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Sonny Rollins's "Holding The Stage: Road Shows, Vol. 4" To Be Released By The Saxophonist's Doxy Records, With Distribution By Sony Music Masterworks/Okeh

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 16, 2016

For his new album Holding the Stage: Road Shows, vol. 4, the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins once again taps into his vast archives of his own concert recordings to compile superior performances for release in the acclaimed Road Shows series. The album encompasses some 33 years (1979-2012) yet coheres with all of the compelling logic and narrative force of an extended Sonny solo. Holding the Stage, to be released by Doxy Records digitally April 8 and on CD April ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

They Died Before 40--New Jazz Film To Make History

Source: Howard E. Fischer
March 15, 2016

The Music Kept Them Alive… And Killed Them! Which jazz musician’s funeral attracted 10,000 mourners and an 80-car funeral procession? Which African American musician was forced to play at the other end of the recording studio with white musicians? The website for the film has 40 Hot Points and more. More than two dozen gifted jazz artists died before reaching the age of 40. Most of them are relatively unknown, some even to jazz fans. Many of them made significant ...

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"The Music Of Jackie McLean," New CD By Saxophonist Steven Lugerner & His Band Jacknife, To Be Released April 22

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 14, 2016

For the last year and a half, San Francisco Bay Area woodwind expert Steven Lugerner has been digging into the music of jazz legend Jackie McLean with Jacknife, Lugerner’s hard-hitting West Coast post-bop quintet. The group has completed work on an album, The Music of Jackie McLean, slated for release on April 22 by Primary Records, and will be touring the West Coast next month with special guest Larry Willis, the virtuoso pianist and former McLean sideman. Exploring tunes from ...

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Pianist/Composer Peter Horvath's 2nd Album As A Leader, "Absolute Reality," Due March 25

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 13, 2016

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1980s, keyboardist/composer Peter Horvath has thrived in the region’s highly diverse environment, where various music scenes often overlap. He’s played post-bop with Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Eddie Henderson, and Charles McPherson, and funk fusion with the Victor Bailey Group, Marcus Miller, Bennie Maupin, and Lenny White. He’s played Latin jazz with Arturo Sandoval, Ray Obiedo, and Pete Escovedo, and funk and R&B with Pee Wee Ellis, Lalah Hathaway, Melba Moore, Ledisi, ...

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Performance / Tour

Aleksandra Denda To Release Her Debut Ep "Dreamer"

Source: Danijela Milic/LeitmotivArts
March 12, 2016

LeitmotivArts is thrilled to announce the release of the debut EP Dreamer from Aleksandra Denda available worldwide on March 17th 2016. Two years after having her single “In the Dark" selected as The Song Of The Day on Jon Oliver's The Main Ingredient Radio, Aleksandra releases her debut EP. Dreamer—wonderful patchwork of acoustic and electronic elements, intertwining Neo Soul, Jazz, World Music and Electronica into Aleksandra's own ethereal sonic canvas. Dreamer is a luscious six-track introduction to the distinctive artistry ...

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Saxophonist Christian Winther Releases "Refuge In Sound" on Sound Perspective Music

Source: Christian Winther
March 9, 2016

Christian Winther: Refuge In Sound (Sound Perspective Music). Release Date: March 7, 2016 Featuring: Christian Winther (saxophone) Allyn Johnson (piano) Mike Moreno (guitar) Reuben Rogers (bass) Billy Williams Jr. (drums) Christie Dashiell (vocals on track 3) Saxophonist Christian Winther's new release Refuge In Sound espouses the words of the great Louis Armstrong who once stated that “What we play is life." Since moving from Denmark to New Orleans ...

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Event

Ball & Chain Presents Special Musical Performance By Giacomo Gates on March 10 (3 Sets)

Source: Zack Bush
March 8, 2016

BALL & CHAIN PRESENTS SPECIAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY VOCALIST GIACOMO GATES New York Times Critically Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist’s First Show on Calle Ocho Ball & Chain, the historic and world famous live music venue located at 1513 Southwest 8th Street, Miami, FL 33135 is thrilled to present a special live musical performance by New York Times critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Giacomo Gates on Thursday, March 10, 2016. “We are so excited to host a jazz legend such as Gates within ...

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Nicholas Payton Balances Studio Work As Bandleader, Producer; "Textures," His 5th Album On Paytone Records, Set For Spring Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 8, 2016

Grammy award-winning Nicholas Payton—one of the era’s definitive artists—has been quite busy this winter blowing with the all-star Monterey Jazz Festival on a nationwide tour, putting the finishing touches on Textures, his fifth release for his very own label, Payton Records, as well as producing and arranging Jane Monheit’s latest project, The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald. As a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, bandleader, producer, arranger, and essayist, the New Orleans-born and- bred Payton will debut his Afro-Caribbean Mixtape, a blazing new ...

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