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Recording

French Avant Garde Music Trio Sidony Box Release New CD Recorded By Magma/Gong Legend Venux Deluxe

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 14, 2013

Paris, France - Much to the anticipation of music aficionados around the world, French avant-garde music troupe Sidony Box have released their third album 'Sidony Box Rules'. Award-winner of the “Rezzo Jazz a Vienne 2010” showcase and selected for the AFIJMA's “Jazz Migration 2011” tour, Sidony Box has earned its scenic reoutation through Europe and already released two albums acclaimed by international press. Sidony Box is back on stage with a luminous and heavenly third album recorded by Venux Deluxe, ...

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Recording

"Latin Noir": Melancholic Rarities From the Latin Music World

Source: FlipswitchPR, LLC
January 14, 2013

Latin Noir invites the listener to an emotional discovery of melancholic rarities from the modern and traditional world of Latin Music. Latin Noir presents the fifth edition of the exclusively packaged Série Noir by Piranha Musik in reference to an established genre for film and literature, darkly illuminating life's brooding, melancholy landscapes. This compilation features a selection of happy sad musical treasures from Cuba, Argentina, Colombia, New York and both sides of the Mediterranean Sea. If you are looking for ...

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Recording

Salsa Master Turned Chicago Mainstay Brings the Funk on "Heritage"

Source: FlipswitchPR, LLC
January 14, 2013

Angel d'Cuba has never shied away from dropping everything he can into his music. A native Cuban, Angel came up in a rich musical melange where James Brown and Jackson 5 grooves mixed freely with red-hot Afro-Carribean traditions. And Angel never hesitated to add new flavors — funk, R&B, soca, samba, rock — to this eclectic sonic mix. Moving to Chicago further expanded Angel's musical palette, as he demonstrates on Heritage (available: February 5, 2013). Formerly the lead singer of ...

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Performance / Tour

Toni Redd Performs At The Metropolitan Club In New York

Source: Cres O'Neal
January 13, 2013

Toni Redd Performs At The Metropolitan Room In New York, NY Washington, DC: National recording artist, Vocalist, Toni Redd, takes center stage at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, NY, NY, Friday, April 19, 2013 for 2 shows, 9:30 PM and 11:30 PM. Georgian born songstress, Toni Redd, is an internationally known vocalist with an intense style. The captivating and sultry vocal styling of Toni Redd combines traditional jazz, pop, classic soul, and urban rhythm & blues to create ...

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Recording

Singer/songwriter JL Stiles Presents The House Of Murmurs

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 13, 2013

San Francisco, CA - “If it weren't for his appearance, listening to JL Stiles' gritty, twangy voice, you'd swear you were hearing an old bluesman like the late Ted Hawkins, to whom he's been compared,” LA's Music Connection magazine touted about singer/songwriter JL Stiles. In many ways, the essence of this extraordinary music artist, along with his unique songwriting and blues guitar style, is his distinctive soulful voice – a voice that harkens to the days of classic blues and ...

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Performance / Tour

Sierra Jazz Society January Concert With Faculty And Students

Source: Nora Nausbaum
January 13, 2013

Grass Valley jazz: Bill Douglass leads the musical lineup including John Girton, Kit Bailey, Nora Nausbaum, Al Bent and SJS students. Our special guests are jazz vocalist Beth Duncan and jazzharpist Motoshi Kosako. We'll serve complimentary Coffee and cookies. Join us on January 19 at 2 pm for the last in our Winter Concert series. Venue will be the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains at 246 S. Church Street, Grass Valley (at the corner of Walsh and Church). The ...

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Event

Jazz At The NAZ - January 26, 2013

Source: Aleta Sonnenberg
January 13, 2013

Saturday January 26, at 2:00 PM, the JAZZ at the NAZ benefit concert for Brandon's Libraries for Little Ones begins. The music performed by double Grammy-nominated master pianist Mark Little ushers in an afternoon of supreme musical entertainment. The FREE JAZZ at the NAZ performance will be held at the Moscow, Idaho Church of the Nazarene at 1400 E. 7th St. When Mark Little was a little one, he dreamed about playing piano at Carnegie Hall. Mark says, “I had ...

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Education

Unique Approach To Piano Playing Helps With Seasonal Affective Disorder

Source: Edward Weiss
January 12, 2013

It's wintertime. And many are out playing in the snow. But for some, winter is not a happy event. In fact, it can be downright depressing. Which is why pianist/composer and online teacher Edward Weiss is giving away a free 'New Age' piano lesson titled 'Forest Interlude.' The lesson promises to teach beginning adults how to improvise and create their own unique sounds on the piano. When asked whether his 'New Age' piano method can help with depression or seasonal ...

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