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Mark Wingfield "Ten Shades Of Light" - Free Download - 10 Tracks - 67 Minutes of Music

Source: MoonJune Records
June 28, 2015

Mark Wingfield's Ten Shades Of Light was compiled from ten albums (with one track represented from each album). Free Download 320 kbps MP3 and/or FLAC. Donations are welcome. Mark Wingfield's MoonJune Records' debut Proof Of Light featuring Yaron Stavi on upright bass and Asaf Sirkis on drums, was released in February 2015, receiving an impressive critical acclaim in on over 30 countries worldwide. “Wingfield possesses the goods to be a world-beater... sparking vivid notions that the guitar is an extension ...

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Pianist Vlad West Releases "Green Light"

Source: Vlad West
June 27, 2015

ALVE Recording Co. Proudly Presents a new release by pianist Vlad West Vlad West, a noted jazz pianist who has played with numerous luminaries including Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Tony Scott and Clark Terry, and is known in Europe as Vladimir Sermakashev, has released his second album Green Light. Commemorating his work with Robin Williams on the movie inspired by Mr. West’s life, Moscow On The Hudson, Mr. West pays tribute to Mr. Williams on the ...

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MoonJune Records Sampler: 75 Tunes, Nearly 8 Hours Of Music For Only $5

Source: MoonJune Records
June 25, 2015

Progressive Music Exploring Boundaries Of Jazz, Rock, Ethno, Avant & The Unknown 75 tunes from 75 albums on MoonJune Records High-quality download in FLAC or/and MP3-320. A $10 contribution gives you an extra bonus album-download of your choice. A $15 contribution gives you an extra two bonus album-downloads of your choice. A $20 contribution gives you an extra three bonus album-downloads of your choice. “The entire Moonjune catalogue is crammed with goodies: exceptional albums by both established and upcoming musicians. It's agenda? To stoke the ...

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Obituary

New England Conservatory Remembers Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2015

From the Ground Up and Into the Future... In Memoriam Boston, MA – Gunther Schuller's family, friends, contemporaries, faculty, and students are in mourning over the news of his death June 21, but the trailblazing energy surrounding this man is so great, even his in memoriam feels like a chance for new understandings and transformation. As New England Conservatory President, Gunther Schuller steered NEC through one of the most turbulent and formative decades of American and Conservatory history, beginning with ...

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Bassist/Composer Robert Sabin's "Humanity Part II" To Be Released By Ranula Music July 14

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
June 19, 2015

For his bewitching new album Humanity Part II, bassist, composer, and film music aficionado Robert Sabin assembled a brass-heavy tentet in service of a dark, glacial, cinematic sound. The CD, Sabin’s third in ten years, will be released on his Ranula Music label July 14. “I love the way film music invokes states of mind that you carry from the film, things beyond the music itself,” says Sabin, whose 2007 album, Romero, grew out of his obsession with the zombie ...

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Tim Kuhl Releases Album & Show

Source: Tim Kuhl
June 19, 2015

Digital Release: June 30 Vinyl Release: First week of August, 2015 Flying Moonlight Records is pleased to announce the release of 1982, Tim Kuhl’s follow-up effort to 2012’s critically acclaimed St. Helena. 1982 is a darker, electronic effort, concepted and composed on an iPad while touring the world playing drums for Sean Lennon’s The GOASTT. While on a break from traveling, Kuhl brought the songs to co-producer and NYC engineer Joshua Valleau (WOLVVES, John Legend, etc.) and together ...

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Award / Grant

Jazz Journalists Association Honors Its Own: Chicago Writer-Broadcaster Neil Tesser Wins 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award

Source: Michael Ricci
June 19, 2015

NEW YORK CITY – Neil Tesser, a Chicago-based jazz journalist, broadcaster, author, educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and current board member of the Jazz Journalists Association, was honored with the JJA's 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award on Tuesday, June 16 at a cocktail reception at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. Tesser's Award topped 2015 JJA Jazz Awards for excellence in media, winners ...

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Music Industry

Soaring Music Publications Launches A Promotional Campaign For Jazz Guitarist Mike Denny

Source: Greg Nathan
June 18, 2015

Soaring Music Publications has launched a promotional campaign to increase exposure to world-class jazz guitarist Mike Denny's work on Soaring Music Publications' recently released CD I'll Think of Something. The promotion includes an updated profile at the All About Jazz website, and an ad campaign including the Cadence Jazz World website and the Cadence Magazine July and annual issues. Soaring Music Publications is also unveiling the addition of two “Mike Denny" pages on its website. These pages will offer different ...

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