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Broadcast Music, Inc. to Name John Lydon as BMI Icon at 2013 BMI London Awards

Broadcast Music, Inc.(R)(BMI(R)), the global leader in music rights management, will present the BMI Icon Award to music legend John Lydon at its annual BMI London Awards. The gala will be held on Tuesday, October 15, at London's Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane. The BMI Icon designation is given to songwriters who have had “a unique and ...

News: Music Industry

Motema Takes Flight With Steady Stream of Breakthrough Albums

Motema Takes Flight With Steady Stream of Breakthrough Albums

Motéma Music's tenth anniversary year is in full swing, and as the summer heats up, the Harlem-based label has much cause for celebration. The month of July kicked off with vibraphonist Joe Locke's May release Lay Down My Heart, spending two weeks in the #1 slot on the Jazz Week chart. For the week of July ...

News: Recording

SAM Debut Album “Another Life” Set for Release

The progressive-rock improvising trio SAM, formed by bassist Julie Slick, guitarist Peter Alexius and Chapman Stick player Marc Mennigmann, announced the release of their long awaited debut album called Another Life and an additional EP called Yet Another Life on July 22nd, 2013. The album will be available on BandCamp first. Distribution on iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby, ...

News: Recording

Sarah Vaughan 'Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection' Coming on August 20.

Sarah Vaughan 'Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection' Coming on August 20.

Concord Music Group will release the two-CD Sarah Vaughan set Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection on August 20, 2013. Featuring six previously unreleased tracks and new liner notes, the compilation celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pablo Records, the jazz label founded by Norman Granz in 1973. The story of Pablo Records is a story ...

News: Recording

Earth, Wind & Fire Releasing New Studio Album "Now, Then & Forever" on September 10

Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the release of Now, Then & Forever by the legendary group Earth, Wind & Fire. This marks the group’s first new studio album in eight years. Now, Then & Forever, will be available everywhere on Tuesday, September 10. Earth, Wind & Fire’s first album of new studio material since 2005, ...

News: Recording

Danny Michel Releases "Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me" with The Garifuna Collective

Danny Michel first fell in love with the Central American country of Belize 15 years ago when he traveled there for a break from a cold Canada winter. What started as a vacation from the grind of touring and recording changed Michel’s life and led him down a long and winding road towards the creation of ...

News: Recording

Roomful Of Blues to Release "45 Live" July 30

In celebration of their 45th anniversary, Roomful of Blues, the jumping, swinging, rocking, award-winning band, will release their new live CD, 45 LIVE, on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. For the recording, the band hosted a three-day party in March of 2013 at one of their favorite haunts, The Ocean Mist, in Matunuck, Rhode Island. They packed ...

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Article: Album Review

Lenny White: Lenny White Live from '97

Read "Lenny White Live from '97" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Lenny White played powerful funky drums on some of the best records in jazz and jazz fusion history, including Freddie Hubbard's triumphant Red Clay with Creed Taylor (CTI, 1970), Miles Davis' (in)famous Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970), Romantic Warrior (Columbia, 1975) from his tenure in the Return to Forever rhythm section, and more.Lenny White Live ...

News: Recording

Sergio George Releases "Salsa Giants"

In the summer of 2012, over 12,000 music fans gathered at the Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival to witness a once in a lifetime concert experience as a select group of renowned salsa musicians came together for a historical one night event. That experience has been immortalized forever as Salsa Giants CD/DVD has been released under ...

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Article: Album Review

Fabrizio Sotti: Right Now

Read "Right Now" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Right Now consolidates the many different threads that Italian songwriter, guitarist and producer Fabrizio Sotti has explored in his career and weaves them all into a singular, beautiful tapestry. Serving as arranger and producer, he divides Right Now into an even mix of jazzy, reflective originals and soft jazz reflections of songs by Bob Marley, U2 ...


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