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Alfonso Adan - Jazz guitarist and composer begins a colorful new chapter with New Morning
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All About Jazz
In a city that’s always moving at high speed, Alfonso Adan remembers the value of quiet and patience. The world-travelling guitarist has had a long and colorful journey from his roots in Europe to his current working life in and around Greenwich Village, New York. The music bug first struck at age six, and that same fundamental restlessness has kept him at work ever since. His trajectory has included small performing and recording bands, sideman work, theater ensembles, and the ...
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Pianist Romain Collin Launches #taurussesh: Intimate video series features Collin and special guests
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Romain Collin has just launched #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. The first clip, the original Collin composition “Raw, Scorched and Untethered," features Collin playing solo. All other videos will showcase spontaneous collaborations with special guests that include Eric Harland, Sachal Vasandani, Grey McMurray, Christina Courtin, Gregoire Maret and Yosvany Terry. In addition to ...
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January 2019 Whirlwind Recordings Rebrand Sale - Up To 50% Off Back Catalogue (CDs • LPs • DLs • Apparel) Until The End Of The Month!
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Emma Perry Publicity
Whirlwind Recordings, the London, UK-based imprint founded by Michael Janisch is celebrating a complete rebranding of the label’s logo and online look, complete with a website overhaul and migration of their old store to the new Bandcamp label page this month. To celebrate, and to say a massive thank you to all their fans for support over the last nine years, they're offering all back catalogue CDs and Digital Albums (over 100 titles) from 2010-2018 at 50% off on the ...
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KLH Audio Announce its first headphones and earphones
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All About Jazz
KLH Audio, the legendary speaker brand re-launched last year by ex-Klipsch global sales president David P. Kelley, unveiled its first headphones and earphones at CES 2019 last week in Las Vegas. Two models, slated for delivery in March, will kick off the brand’s Ultimate Series: The Ultimate One full-size open-air headphones ($499) and the Ultimate Two wireless in-ear monitors ($299). The Ultimate Ones feature 2-inch beryllium drivers housed in ebony-finished real wood earcups, leather earpads filled with high-density microfiber fill, ...
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Dr. Monty Alexander At Birdland On January 15-19 With "Love Letters" From Jamaica To Jazz!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
THE LEGENDARY JAMAICAN PIANO MASTER Dr. Monty Alexander Love Notes: From Jamaica to Jazz At Birdland from January 15-19 Reserve Now! Monty Alexander: piano JJ Shakur: bass Jason Brown: drums January 15-19, 2019 Birdland 315 W. 44th St. New York, NY 10036 Phone: 212-581-3080 Frank Sinatra wrote 'The Kid is a Gas' in the liner notes of Monty's first album ...
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The Nu Jazz Agency Announces The Inaugural Performance Of The Winners Of The 2018 Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition In NYC On January 14, 2019 At Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
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Nu Jazz Publicity
The Nu Jazz Agency, a leader in the non-profit musical arts industry, has announced the inaugural performance in the 2019 season of the winners of the 2018 Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition held this past June in Huntington, West Virginia. Ben Paterson (Philadelphia, PA: First Place); Rina Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan: Second Place & The Nu Jazz Agency’s Chico & Lupe O’Farrill Award for the Best Original Composition; and Isaiah Thompson (West Orange, NJ: Third Place & winner for Best ...
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Rave Reviews For New Book On The Life And Work Of Jazz Fusion Legend Billy Cobham
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Brian Gruber
Few musicians have transformed a genre like Panama-born, New York-raised Billy Cobham. Six Days at Ronnie Scott’s: Billy Cobham on Jazz Fusion and the Act of Creation is a one-of-a-kind oral history of a legend’s life work. From his early days with Horace Silver and Dreams to the epochal Bitches Brew sessions with Miles Davis to the breakthrough Mahavishnu Orchestra and beyond, here is a first-ever deep dive into six decades of musical innovation. The book’s setting is six days ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: December 2018
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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 December, 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 Ancient Kings David Friesen From: My Faith, My Life 3:34 Kerrara Vincent Houdijk From: ...
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