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Organ Great Ronnie Foster to Release New Album “Reboot” on July 15th, 2022 | LISTEN to Title Track!


 
Ronnie Foster Returns to Blue Note with Reboot out July 15
Organ Great’s First New Album in 36 Years Arrives
50 Years After His 1972 Blue Note Debut Two Headed Freap
 
Listen to the Title Track “Reboot”
 
June 3, 2022: Organ great Ronnie Foster returns to Blue Note Records with the July 15 release of Reboot, his first new album in 36 years which arrives 50 years after his 1972 Blue Note debut Two Headed Freap.

Jazz Drummer Tony Williams’ 1980 Trio Album “Play Or Die” to be Released on July 22nd, 2022


 
Innovating Jazz Drummer Tony Williams’ Long Lost 1980 Trio Album, Play or Die, Rediscovered and Remastered for Release
 
Featuring Keyboardist Tom Grant
and Bassist Patrick O’Hearn
 
M.I.G. Music GmbH, an independent multi-genre recording label based in Hanover, Germany is set to release on July 22 on all digital platforms and CD (and a limited vinyl edition to be released in late 2022), an auspicious rare studio recording from the late legendary drummer Tony Williams while the imposing bandleader was on tour more than four decades ago.

Trumpeter Bill Ortiz to Release New Album “Points of View” on June 17th, 2022 | LISTEN!


 
FORMER LONGTIME SANTANA TRUMPETER BILL ORTIZ DRAWS FROM
HIS ECLECTIC, MULTI-GENRE 40-YEAR CAREER TO OFFER A MULTITUDE OF
POINTS OF VIEW
ON HIS THIRD SOLO ALBUM
 
Available June 17th, 2022
 
One of the Bay Area’s most dynamic multi-genre trumpeters for over four decades, BILL ORTIZ recorded and toured the world with Santana for 16 years – starting with the multi-Grammy winning Smooth album…

Roy Hargrove Documentary to Premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 12th, 2022 | WATCH NEW TRAILER!


 
Poplife Productions Presents
in Association with Folding Chair Productions
 
“World Premiere” at Tribeca Festival on Sunday, June 12, 2022 (8pm)
Produced by Eliane Henri & Dana Guerin
Executive Produced by Janine Sherman Barrois & Erykah Badu
 
HARGROVE, a vérité style documentary chronicling the last year of GRAMMY Award-winning trumpet legend Roy Hargrove’s life, will debut at the Tribeca Festival on Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 8PM at Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place (230 Vesey Street, NYC).

Producer Vassal Benford Releases New Jazz Single “Melody Man” | LISTEN!


 
Multi-platinum “Melody Man” Vassal Benford steps into the spotlight
 
The R&B-jazz single from the multimedia mogul goes for adds on Monday.
 
LAS VEGAS (23 May 2022): With more than 57 platinum records to his credit working with a galaxy of stars in various music genres, over $150 million in movie box office receipts, and management duties for boxing champion Manny Pacquiao and the estate of fabled blues icon B.B. King, megaproducer Vassal Benford is returning to his roots determined to conquer jazz just like everything else he’s conquered throughout his unparalleled multimedia career.

Jazz Guitarist Tim Bowman Releases New Album “The 80’s 8.0” | LISTEN to 2 New Singles!


 
Contemporary Jazz Guitarist Tim Bowman Delivers a Treat for Music Lovers with the Release of New Album “The 80’s 8.0”
 
On Friday, May 20, award winning, chart topping, renowned guitarist TIM BOWMAN will be releasing his new project, The 80’s 8.0. Needless to say, this is a lover’s of 80’s music dream come true. Classic songs like “Rock With You,” “Careless Whisper,” “What’s Love Got Do With It,” and “The Biggest Part of Me.”

South African Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini Releases New Single “Emlilweni” | LISTEN! Announces U.S./International Tour


 
NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI RELEASES NEW SINGLE
“EMLILWENI” FEATURING JALEEL SHAW
FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN PIANIST’S LUMINOUS NEW ALBUM
IN THE SPIRIT OF NTU OUT MAY 27 ON BLUE NOTE AFRICA
 
VINYL RELEASE OF IN THE SPIRIT OF NTU ANNOUNCED FOR SEPT. 23
 
Nduduzo Makhathini has released “Emlilweni,” the third and final single to be revealed from the visionary South African pianist and composer’s luminous new album In the Spirit of Ntu, which comes out May 27. A 2-LP vinyl release of the album has just been announced for September 23.

Vocalist Mark Kibble & Guitarist Steve Khan Release New Single “Island Letter” | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Vocalist Mark Kibble and Guitarist Steve Khan Releases Collaborative Single “Island Letter”
 
When two legendary artists decide to collaborate on a very special one-song project, the results are expected to be magical. So the pairing of vocalist Mark Kibble, the 15 time Grammy award winning singer known for his brilliant work as the lead arranger of Take 6, along with guitarist Steve Khan gave good reason for such excitement.

“Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook” to be Released on June 24th, 2022 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
UNRELEASED LIVE CONCERT OF ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMING SONGS FROM HER BELOVED IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK WITH A FULL ORCHESTRA AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN NORMAN GRANZ’S PRIVATE COLLECTION
 
FULL PERFORMANCE MIXED FROM ORIGINAL ANALOG TAPES BY GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER GREGG FIELD FOR RELEASE AS ELLA AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL: THE IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK
 
LOS ANGELES, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On August 16, 1958, just a few months after Ella Fitzgerald recorded her now-classic album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook, The First Lady Of Song performed selections from that album live at the Hollywood Bowl to an adoring, sold-out crowd.

Jazz Guitarist Pasquale Grasso to Release New Album “Be-Bop!” on June 17th, 2022 | LISTEN! Announces New U.S./European Tour Dates for 2022


 
Guitar Virtuoso
Pasquale Grasso
Pays Tribute to Bird and Diz on Be-Bop!
 
Available June 17 on Sony Music Masterworks | Pre-Order Now
 
U.S. & European Tour Dates Announced
 
Following the extraordinary success of guitar virtuoso Pasquale Grasso’s digital showcase series, which launched in 2019 and includes Solo Standards, Solo Ballads, Solo Holiday, and tributes to jazz royalty Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Sony Music Masterworks is set to release Be-Bop!,