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Trombonist Audrey Ochoa Wins Edmonton Music Prize
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Chronograph Records
Chronograph Records is pleased to announce that trombonist, composer, arranger, educator and band leader Audrey Ochoa has won the 2018 Edmonton Music Prize! A collaboration between the Edmonton Arts Council and Alberta Music, the Edmonton Music Prize celebrates the achievements of Edmonton’s artistic community. After a stellar year of performing her compositions with GRAMMY winners and rising the US jazz charts, Audrey’s compositional and performance skills won over the jury. She beat out artists in the country, pop, urban, indie ...
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Tonight Two Bands! Two CD Release Performances! Reva Records Presents: Pitch, Rhythm & Consciousness Quartet And Jessica Jones Quartet At Shapeshifter Lab!
Source:
Scott Thompson Public Relations
Jessica and Tony Jones CD Release Performances February 8 at ShapeShifter Lab! Jessica Jones Quartet CONTINUUM & PITCH, RHYTHM AND CONSCIOUSNESS QUARTET Two Bands! Two CD Release Performances! Friday, February 8th Reva Records Presents: Pitch, Rhythm & Consciousness Quartet and Jessica Jones Quartet CD release concert ShapeShifter Lab 18 Whitwell Place Brooklyn, NY 11215 phone: 646-820-945 Continuum: DownBeat ...
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Grammy Nominee The Cedric Burnside Project Drops New Release On February 12 Entitled Backwater Blues
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Pass the Pick Productions to release new single and video of Grammy nominated The Cedric Burnside Project Release of the Bessie Smith classic “BackwaterBlues" Due Out February 12 via Pass The Pick Productions/BFD/The Orchard. Cedric Burnside and Trenton Ayers, who together form The Cedric Burnside Project, are today's living connection to the traditional Mississippi Hill Country Blues genre, and Pass the Pick Productions has captured that spirit and sound with a new video and single of the classic Bessie Smith ...
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Guitarist Trey Wright releases solo effort, Begin Again
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Karen Frieske
Atlanta's jazz guitar master Trey Wright has released his latest solo effort, “Begin Again". Mr. Wright puts together a moving group of songs inspired by his recovery from a depressive episode in 2016 and dedicated to ex-band mate the late Carl Lindberg (Squat, Grogus, Ok Skool Trio). ”Begin Again" also features Marc Miller (bass: The Atlanta Pops Orchestra), Marlon Patton (drums: John Patitucci, Randy Brecker, Rufus Reid, Wycliffe Gordon), Laura Coyle (vocals: twice featured performer at the Atlanta Jazz Festival) ...
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Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz New York’s Longest Running Jazz Concert Series continues with an All-Star tribute to jazz founding fathers Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet: Satchmo and Sidney Revisited!
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Each year for almost a half century, the annual Highlights In Jazz series has produced shows guaranteed to surprise and delight savvy jazz fans. The second concert of the 2019 lineup continues that tradition with Satchmo and Sidney Revisited, an homage to trumpeter Louis Armstrong and clarinetist/soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet. To celebrate the music of two of the most influential, inspirational, and beloved forebears in jazz, producer Jack Kleinsinger brings together David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band; Bechet’s leading disciple, ...
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Pianist Romain Collin Releases Fifth 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. “You Held Me Up“ features Collin with vocalist and songwriter Christina Courtin. 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 recording ...
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The Bodhisattwa Trio Release Their 3rd Studio Album
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Bodhisattwa Ghosh
Kolkata-based Indian Jazz Fusion/Modern Jazz outfit The Bodhisattwa Trio have released their self-titled third album, under the banner of Croatian Record Label Intek Music, thus making it a first-of-its-kind Indo Croatian venture. This album promises to take listeners on a sonic journey from ambient trip hop to Industrial drum-n-bass to contemporary jazz, backed up by rhythmic foundations of Indian classical music, parallelly driving the album conceptually towards the abstract, conflicting and grey areas of the human mind, hence “calling” it ...
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Prog Ensemble Kinetic Element To Release Third Album The Face Of Life February 28, 2019
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Kinetic Element, a band based in Richmond, Virgina (USA) that finally made a mark in the prog world in its tenth year in 2016 by performing at ROSfest and Terra Incognita, and in 2017 at Progtoberfest, has been through some changes in the last couple of years. Sporting a new guitarist and vocalist, and venturing into vinyl for the first time, they composed and recorded their third studio album, The Face of Life, during 2017 and 2018. The band, founded ...
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