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Festival Of New Trumpet Music (font Music) Announces 2024 Festival
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
The Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT Music) is thrilled to announce its 2024 program, celebrating trumpet music from around the globe. This year’s festival will be held from September 9-15, 2024, and will comprise both virtual and in-person programming, held at venues across New York City, Queens, and Brooklyn, and even Buffalo NY. This year, FONT will honor the legendary Jon Faddis with the 2024 Award of Recognition, which will be awarded at the Louis Armstrong House Museum. FONT ...
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New Live Recording From Trumpeter Chad McCullough on Calligram Records
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Calligram Records
Reflecting on In these hills, beyond , trumpeter and composer Chad McCullough says “this album is a celebration of life, but it wasn't planned that way. I just wanted to play great music with my friends, as lofty a goal as I have most of the time. However, the recent passing of my grandfather added more weight to everything.” On tour with his quintet last year, McCullough realized midway through the first concert that it was his grandfather’s birthday. “It ...
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Geof Bradfield Releases 'Colossal Abundance' On Double Vinyl
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Calligram Records
Geof Bradfield straddles diverse streams of the African Diaspora, drawing on modern jazz, Southern blues and roots, and African rhythms. With Colossal Abundance, his 10th album as a leader, Bradfield unveils his most ambitious work to date. Colossal Abundance is a meditation on the fabulous wealth—material, intellectual and spiritual—and abject poverty that coexist in modern society. Expanding upon his critically acclaimed Yes, and... Music for Nine Improvisers (2017), Bradfield leads a stellar 12-piece ensemble through a program of his own ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: July 2024
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the songs featured in July, these ten represent our reader's favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! Top Songs Dive Into The Deep Blue Gustavo Cysne From: Dive Into The Deep Blue feat. Ithamara Koorax 05:28 Feel Like ...
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Brazilian Gaia Wilmer And Jaques Morelenbaum U.S. Tour: D.C., NYC, Boston And More!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Trem das Cores is a celebration of Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, and important figure in Brazilian culture. He was also very influencial in Brazilian Jaques Morelenbaum and Gaia Wilmer’s lives. The idea comes from their love and great pleasure in working together with Caetano’s work while celebrating his 80th birthday and, most of all, honoring him as a composer, beyond his greatness as a singer and a poet – hence the idea of an instrumental journey through his music. Gaia ...
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Bernell Jones II CD Release Event On August 2nd At Heaven Can Wait
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Originally from Memphis, TN, Bernell Jones II is an NYC-based multi-instrumentalist experienced in multiple forms of Black American Music. At age ten, Bernell first picked up his primary instrument, the saxophone. Bernell dropped his new single “Don't Know Why" featuring vocalist Jazzmine James on May 28th. This new release entitled Typewriter is expressed in R&B, funk and fusion. “I am 26 years old at the time of the release of my first ambitious project, Typewriter. At this age, I have ...
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Business Development Partner for Jazz Fest Gallery Wanted
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Michael Ricci
Jazz Fest Gallery celebrates the vibrant world of jazz through stunning visual art. Our mission is to bridge the gap between jazz enthusiasts and the art community by showcasing exceptional pieces that capture the spirit of jazz. We are actively seeking candidates for our Business Development Partner position. Position Business Development Partner Location Remote Company Jazz Fest Gallery Reports to Owner About Us Jazz Fest Gallery is an online art gallery dedicated to celebrating the vibrant world of jazz through ...
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Expat Kentuckian Myles Cochran Releases Jazz-Americana Double-LP Opus 'You Are Here'
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Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Multi-instrumentalist/producer Myles Cochran releases his sprawling double-LP opus You Are Here today. The album was just praised by Uncut magazine for its “varying choice of instrumentation and mood goes a long way towards conjuring up vivid images in the listener's head," with Cochran hailed for “creating his own brand of ambient Americana." The track “Making Something out of Nothing" was also featured on the Best New Music bonus CD that accompanies the latest (September/Springsteen) issue of the magazine. Over many ...
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