CHICAGO-BASED GUITARIST STEVE KNIGHT RELEASES
PERSISTENCE
STEVE KNIGHT’s journey from Olathe, KS to Chicago via Oklahoma, South Carolina, New York, and the Caribbean has been anything but linear or predictable. He’s now releasing his debut album, PERSISTENCE, a trio recording featuring seven of his originals as well as several compositions by other artists.
Boney James is Bringing It Back featuring Dontae Winslow as part of James’ upcoming fall release
Boney James has ruled the contemporary jazz world for over three decades sprinkling his funky R&B attitude. For his body of work as a saxophonist, producer and composer, James earned one of the Top 3 Billboard Contemporary Jazz Artists of the Decade in 2009.
Composetheway Releases New Single, “Night Off” on July 22nd, 2022
Award-winning composer, bassist & bandleader introduces the first single off debut album slated for February 2023 Release
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PRWEB) JULY 22, 2022 – Award-Winning composer & performer, Jordyn Davis also known as Composetheway, is set to release her first single in five years entitled “Night Off” on Friday, July 22nd, 2022.
Supergroup Jazz Funk Soul
(Everette Harp, Jeff Lorber & Paul Jackson Jr.)
Orchestrates the Perfect Forecast on Anticipated
New Recording Of Originals Out August 5th!
Omne trium perfectum- everything that comes in threes is perfect. When it comes to the trio Jazz Funk Soul (JFS), this statement rings true. Saxophonist Everette Harp, keyboardist Jeff Lorber and guitarist Paul Jackson Jr. are the perfect union of balance and harmony,…
COMPOSER/TENOR SAXOPHONIST JD ALLEN OFFERS THE SECOND VOLUME TO AMERICANA ON THE SAVANT LABEL (SCD2202) AUGUST 26, 2022
ALLEN’S 16TH RELEASE AS A LEADER, AMERICANA, VOL. 2, REUNITES HIM WITH LONGTIME TRIOMATES BASSIST GREGG AUGUST & DRUMMER RUDY ROYSTON JOINED BY GUITARIST CHARLIE HUNTER
Together with Americana: Musings on Jazz and Blues, and Barracoon, two of JD Allen’s previous Savant releases, Americana, Vol. 2 forms a trilogy of sorts, exploring and encapsulating a universal spirit based in roots and reflection.
Contemporary jazz pianist Mark Etheredge makes a sober “Love”
offering
Two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown produced the album dropping August 12;
the title track arrives first as a single.
LOS ANGELES (23 June 2022): That pianist Mark Etheredge appears smiling on the cover of his new contemporary jazz album, “Love Planet,” offering roses – his songs – to the world is a triumphant story of resilience.
NEW YORK-BASED SLOVAK VOCALIST HANKA G RELEASES
UNIVERSAL ANCESTRY
HER 4th ALBUM – COMING AUGUST 5, 2022 ON CULTURE BRIDGE RECORDS
UNIVERSAL ANCESTRY is the first album recorded and released in the United States by Slovak vocalist and lyricist HANKA G. HANKA has lived in New York City since 2016 where she performs at all the local jazz hotspots.
Master Trombonist Steve Turre Bridges Generations of Jazz on His Fourth Smoke Sessions Release
Generations Features Young Rising Stars and Jazz Masters, Paying Homage to Influential Elders
Trombonist/composer Steve Turre was passed the jazz torch early in his career by some of the music’s greatest masters – Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Woody Shaw, and Ray Charles, among others.
VOCAL PHENOM ROXANA AMED GATHERS LATIN AMERICAN ALL-STARS ON “UNÁNIME” OUT 9/16 ON SONY LATIN
When Ontology, her critically hailed 2021 debut U.S. recording, scored two Latin Grammy nominations in the Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Arrangement categories, Roxana Amed adroitly shifted her artistic focus for her next project.
New Orleans’ Laranah Phipps Ray & La Funkalicious Release Fearless Rendezvous of Precision & Skill with “Jazz Crimes”
Song Arrives Ahead of Forthcoming Jazz, R&B, Funk & Afrofuturism Album, Game Changer
A fearless rendezvous of precision and skill, cosmically-wired jazz-R&B New Orleans artist Laranah Phipps Ray and La Funkalicious unveil the majestic and unbridled new single, “Jazz Crimes” — available now!