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Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai Release Playing The Room on ECM Records. Out Now!
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ECM Records
Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan recently making important contributions to Avishai’s group albums on ECM. Their first duo recording begins with music composed by the trumpeter and by the pianist and concludes with a touching interpretation of Israeli composer Alexander Argov’s cradle song “Shir Eres”. Along the way, ...
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Vocalist Kelley Suttenfield Reimagines Neil Young On When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young
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Mouthpiece Music
Kelley Suttenfield is a versatile jazz singer with a warm, intimate voice that’s perfect for her newest project, When We Were Young – Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young (September 13, 2019). The album includes some of Neil Young’s most famous songs, as well as a couple of tunes written but never performed by him. Tackling songs that are long associated with the pop legend is an audacious endeavor; however, this is not a tribute album. Rather, Suttenfield and her collaborator ...
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Cousin Mary: Keeper of the Coltrane Legacy (1927-2019)
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All About Jazz
Mary Lyerly Alexander was born July 23, 1927 to Bettie Blair Lyerly and Goler Lyerly in High Point, North Carolina. An only child, Mary and her parents lived as an extended family with her first cousin, saxophonist John W. Coltrane, his parents and their maternal grandparents. Her grandfather, Rev. William Wilson Blair, an activist who was elected a Chowan County Commissioner in 1896 who later became pastor of St. Stephens African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, built the family home at ...
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7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest - 4th Edition Applications for 2019 are now open - Deadline November 15th
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Valerio Pappi
The 7 Virtual Jazz Club continues its worldwide search for emerging and under recognized creative musicians of all ages and backgrounds. To enter the contest, soloists and groups pay a small registration fee and submit a video (maximum seven minutes) of their performance. Entries will be judged by a panel of international jazz experts, comprised of some of the most respected journalists, musicians and educators in the field. REGISTER NOW Prizes & Awards Amateurs & Pros Category Jury ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: August 2019
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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 August, 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! EDITOR'S PICKS Martino's Waltz Wayne Wilkinson From: Proceed To Route 5:18 Roots and Wings Ralph Hepola ...
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Dave Bass Hits #15 Jazz Week - All-Star Band with Ted Nash, Karrin Allyson, Carlos Henriquez & More!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Dave Bass No Boundaries Whaling City Sound Hits #15 on JazzWeek charts! Everyone's got a story to tell, but chances are that few have one like Dave Bass. Just out of high school in Cincinnati, Bass played in bands opening for Captain Beefheart and Alice Cooper. He went onto study piano with the legendary teacher Madame Chaloff (who taught Leonard Bernstein, Steve Kuhn, Kenny Werner and others) and then to touring the world as Brenda Lee's ...
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Vocalist Tish Oney with the John Chiodini Trio release 'The Best Part' on Blujazz
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All About Jazz
The Best Part is jazz vocalist, arranger, composer, and producer Tish Oney’s fifth CD project. The music is a compilation of new original songs by contemporary jazz composers, including three never-before-heard songs with lyrics by jazz diva Peggy Lee. Oney's 2015 recording of original vocal/guitar duets titled Songs From the Heart, was honored by the Recording Academy on the 2016 first-round Grammy ballot in three categories, including “Song of the Year". Oney's previous albums, Sweet Youth, Dear Peg, and Forever ...
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Montreal Pianist Andrés Vial To Release "Gang Of Three," His 5th Album As A Leader, On October 4
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Gang of Three, the stunning new album of originals by Montreal pianist Andres Vial (pronounced Vee-al) and his fifth as a leader, was written over a two-year period marked by major life events—becoming a first-time father, and returning to university to complete a Master’s degree in jazz piano. It will be released October 4 on the Chromatic Audio label. Described as “a crisp, inventive pianist” (Stuart Broomer, The WholeNote) who “eschews the obvious to dig a little deeper” (Mike Greenblatt, ...
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