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Keyboardist / Arranger / Composer Pete Levin Releases New CD: "Möbius" (Lenny White Label) on September 25

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
September 25, 2017

CD release performance set for November 8 at The Cutting Room in NYC Featuring Lenny White, Tony Levin, Alex Foster and more! With A Nod To Gil Evans. Keyboardist-arranger-composer Pete Levin's ninth solo release, Möbius, was recorded live in the studio in two days, capturing the “no boundaries" spirit of Gil Evans. The music explores textural grooves ranging from straight-ahead bop to funk, world-beat, and the experimental. The disc features 10 tracks including eight originals, “I Mean You" by Thelonious ...

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Introducing Guitarist/Composer Pawel Ignatowicz - CD "Here And Now" - Release Date: Dec. 1st

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
September 24, 2017

A Fresh and Eclectic New Sound Mixed By Multi-Grammy Winning Dave Darlington! Darlington contributed to work by Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Brian Lynch and Eddie Palmieri. Here and Now (Mother of Invention Records) expresses Pawel's influence from acoustic, electric, drum and bass, Latin, Indian and minimal music. This exciting new CD features Pawel Ignatowicz on both electric guitar and acoustic guitar, guitar synth and electric sitar. The band includes Ferenc Nemeth on drums, Julian Shore on acoustic piano and keyboards, ...

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Audio Fidelity To Release Esquivel's "Other Worlds Others Sounds" On 180g Vinyl LP

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
September 24, 2017

Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing Esquivel's Other Worlds, Others Sounds album on 180g Vinyl LP. Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films and widely considered the king of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop known today as lounge music. RCA contracted with Esquivel in late 1957 and brought him to record in Hollywood in early 1958. He was given five hours of studio time to record the album Other Worlds, ...

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Singer Songwriter Phillip Brandon Debuts With A Genre-Defying Musical Gift For The Planet: "The Story Begins"

Source: Inque Public Relations
September 23, 2017

Proud Morehouse Graduate Steps Out Making a Profound Musical Difference Springing forth following eight years of tours as “Narrator” with platinum selling rock band Trans Siberian Orchestra to a feature role in the life story of Gospel legend BeBe Winans, “Born For This: The Musical,” singer-songwriter Phillip Brandon is making good on the promise of his purposed and abundant gifts to share songs of love and optimism all his own via his powerful debut album, The Story Begins—a warm wraparound ...

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The Recorder - An Ancient Instrument With An Exciting New Sound! Joel Levine Releases "The Whistleblower" on September 25, 2017

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
September 22, 2017

From Originals to George Duke to Handel- Levine Debuts On New Lenny White Label Composer Joel Levine speaks a unique voice with the recorder with his debut release The Whistleblower on the Iyouwe label. The 13 song disc, Levine's first as a solo artist, finds the Toronto based recordist joined by singers and instrumentalists including legendary drummer and multi-Grammy award winner Lenny White. Levine says, “I grew up in Philly where I began to play the recorder in the early ...

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Pianist Deanna Witkowski Presents Trio Arrangements Of 14 Hymns On "Makes The Heart To Sing: Jazz Hymns," Set For November 3 Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 22, 2017

Grace, serenity, and rhapsody are on abundant display throughout the 14 songs pianist Deanna Witkowski performs with her trio on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns, set for release November 3 on Tilapia Records. One would expect this to be the case, given that the source material is not the Great American Songbook, but the centuries- old trove of hymnody used in churches around the world. Witkowski succeeds in offering a luminously lyrical piano trio session interpreting a spiritually ...

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Guitar Duo Bulatović-nikčević Set To Wow New York City Audience As They Return To Carnegie Hall

Source: Danijela Milic/LeitmotivArts
September 22, 2017

Internationally renowned guitarists from Montenegro, Srdjan Bulatović and Darko Nikčević return to New York City and Carnegie Hall on October 25 in a concert produced by LeitmotivArts. The duo has performed for both national and international audiences for more than 25 years, presenting their original pieces invoking the “languages" of classical and flamenco guitar. While varied in terms of character, style, rhythm and tempo, the original compositions from their most recent album “Balkan, Mediterranean, Orient”, which will be performed at ...

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Blue Engine Records Announces The Release Of "Handful Of Keys" From The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2017

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records today announced the release of Handful of Keys on September 15, 2017, a live recording of performances that captured 100 years of jazz piano in one night in Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Today, the first single from Handful of Keys, “The Strawberry,” is available for streaming and download on all mass-market digital platforms. The album is also available to preorder on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s newly relaunched webstore, ...

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