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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: October 2020
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in October, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! TOP TRACKS Whadeva 3 Billie Davies From: Whadeva (Live at Dangerous Art Studios February 13, 2020) 07:05 Breathe Life
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New David Martinez Single Made With Groove And Passion
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Christine King
David Martinez is a recording artist, guitarist and musician based out of Los Angeles, California. Recently, he has been quite busy in the studio, creating new and exciting music for the audience, even at a time in which many artists are sadly stuck due to the current coronavirus pandemic. His most recent recording endeavor is a song titled Simple Talk. This track is nothing short of extraordinary, and it is also a great insight into David’s skillful guitar playing and ...
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New England Conservatory Launches Low-Latency Music-Making Initiative, Leading The Way In Innovative Technology For Musicians And Music Educators
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
The use of this near lagless technology makes NEC the first music institution to undertake such a large-scale initiative using cutting-edge audio-visual technology with live performance and music education New England Conservatory (NEC) and Grammy Award winning vocal faculty member Ian Howell have revolutionized low-latency music-making using cutting edge and affordable technology for musicians and music educators. By pioneering virtually lagless audio-visual elements to enhance digital music making with a setup anyone can assemble at home, NEC’s research and experimentation ...
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Jazz At The Mezz Celebrates One Year Anniversary With Unified Jazz Ensemble on November 15
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The Phillips Agency
On Sunday, November 15 Jazz Beyond Borders marks the one-year anniversary of its supper time world music and jazz concerts held monthly at Café Mezzanotte in Severna Park, Maryland. Listeners will enjoy a concert and a surprise gift to mark the occasion and a new fall menu will be unveiled featuring items from the restaurant’s organic garden. Currently the only live music series offered in mid-Anne Arundel County, the series has featured leading performing and recording artists since culture vultures ...
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The Ed Palermo Big Band Flaunts the Union Jack with The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. 3: Run for Your Life
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The Music Outpost Publicity
While pundits and experts debate whether the United States of America has entered an age of decline as a world power, New York saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and inveterate troublemaker Ed Palermo makes an incontrovertible case for un-American ascendance. With The Great Un-American Songbook Volume 3: Run for your Life, slated for release on guitarist/vocalist Bruce McDaniel’s Sky Cat label on November 6, 2020, he turns his attention to the music of the nation’s former colonial overlords. Focusing on material ...
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Brazilian jazz pianist Ricardo Bacelar makes a 'Live' statement with 'Nothing Will Be As It Was'
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Brazil is leading the world per capita in coronavirus cases making it unlikely that people will be cramming into a concert venue anytime soon to hear live music. Then there is the recent unrest that erupted in response to civil injustices in the US that bodes to spark meaningful change around the world. These are the events that inspired contemporary jazz pianist Ricardo Bacelar to release a new version of the Milton Nascimento classic “Nothing Will Be As It Was ...
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Stratusphunk: The Life and Works of George Russell By Dr. Duncan Heining Available through Amazon Worldwide
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All About Jazz
Stratusphunk is the story of remarkable musician and a remarkable man. Through his ideas and music, composer, theorist and musician George Russell joins the dots in modern jazz from bebop, though modal and free jazz and into jazz rock. It is hard to imagine another artist, who was both so influential but also so misunderstood. For the first time in paperback and in a newly revised edition, Stratusphunk makes Russell’s story, music and theories available to scholars, students and fans. ...
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Cuban Pianist Elio Villafranca New Children's Book: Who Ate The Pie?
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Two-time Grammy Nominated pianist and composer Elio Villafranca has expanded his creative universe to become an author with the release of his first Children’s Book WHO ATE THE PIE? WHO ATE THE PIE? offers children an interactive way to learn to recognize animals by the geometrical shapes of their footprints and by the sound each animal makes. Who Ate the Pie? is a fun, engaging, educational, and beautifully illustrated book, where young children and their parents are invited to join ...
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