Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Keely Smith: Little Girl Blue, Little Girl New (Expanded Edition) CD

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You can’t get any more popular in American entertainment than Keely Smith was in the early ‘60s. Having blown the doors out in Las Vegas...

Laura Nyro: A Little Magic, A Little Kindness—The Complete Mono Albums Collection (2-CD Set)

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Can you surry?   Can you picnic?   Laura Nyro, to use her own fanciful word, surried onto the scene 50 years ago with the release of her...

Dusty Springfield:The Complete Philadelphia Sessions – A Brand New Me (Expanded Edition) CD

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Having issued collections of her lost 1971 Jeff Barry-produced sessions (Faithful) and her entire 1970-1971 U.K. sessions (Come for a Dr...

Sabrina Malheiros announces new album Clareia

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Having made her mark on Brazil’s rich musical legacy with three best-selling albums to date, Rio’s original nu-bossa queen returns w...

1st Annual LuluFest In Austin, Texas To Be Presented Saturday, June 3 By Ritenuto Foundations, Inc. In Collaboration with The St. Edward's University Music Department & Festival Founder/Artistic Director Peggy Stern

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LuluFest Pianist/composer Peggy Stern is passionate about creating opportunities for women bandleaders to present their music. In 2004, ...

Featured this week on The Jazz Network Worldwide: Multi-Woodwind Instrumentalist, Mario Lamar Hunter and his Laid Back Jazz Ensemble: Powerful Jazz Winds

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Mario Lamar Hunter is the founder, music director and award-winning woodwind artist that offers his ‘signature sound’ on his new release...

PIECES OF A DREAM HITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY & KEEPS IN STRIDE WITH NEW CD JUST FUNKIN' AROUND

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The story of Pieces Of A Dream is a tale of destiny and brotherhood. Picture three starry-eyed fanatical teen musicians who manage to ge...

*Mark Guiliana On Late Night With Seth Meyers* New Album Coming This Fall

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Acclaimed drummer and composer Mark Guiliana will be sitting in on Late Night With Seth Meyers (12:35 AM on NBC), Monday, May 15 through...

Saxophonist Brian McCarthy finds the roots of jazz in the sounds and conflicts of the Civil War on The Better Angels Of Our Nature

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Looking back on the most divisive moment in American history (no matter how much the current day seems ready to claim that title), saxop...

Composer and Baritone Saxophonist Brian Landrus Reveals a New Vision for the Jazz Orchestra on Generations, out July 28 via ArtistShare

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Monumental in creative ambition, imaginative scope, and artistic achievement – not to mention sheer scale – Generations is the breathtak...

Drummer Matt Wilson Pays Tribute to “Poet of the People” Carl Sandburg on his Long-Awaited New Recording Honey and Salt

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When Carl Sandburg died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson hailed the famed poet as “more than the voice of America, more than the p...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

NEW RELEASES: DON BRYANT – DON’T GIVE UP ON LOVE; SAMIRA GIBSON – REFLECTIONS OF MIRA; DE-LIGHTFUL AND SOULFUL: DEEP MOVER (VARIOUS ARTISTS)

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DON BRYANT – DON’T GIVE UP ON LOVE The first album in decades from Memphis soul legend Don Bryant – a singer who hardly even gave us...
Friday, May 12, 2017

NEW RELEASES: MERRY CLAYTON – GIMME SHELTER; LARRY CORYELL – AT THE VILLAGE GATE; SOULE MONDE – MUST BE NICE

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MERRY CLAYTON – GIMME SHELTER As the Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom made abundantly clear, Merry Clayton is ...

Pianist Yoko Miwa leads her longstanding, spectacularly attuned trio on Pathways, her first new album in five years

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A jazz musician is by nature an explorer at heart, but it always helps to have a few fellow adventurers at your side. On her new album, ...