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Devyn Rush's New Release Recalls Timeless Beauty Of Joss Stone And Alicia Keys
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Christine King
Devyn Rush is a distinctive and personable artist with a passion for creating music that feels timeless and connects with the audience on a more intimate level. Her style features influences as diverse as jazz, vintage pop, and some blues, going for a versatile and emotional tone. Rush’s EP features five songs, including the beautiful opening track, “Stuff Like That There.” The song kicks off with an incredibly expressive saxophone lead, and it later evolves into a soothing piano and ...
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Sarah And The Swinging Richards Jam With Jazz, Funk, And '90s Alternative On New Album
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Christine King
Florida-based Sarah and the Swinging Richards is a band with a unique twist and an innovative approach to their music. What makes their sound quite special is the fact that it creates a clever dualism between the feel of the “golden age” and the fresh impact of the “new school.” When listening to the songs that are featured on the band’s new album, Rollercoaster, you might immediately think of great names of the past. Some comparisons include Fleetwood Mac, Dire ...
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Guitarists Jon Durant And Robert Jürjendal Release A Vibrant New Musical Collaboration Across The Evening
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Across the Evening, by ambient experimental guitarists Jon Durant and Robert Jürjendal, further extends the ambient/jazz/world crossover music both musicians have traversed throughout their diverse careers. Featuring appearances from Colin Edwin (UK) on bass, Aleksei Saks (Estonia) on trumpet, and Andi Pupato (Switzerland) on percussion, Across the Evening is a multi-dimensional, trans continental delight. With sounds that caress and envelop, rhythms that percolate and inspire, the two guitarists nimbly play off each other and their guests, rarely allowing the listener ...
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Australia's Greatest And Most Enduring Songwriter, Paul Kelly, Collaborates With Award-Winning Jazz Pianist And Composer Paul Grabowsky
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1888 Media
Please Leave Your Light On due July 31 from Gawd Aggie/Cooking Vinyl North America (digitally), August 14 on CD and vinyl Paul Grabowsky and Paul Kelly share a love of the classic collaborations between Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle (particularly In the Wee Small Hours), and Tony Bennett & Bill Evans (with whose playing Grabowsky’s has been favorably compared). “All of the songs were already part of Paul’s extensive catalogue,” says Grabowsky of the project. “I transcribed them, and adapted ...
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Veteran tuba master Ralph Hepola creates a dynamic, supremely soulful new lead voice for the idiom on his eclectic debut album 'Tuba'
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Ralph Hepola
Invented in both its bass and tenor forms in the 1830s by instrument builders Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht, Johann Gottfried Moritz and Johann’s son Carl Wilhelm Moritz, the tuba played a prominent role over the next century in the works of Strauss, Stravinsky, Wagner, Prokofiev, Brahms, Gershwin and others. Having played for several years with the Basel Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland and in the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria as part of a five-year stint in Europe ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: June 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 June, 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! On Afan's Dance Simon Deeley From: Afan's Dance 5:46 In Defense of the Minotaur Peter Slavov ...
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Ralph Hepola Makes A Strong Case For The Tuba As A Lead Instrument In Jazz
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Ralph Hepola
The tuba, like the banjo and the accordion, has sometimes had an image problem during the past century. While it has had an important role in classical music and early New Orleans jazz, the tuba has often been associated with Dixieland, amateur bands, and comedy. There have been exceptions such as its use in the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool nonet, Gil Evans’ groups, and Howard Johnson’s tuba ensemble Gravity. There have also been around a dozen impressive tuba ...
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Expand Your Livestream Audience with All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz's broadcast platform helps musicians, venues and jazz-oriented programs expand their audience by reaching our global community of jazz enthusiasts and professionals. Much in the way Restream simultaneously streams video content on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch, you can also reach viewers at the world's longest-running and most popular jazz music website by uploading your livestream event and including your YouTube Live Stream share code (see video tip below). All About Jazz will also promote your livestream up until ...
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