Check Out New Lyric Music Video for Najee’s Single “In The Mood To Take It Slow” feat Meli’sa Morgan Good Day Folks and Welcome BACK! As we had mentioned before here on T.U.M.S., saxophonist NAJEE released his highly anticipated album, “The Morning After: A Musical Love Journey” and it debuted …
Justin Time Records is set to release Fifteen Shades of Blue Jazz on November 12, a collection of tunes that will put you in the mood for love! Featuring standards and originals in a variety of styles to satisfy every soul, with music that creates an air of romance from playful melodies to the sweetest sounds of jazz.
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New Release:
Nnenna Freelon & The John Brown Big Band
“Christmas”
(Brown Boulevard Records)
Street Date November 12, 2013
Nnenna Freelon’s mother was a lover of Christmas – the story, the anticipation, the excitement, but most of all, the gathering of her family around her. In her passing, she left her daughter with a gift that has resulted in a dream fulfilled and a holiday album that will extend a mother’s love of Christmas to listeners everywhere.
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.
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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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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Jon Batiste & Stay Human to Release New CD
“Social Music”
on Oct. 15th, 2013
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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).
Contemporary Jazz Group Hiroshima Releases New Album, “J-Town Beat” Available NOW One of the finest, long standing Contemporary Jazz groups still beating the pavement for good music, HIROSHIMA, has released another fine project from their rather large discography, “J-Town Beat”. The 11 track effort is the 19th album to date …
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“Genius” pianist Marcus Roberts, who got his
first major break 28 years ago as the pianist in Wynton Marsalis’ band
and has been an innovator and major figure in the jazz world ever since,
is in the midst of a tremendously productive period in his career that
will see the release of three new albums this fall.
Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews has God-given talent, natural charisma and a relentless drive to bridge music’s past and future. His third outing for Verve Records, Say That To Say This, was co-produced by Andrews and kindred spirit Raphael Saadiq, and sounds like nothing else out there, as Andrews and his longtime band, Orleans Avenue – guitarist Pete Murano, bassist Mike Ballard and drummer Joey Peebles – continue their natural musical evolution.
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