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The Jost Project Plays The Music From The '60s - Support it at Kickstarter!

May 18, 2013

The Jost Project Plays The Music From The '60s - Support it at Kickstarter!

Support The Jost Project - “Can't Find My Way Home" Kickstarter Campaign - 1 day to go! We’re a band devoted to jazz and hope to reach a generation of rock fans in a style that will introduce them and pull them into our world. What’s our goal? To create a whole new connection between the ...

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Etienne Charles’ "Creole Soul" To Be Released July 23 On Culture Shock Music

May 18, 2013

Etienne Charles’

WORLD TOUR BEGINS APRIL 27 “Mr. Charles knows how to make an album more than just a calling card for a small band, and how to sequence it too; he’s an auteur.” —The New York Times Trinidad-born trumpeter Etienne Charles' fourth full-length release, Creole Soul, is due July 23 on Culture Shock Music. An exploration of ...

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Buddy Featherstonhaugh: '56

May 16, 2013

Buddy Featherstonhaugh: '56

The future of jazz for the jazz listener is foreign jazz. As good as American players were and are, there's a world of jazz past, present and future out there that will likely be a revelation to you. For those readers who tire of buying the same historic recordings over and over again in different packages, ...

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Swingadelic: Toussaintville

May 14, 2013

Swingadelic: Toussaintville

One of the most surprisingly imaginative CDs to cross my desk in some time is Swingadelic's Toussaintville (Zoho). The album—released today—pays tribute to the songs of Allen Toussaint [pictured], who turned 75 in January. The music is an intelligent and swinging fusion of big band jazz and soul-pop. The album not only skillfully reminds the listener ...

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Herbie Mann: Bossa Nova '62

May 13, 2013

Herbie Mann: Bossa Nova '62

Nearly two years after the fall of Cuba in 1959, Congress passed the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, which mandated an increase in governmental programs “to enhance mutual understanding between the United States and other countries." Many of those “other countries" were in Latin America. [Pictured above: Herbie Mann] In July 1961, jazz promoter Monty ...

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Prog Legends Flash Featuring Ray Bennett & Colin Carter To Release New CD

May 11, 2013

Prog Legends Flash Featuring Ray Bennett & Colin Carter To Release New CD

Los Angeles, CA - British progressive rock legends Flash, featuring founding members Ray Bennett & Colin Carter, will be releasing their highly anticipated new CD on Purple Pyramid Records on May 21, 2013. Titled 'Flash featuring Ray Bennett & Colin Carter', it's the first album by the group in 40 years, taking the band to a ...

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Globetrotting Guitarist Lawson Rollins Comes “Full Circle”

May 10, 2013

Globetrotting Guitarist Lawson Rollins Comes “Full Circle”

July 16th release bodes to harness the “Momentum” generated by over 7.5 million YouTube views San Francisco, CA: Having traversed the world in search of intriguing sounds from virtually every corner of the globe with his beloved Spanish guitar en tow, Lawson Rollins has come full circle on his aptly titled fourth solo album, “Full Circle,” ...

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Blue Note Records Partners with ArtistShare for Fan Funded Releases

May 9, 2013

Iconic jazz label Blue Note is partnering with music crowdfunding platform ArtistShare to create a new record label devoted to recording and releasing a new generation of jazz artists. Under the arrangement, UMG owned Blue Note will be involved in the selection of artists, add its logo and promotional support to the release, and if response ...

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Guitarist Wolfgang Schalk Releases Special Remix Of "The Second Third Man"

May 9, 2013

Guitarist Wolfgang Schalk Releases Special Remix Of

Release Date: June 11, 2013 / Label: Frame Up Music / Format: CD, Digital Download By Walter Kolosky The collaboration with Michael Brecker was a dream come true. By 1996 standards, the compositions and performances on Wolfgang Schalkʼs The Second Third Man were impressive. The title cut stood out, as I wrote previously: “The Second Third ...

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Bay Area's Park St. Trio Set to Release "3 Plus 5" on June 7, 2013

May 8, 2013

Bay Area's Park St. Trio Set to  Release

Alameda, CA: Park St. Trio, one of the Bay Area's emergent jazz ensembles, will release its second album on June 7, 2013. The new album, “3 Plus 5," is more adventurous and highlights their growth as a band. The songwriting leans more modern while maintaining the strong melodies that makes their music enjoyable. The band has ...

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"Black Lace Blue Tears," Debut CD For Seattle-Area Jazz Singer Eugenie Jones, Due May 28

May 8, 2013

With the release of her debut album Black Lace Blue Tears, Seattle-based Eugenie Jones emerges as a rising jazz vocal star with a deep-rooted sense of where she’s headed as an artist. Jones’s repertoire is based primarily on her own striking originals, and she also had a hand in all of the arrangements. The disc is ...

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Bass Player Antoine Fafard To Release Second Album Occultus Tramitis Featuring Former Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson Members

May 8, 2013

Bass Player Antoine Fafard To Release Second Album Occultus Tramitis Featuring Former Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson Members

London, UK - Much to the excitent of music aficionados across the globe, the second solo album by composer and bassist Antoine Fafard, 'Occultus Tramitis', will be released digitally on May 15 and on CD June 1, 2013. Featuring the contributions of a number of jazz- rock legends including Terry Bozzio (Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa), Jerry ...

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Blossom Dearie: '61 And '65

May 8, 2013

Blossom Dearie: '61 And '65

In 1961 and 1965, singer-songwriter and pianist Blossom Dearie returned to Paris on tour. She had first lived there from 1952 to '57—when she sang, played and recorded with the vocal group Les Blue Stars. In Paris, she also met and married Belgian saxophonist Bobby Jaspar and was introduced to producer Norman Granz, who signed her ...

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Tito Puente: "Quatro"

May 7, 2013

Tito Puente:

Over the years, Tito Puente's Latin-jazz albums for RCA have been in and out of print. The 2001 Complete RCA Recordings, Vols. 1 and 2 (6 CDs each) are going for hundreds of dollars each—if you can find them. Now, to celebrate the late percussionist-bandleader's 90th birthday, RCA has released Tito Puente, Quatro: The Definitive Collection—a ...

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