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Raices Jazz Orchestra Released May 22 Featuring Tony Succar And Pablo Gil!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
The First Album from multi-Latin Grammy winning producer Tony Succar and Dr. Pablo Gil's Latin big band is available now! Moved by the love of big band and their passion to express their Latin roots, Tony Succar and Pablo Gil have created Raices Jazz Orchestra (RJO), a crossover powerhouse based in South Florida. RJO's self-titled first album combines original compositions with arrangements of standards such as “Eye of the Hurricane" by Herbie Hancock and “Mas que Nada" by Jorge Ben, ...
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Cristina Morrison launches the first edition of the Galapagos Music Fest
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
New York based American-Ecuadorean singer & actor Cristina Morrison, went back to Ecuador in December to spend some time there and develop new projects but since March she has been caught living under a strict COVID-19 country lock-down installed by the government, including a curfew which starts daily at 2pm. As the whole country lives this, she has taken upon herself a necessary initiative and today she presents her latest production: The Galapagos Music Fest. It is officially announced and ...
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Three-Day HeartH Star Festival:One Streaming Event Begins May 21, 2020!
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John Kelman
Welcome Aboard HeartH Star Festival:One A unique world-wide music and arts festival! The Hearth Star Festival: One is a live three-day, online festival intended to weave an international array of passionate storytellers, dancers, healers and musicians into a beautiful tapestry of sound, light and color. Please join us at our opening ceremony from the beach in Maui this Thursday, May 21, 2020, and participate in the creation of our collective worldwide tapestry. It’s all too beautiful! Featuring: Ron Carter, Dick ...
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Philadelphia Jazz Stories Illustrated - Volume One Available Now!
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All About Jazz
Quietly working behind the scenes for almost five years, the Philadelphia Jazz Project has assembled Philadelphia Jazz Stories Illustrated: Volume One—a colorful collection of memories and historical accounts about some of the amazing people, places and things that abound in the Philadelphia story. As part of our work with the Philadelphia Jazz Project, we encourage the exploration of the intriguing characters of Jazz music. Philadelphians should know that our city has been a particularly special site for some amazing talents ...
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Dreamroot Explores Expression And Healing Through Genre-Defying Art With Their Release 'Phases.'
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Outside in Music
DreamRoot releases Phases, an emotional and provocative exploration of healing through personal and collective creation of genre-defying music. Phases simultaneously grooves and contemplates the reality of the modern age as it draws inspiration from those icons who have walked the lines between genres, and shines with original brilliance from the collaborative creative efforts of all members of the band. DreamRoot uses music as an agent for healing—both for themselves and for others as they create music as a refuge from ...
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Iconic Pianist/Composer Ran Blake To Receive 2020 Jazz Journalists Association Boston Jazz Hero Award
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Iconic pianist and composer Ran Blake is the 2020 recipient of the Boston Jazz Hero award from the Jazz Journalists Association. Blake is one of 27 jazz heroes in 23 cities across the country chosen as “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz." The complete list of honorees, with photo portraits and biographies, is posted here. The Jazz Journalists Association, in partnership with New England Conservatory where Blake has taught for 52 years, will present the award to Blake ...
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Tony Adamo Pays Tribute To Mark Murphy And UFOs By Chris Rizik for Soultracks
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Tony Adamo
First Listen: Tony Adamo pays tribute to Mark Murphy and UFOs (May 13, 2020) In 2015, we described singer and spoken word artist Tony Adamo as “a true anachronism: a performer who is authentically ‘cool’ in a timeless, almost reckless way that almost no popular artist today can match.” It’s five years later and the irrepressible Mr. Adamo is still doing his thing —his thing being a vocal / hipspokenword sound that is unlike anything else out there, with a ...
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Songlines Recordings’ Audiophile Releases On Sale At ProStudioMasters Through May 26
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GoMedia PR
ProStudioMasters is having a 40% off sale on the entire Songlines Recordings high-res catalogue through May 26. This flash sale is the first time the whole stereo catalogue (including DSD where available) has been offered at such a substantial discount. Songlines began recording in high-res in 1999 with Junk Genius’s avant folk/jazz album Ghost of Electricity, but things got going in earnest in 2001 with SACD releases by the Misha Mengelberg Quartet (Four in One, featuring Dave Douglas, recorded live ...
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