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Source: All About Jazz
July 4, 2016

Up-to-the-minute and 100% free! All About Jazz offers several RSS feeds and content widgets for use on websites and blogs. If you're looking to share up-to-the-minute jazz content on your website or blog, then consider the All About Jazz / Jazz Near You collection of widgets and feeds. “We offer 15 dynamic content widgets ranging from our popular Download of the Day to a local events calendar," stated Michael Ricci, All About Jazz founder. “Presenting content that changes regularly adds ...

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Acclaimed Jazz-Rock Fusion Band Project Grand Slam To Release New Single "The Rescue” On July 1

Source: Miles High Productions
July 2, 2016

Project Grand Slam, the acclaimed jazz-rock fusion band led by bassist/composer Robert Miller, will be releasing the first single from their upcoming full-length album, The Queen’s Carnival, on July 1. This single, “The Rescue”, draws from a variety of influences and highlights Miller’s unique approach to blending jazz and rock into a totally new sound. While mostly instrumental, the new album features a guest appearance by vocalist Lucy Woodward on Robert’s completely reimagined cover of The Kinks’ “You Really Got ...

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All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: June 2016

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2016

All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in June, 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 Ποιμενικόν (Shepherd's Minor) 05:23 Tassos Spiliotopoulos From: In the North Beginning of a Memory 03:29

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Trombonist Reggie Watkins's "Avid Admirer: The Jimmy Knepper Project" Set For July 15 Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
June 30, 2016

Trombonist Reggie Watkins had the opportunity to meet trombone master Jimmy Knepper just once, shortly before Knepper’s death in June 2003. Watkins was performing in his native Wheeling, WV with Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band, and Knepper, himself a Ferguson alumnus, was in the audience. The older musician complimented Watkins after the concert and shook his hand. Little did Watkins realize that a series of remarkable circumstances ten years later would lead him to record an album of Knepper ...

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Guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos Releases "In The North" - Out Now

Source: Tassos Spiliotopoulos
June 30, 2016

In the North is the third album by guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos and his first since his relocation from London to Stockholm. Originally from Athens, Greece, Tassos Spiliotopoulos spent the better part of twelve years living in London and establishing a solid reputation as one of the most exciting, up-and-coming guitarists in the UK Jazz scene. He worked with some of the country's most celebrated jazz musicians including Kenny Wheeler, Gary Husband, Asaf Sirkis, John Parricelli, John Etheridge and appeared in ...

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Guitarist Kevin Golden Releases Debut CD "Pelham Parkway"

Source: All About Jazz
June 29, 2016

Jazz guitarist, Kevin Golden releases his debut CD Pelham Parkway. This marks Golden's first recording as a leader, and features seven original tunes penned by him paying homage to the legendary organ trio sounds of Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Wes Montgomery. Kevin Golden is on guitar, along with Akiko Tsuruga on organ, and Peter Grant on drums. The session was recorded at the legendary Tedesco Studios in Paramus, NJ, by Tommy Tedesco in February 2016. Golden is a long ...

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Roberto Magris Trio Release New CD "Need To Bring Out Love”

Source: Paul Collins
June 25, 2016

Need to Bring Out Love is a beautifully written straight-ahead jazz project by the Italian jazz pianist and Maestro Roberto Magris. The project boasts six original compositions with two cover tunes. One is an amazing energy packed arrangement of jazz pianist Don Pullen’s “Joycie Girl” and the second introduces the jazz world to a “new” versatile jazz vocalist Julia Haile. The final track and CD title is a creative soul call for love, followed by our original Audio Notebook,” says ...

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Trumpeter David George Releases A New Jazz Take On "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Source: Yakup Trana
June 27, 2016

Trumpeter David George has released a fresh jazz interpretation of “Bohemian Rhapsody" unlike anything you've heard before. The track features David George on trumpet in an intimate conversation with Earshot Magazine’s Vocalist of the Year nominee, Kate Voss, intertwining George’s improvisational prowess with Voss’s stunning vocals. Every nuance of George’s fresh interpretation of Bohemian Rhapsody is expertly executed by a group of talented musicians, featuring Jerry Garcia on drums, Tor Deitrichson on percussion, Oleg Ruvinov on electric bass, John Tobin ...

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