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Rising Israeli Jazz Pianist/Composer Guy Mintus Releases Multi-Faceted And Ambitious New Trio Album, Connecting The Dots
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ARE Group
New York-based, Israeli jazz pianist-composer Guy Mintus is releasing his new trio album, Connecting the Dots, on February 15, 2019 through France's Jazz Family label. Mintus is a learned, well-traveled and much-honored musician. His awards include the Prix du Public at the Montreux Jazz Festival's solo piano competition, two ASCAP Foundation/Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards and, in 2018, the ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein Award. In addition, the Mintus Trio's debut album, A Home In Between, was selected as a ...
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Consider The Source To Release You Are Literally A Metaphor, Their First Album In Four Years, On March 1
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GoMedia PR
After releasing several groundbreaking albums and a maintain a multi-country touring schedule, NYC instrumental trio Consider the Source have perfected their global sci-fi fusion sound. This relentless drive has earned them an eclectic audience, ranging from jam-band hippies to prog nerds and metalheads. Their new album, You Are Literally A Metaphor, is the apotheosis of their career thus far. Blending fiery prog-rock maximalism with hooky, anthemic songwriting and traditional music from across Eastern Europe and Asia, Bassist John Ferrara, drummer ...
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Jazz Near You Imports GigPress Events for Jazz Musicians
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin. Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website. If you are a jazz musician and use GigPress, please send Michael Ricci your website URL. Your Gigpress RSS feed location is typically located here: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?feed=gigpress. States Ricci, “WordPress is ...
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Greek drummer and composer Billy Pod releases Drums to Heal Society on Puzzlemusik
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Billy Pod
Drums to Heal Society—contemporary jazz that draws on elements of free improvisation, pop-electronica and rock to create a sound of unified diversity mirroring human experience in modern society. “Billy is an accomplished composer and arranger with both a great command of his instrument and the sensitivity to create authentic music with others.’’ —Tivon Pennicott, Saxophonist for Gregory Porter Drums to Heal Society is the debut release of Greek drummer and composer Vassilis Podaras (aka Billy Pod). The eleven-track album is ...
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61st GRAMMY Awards: Jazz Winners
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All About Jazz
And the winners of the 2019 GRAMMY Awards are... 31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only. SOME OF THAT SUNSHINE Regina Carter, soloist Track from: Some Of That Sunshine (Karrin Allyson) DON'T FENCE ME IN John Daversa, soloist Track from: ...
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Ami Molinelli, Rogério Souza, Edinho Gerber Come Together As Duo Violão + 1 On New Album, A History Of Choro, To Be Released On March 8
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GoMedia PR
On A History of Choro, their first recorded collaboration, guitarist Rogério Souza, guitarist Edinho Gerber, and percussionist Ami Molinelli survey the musical history and evolution of choro, revealing its rhythmic and harmonic permutations and, in the process, create an album that is coherent in timbre and vision while marvelously varied in its nuances. According to Molinelli, “The intention for this album overall was to ensure that each song reflects a different musical style within the genre of choro and to ...
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Pianist Romain Collin Releases Sixth Video In #taurussesh Series
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Romain Collin releases another new video in #TaurusSesh, a series of intimate videos in which he explores the vast musical possibilities offered by his unique combination of acoustic piano, vocal loops and textures, and the bass synthesizer Moog Taurus. “Blackbird“ features Collin and Gregoire Maret on harmonica in The Beatles classic tune. Videos showcase spontaneous collaborations with special guests including Sachal Vasandani, Grey McMurray, Christina Courtin, Gregoire Maret and Yosvany Terry. In addition to the #TaurusSesh project, Collin's forthcoming trio ...
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7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest 2018 Edition: Winners Announced!
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Valerio Pappi
The 7 Virtual Jazz Club is proud to announce the winners of the 2018 edition of the contest. The international jury, made of jazz experts, composed their ranks. Pros & Amateurs’ Category The jury prize for the best musician (€ 2,000 plus a live concert in the Jazz Club Ferrara- Italy) has been assigned to the Austrian group David Helbock’s Random Control (David Helbock, piano, percussion; Johannes Bär, tuba, percussion; Andreas Broger, saxophone) which presented the song “Spain". Second Prize: ...
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