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Markus Rutz Trio Releases 'Moods & Spirits Of The Season,' Its First Album For The Holidays
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Markus Rutz
Markus Rutz Chicago musician & composer, will release his first-ever holiday album, Moods & Spirits of the Season. Seasons of year brings to mind feelings, sights, aromas and sounds, and includes covers of classic traditional seasonal songs with original arrangements. The album features Rutz bright yet subdued interpretation of seasonal standards including: Blue Christmas Christmas Time Is Here Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah Let It Snow Oh Holy Night Winter Wonderland “The holiday season carries many associations of faith, traditions, families, cities ...
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James Blood Ulmer, One Of The 'Greatest Guitarists Of All Time,' In Cambridge, MA on November 16, 2023
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Mary Curtin Productions
James Blood Ulmer is among the most distinctive and influential electric guitarists who has made a career built on left turns and reinvention. One of the most expressive guitarists on the planet, Blood is one of the undisputed keepers of the flame for the “harmolodic movement” created by Ornette Coleman. He takes those fundamentals and applies them at will to any genre he pursues, from rootsy Americana, rock, hyper funk, outside electric, Hendrix-inspired cosmic blues. Blood’s music is rooted in ...
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Groupmuse Partners with All About Jazz
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Michael Ricci
Groupmuse is proud to announce that we are partnering with All About Jazz to share our jazz concerts with a wider audience. For much of Groupmuse’s existence, its focus was exclusively on Western classical music. After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the team reflected on classical music’s historical Eurocentrism, and decided to broaden Groupmuse’s musical focus. To center and support musics of the African diaspora and artists of African descent, Groupmuse launched Planetary Music Movement in 2020. As one prominent ...
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GRP Record Label Artists Pay Tribute To Its Founder Dave Grusin At New Jersey Performing Arts Center, November 17th
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AMT Public Relations
As part of NJPAC's TD James Moody Festival sponsored by TD Bank “Dave Grusin’s 40-year career in the music business has led him down many paths, and all have been successful for this gifted musician, composer, arranger, recording executive, and cowboy.” —Jazz Times The prolific composer Dave Grusin has over 3,000 credits as composer, producer, arranger, conductor, and performer. He has one Academy Award with eight nominations, 10 Grammy Awards with 30 nominations, and four Golden Globe nominations. Audiences will ...
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Guitarist Russ Spiegel Releases 'Caribbean Blue' with Guests Brian Lynch, Tim Armacost, Hendrik Meurkens and more on RuzzTone Music
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
A world-class guitarist by anyone’s definition, California-born Russ Spiegel is also a composer, arranger, big band leader, mixing engineer, educator and much more, including a world traveler. Though not entirely, much of the music in Caribbean Blue is a tip of the hat to some of his destinations and the cultures he’s experienced, and homage to many of the genres of music he loves, and, perhaps most importantly, a reminder of just how small the world really is. Throughout his ...
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'If I Had,' The New Ep From Juno-nominated Jazz Drummer Curtis Nowosad Drops Today On La Reserve Records—release Events At Rockwood Music Hall And Smalls Jazz Club
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All About Jazz
JUNO-nominated, NYC-based jazz drummer, composer, bandleader Curtis Nowosad will release If I Had, a soul-searching record that bears a message of social justice at its core. The drummer has a gift for marrying the personal and the political — he did so to powerful effect on his self-titled 2019 release, which presented songs about civil rights activists, and on a subsequent 2022 remix album. With If I Had, Nowosad picks up right where he left off, choosing legendary songs like ...
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New Symphonic Jazz By Jakob Buchanan, Featuring Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Marilyn Mazur And Chopenhagen Royal Chapel Boys Choir with Conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen
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Lars Hannibal
Ever since it quietly emerged on the international scene in the late ‘60s, Scandinavian jazz carved out for itself a distinctive niche. Drawing on the influence of Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Scandinavian jazz embraced a free, spacious, experimental, and contemplative aesthetic. It has also been open to modern or contemporary classical music and collaborations with European folk and ethnic-musicians. This is not OUR Recordings first journey into Scandinavian Jazz; the critically acclaimed album Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, ...
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Giuseppe Millaci & Vogue Trio Explore Paintings Through Music On The New Album 'Double Portrait'
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Nina Feri
Double Portrait is already the fourth album of Giuseppe Millaci & Vogue Trio. We find our three accomplices with the experience of the multiple Belgian and international stages they have played on together. Considered as a talented bassist by the famous American magazine Downbeat, Giuseppe Millaci is one of the most active double bassists in the Belgian landscape: he has indeed distinguished himself as a leader on no less than five albums since 2017. Double Portrait brings to light the ...
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