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New Jazz Release: Fusion Group Return To Forever | “The Mothership Returns” (Coming June 19th, 2012)

THE MOTHERSHIP RETURNS ON JUNE 19


 
EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE 3-DISC SET BY PIONEERING FUSION GROUP
RETURN TO FOREVER


New York, NY (May 14, 2012)—On June 19, get ready for a landing that will shake the foundations of progressive jazz/rock fusion forever. In 2011, keyboardist/pianist Chick Corea, acoustic and electric bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White welcomed legendary acoustic and electric violinist Jean Luc-Ponty and acoustic and electric guitarist Frank Gambale into Return To Forever, the band that took what Miles Davis taught to jump-start the jazz/rock fusion genre in 1973 (along with Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report) with their album, Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy. To continue, please click “MORE”!

80’s R&B Group TIMEX SOCIAL CLUB is BACK!

80’s R&B group TIMEX SOCIAL CLUB – AVAILABLE FOR DATES – 2012


80’s R&B group Timex Social Club is back with a new book release and available for booking



United States of America —
Free-Press-Release.com– May 2, 2012 — Timex Social Club, the group
that brought you one of the best selling 12-inch singles of all time “Rumors”, is back performing again.

Formed in Berkeley, California in 1982; TSC climbed the Billboard
R&B charts in the summer 1986 and reached#1 with their runaway smash
hit “Rumors”. To continue, please click “MORE”!

The Autobiography of Trumpeter Clark Terry (New Book) | Available NOW

Iconic Trumpeter And Trailblazer Clark Terry’s New Autobiography Remarkably Told In His Own Words



Trumpeter and trailblazer Clark Terry has written his autobiography in his own idiosyncratic language, chock-full of period slang of the jazz musicians of his generation. Terry played with Count Basie’s and Duke Ellington’s bands among many others and in 1960 broke the color line at NBC as a member of the Tonight Show’s band under Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. He tells stories about not only the greats, but performers such as Stump & Stumpy and Peg Leg Bates that haven’t been told in the pages of any other book.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 13, 2012

Trumpeter, flugelhornist, trailblazer and teacher, Clark Terry can now, with his autobiography Clark, add memoirist to his long list of accomplishments. With high-profile friends like Quincy Jones writing the preface and Bill Cosby penning the foreword, you have some idea of the high esteem in which Terry is held. To Continue, Please click “MORE”!

Bassist Russel Blake Partners with N.D.V.R. | Releases New Book, “Proverbs 31: The Virtuous Black Woman Vol. 1”

Jazz Bassist Russel Blake Partners with National Domestic Violence Registry Positioning his Book,”Proverbs 31: The Virtuous Black Woman Vol. 1,” to Elevate the Plight of All Women


Los Angeles – When Russel Blake creates, he taps deep into his inner most God source. It is evidenced by music the renowned music producer and jazz bassist has gifted the planet with, including three CD’s and over 432 compositions within his repertoire encompassing classical, Spanish classical, traditional jazz, Brazilian, opera, Latin and blues music idioms. It rings apparent in the eloquence he embodies as an author penning “Proverbs 31: The Virtuous Black Woman Vol. 1,” where he communicates the precious and priceless value of all women. To continue, please click “MORE”!

“Smokin’ Soul: The Story of Daptone Records” by Sarah Perry (Story of Soul Singer Sharon Jones) | Available Now

Smokin’ Soul: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Daptone Records

Award-winning author Sarah Perry
tells the inspiring story behind soul singer Sharon Jones’s rise from
corrections officer to world-touring artist and the small record label
startup -Daptone Records- that put her on the map. Article published by
The Atlas Society.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 19, 2012

Highlights:

Sharon Jones, and the indie record label that put her on the
map, Daptone Records, are at the forefront of a soul/funk revival –a
growing interest in new music, artists, art, and dance moves that
recapture the classic feel of soul/funk records of the 60s and 70s, yet
offer original artistry. Daptone Records is now celebrating its 10th
anniversary. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Irvin Mayfield to Release Book & CD, “A Love Letter To New Orleans” on April 26th, 2011

Grammy-Award Winning Jazz Musician, Irvin Mayfield Sends “A Love Letter To New Orleans”



Deluxe
multi-media coffee-table book and CD package chronicles Mayfield’s
artistic quest and development into one of America’s most promising
young jazz musicians. A Love Letter to New Orleans is also available as a
CD.

A Love Letter to New Orleans will be released nationally
through Amazon and select retailers on April 26, 2011. A series of local
book release parties will be held at the Tennessee Williams Literary
Festival on March 27 at The Palm Court Jazz Café in New Orleans and
April 20th and 30th at the Irvin Mayfield Jazz Playhouse in New Orleans.

(New
Orleans, Louisiana)—Irvin Mayfield and Basin Street Records announced
today the release of A Love Letter to New Orleans, a richly designed
coffee-table book and CD that provides an intimate glimpse into the
people, places and ideas that have shaped Mayfield’s musical evolution
into an internationally recognized Jazz artist. Anchored by a stunning
black and white cover photo of Mayfield by jazz photographer Herman
Leonard, A Love Letter to New Orleans begins with a foreword by
journalist Soledad O’Brien, who after her first interview with Mayfield,
is convinced that in her next life she wants to come back as a native
of New Orleans. To continue. please click “MORE”!

“Diana | Queen Of Motown” by Ian Phillips (New Book)

New Diana Ross Book Gets Back to Reality

New hardcover title concentrates on
the achievements and work of superstar and Motown legend, Diana Ross.
Track by track, album by album and movie by movie, her prodigious output
is examined and evaluated in a celebration of five decades of stardom.

Kent, England (PRWEB) January 20, 2011


During a career spanning half a century in which a skinny little girl
from Detroit’s Brewster Projects came to be a byword for style,
professionalism and artistic integrity, Diana Ross has also become an
icon for women, for black people, for disenfranchised individuals
throughout the world.

Millions of words have been written about her – some of them true –
as writers, commentators and fantasists have scrambled to define,
package and fictionalise the person behind the achievements – to find
some mystic shorthand explanation for it all. To continue, Please click “MORE”!