NAJEE Releases Second Single & New Tour Celebrating 30 YEARS!
NEW YORK – March 8, 2016 – PRLog — Grammy Nominated and award-winning international jazz saxophonist and flautist, Najee, will release his second single, entitled “Signature” featuring singer/songwriter Frank McComb, on March 14, 2016, from his new #1 album “You, Me, and Forever”, third release on Shanachie Entertainment.
Marika Hughes is set to release anticipated new album, “New York Nostalgia” on March 15th, 2016
New York Nostalgia is Marika Hughes’ love letter to the city and the love that made her what she is today. “Fiercely authentic” this native New Yorker grew up with music in every corner of her life, starting from the legacy of her Grandfather, the acclaimed cellist Emanuel Feuermann, to the upper west side jazz club her parents ran around the corner from their home.
Interface Entertainment Recording Artist Micah Stampley’s
New Single, “Be Lifted” Climbs to No. 27 on
Billboard’s Gospel National Airplay Top 30 Chart
New Album, ‘To the King: Vertical Worship’
Scheduled for Release on May 20
(Atlanta, GA – March 7, 2016) – Interface Entertainment recording artist and international worship leader Micah Stampley releases forthcoming live CD/DVD recording, To the King: Vertical Worship, scheduled for release on May 20, 2016.
Renowned Quartet Yellowjackets
Celebrate 35 Years with Cohearence –
Available April 22 on Mack Avenue Records
Album Serves as Debut for Virtuoso
Australian Bassist Dane Alderson
An outgrowth of L.A. Express guitarist Robben Ford’s band founded in 1977, the Yellowjackets came to full buzzing flight four years later with its debut eponymous jazz-funk album, a salient introduction to a new-styled electric fusion of jazz and R&B–a modern take on Weather Report, if you will–for the post Return to Forever/Headhunters decade. The band was an immediate and controversial hit at the time when the jazz pendulum was beginning to swing back in the acoustic direction.
Saxophonist Marcus Strickland’s Twi-Life to Release New Project “Nihil Novi” on April 15th, 2016
“People have to be careful when they call something new,” says saxophonist and composer Marcus Strickland. “I think about what’s around me instead of trying to create something new. Everything is inspired by something else. Ecclesiastes says: ‘There’s nothing new under the sun.’”
GREGORY PORTER RETURNS WITH TAKE ME TO THE ALLEY;
NEW ALBUM TO BE RELEASED MAY 6 DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF
HIS MILLION-SELLING GRAMMY-WINNING BLUE NOTE DEBUT LIQUID SPIRIT
ALBUM PRE-ORDER LAUNCHES TODAY ALONG WITH RELEASE OF 2 SINGLES:
“HOLDING ON” AND “DON’T LOSE YOUR STEAM”
WATCH PORTER PERFORM “DON’T LOSE YOUR STEAM” LIVE AT CAPITOL STUDIOS
PORTER ANNOUNCES EXTENSIVE TOUR DATES IN THE U.S. & EUROPE
An artist whose music is at once timeless yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer-songwriter with the May 6 release of Take Me to the Alley, the much-anticipated follow-up to his million-selling Grammy-winning 2013 Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit.
CHART-TOPPING ARTIST JONATHAN NELSON
UNVEILS UPCOMING FIFTH ALBUM FEARLESS
TO BE RELEASED ON MARCH 18, 2016
Live Album Features 14 Tracks, including Lead Single “Anything Can Happen” and “I Believe (Island Medley)” Available Now
NASHVILLE, TN (February 5, 2016) – Multiple Stellar Award-winning recording artist, songwriter/producer, and worship leader Jonathan Nelson has crafted a powerful call to freedom with his upcoming new live album FEARLESS, unveiling the album cover, track listing, and a new song.
Resonance Records Presents LARRY YOUNG – IN PARIS: THE ORTF RECORDINGS With Never-Before-Released Tracks by The Jazz Organist / Pianist.
Pre-Order NOW on iTunes and Get 4 Tracks Instantly!
Resonance Records, in partnership with the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) of France, is pleased to announce the release of Larry Young In Paris/The ORTF Recordings. Featuring groundbreaking performances by the ingenious organist and pianist, these studio and live recordings from 1964 and 1965 made for French radio and never before issued on record, will be released on March 11, 2016 in deluxe two-CD and limited-edition two-LP sets.
Blue Engine Records Releases
THE ABYSSINIAN MASS
Double album + bonus documentary DVD from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis featuring Damien Sneed and Chorale Le Chateau
Available in stores, online and streaming on March 18
New York, NY – February 3, 2016– Raise your voices and lift your hearts as Blue Engine Records releases The Abyssinian Mass by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis featuring Damien Sneed, Chorale Le Chateau and Special Guest Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III on March 18, 2016.
Norah Jones Set To Perform At Both
Newport Folk Festival And
Newport Jazz Festival This July
Nine-time Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will perform the rare feat of appearing at both the Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival on consecutive weekends this July.