Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Ranky Tanky Breathes Life To the Gullah Culture of the South Carolina Lowcountry

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From the South Carolina Lowcountry, where life is laced with African ways, comes Ranky Tanky, a quintet with music rooted in a culture t...

Lisa Hilton Sets Forth On A Journey Promoting Peace, Tranquility and Positive Energy with Escapism

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Lisa Hilton often settles in at her piano and riffs on everyone from Miles Davis and Horace Silver to The Black Keys and Green Day, unti...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Award-winning jazz singer ALMA MICIC releases THAT OLD FEELING

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Award-winning jazz singer Alma Micic 'personifies what jazz singing is all about'" says Ron Della Cheese of WGBH radio.   Al...

Norwegian jazz singer Silje Nergaard releases For You A Thousand Times

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In her album ‘For You A Thousand Times’, Norwegian jazz singer Silje Nergaard portrays people or scenes who inspired her and describes p...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

FRANCOIS BOURASSA QUARTET NUMBER 9

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Award-winning, critically-acclaimed pianist/composer Francois Bourassa's new album - Number 9, his ninth album of all original music...

The Sound Of Vinyl Launches New Way To Discover And Buy Records Through First-Of-Its-Kind Text Message Service

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The Sound of Vinyl today launched in the U.S. with a first-of-its-kind music service that provides a personalized and curated platform f...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Releases The Emancipation Procrastination, Third and Final Album in The Centennial Trilogy

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Grammy nominated trumpeter, composer, and producer Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah will release the third installment of a trio of albums ...

Saxophonist Justin Young’s “Blue Soul” powered by “High Definition”

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Justin Young is hungry. The energetic and enthusiastic saxophonist is all about hustle and hard work. For over a decade, he’s put out qu...

Wadada Leo Smith´s new album Najwa features tribute to past masters of creative music, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Ronald Shannon Jackson & Billie Holiday

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The first two extended compositions that open the album are dedications to two great masters of creative music, Ornette Coleman and John...

Wadada Leo Smith´s new album Solo: Reflections And Meditations On Monk features his solo trumpet on four classic Thelonious Monk compositions

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"Most people would never realize that I am closer to Thelonious Monk than to any other artist," says Smith. "What connect...

Acclaimed Recording Artist Latice Crawford Performs Special Tribute to Music Legend Oleta Adams on ‘Black Music Honors’

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Acclaimed recording artist Latice Crawford is part of a tribute performance to multiple award-winning music legend Oleta Adams in the na...

Moppa Elliott's Mostly Other People Do the Killing Presents New Album Paint

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Hot Cup Records is proud to present Paint, the first release by the piano trio configuration of Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Paint...

Drummer Mike Mitchell Reinvents Himself as Blaque Dynamite, Encourages and Embraces the Unorthodox on Hydra Rock/Hip-Hop/Jazz Debut Record

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In a world of constant repetition and formulaic goals, there stands one young man's quest to exist however he wants, in any manner h...

Fred Astaire's Greatest Jazz Recording, "The Astaire Story," Returns As Deluxe 2CD Set For 65th Anniversary Via Verve Records/UMe

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In 1952, the famous dancer, singer and film star Fred Astaire teamed up with the brilliant pianist Oscar Peterson and an all-star jazz s...