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"The Poetry Of Jazz," A Collaboration Between Saxophonist/Composer Benjamin Boone & The Late Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Philip Levine, Due March 16 From Origin Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Musicians and poets have been inspiring each other for millennia, with collaborations in San Francisco and New York between beat poets and beboppers during the 1950s a particularly memorable recent chapter. On the forthcoming The Poetry of Jazz, which Origin Records will release on March 16, saxophonist-composer Benjamin Boone and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine make an invaluable contribution to the jazz-and-poetry canon and set a standard for the genre that will be hard to surpass in the future. Fellow ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: January 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 January, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! EDITOR'S PICKS Beyond The Windows 06:52 Woody Russell From: Carry It Up Lost 7:48 Jeff Baker ...
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Trombonist Chris Abelen Releases "Songs On The Eve Of Dismissal"—Commentary On Present-Day Office Life
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Chris Abelen
Songs on the eve of dismissal, as the title suggests, is a project about working in an office, and the main emotions involved in present-day office life: fear and loss of individuality. With millions of people worldwide trying to survive the next reorganization while doing their job, this is a serious subject which connects to a large group; at the same time, not many songs have been written about it—up to now, that is! Sad songs, but high-spirited ones as ...
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60th GRAMMY Awards: Jazz Winners
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Michael Ricci
And the winners of the 2018 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.) “Can't Remember Why" by Sara Caswell Track from: Whispers On The Wind (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge) “Dance Of Shiva" by ...
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Aussie-NYC-Based Saxman Evan Harris Delivers With "Skylines"
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Skylines Debut Release by Evan Harris All Originals with Wisdom of the Masters Australian Tenor Saxophonist Earns Respect in NYC! As Featured On the International Program “ABC Jazz" Debut album Skylines from New York-based Australian saxophonist Evan Harris, documents a deeply personal journey by a young saxophonist at the top of his game breaking into the toughest music scene in the world, New York City. The haunting yet uplifting melodies and incredible improvisations from ...
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Drummer Extraordinaire Ronnie Burrage's Artist In Residence / Masterclass / Performance Schedule
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Ronnie Burrage has performed with Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, McCoy Tyner... Holographic Principle Tour Thursday Jan. 25th: Masterclass at Berklee- Ryles Jazz Club (Cambridge, MA) Friday Jan. 26th: Side Door (Old Lyme, CT) Sunday Jan. 28th: Baby Grand Jazz (Hartford, CT) Feb. 2nd: Sixth Street Community Center (New York, NY) Feb 3rd: The Beanrunner (Peekskill, NY) Feb. 4th: Sixth Street Community Center afternoon workshop & evening concert (New York, NY) Feb. 9th: News Spires Spaces (Frederick, ...
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Jazz At Atlas Presents New Standard Trio To Kick Off 2018 Concerts On March 24
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James Keepnews
“Over a career now spanning nearly thirty years, Jamie Saft has established himself as one of the visionaries of contemporary American music. As a composer, pianist and keyboard innovator, and collaborator of music icons such as Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, the B-52s, Donovan, John Adams and John Zorn, he has been fearless in his pursuit of spiritual elevation through music that both seeks to embrace the whole American canon, and also transcend it, by seamlessly assimilating genres, traditions, idioms and ...
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Surprises Abound In New As Is Release “Here’s To Life” Featuring Alan And Stacey Schulman Available February 16, 2018
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Mouthpiece Music
Here’s To Life is the newest CD by AS IS, featuring jazz guitarist ALAN SCHULMAN and jazz vocalist STACEY SCHULMAN. The CD is an eclectic mix of tunes that showcases Stacey’s versatile vocal stylings and Alan’s soulful acoustic and electric jazz guitar playing. Their debut CD, A Love Like Ours, was a duo project that hit #1 on the Amazon jazz vocal charts in its first week of distribution. This time around, they have partnered with some of the top ...
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