Monday, January 20, 2020

Guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina releases "Nomad"

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Adventurous guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina brings together two of contemporary jazz’s most free-roaming music thinkers to form th...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Satoko Fujii and Orchestra New York Bring Urgency and Brio to 11th Album Entity

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The Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York, led by one of this era’s greatest big band composers, sounds as fresh and exciting on their eleven...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

New Music Releases: Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, KVL (Quin Kirchner / Daniel Van Duerm / Matthew Lux), Nick Mazzarella Trio

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Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - 11th Street Sekondi A killer contemporary set from Gyedu Blay Ambolley – one of the Afro Funk heroes of the 7...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Trumpeter John Bailey - Can You Imagine?

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In 1964, Dizzy Gillespie announced his candidacy for President of the United States. The campaign was, in the iconic trumpeter’s wry fa...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

THE CALIFORNIA ROOTS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE ITS SECOND WAVE OF ARTISTS FOR 2020

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After an impressive round one lineup including Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Ice Cube, Jimmy Cliff, Chronixx and more (https://californiaro...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Bobby Hatfield - Stay With Me: The Richard Perry Sessions

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Unfinished lost album from former tenor of blue-eyed soul duo The Righteous Brothers. In 1971, record producer Richard Perry was at ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

New Music Releases: Spring NYC Soul, Torcuato Mariano, Jim Richter

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Spring NYC Soul (Various Artists) New York label Spring, and its Event and Posse subsidiaries, were very active from 1967 up to the...
Monday, January 13, 2020

New Music Releases: Luxury Soul 2020, Juewett Bostick, Phaze II

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Luxury Soul 2020 – Various Artists The leading independent soul label Expansion Records commences each year with one of the label’s...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

Meridian 71 combines jazz with Mediterranean and West African on Metropolitan Sketches

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From a very young age, Italian-born, Boston-based drummer and composer Giuseppe Paradiso always felt like a person who was a little dif...
Friday, January 10, 2020

New Music Releases: Saxophone Summit, Jazz Defenders, Crown Jewels Vol. 1

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Saxophone Summit (Liebman/Lovano/Osby) - Street Talk A strong summit of saxophone giants – Joe Lovano on tenor, Dave Liebman on sop...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

New Music Releases: Arto Lindsay / Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark / Phil Sudderberg, Peter Brotzmann, Krokofant with Stale Storlokken & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten

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Arto Lindsay / Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark / Phil Sudderberg - Largest Afternoon A set that's brimming over with improvising ja...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

New Music Releases: Lynn Cardona, Bronze, David Grubbs /Mats Gustafsson / Rob Mazurek

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Lynn Cardona - Ophelia Lynn Cardona’s newest project, Ophelia, is an EP featuring three original compositions about love – both unr...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Mabern Plays Mabern: Harold Mabern Performs His Classic Repertoire

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It is with a mixture of pride and sorrow that Smoke Sessions Records announces the release of Harold Mabern’s Mabern Plays Mabern on Mar...