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Yuka Mito: Time After Time

Read "Time After Time" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Time After Time, Yuka Mito's second solo album, shines new light on oft-recorded songs from The Great American Songbook, adding three pop tunes and one original for a tasteful project from a Japanese vocalist with a love for jazz. Now based in New York, Mito divides her performance time between the Tokyo and New York jazz ...

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Misha Tsiganov: Dedication

Read "Dedication" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Relocating to New York City from Russia in the early '90s, pianist Misha Tsiganov extended his studies at the Berklee College of Music and has since gained steam as a solo artist, session ace and TV composer, among other projects. With prominent Russian artists including bassist/Grammy Award-winner Boris Kozlov and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin also calling The ...

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Jose Garcia: Songs For A Lifetime, Live

Read "Songs For A Lifetime, Live" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

A truly impressive recording by a jazz singer from a most unlikely place Songs For a Lifetime, Live is the debut by Jose Garcia, from Tecate, Mexico. A self-taught guitarist who grew up exposed to a variety of music including jazz, Garcia was invariably drawn to singers of music from The Great American Songbook. Concentrating on ...

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Janice Finlay: Anywhere But Here

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by Edward Blanco

Saxophonist Janice Finlay has been voted “top sax" by the jazz fans of Winnipeg, Canada for three consecutive years. An educator by profession at the Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts, Finlay is a first-call musician who leads several groups and is a long-time member of the Ron Paley Big Band. A stalwart of the Winnipeg ...

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Alex Diaz: Beyond 145th Street

Read "Beyond 145th Street" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal

Merengue, the national music of the Dominican Republic ferociously driven by percussive provincial rhythms such as pambiche, perico ripiao, el maco, guinchao and palo, is the natural choice for conga master Alex Diaz to blend his native roots with jazz improvisation in Beyond 145th Street . Diaz and featured saxophonist Ivan Renta continue ...

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Larry Brown Jr.: There Can Only Be One

Read "There Can Only Be One" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

A native of the small town of Venice, Illinois, guitarist Larry Brown Jr. is a deeply religious man with a big vision and plans for the future. Not only is Brown a musician and educator, but as founder of the Black Church Music Piano camp and the Music for the Heart non-profit organization, he is also ...

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Song of the Day

Mr. B.G.

Album: Live at Scullers Jazz Club
By Yoko Miwa
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Duration: 11:23

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Joanna Weinberg: The Piano Diaries

Read "The Piano Diaries" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Australian vocalist Joanna Weinberg is a difficult artist to pigeonhole in one genre. A testament to her versatility, The Piano Diaries is a very personal debut stemming from her restarting piano lessons after a three-decade hiatus, and represents a musical distillation of her eponymous autobiographical one-woman show. The dozen-song set showcases her various ...

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Frank Herzberg Trio: Handmade

Read "Handmade" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The letter “B" has played a major role in Frank Herzberg's life. The Berlin-born bassist, who spent time honing his craft at Berklee, relocated to Brazil in 1997 and has been busy performing and recording music there ever since. While Herzberg's career choices probably have nothing to do with adding alliterative qualities to his biography, they ...

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Song of the Day

Another Dark Ballad

Album: Bram Weijters Quintet
By Bram Weijters
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 4:30


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