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Musician Tip: The benefits of uploading your thumbnail image and setting your instrument

Source: Michael Ricci
April 10, 2017

If you're a jazz musician, then you'll want to make sure you have a professional page at All About Jazz. As host to over 90,000, there's a chance your page already exists, and if it does, you can claim it. If it does not exist, you can create it from scratch here. We encourage all musicians to complete their pages by adding their biography, videos, discography, links, photos, audio players, events etc. At minimum, we ask you to add upload ...

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Performance / Tour

Soulful, High-Energy, Jazz Vocalist Joan Minor Brings Her Latest Sparkling Show “April In Paris - Soulful Jazz With Parisienne Sass” To The Bay Area

Source: Joan Minor
April 9, 2017

ANGeLiCAS, Redwood City welcomes back Paris-Based American vocalist Joan Minor, for limited return engagement with The Joan Minor Quartet. In five years, the Joan Minor Quartet has established a distinguished musical footprint from touring widely in France and across Africa. Strengths and interests of individual members result in mesmerizing performances, including syncopated rhythms picked up while touring the African continent. Favorites like “Willow Weep For Me" and “Love For Sale," take on new dimensions when performed by these musicians. Anchored ...

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Recording

UK's Jazz FM Vocalist Of The Year Nominee Jazz/Blues Singer/Songwriter Polly Gibbons Poised To Take U.S. By Storm With Release Of "Is It Me…?" On Resonance Records

Source: EastWest Media
April 8, 2017

Following sold-out tours in the U.K. opening for George Benson and Gladys Knight, including two acclaimed performances at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall, singer/songwriter Polly Gibbons is set to make a British invasion of her own with the release of her highly-anticipated second album, Is It Me…? on Resonance Records on April 21, 2017. Produced by label owner and founder George Klabin, the 12-track collection fully embraces the inspiring, expansive array of American jazz, soul and blues influences that have ...

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Technology

Tech Innovator Spud Too Tight Launches Video Podcast On "Facebook Live" With Real-time Call In Feature

Source: Monica Anders
April 8, 2017

Since 2009, The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight a highly regarded and one of the first music production and tech talk show podcast has interacted with some of the biggest names in the industry from Billboard chart topping, Multi- Platinum, Grammy award winning music producers, composers, saxophonists, guitarists, bassists, drummers, multi- instrumentalists, recording artists, songwriters, technology experts to industry executives in nearly all genres of music. The show was featured in leading newspapers, magazine outlets and favored on countless ...

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Recording

Drummer Kenneth Brown Set To Release Debut CD "3 Down"

Source: Craig Neely
April 7, 2017

Knoxville, TN based drummer, educator, composer, he wrote six of the tunes here, and band leader Kenneth Brown, son of jazz visionary pianist Donald Brown is set to release his debut CD 3 Down on Space Time Records. Born into a musical family Kenneth's household was filled with music led by his father and later his brother Keith also a pianist. It was also during this same time period that Kenneth starting to gain exposure to all kinds of music ...

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Pianist Antonio Adolfo releases "HYBRIDO-From Rio to Wayne Shorter" on AAM Music

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
April 7, 2017

For the esteemed Brazilian composer/arranger/pianist Antonio Adolfo, his life’s work has been to bring to the world the diverse richness of the Brazilian musical traditions—with a particular focus upon its parallel developments with the profound legacy of jazz. But of equal importance is making great music, to which his many highly acclaimed and Latin Grammy-nominated albums clearly testify. For his latest delightful excursion, the incomparable Wayne Shorter provides the essence of his focus with HYBRIDO, subtitled From Rio to Wayne ...

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Performance / Tour

Soulful, High-Energy, Jazz Vocalist Joan Minor Brings Her Latest Sparkling Show "April In Paris - Soulful Jazz With Parisienne Sass" To New York

Source: Jazz in the Village
April 5, 2017

New York’s The Metropolitan Room welcomes back Paris-Based American vocalist Joan Minor for a limited return engagement with The Joan Minor Quartet. In five years, the Joan Minor Quartet has established a distinguished musical footprint from touring widely in France and across Africa. Strengths and interests of individual members result in mesmerizing performances, including syncopated rhythms picked up while touring the African continent. Favorites like “Willow Weep For Me" and “Love For Sale," take on new dimensions when performed by ...

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Award-Winning Triple Threat Entertainer - Elijah Rock - Is Jazzin' Up Gershwin On Record With "Gershwin For My Soul" - Release Date: April 18

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
April 4, 2017

Long-dedicated to upholding and aligning himself with the first class carriage and aesthetic of timeless entertainment, singer/actor/dancer Elijah Rock is carrying the blazing torch for the legacy of George & Ira Gershwin, bringing a contemporary and decidedly African American twist to their timeless music with several forward thinking projects. Gershwin For My Soul (release date April 18) is the Cleveland-born baritone's brand new critically acclaimed album. Jazziz magazine marvels, “Rock brings both chops and emotion to his masculine yet sensitive ...

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