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The Grand Union Orchestra at Shoreditch Town Hall on December 9th at 8pm
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All About Jazz
Uncharted Crossings- The Backstory of the Windrush Generation Uncharted Crossings may well be Grand Union Orchestra’s most powerful and politically committed show in its thirty-year history. The music traces the contribution to British culture of the people who came to these shores from the Caribbean from the late forties onwards. In many ways, theirs was just a chapter in a story that had begun five centuries earlier on the slave ships that crossed the Atlantic carrying human cargo to the ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: November 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 November, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration hereEDITOR'S PICKS Ancient Kings David Friesen From: My Faith, My Life 3:34 Piglets Bouncing On A Trampoline Frank Macchia ...
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Pianist-Composer Brittany Anjou Introduces Sweeping, Original Vision On "Enamigo Reciprokataj," Set For Feb. 15 Release By Origin Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Pianist-composer Brittany Anjou blends the influences of a wide range of jazz and classical piano, and a fascination with the Esperanto language, on her stunning debut Enamiĝo Reciprokataj, set for a February 15 release on Origin Records. A trio album featuring bassist Greg Chudzik and drummer Nicholas Anderson (as well as two tracks with special guests, bassist Ari Folman-Cohen and drummer Ben Perowsky), it also includes 10 original compositions, highlighted by an eponymous five-part suite that showcases both Anjou’s ambition ...
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Library of Congress Acquires Archive of Jazz Great Billy Strayhorn
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All About Jazz
The Library of Congress announced today that it has acquired the original manuscripts documenting the work of composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn. An important star in the jazz firmament, Strayhorn was the source of much of the sound of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He worked with Ellington for nearly 30 years, writing or collaborating on more than 200 tunes and arrangements for the band. Strayhorn wrote the orchestra’s signature tune, “Take the ‘A’ Train.” The Strayhorn Collection contains nearly ...
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King Crimson's David Cross & No-Man's Andrew Booker's Unreleased 2006 Album Ends Meeting
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
David Cross was a member of King Crimson during the 1970s and Andrew Booker was a member of No-Man, Sanguine Hum and Peter Banks’s Harmony in Diversity. This PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED STUDIO ALBUM was recorded in 2006 but had not seen a release until now. David Cross said of the release “I met Andrew some years ago when the David Cross Band were touring with Pete Banks's Harmony and Diversity. Andrew was the drummer with that band and we got together ...
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10 Charles Nathan Lead Sheets For Free - 2 Days Only
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Greg Nathan
Soaring Music Publications is offering all 10 of the Charles Nathan lead sheets for free starting on Black Friday and ending on Saturday, November 24. That's a 48-hour period where 10 songs, in seven different keys will all be available for free. There are no conditions to meet to qualify for the free downloading of the lead sheets. At the site there are “lead sheet pages" for each of the songs that include an old recording to hear how the ...
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NYC Acoustic Duo Yagull's New Album Yuna - Marriage Of Piano & Guitar - Cinematic, Lyrical, Truly Intimate Recording
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Yagull represents an ethereal beauty that takes you on a transformative journey. Throughout the course of the band’s discography, Sasha Markovic and Kana Kamitsubo have smoothly blended the guitar and piano, respectively, to produce exquisite splendor in melody and mood. One feels the music of Yagull in a spiritual, emotional intensity that is rarely equaled. A metamorphosis occurs for the listener. Yuna, the band's newest endeavor, was created and recorded over a period of two years. Apart from one track, ...
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JMood Records Releases World Gardens By The Roberto Magris Quartet
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Paul Collins
JMood Records is pleased to announce the CD release of World Gardens by The Roberto Magris Quartet. “This music remains rooted in the jazz tradition. It uses the modern jazz idioms, but, will move in different directions as we match some African type rhythms with some European melodic concepts and harmonies, Asian sensibilities and classic scales although we stir up some pop and rock references that include present urban experiences to reach a sort of modern jazz melting pot. A ...
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