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56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees: Jazz
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Michael Ricci
31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo Orbits Wayne Shorter, soloist Track from: Without A Net (The Wayne Shorter Quartet) Label: Blue Note Records Don't Run Terence Blanchard, soloist Track from: Magnetic Label: Blue Note Records Song For Maura Paquito D'Rivera, soloist Track from: Song For Maura (Paquito D'Rivera And Trio Corrente) Label: Sunnyside Records/Paquito Records Song Without Words #4: Duet Fred ...
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The Michelle Walker Trio At Bar Next Door Monday Jan 27th 8:30pm
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Michelle Walker
The Bar Next Door Jazz Bar & Lounge 129 MacDougal St. (West 3rd) New York, NY 10012 (212) 529-5945 2 Sets: 8:30pm & 10:30pm $12 Cover, Drink Minimum Call or Visit the Bar Next Door Website to reserve your table. Joining Michelle will be: TORU DODO, Piano MATT ARONOFF, Bass New York, NY: Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, Michelle Walker, will perform in concert as a trio ...
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All About Jazz Expands Publishing Platform to Include Quarterly Magazine
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All About Jazz
Philadelphia, PA - All About Jazz, the web’s leading destination for jazz news, has teamed with Dutch based MFM Media to produce a quarterly jazz magazine through the Issuu.com publishing platform. Each issue reflects choice content previously published at All About Jazz with strong consideration given to connected material. For instance, the first issue focuses on the legendary Wayne Shorter. In addition to the interview with Shorter, All About Jazz talks to trumpeter Wallace Roney about his desire to perform ...
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Enter the "Brian McCarthy - This Just In" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Brian McCarthy - This Just In“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on February 24th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Brian McCarthy at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About Brian McCarthy An accomplished performer and formidable composer and arranger, this saxophonist is emerging as a prominent example of the modern day instrumentalist. Seven Days ...
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Skin Deep The New Smooth Jazz-Funk-fusion Album From Pianist Jon O'Bergh Available on February 4th
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Ajamu Akinyele
Skin Deep the new smooth jazz/funk/fusion album is pianist and keyboardist Jon O'Bergh's ninth studio album featuring ten tracks influenced by such artists as Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Ramsey Lewis, Dave Brubeck and Joe Sample. Skin Deep also features a cover of Beyonce's “Love On Top" taken from her “4" album. Skin Deep, produced by Andre Ajamu Akinyele (Gemini Soul), is a return to Jon O’Bergh’s Gemini Soul roots, capturing that jazz/funk/fusion vibe. Fans of Jon O'Bergh and Gemini Soul ...
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Arizona Jazz Festival Bodes To Be A Souled Out Weekend
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Parade of Grammy winners and R&B legends set to join a stellar jazz slate March 7-9, including Ne-Yo, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, The Isley Brothers and Gladys Knight Phoenix, AZ: With thousands of old school and new school R&B and contemporary jazz fans from across the U.S. flocking to Phoenix twice a year for the Arizona Jazz Festival, promoter BTWconcerts.com will present a captivating crop of Grammy winners, hall of fame legends and current chart-toppers at the spring edition taking ...
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Cumbancha Signs Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate / "Faya" out February 18th
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Press Junkie PR
The well-worn and often overblown expression “music is a common language" has never been more apropos in the case of Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate. US-born, England-based Driscoll speaks no French and Kouyate, who hails from the West African country of Guinea, little English. When they were brought together at the Nuit Metis (Mixed Night) festival in Marseille, France in 2010 and given a week to produce a concert, music was the only way they could communicate. It turns out, ...
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Electro-Bossa Pioneers BossaCucaNova Return with "Our Kind of Bossa" on February 18th
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Chris M. Slawecki
As the world is getting ready to put all eyes on Brazil for this year's World Cup, one of the country's own musical treasures, BossaCucaNova will set the stage with their brand new release of Our Kind Of Bossa on February 18 (Six Degrees Records). The eleven tracks are an irresistible fusion of the electro-bossa nova that the group is known and loved for, as well as a heavy dose of danceable, sexy samba, synonymous with the country's culture. This ...
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