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Italian Jazz Luminary Francesco Cataldo To Release First Solo Piano Album - 'Amaranto'

Italian Jazz Luminary Francesco Cataldo To Release First Solo Piano Album - 'Amaranto'

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations

Upcoming solo recording Amaranto marks acclaimed jazz guitarist Francesco Cataldo’s first release focusing on keyboards. Amaranto pays tribute to Cataldo’s friend, mentor and inspiration, humanitarian Giuseppe Agosta. Francesco Cataldo, among the most highly regarded Italian jazz musicians of his generation, has long established a reputation as a triple-threat talent, celebrated for his skills as guitarist, composer and arranger. Expect Cataldo to advance to quadruple-threat status soon, as he adds solo piano to his list of achievements with the release of ...

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Performance / Tour

Songstress Antonia Bennett, Daughter Of Jazz Icon Tony Bennett, Launches Solo Career At Dizzy's Club On November 30, 2023

Songstress Antonia Bennett, Daughter Of Jazz Icon Tony Bennett, Launches Solo Career At Dizzy's Club On November 30, 2023

Source: RickGomesPR

Antonia Bennett, the acclaimed jazz singer and daughter of legendary jazz icon Tony Bennett, launches her solo career at Dizzy's Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday, November 30, with two performances at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. This one-night-only engagement promises an unforgettable journey through the Great American Songbook, along with Bennett’s own original compositions. With her warm and captivating voice, Bennett will bring to life timeless classics from the Great American Songbook, evoking the spirit of Ella ...

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Benny Green's New Album, 'Solo'

Benny Green's New Album, 'Solo'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

What sets Benny Green apart from many jazz pianists today is that he plays with his heart. By this, I don't mean soul. Most jazz pianists play with soul. It comes with the territory. With Benny, you can hear his emotions through his fingers. There's crying in there, bliss, melancholy, elation and wistfulness. On his new album, Solo (Sunnyside), we hear the entire range on 11 smartly chosen songs. Benny's gift is the product of an early start and seasoning ...

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Most Definitely - The First Solo Recording From Drummer-Composer Devin Gray, Due June 9th From Rataplan Records

Most Definitely - The First Solo Recording From Drummer-Composer Devin Gray, Due June 9th From Rataplan Records

Source: Devin Gray

Brooklyn-Berlin based drummer-composer Devin Gray made his widely lauded leader debut in 2012 with the release Dirigo Rataplan, which included a crew of heavyweight veterans Ellery Eskelin, Michael Formanek and Dave Ballou. JazzTimes said that Gray’s debut represented “the work of a young artist who knows who he is.” Free Jazz blog encapsulated the album this way: “...one of the best debut albums in years.” In 2015 Gray released Relative Resonance, a band of close New York associates: Chris Speed, ...

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Recording

Ramsey Lewis Celebrates The Music Of The Fab Four With Posthumous CD 'The Beatles Songbook,' His First Solo Piano Recording, Due Jan. 6

Ramsey Lewis Celebrates The Music Of The Fab Four With Posthumous CD 'The Beatles Songbook,' His First Solo Piano Recording, Due Jan. 6

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

The late, legendary pianist Ramsey Lewis offers an intimate, familiar affair with his solo piano recording The Beatles Songbook: The Saturday Salon Series, Volume One, to be released January 6 on Steele Records. This selection of tunes by the iconic songwriting duo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, approved for release by Lewis, is also a surprising DIY project, created during livestreamed sessions in Lewis’s own jny: Chicago home. Lewis, of course, is no stranger to covering of postwar pop ...

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Backgrounder: Bill Evans - 'Solo Sessions, Vol. 1'

Backgrounder: Bill Evans - 'Solo Sessions, Vol. 1'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

In January 1963, producer Orrin Keepnews brought Bill Evans into the studio to record solo. It's unclear whether Orrin did this to bank away Evans tapes prior to him signing with Verve or whether this was done because Evans needed cash and Keepnews decided to record him early in order to advance him payment. Either way, the material wasn't released until 1984, when the tracks were included in Bill Evans: The Complete Riverside Recordings in 1984 and, again in 1989, ...

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Recording

Pianist-Composer George Colligan's 'King's Dream,' His 36th Album As A Leader & 5th As A Solo Pianist, Due November 11 On PJCE Records

Pianist-Composer George Colligan's 'King's Dream,' His 36th Album As A Leader & 5th As A Solo Pianist, Due November 11 On PJCE Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

George Colligan expresses the complexities and conflicting emotions of our confusing, sometimes chaotic times with the November 11 release of King’s Dream (PJCE). Though not quite a sequel, the album builds on many of the themes presented on his previous solo album, 2018’s Nation Divided. The 11 original compositions on King’s Dream (Colligan’s 36th album as a leader) are not all new: Some of them go as far back as 2008. But like all the best improvised jazz, the tunes ...

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Recording

Mal Waldron - Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert

Mal Waldron - Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert

Source: Tompkins Square

Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert is a previously unissued recording of jazz icon Mal Waldron's mesmerizing performance at the “Five Days of Jazz" series in Grenoble, France on March 23, 1978. Waldron was Billie Holiday’s final accompanist, played on classic sessions with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Jackie McLean among others, and recorded dozens of solo albums as a leader before his passing in 2002. Originally produced by the legendary André Francís and transferred from the original ...

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Interview

Interview: John Scofield, Solo

Interview: John Scofield, Solo

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

John Scofield has one of the most distinct and fascinating guitar sounds in jazz. Notes are picked and bent, creating a pizzicato-like, jagged sound that meows in places and lingers in others. John and I have been long-time e-mail pen pals and he's a regular reader of this blog, just as I am an avid John Scofield fan and listener. Dating back to 1977, John has recorded more than 40 albums as a leader and is a three-time Grammy winner. ...

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Event

Pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse's New Solo Piano Album 'Hope' Release Concert at Revelation Gallery

Pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse's New Solo Piano Album 'Hope' Release Concert at Revelation Gallery

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

Yaniv Taubenhouse solo piano release concert for Hope on March 6th 2022 at 3pm (ET) Revelation Gallery 224 Waverly Place New York, NY 10014 In-Person Tickets | Streaming Tickets Taubenhouse decided to follow up his latest trio recording with a format which enables him to tell you his story as an artist, as a pianist, as a person in this world, intimately, and from his heart. Hope, recorded ...

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