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All About Jazz is Looking for Super Fans to tell their story

Source: All About Jazz
July 18, 2017

Do you drive your non-jazz-loving friends crazy with your encyclopedic knowledge of jazz history? Is jazz a big part of what makes life worth living? Do you have an extensive collection of recordings, save ticket stubs, go out to hear live jazz a lot, remember the first concert you ever attended? If any or all of those sound like you, you might be a Jazz Super Fan—and we'd like to consider you for an upcoming column. Please email us at ...

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Professional? Maximize Your Presence at All About Jazz & Jazz Near You

Source: Michael Ricci
July 17, 2017

Leverage All About Jazz—the Internet's most technically advanced jazz platform—to reach our vast network of fans and industry professionals locally or worldwide. From establishing a presence at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You to contacting a staff writer about a review, it's all presented on our new and improved Professionals Toolkit Page. The toolkit is an evolving resource designed for: a musician looking to promote a new release, promote a live show, fund a project or recruit students; a ...

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Tubaist Ralph Hepola Awarded Recording Grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2017

The Southwest Minnesota Arts Council has awarded tuba player Ralph Hepola a five thousand dollar Individual Artist Career Grant. Under the grant proposal, Hepola will make recordings and videos documenting his work as an improvising tubaist. The project begins later this month at Wild Sound, the Minneapolis recording studio-of-choice for jazz and classical musicians. Wild Sound, in Northeast Minneapolis, was originally founded at the Ford Center in downtown Minneapolis by recording engineer Matthew Zimmerman. More recently, engineer Steve Kaul has ...

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Far Out Recordings Reissues Antonio Adolfo's "Viralata"

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2017

Far Out Recordings are honoured to be working with master composer, arranger and pianist, Antonio Adolfo for the first time since releasing his Destiny album in 2007. This time we present the first ever vinyl reissue of his era-defining Viralata LP: An essential album from Brazil's majorly progressive heyday of late seventies jazz-funk. Viralata is a sacred artefact of Brazilian music, which Antonio himself describes as ‘a product of my hybrid musical influences that joins together flavours of marchinhas de ...

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Virtuoso Flutist Lori Bell Returns With "Blue(s)," Her 10th Studio Album, On July 14th

Source: 1888 Media
July 13, 2017

On July 14, 2017, virtuoso flutist, composer/arranger, and educator, Lori Bell will release blue(s), a 9-song excursion showcasing straight-ahead blues, and the word “blue” (which appears in each song title), highlighting its rich color, lingering mood and resplendent hue. Now in the third decade of her acclaimed career, blue(s) is Bell's 10th album overall, and the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed release, Brooklyn Dreaming, which won a Global Music Award for “Outstanding Achievement,” while also garnering a “Best Jazz Album” nomination ...

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Pianist Vadim Neselovskyi, Bassist Dan Loomis, Drummer Ronen Itzik Shine In Live Performance Video

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
July 13, 2017

Last May, the Ukrainian pianist Vadim Neselovskyi released his trio's debut recording Get Up and Go (May 19, Jazz Family and Neuklang Records) with bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Ronen Itzik, and the three musicians have been burning up stages around the world ever since. Their spring performance at jazzahead! 2017 in Bremen, Germany is a perfect example. Neselovskyi's precision and technical skill, honed during years of studying classical piano, work hand in glove with his creative compositions and brilliant ...

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Recognized Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. To Release Upcoming Album "Falling Forward”

Source: ARE Group
July 12, 2017

Drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. is releasing his latest album entitled Falling Forward (Spice of Life Records) on August 4, 2017 (the record release concert will be held on August 9, 2017 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola). The album marks his fourth project as a leader and features vibraphonist Joel Ross and bassist Reuben Rogers, with special guests, vocalist Vuyo Sotashe and pianist Stephen Feifke. Widely regarded as one of the top jazz drummers of his generation, Ulysses Owens, Jr. (Joey Alexander, ...

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Singer, Songwriter, Composer And Arranger Carolyn Fitzhugh Releases Her Long Awaited Debut CD!

Source: Pro Marketing Entertainment
July 12, 2017

Chicago native Carolyn Fitzhugh has released her debut CD Simply Amazing and one listen to any one of her exhilarating vocal performances and you're sure to be left spellbound as her many adoring fans have been left again and again! Carolyn Fitzhugh grew in a home that was filled with the aroma of a diverse assortment of music greats from Miles Davis, {{m: John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald to Morgana King and Sarah Vaughn to Minnie Ripperton, Ray Charles, Earth ...

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