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SOUL TRAIN AWARD-WINNING VOCALIST NICOLE HENRY RELEASES TIME TO LOVE AGAIN

Posted by Joe Ross
December 3, 2021 - 11:21pm EST
  On TIME TO LOVE AGAIN, vocalist NICOLE HENRY performs an eclectic mix of jazz standards and reimagined pop tunes with the sweet yet powerful voice that has made her a favorite with audiences and critics alike, around the country and the world. Stephen Holden of The New York Times raved, “I had the sense of being in the presence of a pop-soul superwoman whose every gesture and inflection conveyed confidence and mastery.” BroadwayWorld says,... Read More
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Pianist David Janeway releases his third trio recording, Distant Voices

Posted by Joe Ross
November 23, 2021 - 11:54am EST
Pianist David Janeway releases his third trio recording, Distant Voices, on Steeplechase. This is the first recording for his working trio that features Billy Hart on drums and Cameron Brown, bass. During this time of Covid, Janeway looks back and pays tribute to the many jazz pianists that have inspired and influenced him throughout his career. There are selections by Hank Jones, Walter Bishop Jr. Bill Evans and Ellington as well as tributes written for Ahmad Jamal, Larry Willis, Cedar Walton and Herbie Hancock. This is an... Read More
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Jimmy Ryan releases Astral Café CD and Book "The Raindrop and the Bubble"

Posted by Joe Ross
November 23, 2021 - 12:57am EST
Following his 2017 solo album 21st Century Riffology, Jimmy Ryan is back in action with a new album that some long-time fans are calling his finest musical achievement to date. Released in 2021, the 13-track Astral Café finds the guitar legend behind the Flyin’ Ryan Brothers in stellar form. As the cofounder of The Flyin’ Ryan Brothers, Jimmy Ryan and his brother Johnny Ryan released 7 albums between 1999 and 2011 and Astral Café brings his sound back alive and well in the roaring ‘20s. Although Jimmy... Read More
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Rick Faris Is Ready To Tackle "The Next Mountain" With Launch of New Album

Posted by Joe Ross
November 22, 2021 - 3:16pm EST
Award-winning Bluegrass artist Rick Faris is celebrating the release his sophomore Dark Shadow Recording album The Next Mountain. Produced by Dark Shadow Recording label head Stephen Mougin, the 12-track record includes a cast of astounding pickers and singers including Sam Bush, Ronnie Bowman, Becky Buller, Ronnie McCoury and more. The follow-up to Faris’ critically acclaimed debut album Breaking In Lonesome, The Next Mountain features tracks written by Faris and distinguished songwriters... Read More
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“Lamenta”, Xanthoula Dakovanou’s new album, coming November 26

Posted by Joe Ross
November 18, 2021 - 2:51pm EST
Xanthoula Dakovanou will unveil her new album “Lamenta” on its release November 26, 2021 on Quart de Lune / UVM Distribution. Under the musical artistic direction of the greek singer Xanthoula Dakovanou, principal voice of Lamenta, the creation of this album is inspired from the musical traditions of Epirus, Greece fusioned with post-rock and world jazz elements. Staged by the belgian choreographers of international reputation Koen Augustijnen and Rosalba Torres Guerrero (Siamese Cie),... Read More
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Underground to be released November 19, 2021 via Libra Records

Posted by Joe Ross
November 17, 2021 - 12:52am EST
  Half a world away from each other, pianist-composer Satoko Fujii and vibraphonist Taiko Saito recapture the delicate intensity of their duo, Futari, on their new CD, Underground. After the pandemic prevented an in-person reunion during a planned European tour, Fujii and Saito agreed to carry on by exchanging sound files over the Internet. Although the format is remote, the resulting music is, if anything, even more intimate and compelling than their debut album, Beyond, which was recorded live in the... Read More
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Bill Abernathy Releases Single And Video For "Who Are You, Who Am I?"

Posted by Michael Stover
November 12, 2021 - 10:02pm EST
"Who Are You, Who Am I” is the title track to Bill’s latest EP. It follows his #1 South Africa Country chart hit, “World’s Foremost Authority On Everything.” Bill Abernathy “I get asked all the time about where my music comes from. ‘Who Are You Who Am I’ was written to answer that question.”— Bill Abernathy “I get asked all the time about where my music comes from. ‘Who Are You Who Am I’ was written to answer that question. I’ve had a... Read More
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Digitally Restored Release of Robert Mugge's Landmark Music Doc, DEEP BLUES

Posted by Joe Ross
November 10, 2021 - 2:29pm EST
  In 1990, commissioned by award-winning musician, songwriter, producer, innovator and Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart, veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working. Starting on Beale Street in Memphis, they headed south to the juke joints, lounges, front porches, and parlors of Holly Springs, Greenville, Clarksdale, Bentonia, and Lexington. Along... Read More
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Nigerian Roots Artist Sonia Aimy Reconnects

Posted by Ron Kadish
November 9, 2021 - 12:03pm EST
Beloved Nigerian vocalist, entrepreneur, actress and activist Sonia Aimy reconnects with her creative heart via quarantine-inspired reflections and self-realizations on her latest album Reconnect  For almost as long as she can remember now, beloved Nigerian vocalist, entrepreneur, actress, and activist Sonia Aimy has been on the go. In fact, since she started touring widely as a musician at the young age of 23, she can’t recall having lingered in any one city for more than a few months at a time or having ever... Read More
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Gentle Glow Releases New Single “LaST Call”

Posted by Michael Stover
November 7, 2021 - 10:54pm EST
The indie-pop group GENTLE GLOW started with their second single “LaST CaLL”, which has been available everywhere since October 22nd, a call for more mindfulness. With their new single “LaST CaLL”, the Austrian indie-pop aesthetes draw attention to a cutting edge topic: “It is five to twelve when it comes to climate change and in addition to the careful use of our resources in our everyday lives, we also want to use our music to point it out ”, front woman Jasmin Neuninger explains the background of... Read More
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Sarah Aroeste to release world's first all-Ladino Hanukkah album

Posted by Ron Kadish
November 4, 2021 - 12:27pm EDT
Ladino singer/songwriter, author and activist, Sarah Aroeste presents the world’s first all-Ladino Hanuka album   Hanuka! to be released Nov 19. Purchase here. Hanuka, the festival of lights, is a celebration beloved by Jews across the globe. It commemorates the victory of the Jewish Maccabees against the Syrian-Greek Army, who had desecrated the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Refusing to worship Greek gods, the Maccabees heroically led a revolt and won! Following their victory, the Maccabees rededicated the Temple using oil... Read More
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Monsieur Doumani Releases Their Fourth Album, "Pissourin"

Posted by Joe Ross
November 1, 2021 - 1:45am EDT
This much acclaimed Cyprus-based trio return with a thrilling fourth album. The record pushes their trademark Mediterranean sonics into a deep psychedelic and avant-folk direction. A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments, multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end. Night is when strange things happen. When shapes shift and blur. When it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s illusion. Night…is the time of the imagination. For Cyprus’s Monsieur Doumani, those hours of blackness have lured... Read More
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Kane Mathis offers compelling trad music on Mandinka Harp and Turkish Oud

Posted by Joe Ross
October 27, 2021 - 5:16pm EDT
Performing on the 21-string Mandinka Harp and the Turkish Oud, Kane Mathis renders compelling interpretations of these traditional musics. Years of study with generous masters have given Kane a rare opportunity to share these traditions with other cultures.  Kane began taking trips to The Gambia, West Africa in 1997 and has continued rigorous study of the Mandinka Kora. Over the past ten years his performances have earned him recognition by the Gambian president, The Gambian minister of culture, and both national... Read More
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Shujaat Khan & Katayoun Goudarzi Explore Rumi on This Pale

Posted by Ron Kadish
October 26, 2021 - 3:04pm EDT
In these dark days of stark societal uncertainty and pronounced cultural intolerance, could the illuminating words of the world’s greatest poet and champion of tolerance and love inspire dialogue and spark a constructive collective conversation where pundits and politicians cannot?  This questions is earnestly and eloquently explored by a culturally diverse group of musicians and close friends on This Pale (released October 1, 2021 on Lycopod Records), the new album from Iranian-American vocalist Katayoun... Read More
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ANGEL ROMAN RELEASES FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM "FESTIVE INTERPLAY"

Posted by Joe Ross
October 20, 2021 - 1:00pm EDT
Composer, arranger, and bass player ANGEL ROMAN is an innovative Latin jazz artist who prefers not to tread the well-worn path of past masters of the genre as he blends different Afro Latin rhythms, along with Jazz, Brazilian, Pop, Fusion, Neo-Soul and Funk. On FESTIVE INTERPLAY, Roman fully embraces his talents as an imaginative composer while presenting a program of Latin jazz that is at once very recognizable, but at the same time, quite different and... Read More
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PAUL JOST RELEASES DOUBLE-DISC LIVE ALBUM "WHILE WE WERE GONE"

Posted by Joe Ross
October 20, 2021 - 12:52pm EDT
PAUL JOST’s newest album, WHILE WE WERE GONE, is a double disc album recorded live at the Soapbox Gallery, an art and performance space in Brooklyn, NY. Jost and his band, which comprises some of the top New York area musicians, includes JIM RIDL on piano, DEAN JOHNSON on bass, TIM HORNER on drums, and LORIN COHEN and MARTIN WIND subbing on bass on several tunes. Jost and the band began performing live just one day a month at the Soapbox Gallery when the Covid-19 lockdown started easing up in New York City. The venue recorded the... Read More
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Nation Beat returns with a fabulously funky, brash new CD: "The Royal Chase"

Posted by Joe Ross
October 14, 2021 - 12:42pm EDT
The chase has been on for a longtime for drummer/percussionist extraordinaire Scott Kettner. With his collective Nation Beat, he has long explored the folkloric musical traditions of Brazil and Louisiana. That exploration of the shared history and culture of these two incredibly rich musical areas has led to a hybridity, one mixed with his jazz influence, inspiring Kettner and his crew to compose and perform new music that brings all of these influences together. The chase has led Kettner to a royal payoff. The Royal Chase (NBM),... Read More
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Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita release "SUBA"

Posted by Joe Ross
October 14, 2021 - 12:41am EDT
The Atlantic Ocean separates Cuba and Senegal, the respective birthplaces of piano virtuoso Omar Sosa and kora maestro Seckou Keita, a distance diminished by their shared ancestral connection to Africa. When the pair met in 2012, Seckou loved Omar for his musical spirituality, whilst Omar saw in Seckou a rare ability to collaborate but not lose his identity. Their debut album Transparent Water (2017) was hailed as ‘beautiful, rhapsodic… spiritual’ (Songlines) and ‘mesmerising, evocative and sophisticated’... Read More
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Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta release SALSWING!

Posted by Joe Ross
May 7, 2021 - 12:49pm EDT
Rubén Blades speaks about their new 2021 album:  SALSWING! as an album has different purposes. One, to present the Roberto Delgado Orchestra as an outfit capable of expanding its original Panamanian roots to cover other musical genres. Another, to present my interest in exploring other vocal directions and thus eliminate the stereotype that affirms that we are conditioned to only exist artistically within specific boundaries, according to our nationality.   Perhaps the most important point is to... Read More
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Newvelle Records presents Skúli Sverrisson and Bill Frisell’s “Strata”

Posted by Joe Ross
May 2, 2021 - 7:50pm EDT
If you find yourself looking for peace, Strata is a good place to start. In their musicianship Skúli Sverrisson and Bill Frisell are twin souls, whose playing is so complementary that it's remarkable that this is their first time recording together. Strata is a hypnotizing album.  Speaking on their collaboration Frisell remarks, "Skúli was tapped in to something I dream of. When we did the recording, it took it to 100%. It felt like something that was in my imagination, but... Read More
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Vocalist Lauren White Releases EVER SINCE THE WORLD ENDED

Posted by Joe Ross
May 1, 2021 - 12:51am EDT
  EVER SINCE THE WORLD ENDED, the newest album by vocalist LAUREN WHITE, is a family affair. It is not White’s consanguineous family but her extended music family to whom she turned for succor as the country deals with the Covid-19 pandemic. The loneliness and isolation caused by the quarantine are exacerbated by the disruption of our daily routines and uncertainty about the future. THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED is a testament to the anodyne powers of making music as a shared experience. EVER SINCE THE WORLD ENDED is... Read More
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JACQUI NAYLOR’S 11th and Long-Awaited Album "THE LONG GAME"

Posted by Joe Ross
April 22, 2021 - 1:40am EDT
Acclaimed jazz vocalist and songwriter JACQUI NAYLOR’s 11th album, THE LONG GAME, is filled with both original and timeless love songs. The recording highlights the singer’s magnificent songwriting and deeply rich and soulful voice on thoughtfully arranged songs, all selected by Naylor’s fans via ballots distributed at her performances, a process she used for her prior four albums. The title of the album was born from one of Naylor’s philosophies of life: “Keep going, stay hopeful and enjoy your life. If you... Read More
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John Daversa Releases "ALL WITHOUT WORDS: Variations Inspired by Loren"

Posted by Joe Ross
April 22, 2021 - 1:33am EDT
Trumpet master JOHN DAVERSA is releasing his newest CD, ALL WITHOUT WORDS: Variations Inspired by Loren, a lush, orchestral jazz trumpet concerto composed by his lifelong friend and collaborator JUSTIN MORELL. Daversa is a prolific performing and recording artist whose projects often reflect important social themes, like his three-time Grammy-winning release, American Dreamers, Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom (2019), which gave voice to young undocumented people known as “Dreamers,” or his most recent project, Cuarentena: With... Read More
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Franceso Amenta Releases His Sophomore Album "Midtown Walk"

Posted by Joe Ross
April 22, 2021 - 1:27am EDT
FRANCESCO AMENTA is releasing MIDTOWN WALK, his second album as a leader, featuring mostly original tunes penned by the composer, tenor saxophonist, and pianist. Amenta was born and raised in Italy but has been living in New York City since 2017, where he has become a regular on the city’s jazz scene. MIDTOWN WALK is produced by Grammy winning bass player JOHN LEE, who had a long association with Dizzy Gillespie and has worked with many top jazz artists, including Monty Alexander, Larry Coryell, Roy Hargrove, and Antonio Hart,... Read More
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Phil Zimmerman Photographs Donated to Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Museum

Posted by Joe Ross
April 13, 2021 - 10:49pm EDT
Noted musician and photographer, Phil Zimmerman, has donated his entire collection of historic bluegrass-related photographs and early recordings to the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum.Many of the images in this collection can also be found in his book, Bluegrass Time, which is also available through this museum. Zimmerman's historic collection includes reel to reel audiotapes from the first multi-day, outdoor bluegrass festival held in 1965 in Fincastle, Virginia. Additional audiotapes of early bluegrass festivals feature... Read More
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ESCAPE THE MIND, VOL. THREE by VARIOUS ARTISTS

Posted by Robert Silverstein
April 8, 2021 - 6:33pm EDT
RMR interviews the artists on Escape The Mind Vol. 3 The new volume release of the series of New Age Music - Escape The Mind, Vol. Three by Various Artists features award-winning and Grammy® Nominated artists from around the world. 90 Minutes of New Age Music for meditation and tranquility. One of the most diverse independent labels world-wide, releasing all types of rock, jazz, Neo-classical and New Age music, New Jersey based Bongo Boy Records continues on with its excellent New Age music series with... Read More
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Jazz Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore Releases THE REBECCA KILGORE TRIO VOL. 1

Posted by Joe Ross
April 7, 2021 - 4:20pm EDT
Jazz vocalist REBECCA KILGORE is one the most prolific recording and performing artists on the scene today. With 50 or so recording projects as a leader or co-leader, she is one of the most respected interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Based in Portland, OR, Kilgore has worked with many of the top jazz musicians in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Kilgore does not disappoint on her newest recording, THE REBECCA KILGORE TRIO – VOL. 1, which features pianist RANDY PORTER and bassist TOM WAKELING. Porter has performed with... Read More
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HUGH MANWELL Delivers His Second Project, “Guidance”

Posted by Joe Ross
April 6, 2021 - 2:06am EDT
Big brass and high energy sum up the sounds of Hugh Manwell’s second project of 2021, Guidance. This 6 track EP combines soul, funk, & big band Jazz into a high-energy project. Hugh Manwell, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, plays Drums, Trumpet, Saxophone, Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Synths on Guidance delivering a modern twist on the classic Big Band Jazz sound. From the larger than life epic sounds of Big Time to the more slowed-down sensual vibes of “Walking On Clouds” the project will... Read More
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