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Double Vision Revisited Comes To Cleveland August 17th Featuring Bob James, David Sanborn, And Marcus Miller
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C. Andrew Hovan
On August 17th, Live Nation presents Double Vision Revisited at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium (14100 Franklin Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio). The 8 p.m. performance will feature Bob James, David Sanborn, and Marcus Miller. A jazz legend, Bob James has a career that has defined the genre and continues to evolve at every turn. David Sanborn is universally known as one of the most iconic saxophonists of the current age. Marcus Miller’s characteristic bass sound can be heard on a limitless catalog ...
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Pittsburgh Celebrates Music Scene With The Annual Jazz Days Of Summer
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Mackenzie Horne
JazzPGH is excited to announce the commencement of its annual Jazz Days of Summer, an in-depth look at an average week in Pittsburgh jazz. The Jazz Days of Summer campaign will shine a spotlight on the scene by promoting over 50 local events across various social media platforms from Saturday, August 17th to Sunday, August 25. This weeklong event is being coordinated by JazzPGH, a voluntary coalition of performers, promoters, and venues devoted to jazz education and community outreach. The ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: July 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 July, 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 The Gates Yao/Smith/Hughes Sextet From: The Gates 7:13 You Don't Know Me Peter Eldridge ...
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Guitarist Tommaso Costa Debuts with “Too Far, Too Close”
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All About Jazz
For his 2019 debut Too Far, Too Close, Costa combines electric jazz, rock, and blues into his own guitar sound with European sophistication and style that resonates from his homeland of Italy. “My favorite thing is the sound of the record," Costa explains. “It's got a great modern tone with a vintage feel." Too Far, Too Close crosscuts selections by composers from jazz (Keith Jarrett, Richie Beirach), from pop and rock (Stevie Wonder, Don Henley), and composers with ...
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Lisa B Will Release Reverberant: Poems & Music On October 11
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GoMedia PR
New Release Highlights Both Aspects of Lisa B’s Work, Featuring the Singer and Poet Reciting and Singing Her Original Poetry Within Jazz and Creative Music Settings Singer and poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) will release her seventh album, Reverberant: Poems & Music, on October 11. The new record joins the two strands of Lisa B’s work, vocal jazz and poetry, in riveting new ways. In a departure from Lisa B’s previous albums—which feature her jazz vocals in original songs and ...
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Bill Bruford’s ‘Earthworks Complete’ 20 CD / 4 DVD Deluxe Box Set Containing Earthworks' Entire Catalogue Spanning 20 Years Now Available
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
A Summerfold Records reissue, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks Complete is a spectacular 20CD/4DVD box set of the entire back catalogue across Earthworks' 20-year career. Includes previously unreleased and little known material. What's in the box? 15 titles on 20 CDs and 4 DVDs document the 20 year history from 1987 to 2006 of one of the UK's brightest, most travelled and best loved young jazz ensembles. Featuring Bill Bruford with Iain Ballamy, Django Bates, Patrick Clahar, Laurence Cottle, Tim Garland, Steve ...
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Sher Music's 40th Anniversary Sale runs from August 15th to September 1st
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Sher Music Co.
Thank you for making Sher Music Co., the most widely respected publisher of Jazz and Latin books in the world! Can you believe we are celebrating our 40th anniversary of Sher Music Co. this year?! As a thank you to our customers we are offering all of our digital books at an all-time discounted price. Please enjoy this 40th anniversary sale where all of our digital books will be 50% off! The sale runs from August 15th to September 1st, ...
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New York Voices Celebrate 30 Years Of Singing Together With "Reminiscing In Tempo," Due Aug 16 From Origin Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Thirty years after they began, the members of the vocal jazz quartet New York Voices remain undimmed in their commitment to making music together—a commitment they celebrate with Reminiscing in Tempo, set for an August 16 release on Origin Records. Produced by Elliot Scheiner, the album reaffirms NYV’s position in the elite of vocal jazz with an ambitious program of originals, standards, rediscovered jazz gems, tunes by Ivan Lins and the Beatles, and two pieces by 19th-century Cuban classical composer ...
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