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Circavision Productions Releases Phase 5 Of Brian Adler's Helium Project

Source: Brian Shankar Adler
May 22, 2012

DRUMMER/COMPOSER SPEARHEADS DIGITAL-ONLY COLLABORATION FEATURING THE MUSICAL TALENT OF BEN MONDER, SUNNY KIM, MATT HOLMAN, BRYAN CARROTT, JESSE LEWIS AND RUBEN SAMAMA. Drummer and composer Brian Adler releases the fifth in a series of digital recordings from The Helium Music Project, his ongoing creative collaboration with jazz musicians that transcends time, and space. Entitled Phase 5, the digital EP will be available as a digital download on May 22 at HeliumMusicProject.com. With eyes and ears on the future, Adler showcases ...

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Performance / Tour

Bassist/composer Omer Avital Announces His New Band And An Upcoming Residency At Smalls

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 22, 2012

OMER AVITAL & His Band of The East In continued celebration of his new recording on Anzic Records, Suite of the East, bassist & composer Omer Avital announces his new band and a residency at Smalls Jazz Club in NYC, June 12, 19 and July 3, 10. June 12 - Featuring Greg Tardy - Tenor Saxophone, Itamar Borochov - Trumpet, Nadav Remez - Guitar, Omer Avital - Bass, Daniel Freedman - Drums June 19 - Featuring Greg Tardy - Tenor ...

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Limited Edition "Long Live Boogaloo!" Double Vinyl

Source: Press Junkie PR
May 22, 2012

In the mid 1960s Latin teenagers in New York's Spanish Harlem neighborhood created a new style of music called Latin boogaloo. The sound was a mix of the Cuban music they grew up with and American R&B like James Brown and Hank Ballard. It quickly caught on and before long the young purveyors of this new sound were taking business from the likes of Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, and Eddie Palmieri. Soon the established acts reluctantly joined the craze and ...

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Albert King Classic Album from Stax Remasters

Source: conqueroo
May 22, 2012

Concord Music Group will release Albert King’s I’ll Play the Blues for You as part of its Stax Remasters series on May 22, 2012. Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, four previously unreleased bonus tracks, and newly written liner notes by music journalist and roots music historian Bill Dahl, the reissue not only spotlights one of the most entertaining and influential blues recordings of the 1970s, but also underscores the album’s enduring nature four decades after its original release. ...

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Ancient Astronauts - The Orion Nebula Remixes (ESL Music)

Source: Press Junkie PR
May 22, 2012

Kabanjak and Dogu, aka Ancient Astronauts, hailing from Cologne/Germany are back with a heavy load of remixes on The Orion Nebula Remixes, out on April 10. After the release of internationally critically acclaimed album Into Bass And Time (their second album for ESL Music) they joined forces with some of their favorite producers and remixers, which resulted in a roster full of quality remixes. The selection of fine reinterpretations starts with a funked up boom bap remix of “Oblivion" feat. ...

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Performance / Tour

Songlines Recordings Will Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary With Guitar/Oud Night At New York's Shapeshifter Lab On June 14

Source: Cary Goldberg
May 22, 2012

Triple Bill Will Feature Ben Monder Trio, Brad Shepik Quartet and Gordon Grdina/Mark Helias To help celebrate Songlines Recordings’ 20th anniversary, three string players with deep connections to the label will perform at ShapeShifter Lab on June 14,co-presented by Songlines and Search and Restore. Ben Monder is reviving his original trio with the personnel from its first recording, Flux (Songlines 1995) – Drew Gress on bass and Jim Black on drums. In fact it's this particular formation's first gig anywhere ...

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UK Progressive Rock Ensemble Galahad Releases Highly Anticipated New CD "Battle Scars"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 22, 2012

London, UK: Battle Scars is the new studio album from established English progressive rock band Galahad just released on Avalon Records. The CD was recorded, engineered and mixed by Karl Groom (Threshold) at Thin Ice studios. 'Battle Scars', Galahad's seventh studio album, shows the band evolving from their well received and critically acclaimed 2007 album 'Empires Never Last'. 'Battle Scars' is the first of two new albums from Galahad scheduled for release this year. Battle Scars contains a myriad of ...

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Performance / Tour

Joe Caro, Adam Holzman, Andy Snitzer, Anton Fig, Conrad Korsch, Lew Soloff And Randy Brecker Live At Drom, NYC June 6th Presented By Innsbruck Records

Source: Roman Klun
May 22, 2012

In the New York City underground scene, Joe Caro led an allstar band which included trumpeter Chris Botti, saxman Lenny Pickett, Late show drummer Anton Fig, bassist Will Lee, trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxman Andy Snitzer among several other notables performing every Tuesday night at the NYC club, The Metropolitan Café. What started out as a two week gig, continued for eight years and became the home base for many New York City session musicians at a time when New ...

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