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Music Legend Merrell Fankhauser Releases Definitive Collection "The Best Of" Two-CD Set

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
April 2, 2012

London, UK: Music collectors worldwide rejoice! Legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist Merrell Fankhauser, who has led one of the most diverse careers in music, has released for the first time a new compilation 'The Best Of' two-CD set on UK's Gonzo MultiMedia. Featuring vintage tracks, hard to find gems and unreleased material, Merrell Fankhauser's The Best Of is sure to please the most avid fan. Merrell Fankhauser is considered one of the main innovators of surf music and psychedelic folk rock, and is ...

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Nanette Workman Returns With The 21st Album Of Her Career: "Just Gettin' Started"

Source: Glenda Rush
April 2, 2012

Just Gettin' Started 13 electrifying tracks of blues-tinged southern rock Six years after completing her blues trilogy—Roots’n’Blues, Vanilla Blues Café and Mississippi Rolling Stone, Nanette Workman returns with Just Gettin' Started. This new album, the 21st of her career, delivers 13 electrifying tracks of blues-tinged southern rock. Nanette pours her soulful, powerful and above all, immediately recognizable voice into songs that plumb the breadth and depth of breakups and loneliness, but also seduction, freedom and independence. It’s a repertoire perfectly ...

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Smithsonian’s American history museum marks 11th jazz appreciation month with program series

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2012

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month in April with a series of performances, talks, tours and events around Washington. The museum’s Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra will present small group performances throughout the month. The museum will also host three programs for families at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fort Dupont and Anacostia Park. The American history museum is home to an extensive jazz collection. It includes 100,000 pages of Duke Ellington’s unpublished ...

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Billy Martin & Wil Blades To Release "Shimmy" May 22 on The Royal Potato Family

Source: Calabro Music
April 2, 2012

Billy Martin and Wil Blades wanna make you Shimmy. The organ/drums duo waste no time getting right down to it on their debut album due May 22 from The Royal Potato Family in collaboration with Martin's own Amulet Records. Martin and Blades go old school in the tradition of essential organ-groove sides by the likes of Charles Earland, Brother Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes. Martin, the drummer for the legendary Medeski, Martin & Wood, and Blades, a much buzzed about ...

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Chris Smither's 'Hundred Dollar Valentine' Due in June

Source: conqueroo
April 2, 2012

First long-player by fingerpicker/singer/songwriter to feature all original songs features session support from Morphine, Groovasaurus, The Lemonheads players BOSTON, MA: There are such things as the cosmic blues. Janis Joplin once recorded a song by that name — she spelled it kosmik. But Chris Smither lives them. Smither's cosmic blues are on full display in Hundred Dollar Valentine, a brilliant amalgam made of equal parts past, present and future. It is music that traces its roots back deep into tradition, ...

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Performance / Tour

The Nova Philharmonic And Paul Joseph Take Third-stream To The Next Level

Source: Joseph
April 2, 2012

Isn’t it amazing how there are so many incredible classical and jazz performances in New York, just a stone’s throw off the beaten path? Last night at Good Shepherd-Faith Church in the Lincoln Center complex was a perfect example, where the Nova Philharmonic teamed up with violinist/composer Gregor Huebner and the Paul Joseph Quartet for a characteristically genre-smashing good time. First on the agenda was Huebner’s own absolutely haunting Ground Zero (from his New York Suite), a tone poem that ...

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Event

Jamaican Jazz Legend Monty Alexander's Birthday Bash Benefit Concert Held In Merkin Concert Hall At Kaufman Center In New York City On June 6

Source: Press Dept
April 2, 2012

The legendary pianist Monty Alexander, a true son of Jamaica, and his friends Dean Fraser and Tarrus Riley, will perform at a benefit concert on his birthday, June 6, 2012, at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York City. This Birthday Bash will also commemorate Monty’s 50 years in music and the 50th anniversary of the independence of Jamaica from Great Britain. Monty Alexander’s legacy of musical excellence bridges the worlds of Jazz and Jamaican music with over 70 ...

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Gloria Gaynor At Lehman Center For The Performing Arts

Source: Joe Alterman
April 2, 2012

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts continues its superb 31st season with a spectacular night of dance hits on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 8pm. One of dance music’s biggest stars for over three decades, GRAMMY® Award winner GLORIA GAYNOR will perform with a full band. Her 1979 #1 hit, the greatest disco anthem of all time, “I Will Survive,” is her signature song of inspiration that has touched the hearts of people all over the world. The song was ...

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