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!
TODAY Internationally Renowned Pianist
CONNIE HAN
TO RELEASE FORTHCOMING ALBUM – SECRETS OF INANNA
Out September 23 on Mack Avenue Records
Pianist/Composer Connie Han Channels the Ancient Goddess of Love, Beauty and War on Her Most Bold, Stunning and Ambitious Album to Date
July 13, 2022: Today, LA-native Pianist/Composer and Steinway Artist Connie Han announces her new album Secrets of Inanna with the debut of her sublime single “Prima Materia.”
ERIC DARIUS
Announces His New Album Unleashed To Be Released on August 12th
New Single “That’s My Jam” is #5 On Billboard Charts
July 12, 2022 – Jazz/R&B Saxophonist, Songwriter, Producer, and Performer, Eric Darius is thrilled to announce his new album Unleashed to be released on August 12th.
Two-Time Grammy-Winning & Chart-Topping Guitarist/Producer
Paul Brown Finds His Happy Place on Promised Land
Brown’s Sophomore Shanachie Recording Featuring All Originals Unites Him with
Euge Groove, Marion Meadows, Shane Theriot & Others
Some say that there is a boundary line to art but few true artists and visionaries conform to that notion. It is no surprise that two-time Grammy-winning guitarist and producer extraordinaire Paul Brown cites both Jerry Garcia and Wes Montgomery as founding influences.
KEYSCOTT BAND
Releases
Official Music Video
“Ride On”
“Ride On” written by Eddie Scott and featured saxophonist, Alvin Turner is just one example of the many talents that Eddie inherited from his aunt, the extraordinary Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Joe McCarthy’s New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band Returns with The Pan American Nutcracker Suite, a Pan-Afro Reimagining of the Tchaikovsky Classic
If you think Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s remarkable, 1960 interpretation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet, The Nutcracker, is the final jazz word on the popular orchestral work, think again.
Former Weather Report Drummer Alex Acuña to Release Gifts, His First Album as a Leader in 17 Years.
The incredible journey of Alex Acuña has seen the renowned drummer-percussionist travel from his small rural hometown in Peru to being a first-call session drummer in the country’s capital city, Lima, then touring the United States with mambo king Pérez Prado, gigging in Las Vegas with Elvis Presley and ultimately touring internationally with Weather Report, the premiere fusion band of the mid-1970s.