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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: February 2025
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the songs featured in February, 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 Songs Straight No Chaser Keith Jarrett From: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn 08:51 Tutu Selma Boragian ...
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Elio Villafranca Big Band Tres Aguas At Dizzy's Club on March 7, 8, 9, 2025
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Elio Villafranca's latest outstanding project is entitled Tres Aguas. This exciting performance will be held at Dizzy's Club on March 7, 8, 9 with sets at 7:00pm and 9:00pm. Commissioned by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Tres Aguas is an exhilarating celebration of rhythm and movement. Drawing from flamenco, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Peruvian, jazz, and New Orleans traditions, this suite brings together vibrant musical styles from across the Americas, the Afro-Diaspora, and Spain. Through the universal language of ...
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Aggeliki Psoni - Women's Day Live at El Barrio Artspace on March 5, 2025
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Join us for an unforgettable evening in celebration of International Women's Day at the March edition of the Jazz Concert Series, hosted by El Barrio Artspace and Camino al Arte. This special event will shine a spotlight on the talent of Aggeliki, a world music vocalist and songwriter whose unique international repertoire blends elements of Greek folk music with jazz, soul, Latin, and funk. Guests are invited to arrive early between 6:30 to 7:00pm to enjoy stunning artwork while sipping ...
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Jazz Clubs In Midwest Rally Around Mission
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Kyle Knoke
“Midwest Jazz Collective” — Jazz clubs in the Midwest organize with a mission and announce first collaboratively routed tour in Spring of 2025. More than a dozen Jazz clubs across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan align to form the Midwest Jazz Collective (MJC). With a shared passion for the preservation and advancement of the great American art form that is Jazz, this consortium of presenters intends to offer artists and agents a coordinated effort in booking ...
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Vocalist Kim Maguire Releases 'A Case Of You'
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Kim Maguire
As a girl, Kim spent hours at the piano in her parents’ basement, playing and singing through the agony and ecstasy of what it was to be a gauche teenager with not a lot of social skills, and definitely not a lot of attention from “the right” kind of boy. It was the early 1970’s and she had five songbooks: Carly Simon, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Roberta Flack and Elton John. A perfect stomping ground for teen angst—and the best ...
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Chicago's Joanie Pallatto And Bradley Parker-Sparrow Release New Album, 'Song'
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Joanie Pallatto
Duets for voice and piano from vocalist-composer Joanie Pallatto and pianist-composer Bradley Parker-Sparrow. These twelve tracks of original music and Lyrics create a mood of intimacy, improvisation and reflection. Their personal songs of harmonizing energy are presented as the first duet recording released from Chicago's renowned couple, featuring gentle songs, swinging grooves, scat singing and expansive piano solos. Praise “Joanie Pallatto has a stirring and special voice" —Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune “Sparrow is one of Chicago's originals, he does not ...
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Mikkel Ploug Reunites With His Original Trio To Release 'Hope' On Songlines Recordings
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GoMedia PR
Danish guitarist-composer Mikkel Ploug has had a long association with Songlines. The first of three recordings by the avant chamber-jazz trio Equilibrium, which he co-leads with Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst, appeared in 2009, and those were followed by two solo acoustic guitar titles, Alleviation (2017) and Day in the Sun (2022). Hope is the latest record by his very first jazz group, formed in 2006 with Danish bassist Jeppe Skovbakke and Irish drummer Sean Carpio. Recorded in studio ...
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Clarinetist Adrian Galante Declares His Arrival In The Jazz World With 'Introducing Adrian Galante,' Set For April 25 Release On Zoho Music
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Adrian Galante offers up his wide-open, highly expressive clarinet sound to the world with the April 25 release of Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho Music). The 28-year-old Australian-born musician engages with an ace Los Angeles–based quintet that includes pianist Tamir Hendelman, guitarist Larry Koonse, bassist Alex Frank, and drummer Joe La Barbera on a program of eight pieces from the Great American Songbook. While studying what has become a lesser-played instrument in jazz, Galante has absorbed the clarinet’s major voices, and ...
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