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Roomful of Blues Celebrates 45 Years with New CD & Live Performance in New Hope
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Chris M. Slawecki
In celebration of their 45th anniversary, Roomful of Blues, the jumping, swinging, rocking, award-winning band, have released their new live CD, 45 LIVE, and will perform at Havana in New Hope on Friday, October 18, 2013. The album is a lightning-in-a-bottle blowout, showcasing the larger-than-life vocal and instrumental power of the band. The group has earned five Grammy Award nominations and a slew of other accolades, including seven Blues Music Awards. Twice, the prestigious DownBeat International Critics Poll selected them ...
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Cigdem Aslan Touches History with "Mortissa"
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
A century or more ago, in cities like Smyra, Thessaloniki, and Istanbul, Greeks and Turks lived peacefully side by side during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. People laughed and loved and sang together. In the bars and the hash houses, they played the music that was the root of what came to be called rebetiko, songs about poor people like themselves, the criminals and lovers, the musicians, the beauties and the strong women known as mortissas. Çiğdem Aslan ...
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Tev Stevig's Fretless Frailing Brings The Balkans Home
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
For Boston-based musician Tev Stevig, an epiphany occurred when he first heard the fretless guitar. For years, Stevig had explored American music from old time folk music to jazz, as well as the sounds of the Balkans and the Middle East. He wanted to bring together all of his musical passions and with this instrument he saw a path to realize his intentions. Stevig now introduces his album entitled Jeni Jol (“the New Path”) to the world, the first in ...
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Flutist, Bill McBirnie, Releases A New Album - Find Your Place
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Bill McBirnie - Extreme Flute
The Bill McBirnie Trio featuring Bernie Senensky and Anthony Michelli Find Your Place Bill McBirnie's new album, Find Your Place, departs in a significant way from his previously acclaimed acoustic jazz projects ("Mercy" with Robi Botos; “Paco Paco" with Bernie Senensky; and “Nature Boy" with Mark Eisenman). In FIND YOUR PLACE, Bill places the flute in a very unlikely role...as part of an organ trio! For this singular format, Bill has recruited two outstanding fellow Canadian musicians, Bernie Senensky on ...
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Loston Harris - Season Premiere Oct 22 - Bemelmans Bar
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Scott H. Thompson
LOSTON HARRIS RETURNS TO BEMELMANS BAR OCTOBER 22 NEW YORK CITY DEBUT OF NEW RELEASE “SWINGFULLY YOURS" CD Release Party - Nov 12 - Birdland Loston Harris proudly returns to his residency at Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle on October 22, 2013 with the New York City debut of his brand-new release “Swingfully Yours" (Magenta Label Group). The long awaited CD by the singer/songwriter features swinging arrangements of timeless standards from the Great American Songbook. George Gershwin, Harold Arlen and ...
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ArtistShare Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary -- Blue Note/ArtistShare Announces 1st Fan-Funded Project
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Brian Camelio
Yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of ArtistShare, the internet’s first fan funding platform and first to release a fan-funded grammy-winning album Jim Hall; Maria Schneider & Dawn Upshaw; Dianne Reeves and the Newport Jazz Festival project; and Ariel Pocock nominated for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards ArtistShare looking to add to already impressive track-record of 6 Grammy awards for fan-funded albums Fabian Almazan’s fan-funded “Rhizome” cd to be the first release under the joint Blue Note/ArtistShare label will feature young ...
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Ready Or Not, Jazz Guitarist B.D. Lenz Is Coming
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DeBlaze & Associates
“Deer Head Inn to Host CD Release" Hackettstown, NJ: - Award-winning, jazz guitarist and critically acclaimed composer B.D. Lenz will release “Ready or Not" — his eighth album and first straight-ahead jazz project — on Friday, November 1, 2013 from 7-11 pm. The cost is $7 per person and it takes place at the Deer Head Inn located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania near Northwest New Jersey. A prolific writer and seemingly ubiquitous musician with songs licensed for use ...
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Abbey Rader To Release New Album
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Kai Rader
Drummer Abbey Rader is set to release Reach for the Skies on October 29. This is the second album from his quartet. Their first effort, Live at PAX, was named one of the “Best of 2012" by Avant Music News. The personnel stays the same with John McMinn and Noah Brandmark on horns and Kyle Motl on bass. This session captures the unit in peak form. After two years, their improvisations reach a high point in pursuit of the ultimate ...
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