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Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry Release 'Our Daily Bread' Album Photo Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry Release 'Our Daily Bread' Album
by Michael Major - May 08, 2023

Midway through the programme, Lovano delivers the bluesy “One for Charlie” as a solo tenor tribute to Charlie Haden, investing every note with meaning, as the tune’s dedicatee once did. Lovano and Haden played together in multiple contexts over the years, from Charlie’s Liberation Music Orchestra to...

James Brandon Lewis Conjures Celestial Spirits On 'Send Seraphic Beings' Photo James Brandon Lewis Conjures Celestial Spirits On 'Send Seraphic Beings'
by Michael Major - January 10, 2023

Described as “an artist with so much fire in his sound,” by renowned jazz journalist Nate Chinen, James Brandon Lewis is sharing “Send Seraphic Beings,' the final pre-release track from his upcoming album ‘Eye of I.' Filmed live in studio, listen to the moving track and watch Lewis perform the song ...

Spaghetti Eastern Music Returns To Instrumental Mode With New Singles, 'A Scanner Dar Photo Spaghetti Eastern Music Returns To Instrumental Mode With New Singles, 'A Scanner Darkly' And 'A Fresh Kill'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 05, 2023

Spaghetti Eastern Music, the solo venture of genre-leaping NYC/Hudson Valley guitarist Sal Cataldi, is returning to the instrumental mode with the release of two new singles, 'A Scanner Darkly' and 'A Fresh Kill.' ...

Amir ElSaffar Announces New Album 'Rivers Of Sound - The Other Shore' Photo Amir ElSaffar Announces New Album 'Rivers Of Sound - The Other Shore'
by A.A. Cristi - July 29, 2021

Amir ElSaffar – who leads five ensembles and has released seven albums over the past 16 years – has earned acclaim for being, in the words of All About Jazz, “a virtuoso on the horn, but also an imaginative bandleader, expanding the vocabulary of the trumpet and, at the same time, the modern jazz en...

Muhal Richard Abrams' 'SoundPath' Out November 20th  Photo Muhal Richard Abrams' 'SoundPath' Out November 20th 
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 05, 2020

Lauded alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Bobby Zankel has lived in Philadelphia since 1975....

Vocalist Luba Mason Set to Release New Album 'Triangle' Photo Vocalist Luba Mason Set to Release New Album 'Triangle'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 10, 2020

With her last album, Mixtura, vocalist Luba Mason established her own musical genre, a “blend of different musical currents.'...

Jazz Power ON Honors Charlie Parker At 100 Photo Jazz Power ON Honors Charlie Parker At 100
by A.A. Cristi - June 10, 2020

Charlie Parker 100: Jazz Power ON, hosted by Eli Yamin, musician, educator and Managing Artistic Director of Jazz Power Initiative, celebrates the bebop genius of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker....

Jazz Promo Services Begins 20th Year of Serving the Jazz Community Photo Jazz Promo Services Begins 20th Year of Serving the Jazz Community
by Abigail Charpentier - January 11, 2020

Ever since it was formed in 2001, Jazz Promo Services has been an important force in publicizing the music, events and news of the jazz world. Among the pioneers and innovators in utilizing E-mails for publicity (he can contact virtually anyone in the jazz and music industry), Jim Eigo works with hu...

Whose Hat Is This? Releases Everything's OK (Featuring Kokayi) via Ropeadope Photo Whose Hat Is This? Releases Everything's OK (Featuring Kokayi) via Ropeadope
by Tori Hartshorn - November 16, 2018

Whose Hat Is This?, a collaboration of Tedeschi Trucks Band members Tim Lefebvre, Tyler "Falcon" Greenwell, J.J. Johnson, and Kebbi Williams, are pleased to announce the release of their second album,Everything's OK (Featuring Kokayi), via Ropeadope. The band's newest offering has already received p...

Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches To Release Second LP 6/15 Photo Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches To Release Second LP 6/15
by Tori Hartshorn - May 29, 2018

Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches are likely the only band today infusing elements of Gullah-Geechee and world rhythms with folk traditions, Americana, New Orleans influences, and 1920s jazz. The forthcoming sophomore album, Get Us Out Of Fearland, due June 15, builds upon the multicultural exuberanc...

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids to Celebrate New Album on STRUT RECORDS, “AN ANGEL FELL Photo Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids to Celebrate New Album on STRUT RECORDS, “AN ANGEL FELL' with a Record Release Party & Concert MAY 24-25
by Robert Diamond - April 14, 2018

Idris Ackamoor?The Pyramids will celebrate their acclaimed new album on STRUT RECORDS, “AN ANGEL FELL' with a Record Release Party & Concert THURSDAY andFRIDAY, MAY 24-25 at ZEBULON. The band will also perform music from their lauded 2016 release 'WE BE ALL AFRICANS”! All Music and Lyrics Composed a...

RareNoiseRecord Presents Roswell Rudd & More with Embrace Photo RareNoiseRecord Presents Roswell Rudd & More with Embrace
by Caryn Robbins - October 18, 2017

For his follow-up to 2016's purely improvised studio recording Strength & Power (featuring pianist Jamie Saft, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi), the ever-adventurous trombonist-composer Roswell Rudd made a decided shift in direction on his first RareNoiseRecords release as a leader by e...












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