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Toronto Guitarist-Composer James Brown Returns To Recording After Decade-Plus Break On "Song Within The Story," Due March 18 On NGP Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Guitarist-composer James Brown returns from a 13-year recording hiatus with the fetching Song Within the Story, set for a March 18 release on NGP Records. Brown’s fourth album, and his first since 2009’s Sevendaze, finds him helming his Toronto-based working trio featuring bassist Clark Johnston and drummer Anthony Michelli. Respected tenor saxophonist Mike Murley joins the band on three of the album’s 10 tracks—eight of which are original compositions that document Brown’s ongoing intermarriage of jazz and classical music, while ...
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Axiom Will Release New Album, Starburst, After Decade-Long Hiatus
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GoMedia PR
Axiom, the jazz fusion group founded by brother Pete and Phil Templer, will release Starburst, their first album in over a decade, on August 21. On Starburst, Pete (guitars) and Phil (drums and percussion) are joined by an incredibly eclectic group of stellar musicians—Alan Palmer (Jackie Mclean, Bap Trio) and Frank Villafranca (Bill Watrous) on sax; Jared Stewart (Shadowfax) on keyboards; Bill Owen (ORN, Pell Mell) on bass and synth; Grammy- winner Hussein Jiffry ( Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes, Chaka ...
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Adorn Your Venue with the 2019 All About Jazz Readers Poll Top Venue decal
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Michael Ricci
We encourage the winners of the 2019 Top Venues Poll to print a decal of their award then place it in the window of their establishment. Similar to a Trip Advisor or Yelp decal, you can adorn the entrance to your venue with your All About Jazz 2019 award and impress your patrons as they enter your building. Check out what the Kozlov Club in Moscow did (see below). Flawless execution! :-) Print your decal in three simple steps: Download ...
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The Lost Nashville Sessions Of Wayne Jackson & The Memphis Horns Band Released After More Than Three Decades April 19th
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The Last Music Company
In the preamble to the 50th Anniversary of Grammy Lifetime Award winners The Memphis Horns in June, Skytone Entertainment releases The Lost Nashville Sessions by Wayne Jackson and The Memphis Horns Band in all digital formats today. The recording unearths tapes that were found lying dormant in a Nashville attic for over 34 years. Recorded in the mid-80s, The Lost Nashville Sessions is an eclectic collection of rock, soul, blues, pop and the eccentric—and heralds the one of the only ...
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Chicago VI Decades Live Available April 6
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Rhino Media Relations
Chicago's Current U.S. Tour Includes Its First Las Vegas Residency At The Venetian, As Well As Shows Featuring A Performance of Chicago II In Its Entirety Chicago has been a concert force for more than 50 years, thrilling its legion of fans with performances that never disappoint. This spring, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will celebrate their live legacy with a 4CD/1DVD collection of previously unreleased concert recordings, which includes several deep cuts that have never appeared on ...
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Doc: The Beatles Decade
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For American teens in the 1960s, the Beatles represented the dawn of unrestrained excitement and parental rejection, a time when screaming, long hair, loud music, risque fashion, snarky humor and drugs mocked authority and convention. But through a British lens, the Fab Four were something more—an escape from glum parents, a bleak economy, a class-conscious society and a country still bound by stuffy tradition and set ways. Yesterday I found a fascinating multi-part documentary on the Beatles and the 1960s ...
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Gong Expresso Feat. Gong Alumni Francois Causse, Benoit Moerlen And Hansford Rowe To Release New Album Decadence
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
Hansford Rowe's HRIII merges with Gong Expresso! Gong alumni Francois Causse, Benoit Moerlen and Hansford Rowe join HRIII guitarist Julien Sandiford for the recording of the new album by Gong Expresso titled Decadence. Says Hansford, “ 'Decadence' is the title tune on the new Gong Expresso album. Here the word means 'falling away.' I hope this tune and all the music on the album somehow addresses this in an unadorned, direct way. When I play with these 3 musicians I ...
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Decades: Ladies Of Jazz at The Ethical Society (Philadelphia) on October 1
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Julie Charnet
Join Julie Charnet Rhenda Fearrington and Shakera Jones for an evening of classic jazz, swing and more. Decades: Ladies of Jazz is a tribute to those great songs of the past that still resonate with so many today. Julie, Rhenda, and Shakera actively perform in the Philadelphia area and up and down the East Coast. Each brings their unique talent and sound to showcase some of the greatest hits and rarely heard gems of the past. All are independent musicians ...
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Bill Mays Presents "Ten Decades Of Jazz Piano" In Feb. 21 Program
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Ed Bride Associates
Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Participating in Pittsfield’s Annual 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival with One-time Performance PITTSFIELD, MA: Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced that the legendary NY-based pianist Bill Mays will perform in a special headline concert on Feb. 21 at Baba Louie’s Backroom. Part of the Pittsfield 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival, the master pianist surveys jazz' progression from raggedy honky-tonk sounds to its speakeasy era, to its heyday in the mid-20th century, to bebop, and now, to America's Classical Music." To ...
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Kickstarter Campaign for Leo "Bud" Welch, Blues Discovery of the Decade
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Chris M. Slawecki
Leo Bud Welch is an 82-year old Mississippi-based Blues and Gospel musician who released his debut record earlier this year, taking the blues world by storm. After decades of hard work in the cotton fields and the woods, missed opportunities and gigs in local Juke Joints and churches, Leo’s very late international success is a story that needs to be told. Our goal is to make a feature documentary called I don’t know what you’ve come to do – The ...
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