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Enter the "Craig Tweddell - Away With Words" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Bugles Media “Craig Tweddell - Away with Words“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on January 10th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Craig Tweddell at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Bugles Media About Away with Words Bugles Media is proud to announce the launch of our new record label ...
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Legendary Jazz Group Weather Report Rises With Legacy Project
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Documentary “Calm Before The Storm" to be directed by Tony Zawinul Seminal jazz group Weather Report rises again with the Weather Report Legacy Project and crowdfunding initiative. The new project, launching December 9, 2013, will support the creation of a documentary, “Calm Before the Storm." The film documents the group from its beginnings in 1970, through their 16 year and 17 album career, anchored by legendary founders and jazz legends Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. The Weather Report Legacy Project ...
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Pianist Pedro Neves releases "Ausente"
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Associação Porta-Jazz
Pedro Neves, one of the most prestigious pianists in Oporto (Portugal), is releasing Ausente, the debut album as leader of his trio. It's music sums the work Pedro Neves developed side by side with Miguel Ângelo (db) and Leandro Leonet (d) along the past few years and states the maturity these three wonderful musicians have been seeking together. Pedro Neves has a wide musical background, which assigns this album with a great amount of singular choices within his jazz vocabulary. ...
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Jordan Rudess Releases "All That Is Now"
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Raistlin Beardsley
JORDAN RUDESS DREAM THEATER KEYBOARDIST AND AWARD-WINNING APP BUILDER RELEASES SOLO PIANO ALBUM “ALL THAT IS NOW” “JORDAN RUDESS EXPLORES” THE INTERACTIVE AURAL AND VISUAL IOS APP RELEASED IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALBUM Jordan Rudess, best known as the keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire for platinum-selling Grammy-nominated prog rock band, DREAM THEATER, has released his latest solo piano recording, ALL THAT IS NOW. The album contains 13 pieces, composed and performed by Jordan on his favorite instrument, a 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano. The ...
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Dickens Of A Twitter Torrent From An Ancient Future Present Starring Etherseizer Scrooogle
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Matthew Montfort
The week of December 9, the twitter account of the world fusion music band Ancient Future is hosting a twitter torrent from Ancient Future leader Matthew Montfort's spooky little spoof, “Dickens of an Ancient Future Present." Based on Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carole," the spoof follows Etherseizer Scrooogle as he is haunted by four phantoms: his deceased search partner Torrent Pirate, the Ghost of the Ancient Future Past, the Ghost of the Ancient Future Present, and the Ghost of ...
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Celebrating The Life And Music Of Chico Hamilton This Sunday 12/15
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AMT Public Relations
EUPHORIA Presents Celebrating the Life & Music of Foreststorn “Chico" Hamilton, featuring Chico's longstanding Euphoria ensemble with Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion), Mayu Saeki (flute) & Nick Demopolous (guitar). NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton passed away of natural causes on 11/25/13. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a “Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this Chico was considered one of the most important living jazz artists ...
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Sixth Jazz/World Fusion Album By Gino Foti Released On Net Dot Music Label
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Gino Foti
Global Resonances, the sixth solo album by jazz/world fusion bass guitarist & keyboard player Gino Foti, has been released by Net Dot Music, Inc. For this release, all keyboards and synthesizers have been silenced, so the integration of traditional ethnic music & modern jazz-rock fusion influences is spearheaded by his bass guitars on the thirteen original tracks, featuring a fifteen-minute trilogy based on the triune aspect, and four duets sans percussion. Like his past works, his musical compass points in ...
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UK Prog Legends Nektar To Tour Europe In January 2014
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK - Hot on the heels of a successful US tour and the release of their critically acclaimed new album 'Time Machine', UK prog legends Nektar are preparing to tour Europe in early 2014! After a bit of an absence from European stages, Nektar is sure to be a treat for concert-goers who will be fortunate enough to catch one of the shows! Nektar founding member Roye Albrighton (guitars/lead vocals) says, “We can promise you high quality performances wherever ...
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