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Recording

BlueMusicGroup.com Gives Away Entire Albums As Free MP3 Downloads

Source: Mika Pohjola
December 1, 2015

In the era of Spotify and Pandora streaming subscriptions, jazz and classical downloads have become an ever-less popular form of listening to music. While Compact Disc sales have surged somewhat, streaming is in 2015 the predominant way to consume music. BlueMusicGroup.com—The Small Label With Big Music—has taken bold measures to make their MP3 download items more popular. Music by Chick Corea, Miguel Zenón, Ben Monder, Mika Pohjola, Chris Cheek, Matt Penman, Fernando Huergo and several others are now available at ...

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Performance / Tour

Renowned Jazz Drummer Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O Embarks On 16 Days Of Christmas North American Tour Holiday Music As You've Never Heard It Before

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
November 30, 2015

Performances November 30-December 23 in Santa Cruz, Arcata, Davis and San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Vancouver, BC; St. Louis, MO and NYC 4-stars. “Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O provides Yuletide greetings so eloquent and mind-bending even the nastiest of Scrooges will want to pay attention." —DownBeat Legendary jazz drummer Matt Wilson—“an ambassador of good feeling” (NY Times)—brings us on a joyful and adventurous romp through holiday music with Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O during their 16 Days of Christmas North American Tour ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Rare Vinyl "Num Dia Azul" Now Being Reissued By Minas

Source: Brendan McGeehan
November 28, 2015

Num Dia Azul is the first recording Minas has ever made. Orlando Haddad and Patricia King had just finished their degrees at University of North Carolina School of the Arts where Minas was established for a few years. Before they moved away, they decided to go into a studio in Greensboro, NC, and invite several musicians whom they had been doing gigs for the past few years, to cut several tracks. Orlando and Patricia moved down to Brazil in 1981, ...

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Recording

Bassist José Fallot Releases "Another Romantic Volume #2"

Source: Plaza Mayor Company ltd
November 27, 2015

José Fallot new album Another Romantic Volume #2 has a precious touch of timeless elegance. No doubt the leader's fine bass playing and his artistry in composing have a lot to do with that. As a matter of fact, his music is not of the kind that struggles and roars. Smoothly running on the safe and bright side of jazz, it flows with taste and mastery, always paying attention to melody and balance. All along the album the band are ...

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Radio

Christmas Jazz Begins Thanksgiving Day

Source: Rich Germaine
November 26, 2015

Jazz Lovers Radio announces the beginning of the Christmas Jazz season with a sprinkling of Christmas Jazz favorites starting Thanksgiving Day. Each week in December, more holiday tracks will be added to the Jazz Lovers Radio playlists as Christmas Day approaches. The most listenable Christmas Jazz in the world will be featured around the clock starting Christmas week all the way through Christmas Day. Some of your Christmas Jazz favorites featured on Jazz Lovers Radio this year include Vince Guaraldi ...

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Recording

Jessica Jones Quartet New CD "Moxie" Release Performance December 21 At ShapeShifter Lab

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
November 25, 2015

Jessica Jones Quartet New CD Moxie Two-Tenor Sax Madness! Release Date: December 8, 2015 CD Release Performance: December 21, 2015 ShapeShifter Lab - NYC Phone: 646-820-9452 Reunited After 30 Years! This rare two-tenor quartet (with Jessica and Tony Jones on tenors) busts things wide open with new music, joined by old friends! Moxie is the new release (December 8, 2015) from the Jessica Jones Quartet, reuniting band members from one ...

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Legendary Drummer Peter Erskine To Release “Dr. Um” (Fuzzy Music) On January 15, 2016

Source: Two for the Show Media
November 24, 2015

Take a look at any list of the world’s greatest drummers, and Peter Erskine’s name will invariably be near the top. For more than four decades, Erskine has proven among the most consistently innovative and reliable masters of his instrument. He’s appeared on over 600 albums and film scores, more than 50 of those albums as leader or co-leader. He’s collaborated with an astonishing list of giants including the Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson big bands, Weather Report, Steps Ahead, ...

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Guitarist Maciek Pysz Releases New CD "A Journey" on Dot Time Records

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
November 21, 2015

Often compared to Pat Metheny and Al Di Meola, London/Paris-based guitarist Maciek Pysz released his new album A Journey, on October 15, 2015 (Dot Time Records). Recorded in December 2014 at the famous Artesuono studio in Italy, the album features the celebrated Daniele Di Bonaventura on piano and bandoneon along with bassist Yuri Goloubev and drummer Asaf Sirkis. In a recent review, UK based jazz journalist, Stephen Graham stated that Maciek is “...a major new presence on the jazz guitar ...

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