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07.09.2024 Stan Harrison, born in Philadelphia, raised in New Jersey, and a resident of New York City for the last few decades (with a two-year stay in London tucked in there), is a saxophone player/composer who has traveled the globe performing and/or recording, sound-checking, rehearsing, bussing, flying, dining, laughing, emoting, etc., with David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Radiohead, read more 07.09.2024 Out September 27, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, the album – with bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake – celebrates Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Marilyn Crispell, Angelica Sanchez, Sylvie Courvoisier and Renee Rosnes read more 06.09.2024 Ryo Kawasaki's (1947-2020) groundbreaking Jazz Fusion album "Ring Toss" is an eagerly anticipated reissue on both CD and digital formats, bringing his seminal work to a new generation of listeners and longtime fans alike. read more 06.09.2024 SOCIAL ANTHEMS VOLUME 2, the newest album by vocalist CATHY SEGAL-GARCIA, is a follow-up to her 2021 release, Social Anthems Volume 1. Like Volume 1, the new release is compilation of songs that speaks to the tumultuous times we live in. SOCIAL ANTHEMS VOLUME 2 is her 16th project as a leader. read more 06.09.2024 Galactic Cowboy Orchestra was started in 2009 by founding member/bass player John Wright. The band was born out of a desire to play technically challenging music derived from John's influences ranging from Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Dixie Dregs and King Crimson, to name a few. Wright enlisted the aid of guitarist Dan Neale, who brought to the table many deep Jazz influences in his advanced playing and composing style. read more 06.09.2024 Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duduka Da Fonseca is a 4-time GRAMMY Award Nominee Drummer. He has appeared on over 250 albums alongside American Jazz icons as well as Brazilian Jazz Icons, including 25 albums as a leader/co-leader, making him one of the most recorded Brazilian drummers in this idiom. read more 06.09.2024 Vocalist, songwriter, producer and lyricist Marsha Ambrosius has just been added to close out the 14th Annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival (PIJF), on Sunday, September 22, at 8:45 pm, on Liberty Avenue, between 10th and 7th Streets downtown, near the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC), 980 Liberty Avenue. read more
04.09.2024 Canadian singer-songwriter Gracie Ella conveys a beautiful combination of soulful vocals, vulnerable songwriting, and a wide array of diverse influences in her music. Through her art, the Toronto, ON native wants more than anything to comfort listeners. On her latest single, "Skin, " Ella shares how confident she has become with herself and how she doesn't desire anything but her own independence and invincibility. read more 02.09.2024 On Friday September 13, The Linwood Taylor Band, with special guest Sol Roots, perform at the intimate concert hall and supper club, The Room at Cedar Grove, which is located on Delaware's scenic coast. The Room at Cedar Grove regularly showcases some of the very best in Mid Atlantic area blues, jazz, and rock talent. read more 07.08.2024 The Wheaton Arts & Entertainment District, in Wheaton Maryland, has partnered with the iconic Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center for this year's TGIF Summer Concert Series, offering after-work celebrations on Friday evenings. The weekly series, which continues through Aug. 30, will feature bands ranging from The Nighthawks, Sol Roots, Chopteeth, and Gordon Sterling and The People. read more  17.06.2024 On Thursday June 13, the Sol Roots Band with guest Vince Evans perform a special concert of dynamic funk, heartfelt jazz, and deep blues and soul, at JV's Music Room located in Northern Virginia. Hailed as a fierce guitarist and soulful vocalist, Sol Roots has toured around the world with many musical legends. His monthly residency concerts at the legendary JV's Music Room in Northern Virginia feature an array of special guest appearances of world-class performers. For the month of June 2024, the special guest will be the powerful keyboardist and vocalist Vince Evans. read more
06.09.2024 The seamstress of worlds and words, Carmen Souza, returns with her eleventh album Port'Inglês (English Port). This Arts Council England supported album releases through Galileo Music Communication on 27th September 2024, with the launch concert taking place on 30th November at London's Crazy Coqs. read more 06.09.2024 On Friday, August 23, 2024, Apollo Chamber Players releases their seventh album, Trace of Time, as a digital release on Azica Records. In this project featuring works by Héctor Del Curto, Julia Smith, Jessie Montgomery, Adolphus Hailstork, Astor Piazzolla and Agustín Bardi, Apollo brings together a diverse patchwork of cultural stories seen partly through the lens of how they linger in our memories as time passes. read more 20.08.2024 Transylvanian Dance takes as its starting point transcriptions of folk songs and dance tunes collected by Béla Bartók a century ago. For Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri, these pieces have become "springboards and sources of melodic material" for performances "that capture the spirit of the original yet allow us to improvise and bring our own world to them…" read more 18.08.2024 On Thursday, September 5th at 8:30pm Composers Concordance presents Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation, which takes the stage of Birdland Theater to celebrate the release of the album 'Gene & The Strings'. Joining Sound Liberation for this event are violinists Lara St. John and Machiko Ozawa, they will perform compostions from the new album, originally for solo violin, but here arranged for violin and Sound Liberation read more
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