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Courtney Cutchins To Release Genre-bending Album 'Grunge To Grace'
by Josh Sharpe - September 16, 2024 Courtney Cutchins has announced her debut album Grunge to Grace, featuring jazz interpretations of Soundgarden and Nirvana songs. The album includes six originals and three re-imagined grunge anthems....
Augie Haas to Release Live Jazz Album in August
by Josh Sharpe - July 03, 2024 Set for release on August 16, 2024, the record realizes Haas’s desire to create an album where listeners close their eyes and feel transported to a basement speakeasy in NYC, hearing great jazz and having an amazing time basking in the environment of what jazz is all about – the players, the listene...
'Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006' to Be Released on Vinyl
by Michael Major - December 30, 2022 Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006 brings together 2003’s Lullabluebye, featuring longtime collaborators Ben Allison (bass) and Matt Wilson (drums); and the 2005 follow-up, Play, boasting a new trio with the then relatively unknown bassist Masa Kamaguchi alongside legendary drummer Paul Motian....
Maria Schneider Nominated for Two 2021 Grammy Awards
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 25, 2020 Composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider has earned two 2021 Grammy nominations for her revelatory double album Data Lords featuring the Maria Schneider Orchestra. Nominations are in the categories of “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” as well as “Best Instrumental Composition” for “Sputnik” from...
Maria Schneider DATA LORDS Is Coming July 24, 2020
by A.A. Cristi - June 04, 2020 Data Lords is a new double-album by Grammy Award-winning composer and bandleader Maria Schneider. Inspired by conflicting relationships between the digital and natural worlds, the recording features Schneider's acclaimed orchestra of 18 world-class musicians. ...
Drummer-Composer Mareike Wiening Leads New York Crew On Greenleaf Music Debut
by Julie Musbach - October 02, 2019 An in-demand sidewoman on the fertile jazz scenes of both New York City and her native Nuremberg, Germany, drummer Mareike Wiening [pronounced: Mar-eye-kuh Vee-ning] asserts her extraordinary talents as composer, player and bandleader on Metropolis Paradise, her first full-length CD and debut on the...
Aussie Saxman Evan Harris Takes Flight with Debut Release 'Skylines'
by Caryn Robbins - January 26, 2018 Debut album Skylines from New York-based Australian saxophonist Evan Harris, documents a deeply personal journey by a young saxophonist at the top of his game breaking into the toughest music scene in the world, New York City.... |