Hidden Tracks from Hidden Beach Imagine: you bought the new CD from an artist that you’re either a fan of or at least curious about. You turn the album on while you are going about your day oh, and the whole thing is jamming. In fact, the CD was so …
On July 1, Brazilian pianist, vocalist, composer, and arranger Ricardo Bacelar will release the first single, “O último por do sol,” from his forthcoming album entitled Congênito. The full album represents a departure from his previous recordings and features Bacelar as the project’s sole producer, vocalist, arranger, and instrumentalist. It …
Hailed As “The World’s Most Passionate Queen Tribute,” Bohemian Queen Is Fronted By Paulie Z (Sweet, ZO2, Z Rock, Ultimate Jam Night) All-Star Tribute Band BOHEMIAN QUEEN (BQ), featuring frontman Paulie Z (Sweet, ZO2, Z Rock, Ultimate Jam Night), has revealed a three-night residency at Las Vegas’ South Point Resort Casino starting July 15 to July 17 as part of their summer …
Jill Scott ‘Still Here’ | Hidden Tracks from Hidden Beach Dedicated music fans and audio obsessives will always remember certain things about the era when CD’s were absolutely thriving. You have to make sure the back of your favorite CD didn’t scratch, and if you were really about this music …
Undaunted by the COVID quarantines, legendary jazz photographer/producer/audio engineer/promoter Jimmy Katz found the pandemic’s impediments instead to be challenges that led to memorable solutions. Due to COVID’s terrors, the live jazz venues shut down, and jazz musicians encountered reduced or no performance opportunities. As the owner, along with his wife …
Vocalist Vincent Ding makes a larger-than-life debut with Incredible Views From Above, a scintillating work for big band and strings that inspires generations of the past, present, and future NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. – Vincent Ding is a bright new flame in the world of vocal jazz. Refreshingly steeped in …
New York City-based saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been hailed as one of the most original and unpredictable musical voices of his generation. The Daniel Bennett Group plays a special CD release at the Stissing Center (2950 Church St, Pine Plains, NY) on July 23rd at 7pm. The Daniel Bennett Group is celebrating …
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. – During the varied quarantines and lockdowns of the past two years, drummer and composer Johnny Steele found himself – like so many others – caught with an unexpected excess of time on his hands. Rather than squander what could be a rare opportunity for learning, …
A thought from Brian Landrus about his new album seems to be the point of conservation, humanitarianism, and/or altruism…and possibly, of human existence: “I need to be more aware of our world and the reason to be here—leaving something more than just taking.” A politician’s more-profound-than-intended vituperative criticism of another …
The Duo Has Released Debut Single “How I Know,” Produced By WYNNE (Machine Gun Kelly, Lennon Stella, Odesza) Two of the industry’s most celebrated songwriters have teamed up for one of the most highly-anticipated projects of the year. Wild Meridian, featuring Billboard #1 writer Hillary Reynolds (Little Big Town, Backstreet Boys, Andy Grammar) and Jesse Macht (cowriter with Robopop, …
About Bob Bowman… Pianist Paul Smith had graciously agreed to form a band to perform at some corporate entertainment events that I had organized. Smith’s very brief solo on “It Could Happen to You” and Bowman’s on “Robert Frost,” both of which were recorded on Karrin Allyson’s Collage album, are …
This super group can whisk you’re your mind away with Jazz, humble your heart with Soul, and make your foot stomp with Funk. When describing the performance of “Jazz Funk Soul” featuring 2018 Grammy winner Jeff Lorber, Grammy nominee’s Everette Harp, and Paul Jackson Jr., you’re talking about the real thing in adult contemporary music. $10 …
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., May 18, 2022 — The Guitar Center Music Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on granting instruments to music education and music therapy organizations, announces the expansion of its Board of Directors with two new appointments: Alison Ball, the current president of TuneGO Music Technology and CEO of …
Performing compelling music with origins in jazz, classical, folk, extended technique, and improvisation, The Alex Coke Carl Michel Sextet features musician/composers Alex Coke on woodwinds and guitarist Carl Michel together with Austin Symphony’s principal harpist Elaine Barber, Liminal Sound Series producer Bob Hoffnar on pedal steel, first call jazz bassist …
This time, the Resonance Records producers, dedicated and fastidious as is their wont, worked against a deadline to release yet another one of their always-significant albums of previously recorded, but until-now unknown to the public, masterful jazz performances. The deadline? April 22, 2022. The performer? Charles Mingus. The occasion? Mingus’s …
With a career spanning two continents before he was 20, arrangements that received awards from both Downbeat (2021) and the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (2021) while still a student, and compositions described as “on a scale with Everglades by Terence Blanchard,” (Gary Lowe, WUNH), composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Simeon Nathanael Davis makes a profound compositional debut with “Of Narratives & Nocturnes.”
