AVAILABLE NOW: Cyrille Aimée | “Cyrille Aimée Live” | Mack Avenue Records
AVAILABLE NOW via Mack Avenue Records: Cyrille Aimée Turns the Page with Live Finale of Longstanding Band While Looking to New Adventures in Music and Life with Cyrille Aimée Live The end of one chapter means the beginning of another. Like all the best cliffhangers, Cyrille Aimée Live leaves the audience wanting more…but also eager to…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW | “Alexandra Jackson: Legacy & Alchemy” via Legacy and Alchemy
On June 21 Legacy and Alchemy and the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro Collaborate to Honor Brazil’s Music and the 60th Anniversary of Bossa Nova Alexandra Jackson: Legacy & Alchemy Introduces Brazilian-American Recordings Featuring Departed Icons Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Rod Temperton, Oscar Castro-Neves and Dona Ivone Lara, as well…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW: Dayramir Gonzalez | The Grand Concourse
Pianist Dayramir Gonzalez Releases Sophomore Album, The Grand Concourse, Portraying the Voyage of a Young Havana Native Exploring Cuban Sentiments Alongside the Vanguard Sounds of New York NYC Release Performance: June 21 at Ideal Glass Cuban pianist Dayramir Gonzalez (recently welcomed as a Yamaha Artist) has innovative style, energetic performance, and impressive diversity shining through on his upcoming album,…
Read MoreAVAILABLE NOW: Buster Williams | “Audacity” | Smoke Sessions Records
Iconic Bassist Buster Williams Marks New Chapter in His Career After Decade Long Studio Hiatus with Audacity Available Now on LP, CD, and Digital Formats Album Features Steve Wilson, George Colligan, and Lenny White Audacity. It’s a word that seems ideally suited to the bold and intrepid bassist Buster Williams. Whether supplying eminently tasteful but strong-as-steel backing for singers like Nancy Wilson…
Read MoreSteve Turre | “The Very Thought Of You” | Available August 24 via Smoke Sessions Records
Virtuoso Trombonist Steve Turre Displays Brilliant Artistry with Heartfelt Ballads on New Release, The Very Thought of You Available August 24 via Smoke Sessions Records on Double Vinyl LP, Deluxe 8-Panel Gatefold CD Digipak, and Hi-Res Download The thought of Steve Turre inevitably conjures the image of a dauntless virtuoso. Over the course of a…
Read MoreUnreleased Historic Recordings: “Dexter Gordon Quartet Tokyo 1975” & “Woody Shaw Tokyo 1981”
Elemental Music Launches Ambitious Series of Previously Unreleased Historic Recordings from Jazz Giants of the Golden Age Dexter Gordon Quartet Tokyo 1975, Woody Shaw Tokyo 1981 Both Available on CD and Vinyl, July 13 In life, trumpeter Woody Shaw and saxophonist Dexter Gordon – two instrumental giants of the jazz idiom – were often connected.…
Read MoreAvailable Tomorrow: Tia Fuller | “Diamond Cut” | Mack Avenue Records
Available Tomorrow on Mack Avenue Records: An Empowered Tia Fuller Returns After Six Year Recording Hiatus: Saxophonist Withstood Extreme Pressures, Came Out Radiating Pure Light Diamond Cut: Produced by Terri Lyne Carrington, Album Features: Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, James Genus, Adam Rogers, Bill Stewart, and Sam Yahel “An unimpeachable force on the alto is back,…
Read MoreSaxophonist Vincent Herring Announces Tour in Support of “Hard Times”
Saxophonist Vincent Herring Announces Tour in Support of Latest Album, Hard Times Tour to Feature Dave Kikoski, Yasushi Nakamura, and Carl Allen There’s no avoiding the hard times. Every human being that’s walked this Earth has had his or her share of the blues, from the personal to the political, the local to the global.…
Read MoreDetroit Jazz Festival Announces “The Detroit Jazz Festival Curtis Fuller National Jazz Trombone/Low Brass Competition”
Submissions Now Being Accepted for Detroit Jazz Festival’s 2018 National Jazz Instrumental Competition 2018 Festival Seeking Outstanding Trombonists, Tubists, and Baritonists The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation is accepting submissions for its annual National Jazz Instrumental Competition – this year open to trombonists, tubists and baritonists, 35-years-old and younger. This is the eighth consecutive year the Festival…
Read MoreLetterOne ‘RISING STARS’ Jazz Award Launches in United States and Canada
LetterOne ‘RISING STARS’ Jazz Award Launches in United States & Canada, Expanding Opportunities for Jazz Musicians with Monetary Prize value in Excess of $90,000 Winner To Perform at: San Francisco Jazz Festival, Blue Note Jazz Festival, Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, DC Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival & Festival…
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