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Festival

Riverview Jazz Festival, June 3-10, 2017

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
May 10, 2017

Relax and enjoy spectacular views of the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline at Jersey City’s family-friendly festivals. Catch free outdoor performances by world-famous musicians, plus children’s activities, food trucks, beer gardens, art exhibitions, vendors, and more. The fifth annual Riverview Jazz Festival is back and bigger than ever, with two free all-day concerts in Jersey City, and dozens of other events throughout Hudson County. The week-long festival is bookended by the free outdoor blowouts, at riverside sites offering gorgeous views ...

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Event

László Gőz/György Kurtág Jr./Miklós Lukács Trio @ Le Poisson Rouge, May 22

Source: Isabelle Deconinck
May 10, 2017

MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 at 7 PM (Doors open at 6 PM) Le Poisson Rouge, New York Balassi Institute–Hungarian Cultural Center in New York and Le Poisson Rouge are pleased to present Moment’s Notice, a rare encounter between three leading experimentalists from different corners of new music – jazz trombonist and stalwart of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde László Gőz, acclaimed electronic sound artist György Kurtág Jr., and cimbalom extraordinaire Miklós Lukács. Inspired by the Hungarian electronic classical music scene ...

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Recording

The Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra Debuts With "Dreaming Big," Due June 16

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 7, 2017

The June 16th release of Dreaming Big (GoldFox Records), which marks the recording debut of the Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra and features the compositions of Brett Gold, illuminates a most intriguing jazz odyssey. A star trombonist in high school in his native Baltimore, Gold was steered away from a music career by his parents as well as his trombone teacher, of all people. Gold became an attorney and went on to achieve formidable success in the field of ...

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Recording

Indo-Fusion Guitarist Rahul Mukerji To Release Debut Album "Ma De Re Sha"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 6, 2017

Indo-Fusion guitarist Rahul Mukerji will be releasing his eagerly awaited debut album Ma De Re Sha on May 29, 2017! Rahul is a guitarist/musician based in Maryland, USA. Born in India, he has been performing live for over fifteen years. From dive bars and weddings, to crowds of thousands opening for the B-52s, he has had a varied performing career that has included gigs in Chicago, Boston, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., and India. Rahul has been featured on a wide ...

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Recording

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

Source: 1888 Media
May 5, 2017

Record release show set for July 15 at Dizzy’s in San Diego, CA. 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 ...

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Event

Jazz Metropolis And Crowd Puller: 12th Jazzahead! Achieves New Visitor And Participant Record

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2017

12th jazzahead! achieves new visitor and participant record The 12th jazzahead! ended in Bremen on Sunday. The international exhibition and festival in Bremen ensured packed concert halls at the Bremen Exhibition Centre and a new participant record amongst exhibitors and participants from 60 countries. With approximately 17,600 visitors at the exhibition and concerts last weekend alone, the jazzahead! audience has, once again, grown. Exhibition with more participants 1,356 exhibiting companies (2016: 969) and 3,169 professional participants (2016: 2,742) came to ...

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Video / DVD

Singer/Spoken Word Artist Tony Adamo Releases "Rain Man" Video

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
May 3, 2017

By Dick Metcalf, editor, Contemporary Fusion Reviews Look—up in th' sky; it’s a BIRD… it's a PLANE… ah, naw, mang, it’s just the “Rain Man”, my pal Tony Adamo, performin’ some of the absolutely COOLEST original music/lyrics he’s done to date! & I know, man… ’cause I’ve reviewed 100’s of his “hip- spoken-word” songs—most recently in issue #154, and I can tell you, peepz’, this is the coolest video I’ve seen from Tony yet! You should definitely read that review, ...

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Website

All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: April 2017

Source: All About Jazz
May 1, 2017

All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in April, 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 Snag 03:46 Rebecca Hennessy From: Two Calls Deep Memory Scan 05:03 Max Ridgway

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