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Jazz Vocalist Gretchen Parlato to Release New CD/DVD, “Live In NYC” on Oct. 8th, 2013


 
Vocalist Gretchen Parlato Celebrates 10 Years in
New York City with a Mesmerizing Live Album & Companion DVD,
Live in NYC, Available October 8 on ObliqSound
 
Album Exemplifies Live Evolution of Parlato’s
Staple Songs Since Their Original Recordings
 
In the ten years since her arrival in New York City, Gretchen Parlato has emerged as one of the most inventive and mesmerizing vocalists of her generation. In an artful communion of space, texture and a genre-bending repertoire, she has introduced a musical sea-change, making the power of subtlety front and center in jazz.

The Marc Cary Focus Trio to Release “New Directions” on Oct. 8th, 2013

MARC CARY’S INNOVATIVE FOCUS TRIO SET TO RELEASE FOUR DIRECTIONS, LONG ANTICIPATED SECOND STUDIO ALBUM
SLATED FOR OCTOBER 8 RELEASE VIA
MOTÉMA MUSIC




Focus Trio Features Sameer Gupta on Drums and Tabla,
Rashaan Carter on Bass and Guest Bassist Burniss Travis

Four Directions Follows up Cary’s Powerfully Acclaimed
Solo Piano Tribute, For the Love of Abbey (Motéma, June 2013)


 
Marc Cary has spent close to a decade honing a distinctive sound and improvisational approach with his enduring and much acclaimed Focus Trio. Four Directions, the band’s first studio recording in eight years, follows on the heels of two powerful interim releases (Focus Trio Live 2008 and Focus Trio Live 2009). Despite a few shifts in the bass chair, and an ever-transforming array of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, the band’s original mission, as Cary stated in his liner notes for Focus, the band’s 2006 debut, remains the same: “to bring indigenous rhythms together with American jazz to create new palettes of sound.”

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Introducing Japanese Soul Singer Nao Yoshioka | New CD, “The Light” Coming Nov. 13th, 2013 | WATCH NEW VIDEO

Sweet Soul Records introduces new, young, up and coming Japanese soul songstress Nao Yoshioka.  The soulful starlet was recently featured on the worldwide collaborative project, “Make The Change“ and is set to embark out into the world with a whole new album entitled, “The Light.” A new single from the …

Robert Glasper Experiment Releases New Single, “I Stand Alone” | Announces Fall U.S. Tour Dates

BLACK RADIO PRESENTS:
COMMON & MARSHA AMBROSIUS WITH ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT;
FALL U.S. TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED



NEW SINGLE “I STAND ALONE” FEATURING COMMON & PATRICK STUMP
PREMIERED BY ROLLING STONE & RELEASED DIGITALLY TODAY;
BLACK RADIO 2 SET FOR OCTOBER 29 RELEASE

FOLLOW-UP TO GRAMMY-WINNING BLACK RADIO BUILDS ON ITS SUCCESS
BY FEATURING COLLABORATIONS WITH COMMON, MARSHA AMBROSIUS, BRANDY, JILL SCOTT, ANTHONY HAMILTON, NORAH JONES, SNOOP DOGG,
LUPE FIASCO, EMELI SANDÉ, AND MORE

Robert Glasper Experiment has released “I Stand Alone” featuring Common and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, the soaring new single from their forthcoming album Black Radio 2, which will be released October 29 on Blue Note.

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Brian Culbertson to Release Remake of Debut Album, “Another Long Night Out” in Feb. 2014 | WATCH NEW VIDEO

“Another Long Night Out” for
Brian Culbertson



On the 20th anniversary of its release, the multi-instrumentalist hitmaker returns to his contemporary jazz roots to remake his debut album joined by many of the accomplished artists that inspired him.


Los Angeles, Calif. (12 September 2013): Brian Culbertson was a 20-year-old student at DePaul University recording demos in his bedroom “studio” in a crowded apartment that he shared with three roommates above a costume shop on a busy Chicago street. Those demos not only landed the then trombone player in DePaul’s jazz ensemble a record deal, but they were released a year later – February 1994 – as part of his debut album, “Long Night Out,” on which Culbertson played most of the instruments himself.

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Michelle Williams to Release New Album, “Journey To Freedom” | WATCH NEW VIDEO, “If We Had Your Eyes”

Michelle Williams to Release 4th Project, “Journey To Freedom” WATCH NEW MUSIC VIDEO “If We Had Your Eyes”Single Available NOW Good Day and Evening Music Lovers, Michelle Williams returns to the spotlight today and everyday with news about the release of her 4th studio album, “Journey to Freedom” – coming …

Jeff Majors Releases New Single, “His Eyes” | TAKE A LISTEN!

World Renowned Harpist and Jazz Artist Jeff Majors Releases His New Single

“Jeff Majors releases his new single ‘His Eyes’ with an international flavor that soothes your soul! The full CD ‘Sacred X’ is scheduled for release in late fall.”


Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 03, 2013

International inspirational jazz artist and renowned harp master Jeff Major’s releases his new single “His Eyes” featuring Miko with a new flavor of French flair. The full CD “Sacred X” will be released late fall along with the launch of the “Sacred Tour” starting in Annapolis, MD, Bowie Sate University and Washington, DC. “Sacred X” is the tenth CD of the Sacred Series among a number of other CDs released by Majors.

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Reggae Quintet Morgan Heritage Releases New Video, “Ends Nah Meet” | Announces Tour Dates

MORGAN HERITAGE REVEAL NEW VIDEO FOR “ENDS NAH MEET”





FEATURED ON THEIR LATEST ALBUM ‘HERE COME THE KINGS’



Reggae’s powerful sibling quintet Morgan Heritage returns with the
compelling video “Ends Nah Meet.” Directed by the band and Maximilian
Shelton, the video features a montage of clips from Jamaica, Morgan
Heritage’s most recent European tour as well as historical public domain
footage documenting the economic struggle that people of all classes
(lower, middle and upper) face on a daily basis.

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New Jazz Release: Bob James | “Rhodes Scholar: Jazz-Funk Classics 1974-1982 (2 disc)” | Avail NOW

Jazz CollectibleBob JamesRhodes Scholar: Jazz-Funk Classics 1974-1982 (2 disc set)Available NOW We’re talking about some SERIOUS Jazz-Funk music here listeners….Check this out: For those of you seeking to play back or collect some masterful piece of “Fender Rhodes” art (music) of the 70’s and early 80’s, this next collective may …

Look Out for Jon Batiste & Stay Human’s New CD, “Social Music” on Oct. 15th, 2013 | WATCH VIDEO!


 
Jon Batiste & Stay Human to Release New CD
“Social Music”
on Oct. 15th, 2013
WATCH NEW VIDEO
 
26 year old, Music prodigy, Louisiana native Jonathan Batiste drops back into the urban music scene with the forthcoming release, “Social Music” featuring his band Stay Human (Eddie Harbash – Sax; Ibanda Ruhumbika – Tuba; Joe Saylor – Percussion).