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Singer-Songwriter Sam Morrow To Release Haunting Debut Album On April 29 Via Forty Below Records
10-Song Opus Produced By Eric Corne (John Mayall, DeVotchKa, KaiL Baxley) Record Release Show At Hotel Café In Los Angeles Scheduled For May 1st Los Angeles, CA: On April 29, Forty Below Records, home to albums by John Mayall, Bonson Berner and KaiL Baxley, will issue the extraordinary debut album by singer-songwriter Sam Morrow. Entitled Ephemeral, ...
Jazz Near You receives grant from Philadelphia Fund For Jazz Legacy and Innovation
The Painted Bride Art Center in collaboration with the Philadelphia Fund For Jazz Legacy & Innovation have designated Jazz Near You a grant recipient to fund a Jazz New Year promotional campaign in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. “I'd like to thank the Painted Bride Art Center, the Philadelphia Jazz Project and the Philadelphia Foundation for their ...
Chihiro Yamanaka Trio, March 31 At Blues Alley In Washington, DC
The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform March 31 at Blues Alley in Washington, DC. The concert is part of the Emerging Japanese Jazz Artist Series and is presented in association with the Embassy of Japan and the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The trio, led by dazzling jazz pianist/composer Chihiro Yamanaka, a Universal Music/Blue Note recording artist, ...
Trumpeter/Vocalist Ilya Serov Casts Spell On New CD
With a voice as silky as his trumpet playing, Ilya Serov casts a seductive spell on his debut album, September in the Rain. The Los Angeles-based Serov possesses that rare gift of being able to sing as well as utilize the trumpet with graceful precision. Such a talent is not common, and Serov employs both in ...
Carleen Anderson: At Home in London
by John Wesley Reed Jr.
One of the most powerful vocalists today is Carleen Anderson, the “2013 Jazz FM UK Vocalist of the Year." Amy Winehouse once said, “For live performances, you absolutely have to see Carleen Anderson at least three times in your life!" Amy confessed while sitting in on one of Ms. Anderson's soundchecks; Carleen sang “Don't Look Back ...
Chet Baker: The Missing Years by Artt Frank
by C. Michael Bailey
Chet Baker: The Missing Years Artt Frank 234 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-9887687-4-1 BooksEndependent 2014 Baker attracts positive and negative criticism like a celebrity black hole--the artist as hero and antihero. When considering Baker, you consider no one else. From “On The Banks of the Jabbok with Chet ...
Concord Music Group Reissues Vince Guaraldi's "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
Remastered vinyl and CD recordings mark 50th anniversary of the soundtrack to a TV documentary that never aired LOS ANGELES, CA: Most of us recall A Charlie Brown Christmas—the classic animated special that originally aired on network television during the holiday season of 1965—as the moment when pianist Vince Guaraldi first breathed life into the entire ...
Rebecca DuMaine & The Dave Miller Trio: Better Than Anything
by Dan Bilawsky
Better Than Anything is about past and present, songs and singers, influences and memories, and father-and-daughter chemistry. It's the second album, following Deed I Do (Summit Records, 2012), that finds vocalist Rebecca DuMaine joining forces with her father, pianist Dave Miller. DuMaine and Miller share more than genetic code, as they both seem ...
XNA: When We Changed You
by Glenn Astarita
The handsome packaging is a bounded cardboard book with artwork, photos and lyrics to instill or perhaps reinforce that this newly formed neo-progressive rock band, cherishes the artistically minded era of the olden days of yore. It's not a shabbily produced set by any stretch. With a few understated quotes and inferences to vintage Genesis and ...
The Blue Note: Seattle’s Black Musicians' Union A Pictorial History
by David Keller
The following is an excerpt from the preface of The Blue Note: Seattle's Black Musicians' Union A Pictorial History by David Keller (Our House Publishing, 2013). This is a story about the hopes and dreams of a small group of African American men and women. They ran their own union in Seattle beginning ...
