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Bassist Christian McBride Named Artistic Director of Newport Jazz Festival® 2016

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™ Appoints
Bassist Christian McBride
As Artistic Director of Newport Jazz Festival®

NEW YORK, NY, March 10, 2016 – For the first time in its 62-year history, the world-renowned Newport Jazz Festival® will have a musician other than pianist/producer George Wein as its artistic director. Multiple Grammy-winning bassist Christian McBride has been named artistic director to work alongside, and eventually succeed, Wein as the festival’s music curator, it was announced today by Wein, chairman of Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™ and producer of the Newport Jazz Festival since its inception in 1954, and Jay Sweet, the Foundation’s executive producer.

Take 6 To Release New Album “Believe” on March 25th, 2016 – WATCH VIDEO! Announces European Tour

The “baddest vocal cats on the planet” according to Quincy Jones, Take 6, are launching a European tour in April that will take the multi-award winning jazz, pop and R&B group to France, Italy, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Norway and Georgia.

Take 6’s highly-anticipated new album Believe will be available worldwide on March 25. “When Angels Cry, ” the first single from the new album, is available for purchase on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon and streaming on Spotify.

2013 Thelonious Monk Competition Winner, Saxophonist MELISSA ALDANA to Release New Album “Back Home” on March 11th, 2016 | LISTEN!

Tenor Saxophonist &
2013 Thelonious Monk Competition Winner
MELISSA ALDANA
Releases Fourth Album
BACK HOME
Out March 11th on Wommusic

Acclaimed tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana follows up her 2014 Concord release Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio with the explorative and deeply swinging Back Home, this time released on the Wommusic label. Pablo Menares, Aldana’s fellow native of Santiago, Chile, is again on bass. On drums is the in-demand Jochen Rueckert, bringing a supple and unpredictable rhythmic élan to the session.

Vocalist Marika Hughes to Release New Project “New York Nostalgia” on March 15th, 2016

Marika Hughes is set to release anticipated new album, “New York Nostalgia” on March 15th, 2016

New York Nostalgia is Marika Hughes’ love letter to the city and the love that made her what she is today. “Fiercely authentic” this native New Yorker grew up with music in every corner of her life, starting from the legacy of her Grandfather, the acclaimed cellist Emanuel Feuermann, to the upper west side jazz club her parents ran around the corner from their home.

Gregory Porter to Release Anticipated New Project “Take Me To The Alley” on May 6th, 2016 | Announces U.S. Tour Dates | WATCH VIDEO!

GREGORY PORTER RETURNS WITH TAKE ME TO THE ALLEY;
NEW ALBUM TO BE RELEASED MAY 6 DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF
HIS MILLION-SELLING GRAMMY-WINNING BLUE NOTE DEBUT LIQUID SPIRIT

ALBUM PRE-ORDER LAUNCHES TODAY ALONG WITH RELEASE OF 2 SINGLES:
“HOLDING ON” AND “DON’T LOSE YOUR STEAM”
WATCH PORTER PERFORM “DON’T LOSE YOUR STEAM” LIVE AT CAPITOL STUDIOS

PORTER ANNOUNCES EXTENSIVE TOUR DATES IN THE U.S. & EUROPE

An artist whose music is at once timeless yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer-songwriter with the May 6 release of Take Me to the Alley, the much-anticipated follow-up to his million-selling Grammy-winning 2013 Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit.

Singer Norah Jones to Perform at Both Newport Folk & Newport Jazz Festivals – 2016

Norah Jones Set To Perform At Both
Newport Folk Festival And
Newport Jazz Festival This July

Nine-time Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will perform the rare feat of appearing at both the Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival on consecutive weekends this July.

Singer Laurin Talese to Release Debut Album “Gorgeous Chaos” in March 2016

VOCALIST LAURIN TALESE TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
WITH ALL-STAR LINE UP FEATURING ADAM BLACKSTONE, ROBERT GLASPER,
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE, VIVIAN GREEN, ULYSSES OWENS JR., CHRISTIAN SANDS AND MORE

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9, 2016 – Recording artist, composer and songwriter, Laurin Talese,
will release her debut album Gorgeous Chaos, in March 2016. Leading up to the date, she
will be holding a series of record release listening events beginning with the Iridium Jazz
Club in New York on February 25, 2016, and the Music Box Supper Club in her
hometown of Cleveland, OH on March 6, 2016.

Singer Psalmist Raine to Release LIVE CD/DVD Combo “ReFresh Worship Live” on March 22nd, 2016

Award-winning Worship Leader PSALMIST RAINE Prepares To Release Groundbreaking Prophetic Live CD & DVD, ReFresh Worship Live

Psalmist To Minister Live on TCT’s Celebrate Live On February 18, 2016

New Project To Drop on March 22, 2016

(February 16, 2016) – Chicago, IL – Few worship leaders would step to the stage in front of a packed audience to record a live DVD having only prepared one song. But Psalmist Raine is not your typical worship leader.

Drummer Ralph Peterson & Trio Returns w/New Album “TriAngular III” on April 8th, 2016

Drummer Ralph Peterson Makes Triumphant
Return to Trio Format with TriAngular III,
Featuring Zaccai and Luques Curtis

Album Serves as Testament to the Healing Power of Music

Available April 8 via Onyx Music & Truth Revolution Records

A great sequel is a rarity worth waiting for. Drummer/composer Ralph Peterson returns to the trio format for only the third time in 30 years on TriAngular III, due out April 8 via Peterson’s own Onyx Music label and Truth Revolution Records. This time out he’s joined by brothers Zaccai and Luques Curtis on piano and bass, adding a new incarnation to the prestigious TriAngular lineage.

The Kenny Barron Trio to Release New Project “Book of Intuition” on March 4th, 2016 | Announces Tour Dates 2016 | Listen to Single “Magic Dance”!

NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron to Release
First Album with Longstanding Trio, Book of Intuition,
Featuring Kiyoshi Kitagawa and Johnathan Blake

Available March 4 on impulse! Records

Remarkably, while piano maestro Kenny Barron has recorded more than 40 albums as a leader and countless others as a valued sideman, he had never documented his impressive working trio of bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa, with him for 20 years, and drummer Johnathan Blake, onboard for the past 10 years.

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