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Recording

Jazz Composer-Arranger, Trombonist, and Vocalist Pete McGuinness Earns Two Grammy Nominations for "Strength In Numbers"

Source: Michael Ricci
December 15, 2014

Pete McGuinness: Strength In Numbers (Summit Records) Grammy Nominated for “Best Arrangement Instrumental or A Cappella" and “Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals" Acclaimed jazz composer/arranger, trombonist and vocalist Pete McGuinness has earned two 2015 Grammy nominations for arrangements on his Summit Records CD Strength In Numbers. The nominations are for “Best Arrangement Instrumental or A Cappella” for his arrangement of “Beautiful Dreamer” and “Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals” for his arrangment of “What Are You Doing The Rest of Your ...

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Radio

BreakThru Radio’s “the Jazz Hole” With Linus Wyrsch Ready For Season 7

Source: Linus Wyrsch
December 15, 2014

New York, NY - BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the world’s leading source for the best independent music on the internet using a unique on-demand programming approach. The station’s jazz show “The Jazz Hole” comes out every other Sunday, while the monthly special “BTR The Jazz Hole Live” features a recorded live set on the second Thursday of each month. You can listen to new and past shows on breakthruradio.com, or go to linusmusic.com for archived direct links. Alternatively, you can ...

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Radio

The Inspiration Behind The Versions Of "Santa Baby" Remakes... Hint, Never Marilyn Monroe!

Source: Cynthia "c." Basinet
December 15, 2014

Sultry Jazz Pop singer, actress, NOBEL Nominated CYNTHIA BASINET whose ICONIC version of SANTA BABY, that has often be mistaken for Marilyn Monroe all though Marilyn never sang the song, has been the inspiration behind the versions of Santa Baby recorded to date since 2000, whether well-known or not. Cynthia’s one off of Eartha Kitt’s renowned Holiday Tune is a true homage to the famous Cat Woman herself also a lyrical gift to a very special person in Cynthia’s life: ...

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Recording

New Apostle Fractal Album Rich With Electic Components

Source: Eric Taylor
December 14, 2014

The Apostle Fractal’s hybrid rock is rich with components of pop, Celtic, Gothic, and global metal. Only after a couple of dose of the group’s album Ichabod Suite, the progressive-metal aficionado would find ease in tracing those elements to the music of the likes of Cruachan, Evanescence, and Nightwish. The seven-track concept album is a musical journey to a tumultuous, historical past expressed in a dramatic blend of primarily folk and metal. Ichabod Suite opens with “Jeremiah’s Waltz,” which conjures ...

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Recording

J.Q. Whitcomb & Five Below Explore Progressive Sounds On New Release

Source: Eric Taylor
December 14, 2014

In half a dozen words, Tales of Enchantment is six tracks of brain salad revelry. To say “go figure” is tempting, but to further describe this album is more enticing and more respectable. The genre jazz itself is a broad spectrum of music styles, and J.Q. Whitcomb & Five Below’s sonic paintings epitomize this very well. The artists behind this group have obviously dipped their respective brushes in a colorful palette of progressive rock, blues, New Wave, and classic jazz ...

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Event

Jazz & Heritage Center Grand Opening And Ribbon Cutting

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
December 11, 2014

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation - the nonprofit that owns Jazz Fest - today opened its long-awaited education and community facility, the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, with a series of events that begins with a press conference and ribbon- cutting followed by a patrons and donors party tonight, Grand Opening Concert featuring Kidd Jordan and Family (sold out) on Friday plus a Tremé Neighborhood and Community Open House and Heritage School of Music Holiday ...

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TV / Film

Thomas Chapin Film Project Ends Europe Filming At The Famous Bimhuis In Amsterdam

Source: Michael Ricci
December 11, 2014

This week, EMMY-winning U.S. filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo ends her filming for her documentary Thomas Chapin, Night Bird Song at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam's and Europe's jewel for jazz and improvisational music performances. Castillo concludes her four-country tour, which started in Paris, in Holland where her effort to gather the stories of Thomas Chapin in Europe have taken her to France, Italy, Germany and now the Netherlands. Some other 30-plus interviews for the project done in the last two years were ...

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Education

Entertainment Lawyer Joel Katz Joins Berklee College Of Music Board Of Trustees

Source: Berklee Media Relations
December 11, 2014

Berklee College of Music has named Joel Katz, a leader in the field of entertainment law, to its board of trustees. Katz is former Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Law Section. His clients are some of the world’s most well-known entertainers, producers, record labels, concert promoters and Fortune 500 companies, including Kenny Chesney, Julio Iglesias, Willie Nelson, Ludacris, Michael Jackson’s estate, the Country Music Association, Dick Clark Productions, and the National Academy of Recording Arts & ...

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