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TV / Film

"Marcus," The Film About Marcus Miller

Source: Zycopolis
April 21, 2015

In the documentary film Marcus, Patrick Savey gives us a unique view into this legendary bassist’s world, capturing his New York roots in Jamaica, Queens and following his path as he meets masters of jazz like Larry Graham, Jaco Pastorius, David Sanborn, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau and Miles Davis. The film is a fantastic visual and musical journey of the history of this exceptional musician, multi instrumentalist, composer, and producer. Through testimonies and live performances, this film reviews three decades ...

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Recording

Bassist-Composer-Producer Lorenzo Feliciati To Release Koi - Rarenoise Concept Album Features Japan Drummer Steve Jansen & King Crimson Drummer Pat Mastelotto

Source: hubtone PR
April 21, 2015

For his sixth recording for RareNoiseRecords, following his 2011 solo album Frequent Flyer and subsequent collaborations with vocalist-multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (Berserk!) and Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin (Twinscapes) as well as two albums with the adventurous jazz-rock outfit Naked Truth (Shizaru, Ouroboros), the restlessly creative bassist-composer-producer Lorenzo Feliciati has realized his most ambitious and personal project to date in Koi. A concept album based on the life of the renowned river carp fish, Koi features former Japan drummer Steve ...

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Performance / Tour

Vibrant Multi-Lingual Jazz Vocalist Mary Panacci Launches New Recording, "Her Perfume"

Source: LMC Media
April 21, 2015

Talented, accomplished and vibrant multilingual jazz vocalist Mary Panacci will launch her new recording, Her Perfume at Toronto's Jazz Bistro on April 21st. Produced by Anthony Panacci and arranged by Anthony Panacci, Shelly Berger and Luis Mario Ochoa, featuring performances by over thirty-five musicians, including Mike Downes, Rob Piltch, Russ Little, John Johnson, Mike Murley, Steve McDade, Kevin Turcotte, Kevin Dempsey and Mark Kelso with Special Guests John Alcorn and Luis Mario Ochoa. On April 21st, lovers of sumptuous vocal ...

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Performance / Tour

Megan Hilty Returns To Café Carlyle, May 19-30

Source: Matt Gross
April 21, 2015

SINGER/ACTRESS MEGAN HILTY RETURNS TO CAFÉ CARLYLE WITH NEW SHOW, SONGS FOR MY DAUGHTER, MAY 19-30, 2015 Having garnered acclaim for performances on stage and screen, Megan Hilty makes her return to Café Carlyle in a two-week engagement, May 19-30. In Songs For My Daughter, Hilty will perform the classics that shaped her childhood and which she’ll pass on to her recently-born daughter. Of her previous engagement at the Café, Stephen Holden of The New York Times exclaimed, “Ms. Hilty ...

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Festival

2015 Art of Cool Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2015

By K. Shackelford The 2015 Art of Cool Jazz Festival is a journey into the immense vastness of jazz music with a roster of world class musicians. Operating in only its second year, the three day jazz dreamland, offers a superb mix of old and new artists that illuminate the ways that jazz penetrates many forms of American music. The festival will occur in Durham, North Carolina on April 24-26, 2015. The line-up at AOCFEST is a hefty ...

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Recording

New Sunnyside Records CD Release Features Corea, Byron And Klein

Source: Clarise Snyder
April 18, 2015

This new and musically diverse CD Infinite Winds features three long form compositions by three innovative and highly regarded composers: Guillermo Klein, Chick Corea and Don Byron. Dedicated to the late great jazz trumpeter Herb Pomeroy, who taught at MIT for 22 years (and founded the FJE in 1963), Infinite Winds features world première recordings by both Corea—an iconic keyboardist, composer, and bandleader who has won 22 Grammy Awards—and Byron, a critically acclaimed clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer as well as ...

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Recording

M.O.D. Technologies To Release Hu Vibrational's The Epic Botanical Beat Suite - With Special Guests Eivind Aarset, Bill Laswell And More!

Source: hubtone PR
April 18, 2015

Hu Vibrational's new album mixes deep percussive African rhythms and Afro-jazz with elements of hip-hop and electronica. Recorded and mixed at Bill Laswell’s state of the art studio, this is the fourth album by Hu Vibrational and for those who bought the previous 3 releases this will not disappoint! Produced and mixed by Adam Rudolph together with longtime Laswell engineer James Dellatacoma, the album features 7 world music percussionists along several special guests including Bill Laswell hitting the deep pockets ...

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Recording

M.O.D. Technologies Adds Re-Imagined US / Russia Collaboration To Its Incunabula Digital Series, Timezone - Lost Nations

Source: hubtone PR
April 18, 2015

Timezone is world beat music that emerged during the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union. Artists from Moscow and Humboldt County, California, have built on ethnic diversity and bilingualism to cogenerate an exciting new music. Interwoven with rock, reggae and African rhythms. This decade-long musical journey began in the early 80's, before Gorbachev and Chernobyl. Timezone moved under the guidance of Jon Humboldt Gates, a Russian speaking guitarist and songwriter from Northern California. The first Timezone sessions ...

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