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Jazz Near You Improvements - Hilton Head Island, Palm Springs and a Dozen Italian Cities Added
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All About Jazz
We made some recent improvements to Jazz Near You and added the following cities to our growing list. United States Hilton Head IslandAdministrator: Martin McFie Palm Springs Administrator: Brown Miller Italy Bari Bolzano Ferrara Genoa Modena Novara Parma Perugia Pescara Ravenna Trento Verona Improvements Include: A stylish new design; Embedding a video on an event detail page; Viewing events by month; Scrolling through events by day; House concert support; More events imported via Instantseats including SMOKE and Jazz ...
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Pablo Ziegler Trio - 2018 Grammy Winner "Best Latin Jazz Album" For "Jazz Tango"
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
The Pablo Ziegler Trio won the 2018 Grammy Award for “Best Latin Jazz Album" with their exciting release Jazz TangoAstor Piazzolla, continues developing the style of Nuevo Tango. On Jazz Tango, pianist/composer/arranger Ziegler presents his US-based trio of world-class Argentinian collaborators Hector Del Curto (bandoneon) and Claudio Ragazzi (guitar). They play three Nuevo Tango standards by Astor Piazzolla and seven soulful, virtuosic originals by Ziegler. This Grammy victory follows a win for Best Tango Album at the 2005 Latin Grammys, ...
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Spin Cycle Further Refines Its Adventuresome Sound On Sophomore Album "Assorted Colors," Set For Release April 6 On Sound Footing Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
One of the freshest sounding bands to emerge on the jazz scene in this or any decade, Spin Cycle follows up its critically acclaimed eponymous debut from 2016 with the release on April 6 of Assorted Colors (Sound Footing Records). The new recording, coming after two years of intensive touring that further refined their distinctive take on jazz, sustains the praise bestowed by DownBeat’s Ed Enright in his rave review of their first album that hailed the band as “a ...
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Dr. Lonnie, Monaco & Gibbs: Hope College’s Jazz Organ Summit
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All About Jazz
By C. Andrew Hovan The old saying goes that everything old is new again. The same can also be said for the current resurgence in the use of the Hammond organ. Although the instrument never really went out of style with jazz practitioners, a new crop of players are dedicating themselves to advancing the vernacular established by their elders. Jared Gold, Pat Bianchi, and Cory Henry, are just a few of the names that come to mind when considering those ...
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Dot Time Records Announce "Interplay," An Exciting New Album From The François Moutin/Kavita Shah Duo
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All About Jazz
Interplay is a meeting of minds and spirits, one that embraces virtuosity, spontaneity, and lyricism through a repertoire of standards and original music adapted to the unique instrumentation of acoustic bass and voice. It features 11 tracks recorded at Sear Sound Studios in New York and Studio le Meudon in Paris. Kavita Shah and François Moutin are also joined by their octogenarian mentors–NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan on vocals, considered by many as the pioneer of bass-and-voice duets, and legendary ...
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Multi-Instrumentalist Willie Oteri and Dark Matter Horns Release "Evolution"
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
One never knows what the multifaceted original Willie Oteri is going to do next, like switching his focus from guitar to saxophone and flute for a series of upcoming releases. Oteri has produced several well received guitar-based albums featuring some of the world's finest musicians including, Scott Amendola, Giko Pavan, Tony Levin, J.A. Deane and others, starting with the 1999 live in studio improvisation Jazz Gunn Concepts of MateMaToot which featured A-Team Austin jazz players Brannen Temple, Michael Malone, Chris ...
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James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor Launch 2018 Season In Beacon, NY
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James Keepnews
“James Brandon Lewis, a jazz saxophonist in his 30s, raw-toned but measured, doesn't sound steeped in current jazz-academy values and isn't really coming from a free-improvising perspective. There's an independence about him.” —The New York Times “With an insatiable appetite for music on the fringe, drummer Chad Taylor has been an active participant in the creative music environments of both Chicago and New York. Not confined to any particular style, Taylor threads an array of astounding patterns and cadences.” —All ...
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Trumpeter Joe Mazzaferro Releases Debut CD "In Terms Of..." with Jeff Clayton, Donald Brown and Carl Allen
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Craig Neely
On February, 9th 2018 Sacramento CA native, trumpeter, composer, educator and arranger Joe Mazzaferro released his debut CD In Terms Of... on his own Joe Mazz Music label with special guest Jeff Clayton and featuring Donald Brown and Carl Allen! Joe Mazzaferro was raised in a musical household. As Joe states “both of my parents were musicians and me and my 3 sisters all played. My father is a retired high school band director (who still teaches) as well as ...
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