Guava Jamm Entertainment, Inc (www.guavajamm.net) is pleased to announce the upcoming release of “Kaleidoscope” by the Jazzmobile Award-Winning, iTunes Essential Jazz Vocalist Lynette Washington. Produced and arranged by Gold/Platinum award winning pianist/producer Dennis Bell (www.cityslickerproductions.com), the album features Dennis Bell Jazz NY with guest artist jazz greats Alex Blake (Bass), …
Bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding opened her 2008 Heads Up debut, Esperanza, with a Milton Nascimento cover (“Ponta de Areia”) and she hasn’t looked back. Soon after its release, Esperanza went straight to the top of Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz chart where it remained for over 70 weeks. Spalding was …
Parry Ray ‘The Way I’m Wired’ “Parry has a voice that is instantly alluring and attractive to the ear. The heartfelt sincerity with which she interprets classic melodies stands her out as an artist, tugging at the ear and heart simultaneously” Gwilym Simcock, Parliamentary Jazz Awards ‘Jazz Musician of the …
Motema Music Releases Debut Album By Gregory Porter, entitled, “Water” – May 11th, 2010
With a voice that can caress or confront, embrace or exhort, Gregory Porter exhibits such an incredible degree of vocal mastery that no less a jazz luminary than Wynton Marsalis has gone on record to call him “a fantastic young singer,” which makes the fact that Water (out on May 11 from Motema Music) is his recording debut even more impressive.
CANADIAN JAZZ DIVA RANEE LEE RELEASES LIVES UPSTAIRS ON JUSTIN TIME RECORDS 2010 JUNO AWARD-WINNER VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR RECORDED LIVE AT ACCLAIMED CANADIAN JAZZ CLUB, UPSTAIRS It’s been a rather amazing journey for Ranee Lee, who for several decades has reigned virtually unchallenged as the Queen of …
Six-Time Grammy Nominated Vocalist Nnenna Freelon Returns with Her Seventh Concord Jazz Release Homefree Concord Jazz is proud to announce the release of Homefree, the newest album from esteemed jazz vocalist and multi-Grammy® nominee Nnenna Freelon. Homefree marks Freelon’s seventh Concord Jazz album as a leader and first studio outing …
JUSTIN TIME RECORDS PRESENTS AFRICA CALLING BY SOUTH AFRICAN SINGER/DANCER LORRAINE KLAASEN **SPECIAL U.S. APPEARANCE ON APRIL 23 AT ZINC BAR, NYC** Soweto-born singer/dancer Lorraine Klaasen has spent her 30-plus-years career faithfully carrying the torch for traditional South African Township music, consistently performing and self-releasing her own CDs. On …
For All We Know is the title of the first American album from José James (and Jef Neve). Now that the cover art is in hand, it can truly be said that this is solidly in the Impulse! tradition, both inside and out. In fact, it’s the first album of newly …
GUITARIST-COMPOSER FABRIZIO SOTTI TO RELEASE INNER DANCE ON E1 MUSIC, APRIL 6 SOTTI’S DEBUT ON THE LABEL PAYS HOMAGE TO WES MONTGOMERY AND JIMMY SMITH Driven by the dynamic interplay between Fabrizio Sotti’s colorful electric and acoustic guitar and Sam Barsh’s bluesy Hammond B-3 organ, the Italian born artist/composer’s highly …
On Her Second CD, Antoinette Montague Brings Passion and Heartfelt Emotion On Her Second CD, Antoinette Montague Brings Passion and Heartfelt EmotionANTOINETTE MONTAGUE Antoinette Montague likes to say she simply sings “people music.” Make no mistake about it, she is a jazz singer through and through, but one who pushes …
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