Ragabop Trio
Ragabop Trio
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Amabutho
Sikelela
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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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George Duke
Déjà Vu
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Esperanza Spalding
Chamber Music Society
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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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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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Gabriel Alegría & The Afro-Per...
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John Stein / Ron Gill
Turn Up The Quiet
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Rebecca Coupe Franks
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Check the Box:
Check the Box is the long-awaited follow-up to Coupe Frank's RCF 2007 release, 100 Per Cent, with the trumpeter's Groovemobile band (Sheryl Bailey, Jamie Leonhart, Dan Robbins, Carola Grey, Freddy Bryant and KJ Denhert). The new CD features Perdomo, bas...
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The Bad Plus
Never Stop
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Jennifer Zarine
Fresh Made Cuppa Tea
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Harvie S.
Cocolamus Bridge,
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Cocolamus Bridge,:
Here we find Harvie stepping out with his "Texas band", a group of seasoned veterans from the Houston area assembled by guitarist Chris Cortez specifically for this project. Each composition on the album save one is an original of Harvie's and bears the inimitable aural mark of its...
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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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Chris Graham Trio
After-Birth of Cool
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The Jazz Passengers
Reunited
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Jeff Berlin
High Standards
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High Standards:
"High Standards" is a representation of three players in a recording studio, playing a live concert, for no one but themselves! Bassist Jeff Berlin, pianist/upright bassist Richard Drexler, and drummer Danny Gottlieb's long collaboration, have allowed them to create telepathic...
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Ellen Honert
Hummingville
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Dave LeMieux and House of Soul
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Lawrence Lebo
Don't Call Her ...
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Don't Call Her Larry, Vol 3: American Roots:
In the age of the trilogy, Lebo's Don't Call Her Larry, Vol. 3: American Roots continues to explore the depths of American Roots music. She reinterprets her songbook in a duet setting, featuring herself and bassist Denny Croy (Doug MacLeod, Brian Setzer Orchestra)...
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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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Dave Anderson
Conversations
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Patrick Simard
P.S. I Groove You
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Richard Blake
Plays Midtown a...
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Plays Midtown at Midnight:
This is Blake's second CD, a follow-up to Richard Blake Plays Heartache Guitar, a collection of love songs played completely alone on guitar. Richard Blake Plays Midtown at Midnight is a rhythm driven, contemporary exposition of a master guitarist. As a seconda...
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Frank DiBussolo
Average White Cats
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Jackson Garrett
Speechless
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Mark Weinstein / Omar Sosa
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Tales from the Earth:
Witnessing the creation of new music as it happens is one of the best experiences one can have whether you're a musician or a spectator/listener. On TALES FROM THE EARTH, multi-instrumentalists Mark Weinstein and Omar Sosa got together with some of their most revered collaborators to...
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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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Kristin Porter
By The Light of The Moon
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Alexis Cole
Someday My Prince...
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Someday My Prince Will Come:
Someday My Prince Will Come is a Japanese release on Venus Records. This collection of Disney love songs features tracks fro films like Pocahontas, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White among others. Cole is accompanied by the acclaimed pian...
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Fred Fried and Core
Core 3.0
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John McLaughlin
To the One
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Lenny White
Anomaly
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Anomaly:
Following his triumphant worldwide reunion tour with Return To Forever in 2008 and separate trio tours in 2009 with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke and pianist Hiromi with Clarke, drummer Lenny White was primed to put out his own recording, his first as a leader in ten years. With...
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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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Tia Fuller
Decisive Steps
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Dr. Lonnie Smith
Spiral
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Frank Kimbrough
Rumors
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Rumors:
The old saying, "In the right place, at the right time," came true for Frank Kimbrough recently when the photographer Jimmy Katz (who now produces and records artists) called him to say he had some studio time available at Avatar Studios in New York City! Needless to say, Kimbrough,...
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Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu
Chiarosc...
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Kenny and Leah
April in Paris
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David Benoit
EarthGlow
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EarthGlow:
In October 2008, David Benoit took a much needed breather from the frenetic pace of life in Los Angeles and headed up to the mountains near Saratoga to become an artist in residence at Villa Montalvo. Finding peaceful solitude and discovering fresh inspiration in a small cabin near 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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Stephano Battaglia and Michele...
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Anson Wright
Ukiah's Lullaby
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Nnenna Freelon
Homefree
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Homefree:
Homefree is a soulful, swinging album that Freelon calls her "home brew." The collection is comprised largely of contemporary interpretations of classic American Songbook tunes as well as a new original (the witty, playful and poignant "Cell Phone Blues" composed by the singer)...
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Somi
If The Rains Come First
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Hulon
First Impressions
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One For All
Incorrigible
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Incorrigible:
It's hard to imagine that One For All has been together for the past 13 years but it's not hard to imagine the great music emanating on INCORRIGIBLE, their latest offering for Jazz Legacy Productions. Seven of the eight songs here were written by members of...
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Vince Guaraldi
Peanuts Portraits
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Tony Marcus
Vanishing Point
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John Secada
Expressions
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Expressions:
Expressions: The Jazz Album is a heartfelt collection of new songs, classic standards and Secada hits - all with a twist and Jon's own jazz-flavored arrangements. Songs include the evergreen favorites "Chances Are and "What A Wonderful World," the Secada h...
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Fabrizio Sotti
Inner Dance
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Arturo Sandoval
A Time for Love
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The Komeda Project
Requiem
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Requiem:
Film music buffs may remember the renowned composer Krzysztof Komeda primarily for his haunting motion picture scores Fearless Vampire Killers, Knife in the Water, and Rosemary's Baby. However most free/avant-garde jazz lovers know of Komeda because of pianist/com...
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