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Recording

Whirlwind Recordings Releases: The Aruan Ortiz And Michael Janisch Quintet - Banned In London

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 23, 2013

Whirlwind Recordings Proudly Releases: The Aruan Ortiz and Michael Janisch Quintet - Banned in London U.S. Release Date: January 29, 2013 Featuring: Greg Osby, Raynald Colom & Rudy Royston! ONE OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT GIGS AT THE 2011 LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL took place at the Pizza Express on Soho's Dean Street by the Aruán Ortiz and Michael Janisch Quintet. On January 29, 2013 Whirlwind Recordings will release this critically acclaimed performance in the U.S. Banned In London has garnered ...

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Performance / Tour

Bob Mover Quartet In Paris, Jan. 24-26 At Sunset-Sunside

Source: SF Media
January 23, 2013

The Bob Mover Quartet will perform at Sunset-Sunside Jazz Club in Paris, France for 3 nights, January 24 through 26, 2013. Mover, widely regarded as one of the greatest saxophonists in jazz and a legendary presence on the New York City jazz scene, has a new CD set for release in 2013, My Heart Tells Me (Motema Music), a double-CD set which features not only Mover's mastery of alto, tenor and soprano saxophones, but also his impressive work as a ...

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Recording

Motéma Music Will Release Nilson Matta’s Black Orpheus On February 12, 2013

Source: Cary Goldberg
January 23, 2013

Bassist’s Inspired Re-imagining of Classic Brazilian Music Includes Contributions from Leny Andrade, Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen and Gretchen Parlato When Nilson Matta was a young child in his native Brazil, his father brought home an LP of the music from the play Orfeu da Conceição, by the playwright Vinicius de Moraes, which retells the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in the then-contemporary setting of Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. Matta, along with his entire family, were entranced ...

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Book / Magazine

Girls To Get Their Groove On For Second Annual "Hit Like A Girl" Drum Contest Enter Music Publishing, Tom-tom Mag And Major Drum Companies Participate

Source: JCM Media
January 23, 2013

San Jose, Calif., — Hit Like A Girl 2013, the second annual global contest for female drummers, today announced that the official launch for entries will be February 1. The event is produced by DRUM! Magazine in conjunction with TRX Cymbals and Tom Tom: The Magazine for Female Drummers, with the support of major drum equipment companies Drum Workshop, Pacific Drums and Percussion, Yamaha DTX Drums, Evans Drumheads, Vater Drumsticks, SKB bags and cases, Alfred Publishing, and Drumchannel. Developed to ...

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Interview

Interview: Australian Blues Vocalist Dee Lavell

Source: Eric Taylor
January 23, 2013

Q: When did you begin to sing? Who were your musical inspirations? A: It wasn't until I was in my 20s when friends started to tell me that I had a good voice and ought to go and get with a band. I loved soul and funk music, especially the black female singers, so I listened to the greats like Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, and Luther Vandross, but I also loved the great jazz singers as well - Sarah Vaughan, ...

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Trombonist Nick Finzer Releases Debut Album Exposition

Source: Nicholas Finzer
January 23, 2013

TROMBONIST NICK FINZER TO RELEASE “EXPOSITION” HIS RECORDING DEBUT AS A LEADER 22 JANUARY 2013 New York City Based Composer, Instrumentalist, Bandleader & Educator To Showcase Album At CD Release Gig and The National Sunday Feb 10 With the January 22, 2013 release of “Exposition” (Outside In Music OIM 1201), trombonist Nick Finzer delivers a debut recording that announces in no uncertain terms the addition to the international jazz community of a virtuoso instrumentalist, versatile improviser and a composer with ...

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UoU "Take The 7 Train" Released Today!

Source: Pete Zimmer
January 22, 2013

Tippin' Records Proudly Presents: UoU's Take the 7 Train (TIP1112) Released Today, January 22, 2013! UoU is: Daisuke Abe guitar, Takuji Yamada alto sax, bass clarinet Yoko Komori piano, Kuriko Tsugawa bass, Yoshifumi Nihonmatsu drums. A profusuion of aspiring jazz musicians from around the globe come to the United States, the birthplace of the genre, to study its tradition and learn from the masters. This not only expands jazz’s vital reach worldwide, but it also opens jazz itself to new ...

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"Lonely & Blue" Is A Lost Otis Redding Album, Due Out March 5

Source: conqueroo
January 22, 2013

Available on CD and blue vinyl, packaging evokes the look and feel of a late ’60s Stax/Volt album that Redding might have released at the height of his career LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Otis Redding’s Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding could pass for a title Stax/Volt might have released in the late ’60s. The look of the album reflects Stax’s design themes of the era. But in fact it’s a collection that never existed, until now, ...

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