Contemporary/Latin Jazz Saxophonist Jessy J Releases Holiday Album “California Christmas” on Oct 28th, 2016 | LISTEN to “Silent Night”!
Launches Pledge Music Campaign To Celebrate The Holiday Season With Special Offerings For Fans All Star Guests Include Jeff Lorber, Paul Brown, Steve Oliver, Michael Thompson, Maurice Smith, and more….
LOS ANGELES – Oct. 18, 2016 – PRLog — In her debut holiday recording, top contemporary/ Latin Jazz saxophonist Jessy J brings a California twist to the season with an upbeat, jazzy, bluesy tropical collection of her favorite Christmas songs with the Oct. 28th release of California Christmas on her Changi Records Label.
Ralph Peterson’s New Quintet Aggregate Prime to Release Album “Dream Deferred” on Nov. 4th, 2016
Ralph Peterson Calls for Renewed Hope & Artist Activism of Civil Rights Era in Wake of
Systematic Injustice of African Americans Today
Debut of New Quintet, Aggregate Prime, Featuring Vijay Iyer, Gary Thomas, Mark Whitfield and Kenny Davis
Since it was first published in 1951, Langston Hughes’ poem, “Harlem,” has been a source of awe and inspiration for generations of African American artists, notably Lorraine Hansbury, whose most famous play “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959), borrowed its title to enhance its theme of black families’ fraught and frustrated pursuit of the American Dream.
Chick Corea Adds Special Guests to Two-Month Birthday Celebration at The Blue Note | Starting Oct. 19th, 2016
CHICK COREA
Adds Duets with Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin,
Brad Mehldau & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
to Two-Month Birthday Celebration at The Blue Note
8 Consecutive Weeks, 80 Shows,
15 Legendary Bands, 60 Iconic Musicians
October 19 through December 11, 2016 in New York City
New York, NY – October 6, 2016 – Final lineup additions have been announced for Chick Corea‘s unprecedented two-month 75th Birthday Celebration at The Blue Note, which runs October 19 through December 11, 2016.
AVAILABLE NOW ON VINYL: Pianist/Singer Diana Krall’s Album “Christmas Songs”
Diana Krall’s Classic Holiday Album Christmas Songs,
Featuring The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra,
Released Back On Vinyl Today via Verve Records/UMe
#1 Jazz and Holiday Album Reissued As Double LP
Diana Krall‘s beloved holiday album, Christmas Songs, is now available back on vinyl as of today, Friday, October 14 via Verve/UMe.
Daniel Weatherspoon to Release New Album “The Langley Park Project” on Oct 21st, 2016
DANIEL WEATHERSPOON
OFFERS BEAUTIFUL NEW ALBUM ‘THE LANGLEY PARK PROJECT’
Extraordinary New Album Available Online Everywhere October 21
September 30, 2016 — Award winning producer, composer and musical director, Daniel Weatherspoon, finds his own musical voice with a deeply personal modern jazz album, “The Langley Park Project.”
Drummer Nate Smith to Release New Album “KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere” on Feb. 3rd, 2017 | LISTEN!
Drummer Nate Smith Chronicles His Own Black American Experience and Reality of the American Dream Through Deep-Rooted Grooves on Debut Album
Album Features Special Guests Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Lionel Loueke, Adam Rogers, and Gretchen Parlato
Nate Smith‘s visceral, instinctive, and deep-rooted style of drumming has already established him as a key piece in reinvigorating the international jazz scene, and now his rising career reaches a new benchmark with the release of his bandleader debut, KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere (February 3, 2017 via Ropeadope Records).
Soul/Jazz Singer Lindsey Webster to Release New Album “Back To Your Heart” on Nov. 4th, 2016 | WATCH LYRIC VIDEO!
Rising Young Soul Jazz Singer/Songwriter Lindsey Webster
Scores First Vocal #1 on Contemporary Jazz Charts Since Sade
& Signs to Shanachie Entertainment
Webster’s New Single Just Debuted on SiriusXM’s Watercolors.
Growing up in an artist community, the daughter of loving hippie parents, in Woodstock NY, the allure of music was never far from Lindsey Webster.