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Marcus Miller Returns With New Album “Laid Black” on June 1st, 2018 | LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE!


 
MARCUS MILLER EXPLORES ELEMENTS OF MODERN URBAN MUSIC
ON HIS VIBRANT NEW BLUE NOTE ALBUM LAID BLACK OUT JUNE 1
FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS TROMBONE SHORTY, KIRK WHALUM,
TAKE SIX, JONATHAN BUTLER, AND SELAH SUE
 
Marcus Miller brings the influence of modern urban music to his trademark sound on his highly-anticipated, genre-defying new album Laid Black, which will be released June 1 on Blue Note Records.

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams to Release New Album “Vanished Gardens” on June 29th, 2018 | Announces New Tour 2018


 
CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS + LUCINDA WILLIAMS
EXPANSIVE NEW ALBUM VANISHED GARDENS
OUT JUNE 29 ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS
 
On June 29, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams will release Vanished Gardens (Blue Note), a transcendent new album that presents the fascinating collaboration between NEA Jazz Master saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd and acclaimed GRAMMY-winning singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams.

Saxophonist Dave McMurray to Release New Album “Music Is Life” on May 18th, 2018 | LISTEN!


 
Saxophonist Dave McMurray Makes
Blue Note Records Debut with Detroit-centric Album,
Music Is Life – Available May 18
 
Saxophonist Combines Experiences Playing with B.B. King, The Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock, Bootsy Collins, on Funk-Jazz-Soul Album Feat. “Seven Nation Army” & “Atomic Dog” Covers
 
Dave McMurray’s Blue Note Records debut, Music Is Life, is a reunion of sorts, given the long history the saxophonist shares with the label’s president, and fellow Detroit native, Don Was.

Stanley Clarke Band to Release New Album “The Message” on June 29th, 2018


 
Renowned Bassist Stanley Clarke Celebrates
45 Years Since Debut Album as a Leader with The Message, Available June 29 on Mack Avenue Records
 
Pre-Order Available This Friday
 
45 years after his album debut, four-time Grammy® Award-winning bassist Stanley Clarke shows he is still unapproachable on both the electric and acoustic, wielding a vision of fusion and funk, breakbeats and bass-interpreted cello suites with a little help from friends like rapper/beatboxer Doug E. Fresh and trumpeter Mark Isham.

Vocalist Shirley Crabbe Releases New Album “Bridges” | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Exquisite Vocalist Shirley Crabbe Releases “BRIDGES,” April 30, 2018 on MaiSong Records
 
NEW YORK – April 2018 – PRLog — Some vocalists excel at lyric interpretation. They know how to tell the story of a song with subtlety and nuance. Other singers have such beautiful voices that they’d be a pleasure to listen to if they sang the periodic table set to a Brahms lullaby.

Singer Jazzmeia Horn Wins JJA Jazz Award for Up and Coming Musician Of The Year | 2018


 
GRAMMY-NOMINATED SINGER JAZZMEIA HORN WINS JJA JAZZ AWARD FOR
UP AND COMING MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
 
May 7th, 2018 – Congratulations to Jazzmeia Horn for winning a Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Award in the category of Up and Coming Musician of the Year. Wide ranging critical praise continues to pour in for her GRAMMY-nominated debut album, A Social Call.

New Band R+R=NOW Drops New Single “Change Of Tone” – LISTEN! | New Album “Collagically Speaking” Coming June 15th, 2018


 
R+R=NOW
Featuring Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah,
Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin & Justin Tyson
 
Dream team band R+R=NOW has released “Change Of Tone,” the enticing lead track from their forthcoming debut album Collagically Speaking, which will be released June 15 on Blue Note Records.

Trumpet Legend Herb Alpert Releases Cover of Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World” | WATCH NEW VIDEO! | Announces Tour Dates 2018


 
HERB ALPERT REMINDS US OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S ENDURING OPTIMISM IN TROUBLED TIMES WITH NEW “WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD” VIDEO
 
Herb Alpert has unveiled an imaginative visual component to his recent cover of good friend and American legend Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World.”

Saxophonist Dante Lewis Releases New Album “A Sweet Love: Tribute to Anita Baker” | LISTEN!


 
Saxman Dante Lewis Releases New Album “A Sweet Love: Tribute to Anita Baker” – Available NOW on CDBaby, and ReverbNation
 
Hailing from Columbia, SC, is urban contemporary saxophonist Dante Lewis. The up-and-coming jazz artist shared his love for music legend Anita Baker recently with the release of tribute album “A Sweet Love: Tribute to Anita Baker” – available NOW at fine online retailers.

Vocalist Sandra Booker Tributes Sarah Vaughan At Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Jazz Grill | April 22nd, 2018 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Vocalist Sandra Booker
Tributes Sarah Vaughan
At Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Jazz Grill
 
Los Angeles – When jazz vocalist Sandra Booker first burst onto the Los Angeles music scene in the 90’s, the comparisons to the legendary Sarah Vaughan came fast and furious.