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«Journeys» is the project of six experienced top musicians from Zürich, who have been on the scene for the last twenty-five years. Based on the remarkable compositions of Dennis Roshard and Angelo Signore the band has developed an exciting, timeless mix of grooving funk tunes, beautiful ballads and kicking Latin jazz, leaving their audiences overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Their new CD «New Destinations» is filled with beautiful melodies, colorful harmonies, driving grooves and excellent solos.

Take a trip with the music of «Journeys» to «New Destinations»" you’ll always want to come back.

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Interview

Markus Rutz In Conversation With Journeys Into Jazz Radio Host

Markus Rutz In Conversation With Journeys Into Jazz Radio Host

Source: Markus Rutz

Listen in for Chicago-based trumpeter / composer Markus Rutz's conversation with Chuck France of WORT Radio in Madison, Wisconsin. The interview was originally broadcast on June 2nd and the episode is accessible until end of August in the WORT archives (scroll down to August 18th Journeys Into Jazz rebroadcast). Markus had an opportunity to discuss his personal journey in music, The Rose Rhapsody, and their mutual friend Richard Davis. About Markus Rutz Markus Rutz plays the trumpet with a bluesy, ...

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Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz

Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz

Source: All About Jazz

Giant Steps: Diversity Journeys in British Jazz features conversations with many of the artists who have engineered the cultural transformation of British jazz over the past four decades. A new wave of the genre emerged in the 1980s, spearheaded by the Jazz Warriors, a collective of black musicians which launched the careers of bassist Gary Crosby, tenor saxophonist Courtney Pine, pianist Julian Joseph, vocalist Cleveland Watkiss, as well as many others. As trombonist Dennis Rollins, a latecomer to the group, ...

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Women In Jazz: New Book celebrates the women of music, shares their journeys and gives them voice.

Women In Jazz: New Book celebrates the women of music, shares their journeys and gives them voice.

Source: All About Jazz

Containing interviews and first-hand accounts, Women In Jazz is witness to the generosity, profundity and positivity with which women have responded and the energy they have put into their lives in overcoming challenges. The book tells the stories of the women in their own, unchanged words. It allows their voices to be heard and tackles head-on some issues which need to be discussed such as misogyny and there are some hilarious anecdotes, some poignant moments but above all a positivity ...

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Dysfunctional: Life Journeys of a Second Generation Jazz Musician

Dysfunctional: Life Journeys of a Second Generation Jazz Musician

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins

Dysfunctional is the curious title of a gritty and revealing autobiography written figurative minutes before the passing on to ancestry of a Kansas City treasure, master saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen. Subtitled “life journeys of a second generation jazz musician," that's precisely where Alaadeen places himself in the jazz lineage—among the second generation of musicians who came up through the world of music, likely because he was among the generation that came up at the tail end of the so-called swing era ...

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Recording

Jazz Legacy Productions Presents "Journeys" by the Cyrus Chestnut Trio

Jazz Legacy Productions Presents "Journeys" by the Cyrus Chestnut Trio

Source: AAJ Staff

Chestnut's Sophomore CD for the Label and Return to Piano Trio Format Features Dezron Douglas and Neal Smith Available September 28 When a young musician makes a sensational debut, it's a moment that's thrilling and yet also familiar; similar fireworks flash with the arrival of each successive prodigy. But when that musician achieves true insight, through talent informed by experience, and lifts his work into a higher realm of achievement, that is a real milestone, rare and sublime. Arguably, Cyrus ...

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Clarinetist Oran Etkin Shares A World Of Musical Journeys In New Release For Kids: Wake Up Clarinet!

Clarinetist Oran Etkin Shares A World Of Musical Journeys In New Release For Kids: Wake Up Clarinet!

Source: GoMedia PR

Enhanced CD Featuring Etkin's Timbalooloo Method Will Be Released on Motema Music on September 14th CD Release Concerts for Wake Up Clarinet, as well as Performances by Etkin's Group Kelenia, Scheduled Throughout 2010 ..."really really remarkable... he has touched both of our boys' lives." --Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber “Oran Etkin makes music from all over the world accessible and fun for children to listen to and learn about. From the age of two, our son was talking about Herbie ...

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The Wayfaring Steve Poltz Recounts His Journeys on Forthcoming Album "Traveling"

The Wayfaring Steve Poltz Recounts His Journeys on Forthcoming Album "Traveling"

Source: conqueroo

On his new CD, due out January 22, 2008, the singer/songwriter spins road miles into keen reminisces.

SAN DIEGO, CA - With thousands of songs behind him and a lifetime of road miles beneath his feet, Steve Poltz has finally sat down to look back and make sense of it all. The only tunesmith ever to write songs with both Mojo Nixon and Jewel is back with Traveling, a new album that once again defies category and blurs musical boundaries. ...

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Music Industry

Circuit Productions' Begins Performances of "Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music"

Circuit Productions' Begins Performances of "Rhythm Journeys:  Masters of Jazz and World Music"

Source: All About Jazz

Circuit Productions' Begins Performances of “Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music" with a grant from NYS Music Fund

10 free concerts to take place in NYC and NYS beginning Spring-Summer 2007 Legendary Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, featuring composer/pianist John Miller to perform at the Harlem Meer Performance series in Central Park

Brooklyn, New York - Circuit Productions, Inc., the recipient of NYS Music Fund grant ("The Fund"), announced this month that it has begun performances of RHYTHM ...

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