay for Art School. Soon she was living in Paris, Milan, Tokyo and New York and making her way in the world of fashion working for some of the most prestigious clients and ...
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Willie Oteri Releasing New Material Focusing On Saxophone And Flute
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Willie Oteri
Genre jumping multi-instrumentalist Willie Oteri will be releasing new material focusing on his tenor saxophone and flute playing which will include various artists such as drummer Matt Crane, guitarist Jeff Platz and electric trumpet master Dave Laczko. These recordings will be in the beyond jazz / free jazz / avant-garde arena while keeping in mind a presence for mood and melody. The first (Mind Meld), to be released on December 20, 2021 on various platforms is a duo with electric ...
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Singer/Songwriter Katherine Kostoff Debut Release 'It Happens Like That' - Arranged And Produced By Gil Goldstein And Co-Produced By Steve Rodby
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
A message from Katherine Kostoff: Good friends and kind strangers, I'm delighted to announce that my album It Happens Like That is now available on all streaming platforms. Gershwin once said that in order to get to a good song he had to go through twelve bad songs. I haven't exactly counted my ratio but I can tell you that I have allowed only my “good songs" to make it to this collection. I hope that you'll agree. Writing ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: November 2021
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the tracks featured in November, 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 Say It Again Leon Brenko From: From Now On 06:31 Consolação Bola Sete From: Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse, 1966-1968
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Django Reinhardt's Birthday Celebration Concert at Le QuecumBar in London on Sunday January 16, 2022
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Le QuecumBar & Brasserie
Swing like Django Reinhardt with Le Q Patron and UKs finest wizard of Swing the Gary Potter Quartet. We have some special guests joining the celebration! This will be an informal celebration of fun and joyous swinging music with a FREE Bellini on arrival! Gary Potter plays with an unique infectious joy and a style of his own, jumping seamlessly from Django Gypsy style to finger picking country style never missing a beat or straying from the melody of Djangos ...
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