Amabutho
Sikelela
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George Duke
Déjà Vu
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Danilo Perez
Providencia
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Providencia:
Danilo Perez's highly anticipated debut for Mack Avenue Records is absolutely stunning. Providencia crosses streams of jazz, classical and Latin American folk music on 11 great compositions that spark the listener to connect with the creativity and social power of Per...
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Ragabop Trio
Ragabop Trio
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Esperanza Spalding
Chamber Music Society
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Michael C. Lewis
Reflection
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Reflection:
In his new CD Reflection Lewis worked with Grammy Winning Engineer Jeff Jones (best contemporary blues record) and Wendell Brooks. He has created an intimate and intense experience where the listener can hear the spirituality and sensuality of the Michael C. Lewis expression, with an...
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31st Annual
Detroit Jazz Festival 2010
September 3-6, 2010
 DJF
Festival organizers have announced the lineup for the 31st Detroit International Jazz Festival (DJF), Friday, September 3 through Monday, September 6, in downtown Detroit.
Subtitled "Flame Keepers - Carrying the Torch for Modern Jazz," the Detroit Jazz Fest will feature a veritable "dean's list" of alumni who passed through the "schools" of Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Betty Carter, Ray Brown, Miles Davis and Gil Evans. "2010 artists Mulgrew Miller, Bobby Watson, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Randy Brecker, and Benny Green were all in Blakey's band at one time or another," says festival director Terri Pontremoli. more >>
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Jeff Berlin
High Standards
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Harvie S.
Cocolamus Bridge,
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John Stein / Ron Gill
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Turn Up The Quiet:
Vocalist Ron Gil, guitarist John Stein and pianist Gilad Barkan recorded Turn Up The Quiet at WGBH Radio in Boston in the spring of 2009.
Ron Gil and John Stein find their love of fine songs and turn them to dancing with words, lofting pretty chords, and c...
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Jennifer Zarine
Fresh Made Cuppa Tea
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Rebecca Coupe Franks
Check the Box
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The Jazz Passengers
Reunite...
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Reunited:
Justin Time Records announces the North American release of Reunited, the new recording by The Jazz Passengers, and its first recording in 12 years. The recording, positively blasting with energy, ...
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Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival
Thousands Turn Out to Enjoy the Music
Brittany Somerset
When reggae band Third World exited the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival stage on Saturday January 30, they brought the curtains down on the biggest staging of the event since its inception. 2010 saw the 14th renewal of the JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival, and the event moving from a three day event, to an all-out, week-long musical experience, that drew thousands of people to witness it. With prelude shows in Kingston and along the northern coast of the island, the Festival headed to its new home, The 'Greenfield' Stadium, for an awesome three nights of live music from performers like Babyface, Gladys Knight, Marion Hall, Erykah Badu, Hall and Oates, Machel Montano, Jon Secada, Joss Stone, and more. more >>
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The Bad Plus
Never Stop
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Chris Graham Trio
After-Birth of Cool
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Gabriel Alegría & The Afro-Per...
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Pucusana:
The growling clarion call evokes old jazz, Louis Armstrong, and New Orleans, but the cries in Spanish, the percussion, and the gentle, looping groove takes us to a different place. Both familiar and fresh, those first bars on Peruvian trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Gabriel Ale...
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Richard Blake
Plays Midtown at Midnight
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Lawrence Lebo
Don't Call Her Larry, Vol 3: ...
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Dave LeMieux and House of Soul
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Jazz Shaped:
Dave LeMieux and House of Soul artfully explores jazz and its soulful Gospel kinship with their latest release, Jazz Shaped. Just as Coltrane explored his inner spirituality through jazz, Dave LeMieux and House of Soul has not only created their own expression of belove...
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Tony Bennett
Live at Mohegan Sun
February 14, 2010
Matthew Robinson
Wow! Tony Bennett at the surprisingly acoustically-supportive Mohegan Sun Arena! It's like Valentine's Day, the Chinese New Year and Presidents' Day rolled into one! Oh - it WAS all that! Supported by music director Lee Musiker, long-time guitarist Gray Sergent, Basie band beatmaster Harold Jones and totally into it bassist Marshall Wood (who mouthed along with his strings when not smiling like a kid on another holiday), Mr. Bennett also enrolled the burgeoning talents of his daughter Antonia, who warmed up the packed crowd with her cupied smile and voice.
When the elder Bennett bounded on stage, he was greeted with a roar that was only duplicated by those heard after pretty much every song. more >>
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Mark Weinstein / Omar Sosa
Tales from the Eart...
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Kristin Porter
By The Light of The Moon
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Frank DiBussolo
Average White...
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Average White Cats:
On Average White Cats, Eight-time Grammy nomine =e and master guitarist Frank DiBussolo leads a dynamic quintet through a program of his own compositions. Frank uses both acoustic and electric guitars as he takes us through a journey of textures and colors. Serving up L...
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Patrick Simard
P.S. I Groove You
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Alexis Cole
Someday My Prince Will Come
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Dave Anderson
Conversations
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Conversations:
Conversations is Dave Anderson's first recorded collaboration with guest artist Mike Wingo. This texturally rich recording features acoustic piano and mixed percussion. For this CD, Anderson chose a selection of favorite jazz standards, rearranged for the duo, and several of Dave's...
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24th Annual Catalina Island
JazzTrax Festival
Three Weekends in October 2010
Fourplay and Chris Standring are the latest artists to Confirm for the October festival on Catalina Island. Each Weekend in October offers five separate festival sessions providing a month-long smooth jazz smorgasborg. Artists include GERALD ALBRIGHT, DAVID BENOIT, EUGE GROOVE, ALEX BUGNON, ERIC DARIUS, PETER WHITE, JEFF KASHIWA, STEVE COLE, JACKIEM JOYNER, MINDI ABAIR, WARREN HILL, GREG ADAMS, EARL KLUGH, JEFF LORBER, ERIC MARIENTHAL, JIMMY HASLIP, EVERETTE HARP, MARION MEADOWS, PAUL TAYLOR, MICHAEL LINGTON, CHUCK LOEB and more. For more information visit the JazzTrax Catalina Web Site. more >>
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Kathryn Smith
With Every Breath I Take
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Ellen Honert
Hummingville
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Jackson Garrett
Speechless
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Speechless:
Speechless marks a continued journey for composer Jackson Garrett, featuring his well-crafted compositions with the horn section arranged by Marty Steele.
Speechless contains 12 original works ranging in style from Motown-infused jazz to traditional ensemble swing, Blues and La...
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John Secada
Expressions
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Jeff Lorber Fusion
Now is the TIme
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Jamie Cullum
The Pursuit
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The Pursuit:
It's hard to imagine that it's been 10 years since Jamie Cullum released his first self-funded release called HEARD IT ALL BEFORE! In between touring on behalf of his stellar chart-topping hits TWENTYSOMETHING and CATCHING TALES, Cullum stayed busy and even...
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Patti Labelle
Performs Two Sold Out Valentine's Day Concerts
Brittany Somerset and Gerry Hopkins
In response to what has been characterized as "Patti-fever," the cultural connoisseurs of Jammins Entertainment, assisted by Gmax Enterprises, scheduled a second appearance of the iconic soul star, Patti LaBelle. Both shows - the initial one at 7p.m., and the added appearance at 10p.m. - took place at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music, on Valentine's Day. The versatile two-time Grammy winning singer has over 40 years in the music business and is a cultural icon to multiple generations of fans. She performed her classic, genre-crossing hits like "On My Own," "Lady Marmalade," "If Only You Knew," "Live! One Night Only," and "Burnin' " with her distinctive four octave voice, all while looking fabulous in a stunning bright red dress and high heels. more >>
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Tito Puente Jr.
Got Mambo
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Mindi Abair
In Hi-Fi Stereo
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Hot Club of Detroit
It's ...
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It's About That Time:
It's About That Time is the third release by Hot Club of Detroit and one that pays tribute to guitarist Pat Martino with the opening track called "On The Steps." The song is based on Martino's composition called "On The Stairs" and briefly quotes John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" -...
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David Benoit
EarthGlow
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Stanton Moore
Groove Alchemy
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Sylvia Bennett
Smile
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Smile:
Cole Porter once asked, "What Is This Thing Called Love," and it's a question that many of our greatest artists have grappled with ever since - creating some of America's most enduring and timeless music in the process. Sylvia Bennett is always looking for ways to keep the...
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Jazz Aspen Snowmass
20th Anniversary June Festival
June 24 - July 3, 2010
Harry Connick, Jr. and Natalie Cole are among the headliner for the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Festival which kicks off their 20th Anniversary season with some of the biggest names in jazz, pop and world music. Making his first ever JAS appearance jazz pianist/vocalist Harry Connick, Jr. and Orchestra have been added to the June Festival lineup appearing at the Benedict Music Tent (pictured at right) on Friday, June 25.
Over the past two decades Connick has taken a very hands-on approach to his recording career, calling the shots at the numerous phases of his albums projects. more >>
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Oliver Manchon
Orchestre de Chambre Miniatu...
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Somi
If The Rains Come First
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Ellynne Plotnick
Life is Beau...
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Life is Beautiful:
Life is Beautiful, the culmination of a year and a half of writing, will transport you sonically through time and space. Every track on this album is a destination, its own musical point of departure and return. Each song will take you to a new exciting undiscovered...
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The Komeda Project
Requiem
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Hiromi
Place To Be
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Lady K and the Kings of Swing
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Live at Blackhawk:
Deeply entrenched in swing, immersed in the history of their craft and with years of experience as veteran jazz musicians, Lady K and the Kings of Swing is a 17-piece Frank Sinatra-style big band recreating the sounds of Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Count Basie, George Gershwin, Stan...
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Mark Moultrup
Dar Cho
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Tia Fuller
Decisive Steps
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Meklit Hadero
On A Day Like T...
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On A Day Like This...:
If Joni Mitchell were East African and met Nina Simone for tea in San Francisco's Mission District, she might end up sounding like Meklit Hadero. Meklit is a true modern global artist: born in Ethiopia, raised in US and nurtured for the last several years in...
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John McLaughlin
To the One
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Lenny White
Anomaly
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Vince Guaraldi
Peanuts Portra...
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Peanuts Portraits:
This vital collection of musical themes written for Charles Schultz's animated characters is both entertaining and especially nostalgic for those who grew up with the comic strip and subsequent animated television specials. PEANUTS PORTRAITS features the memorable themes associated...
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