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For Your Grammy Consideration: Old Friends, New Grooves by Under The Lake
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Jayson Tipp
Hot off the success of their 2020 Smoothjazz.com Top 100 release “Your Horizon Too”, Under The Lake released their current collection of 11 all-new, original tracks entitled Old Friends, New Grooves in July on the Mind In Overdrive label. Bassist Nathan Brown, drummer Richard Sellers, guitarist Patrick Yandall and saxophonist Quintin Gerard W. joined keyboardist / composer Jayson Tipp again for this effort recorded during the COVID shutdown. Now that collection of tracks and their performance have landed Under The ...
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Guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko To Release A New Album With Symphony Orchestra
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Roman Miroshnichenko
Internationally acclaimed guitar-virtuoso Roman Miroshnichenko's new album Plays Daniel Figueiredo, features the 25-piece St. Petersburg Studio Orchestra and pianist Rannieri Oliveira. The album includes ten tracks, composed by 2-time Latin Grammy Winner Daniel Figueiredo and will be released by MJC, the top music-streaming platform in Brazil. “This recording is very special to me. Daniel's melodies are poignant and helped me exhibit another of my own musical facets. Being the album's co-producer, Daniel and I agreed that acoustic and electric guitars ...
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For Your Grammy Consideration: Blueprints Figure Two: New Designs by Markus Rutz
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Markus Rutz
My record project Blueprints has lots of love within it. It is about and for people from my life through the present. For the listening reception, beautiful commentary, reviews, support and goodwill I am saying thank you sincerely! The second volume Blueprints Figure Two: New Designs was released last autumn and right now the album is up for nomination consideration as this year's GRAMMY best instrumental Jazz album! It’s a thrill to have the honor of announcing the award consideration! ...
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4-Time Grammy Winner Gordon Goodwin Returns With New 5-Song Ep
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1888 Media
Multiple Grammy/Emmy Award winner Gordon Goodwin returns to forefront of adventurous compositions and modern jazz with The Reset, an urgent and topical 5-song EP, a bold foray into the intersection of composition and improvisation, a futuristic excursion brimming with purpose and cursive. From the 7-minute title track, which seems to channel the ethos of Chick Corea’s Return to Forever, while unleashing its inner Dream Theater, to the funky sass and sizzle of “Six Feet Away,” one thing is inherently certain, ...
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Danish Jazz Group Andorra To Release Debut On April Records on November 12th
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Jazzfuel
Brewed on the Danish island of Funen and then left to age for several years, the self-titled debut Andorra (November 12th) is a modern day vintage, fusing intricate jazz with deep grooves, cinematic effects and an exuberant attitude. It’s often said that the biggest gift of music school education is not the inspirational teachers or the world-class facilities, but the meeting of your future lifelong colleagues. This is perhaps particularly evident in the debut release by Danish Indie-Jazz group Andorra. ...
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Extreme Flute Releases 'Forever' by Bill McBirnie & Bruce Jones
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Bill McBirnie - Extreme Flute
Bill McBirnie and Bruce Jones have teamed up once again with a brand new Extreme Flute project, featuring Bill in his singular capacity as “flautist extraordinaire”, and Bruce in his multiple capacities as composer, performer and engineer. The result of their collaboration is a genuinely hypnotic, dreamy and incantatory album with a distinctly Brazilian favour that will resonate with listeners whose tastes range from samba to ambient, from urban to jazz. Forever is finally here... and now!... Bill McBirnie has ...
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Djerassi Films Presents: Resurrection! Airto Moreira And Preservation Hall Jazz Band At The 24th Unaff
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Press Junkie PR
Djerassi Films is excited to present Resurrection! Airto Moreira and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the 24th UNAFF on Saturday, Oct. 23rd. In this new documentary, producer/director Dale Djerassi brings two powerful forces in the world of jazz together and takes us behind the scenes as famed percussionist Airto Moreira joins the Preservation Hall Jazz Band during Mardi Gras in the Big Easy. Airto Moreira is a world-renowned jazz drummer and percussionist from Brazil, who exhibited great talent at ...
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The 10th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition Selects Top Five Finalists
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AMT Public Relations
A world of jazz just minutes from home, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced the top five finalists of the 10th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Pulled from over 160 submissions from over 25 countries, these gifted young contestants from around the world were evaluated on vocal quality, musicality, technique, performance, individuality, artistic interpretation, and ability to swing. The Top Five finalists are: Andrea Miller of Costa Mesa, California; April May Webb of Edison, New ...
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