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Charles Carlini Presents Guitar Masters And Piano Jazz Memberships For Unforgettable Musical Experiences At Zinc Jazz Club

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Decibel
Renowned impresario Charles Carlini is proud to announce the launch of two extraordinary membership programs: Guitar Masters and Piano Jazz. Music enthusiasts will now have the exclusive opportunity to gain access to a series of mind-blowing shows, featuring virtuosic guitarists and accomplished jazz pianists, all at a discounted price. These remarkable events will take place at Zinc, one of New York City's premier jazz clubs, located at 82 West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012. Guitar Masters Membership Imagine immersing ...
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Axon Radio Releases Naptown Hustle Featuring Paul Brown

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Axon Radio
Two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown and Billboard hitmaker Darren Rahn team up with the Indianapolis duo on “Naptown Hustle,” which began collecting playlist adds this week. While the video for contemporary jazz group Axon Radio’s new single looks like a modern love letter to their hometown, Indianapolis, the roots of “Naptown Hustle” run nearly one hundred years deep. The duo that makes up Axon Radio, drummer Travis Brant and bassist Cory Carleton, set out to honor Indianapolis’s jazz history by ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: June 2023

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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the tracks featured in June, these ten represent our reader's favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! Top Tracks The Upside of Lonely Brian Nova From: The Upside Of Lonely 04:34 One Day at a Time Ray Vega From: East West Trumpet ...
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Buddy Rich’s 'Birdland' Lp To Be Re-released On Limited Edition Translucent Red Vinyl July 21, 2023

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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Lightyear Entertainment and Lobitos Creek Ranch, in association with Scabeba Entertainment and the Buddy Rich Estate, have announced the release of a special limited-edition version of the best-selling live album Birdland featuring Buddy Rich and his Killer Force Band at the peak of their performing years. The new release will be a 180-gram audiophile translucent red vinyl collector’s edition. It will be released July 21 through Virgin/Universal Music Group and will temporarily replace the original black vinyl version, which has ...
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'Jazz Is Everywhere' At Festival International De Jazz De Montréal 2023

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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM), presented by the TD Bank Group in collaboration with Rio Tinto, invites you to discover Jazz is Everywhere presented by TD with the financial support of Canada Economic Development, an innovative and accessible experience starting June 29 that allows people to access and enjoy all of jazz’s relevance and contemporaneity, including its influence on other musical styles and historical importance. It features three components: an augmented reality tour, a revamped the Wall ...
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'Listen To This' Exploring The Early Electric Period Of Miles Davis

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Mary Curtin Productions
For the past year, improvising keyboardist Dave Bryant, curator and host of the Third Thursdays" series of monthly harmolodic jazz concerts, has also been involved with the Listen To This" musical project, which explores the rich musical legacy of Miles Davis, particularly from his early electric period 1968-1975. The project includes founder Jerome Deupree of Morphine and Either/Orchestra (drums), Russ Gershon of Either/Orchestra (woodwinds, organ), Rick Barry of Bim Skala Bim and Lookie Lookie (percussion), Todd Brunel of Know Orchestra ...
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World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Announces August Line-Up Including Johnathan Blake’s Latest Blue Note Album, Performances By Special Guests Brad Mehldau, Lenny White, Emmet Cohen, And More

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AMT Public Relations
Rated the #1 Jazz Club in New York City (Secret NYC), Smoke Jazz Club welcomes some of today’s leading artists to the stage during the month of August. SMOKE is thrilled to welcome back its former Hammond B-3 organist-in-residence Emmet Cohen this time welcoming beloved saxophonist Houston Person for one-night only Aug 23. Johnathan Blake, one of the most accomplished drummers of his generation, celebrates his sophomore Blue Note album in a four-night run Aug 24-27. For the most updated ...
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Bassist-Producer Frank Swart Releases 'Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures' Featuring Gary Bartz, Dave Liebman, George Garzone, Bill Evans, Warren Wolf And Idris Ackamoor

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Scott Thompson Public Relations
In his wide-ranging career, bassist, guitarist, arranger, composer, producer, and engineer Frank Swart has contributed to countless sessions covering a wide range of music, from rock and funk to psychedelic acid jazz. In recent times, under the Funkwrench Blues name, he has created and produced 146 singles (at the time of this writing) that have been released once every two weeks, featuring such major artists as Mike Stern, Charlie Hunter, John Medeski, Oz Noy, Fred Wesley, and the late Lucky ...
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