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Reiff jr has worked as Musical Director for David Sanborn, Chaka Khan, Mark King and others. He has played/recorded with Michael Brecker, David Garfield, Randy Crawford, Tower of Power, Robert Palmer and many more. Reiff has been musical director on national TV for several years.

Spring 2004 Reiff released Reiffs Riffs - a book concerning improvisation on guitar

Summer 2004 Reiff jr played with David Garfield, Will Lee, Steve Ferrone & Alex Ligertwood. While they were together, this lineup recorded some new tracks for Reiff's next album. The 3'rd october they are playing again in Sophia, Bulgaria.

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S: Living Now

Read "Living Now" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Danish guitarist Søren Lee summarizes the philosophy behind Living Now, his third album as leader, in a single sentence: “This music is a story told straight from my heart to everyone who cares to listen.” It’s an expansive story, at times compelling, at others beauteous, woven entirely from the threads of his musical resourcefulness (all of the songs were composed by Lee). It is, however, a story that has been recounted many times before, in style if not in substance, ...

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Vocalist Karrin Allyson Revisits A Favorite Musical Destination With 'A Kiss For Brazil,' Releasing May 17 On Origin Records

Vocalist Karrin Allyson Revisits A Favorite Musical Destination With 'A Kiss For Brazil,' Releasing May 17 On Origin Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Vocalist, pianist, and composer Karrin Allyson writes the long-awaited next chapter in her series of love letters to Brazil on the aptly titled A Kiss for Brazil, to be released May 17 by Origin Records. The sequel to 1999’s From Paris to Rio and 2008’s Imagina: Songs of Brasil adds a bold spice to the sauce: Brazilian singer, guitarist, and national treasure Rosa Passos appears on two songs alongside Allyson and all-star accompanists Vitor Gonçalves (piano, Rhodes, accordion), Yotam Silberstein ...

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World-renowned Smoke Jazz Club Presents Album Release Concerts By Charles Mcpherson And Jane Monheit, A Benny Golson Salute, And More During The Month Of May

World-renowned Smoke Jazz Club Presents Album Release Concerts By Charles Mcpherson And Jane Monheit, A Benny Golson Salute, And More During The Month Of May

Source: AMT Public Relations

SMOKE Jazz Club continues its 25th anniversary season with another month of today’s leading artists in jazz. May kickstarts with a five-night (May 1-5) celebration of Reverence, a new SMOKE Sessions recording by the Charles McPherson Quintet. The Benny Golson sextet heard on the 2008 album New Time, New ‘Tetreunites (sans 95-year-old bandleader) for a special run (May 8-12) honoring one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz. Making her SMOKE debut is vocalist Jane ...

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Documentary: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Documentary: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Sister Rosetta Tharpe began recording on the electric guitar in 1941, for her first Decca sides with Lucky Millinder's band. She was one of the first true fusion artists, combining multiple styles of music in her delivery. At this point in time, hundreds of thousands of black Americans were on the move, leaving the farms of the South and Southwest for better-paying manufacturing jobs up North and out West, where blacks' lives weren't at the same level of risk. Since ...

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Elio Villafranca And The Jass Syncopators Take A Musical Journey From Cuba To New York on Friday April 26, 2024

Elio Villafranca And The Jass Syncopators Take A Musical Journey From Cuba To New York on Friday April 26, 2024

Source: Cheryl Duncan & Company

TRAVEL THE “CROSSROADS FROM CUBA TO NEW YORK” Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators featuring Brianna Thomas head to City College Center for the Arts for a special concert on Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m. Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators will take the stage at Aaron Davis Hall on Friday, April 26, for a magical musical journey “Crossroads from Cuba to New York.” The 7 p.m. concert, produced and presented by City College Center for the Arts (CCCA), ...

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Gabrielle Stravelli Trio Appear At Birdland on May 6th - New Release 'Beautiful Moons Ago' Streets on May 3rd

Gabrielle Stravelli Trio Appear At Birdland on May 6th - New Release 'Beautiful Moons Ago' Streets on May 3rd

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations

Acclaimed vocalist & songwriter Gabrielle Stravelli blends musical traditions with a modern, genre-bending sensibility. Her fifth release, Beautiful Moons Ago is her first to feature her trio with pianist Michael Kanan and bassist Pat O'Leary. Over twelve years of collaborating, the trio has developed a deep musical connection that allows for great spontaneity in their performances. Recorded at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder Studio, “Beautiful Moons Ago” mines the jazz and American Songbook repertoire to bring you rarely heard gems ...

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Encuentro Music to Release Reginald Policard’s Global Jazz Album 'Boarding Pass' in Label Debut

Encuentro Music to Release Reginald Policard’s Global Jazz Album  'Boarding Pass' in Label Debut

Source: Dog Ranch Music PR

Called “the most valued Haitian pianist in the jazz scene”, versatile pianist, author, and composer Reginald Policard has evolved through decades of playing different styles of music such as konpa, jazz, latin jazz and fusion to arrive at his personal style. Together with special guests from all over the world, Reginald brings the musical traditions of Haiti, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and American jazz to Boarding Pass, an exciting and fresh blend of musical cultures, to be released on ...

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Hollywood Jazz Orchestra Play The Grape—Ventura's Only Jazz Club on May 23, 2024

Hollywood Jazz Orchestra Play The Grape—Ventura's Only Jazz Club on May 23, 2024

Source: David W Payne

The Hollywood Jazz Orchestra is coming to The Grape, Ventura's only Jazz Club, Thursday May 23rd @ 7.30 p.m. The 16 piece Hollywood Jazz Orchestra is led by Conductor, Composer, Arranger Charley Harrison, who has also been the Director of UCLA Jazz Orchestra since 2004. Over the years, Harrison has had compositions and arrangements performed by Jazz greats, like Kurt Elling, Cedar Walton, Joe Williams and The Count Basie Orchestra. Harrison says “ We will be premiering new work from ...

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2024 NEA Jazz Masters Honored At Free Events

2024 NEA Jazz Masters Honored At Free Events

Source: Silky Sullivan

Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will celebrate the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters at a series of public events April 11-13, 2024, in Washington, DC, culminating in a free tribute concert on Saturday, April 13. The 2024 NEA Jazz Masters tribute concert will include virtuoso vocalist and pianist Amina Claudine Myers, prolific saxophonist Gary Bartz, Grammy-winning trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard, and writer and Artistic Director ...

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Fela Kuti MFM Zoom Roundtable Discussion Set For April 19, 2024

Fela Kuti MFM Zoom Roundtable Discussion Set For April 19, 2024

Source: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi aka SoSaLa

MFM Presents “Music Is Essential," a Zoom Roundtable Discussion on the Legacy and Impact of Fela Kuti’s Music and Activism on the African Continent, with Special guests who knew or worked with the godfather of Afrobeat. Date: Friday, April 19, 2024—Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET Venue: ZOOM—Ticket: $5 (up to 100 for sale. Save your seat TODAY!) Get Ticket Zoom host and PR Campaign manager: Adam Reifsteck This event is produced by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi aka SoSaLa (MFM President and ...

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Juliet Varnedoe Jazz Band Release 'Cajun Bleu'

Juliet Varnedoe Jazz Band Release 'Cajun Bleu'

Source: Juliet Varnedoe

Innovative New York-based jazz vocalist songwriter Juliet Varnedoe is set to release her debut album Cajun Bleu on April 12th 2024, presenting her imaginative interpretation of Cajun musical traditions. As a producer and songwriter, Varnedoe brings a highly original blend of music that combines New Orleans blues with the French cabaret drama of Juliette Gréco and the lyrical wit of Blossom Dearie. Growing up in Louisiana with a German father and Cajun mother, Juliet’s formative years were filled with sounds ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Funky Flavas

Unknown label
2003

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Living Now

Stunt Records/Sundance Music
2002

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