The World-Renowned Chicago Dancers Deliver Uplifting Visuals For The Relaunch Of Hidden Beach Recordings’ Trailblazing Hip-Hop Jazz Series; New Unwrapped Album Arrives May 24 April 11, 2019 (Los Angeles, CA) The internationally acclaimed Hiplet ballerinas deliver uplifting and inspiring visuals for Unwrapped’s hip-hop jazz version of Travis Scott’s double platinum …
Resonance Records discovery Polly Gibbons, a British-born star on the rise, has a sound and style that give off sparks. It’s raw, raspy, and full of heat; it sputters and growls, carves out funky grooves, and wails into the skies. All I Can Do, her third Resonance release, the label’s founder George Klabin, …
Los Angeles, CA — Roland announces the SRX KEYBOARDS Software Synthesizer for Roland Cloud, a virtual recreation of an early-2000s SRX expansion board that was originally only available for compatible Roland hardware synths. This SRX expansion compiled the very best Roland keyboard sounds into a single expansion. SRX KEYBOARDS puts …
Award-winning drummer Marton Juhasz presents Discovery, his debut album as a bandleader. Featuring 8 musicians from 4 continents, the record is the result of a year of rehearsing and performing as part of Wolfgang Muthspiel’s pioneering Focusyear Program in Switzerland. Under the tutelage of some of the most respected names …
Produced by legendary bassist Ric Fierabracci, the musicians on the album are drummer Dave Weckl; saxophonist Eric Marienthal; keyboardists Gary Husband and Gerry Etkins; guitarists Dean Brown, Mike Miller, Brett Garsed and Okan Ersan; trombonist Gökay Gökşen, trumpeter Utku Akyol, violinist Karen Briggs, and vocalists Simge Akdoğu and Aytunç Akdogu. …
New York-based, Israeli jazz pianist-composer Guy Mintus is releasing his new trio album, Connecting the Dots, on February 15, 2019 through France’s Jazz Family label. Mintus is a learned, well-traveled and much-honored musician. His awards include the Prix du Public at the Montreux Jazz Festival’s solo piano competition, two ASCAP Foundation/Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer …
“The hunger of youth, the talent of experienced young musicians and their ability to meld together a truly unique, 21st Century jazz sound that would make the old school jazz Jedi council proud.” – Neon Jazz Black Tie Brass (BTB) is a horn driven jazz funk band from New York second …
The songwriter and producer of jazz known as Ciré has released his latest official album, “Integrated Compositions.” The album contains six original Ciré tracks plus one cover track, for an approximate total listening time of half an hour. It has been proudly published as an independent release without the involvement …
(LOS ANGELES – Jan. 17, 2019) — Applications are now open for House of Blues Music Forward Foundation’s 2019 Bringing Down the House, which helps young emerging musicians navigate the music industry, learn music business strategies, and develop the knowledge and confidence for a career in the industry, both on …
Music Events (more headlines) 01-17-2019 Nestor Torres Performs FREE In Collins Park Bookmark and Share Website: http://globalartsproject.org February 24 from 4-7 PM: Celebrate Mardi Gras with jazz flautist Nestor Torres. Standing on the shoulders of flute giants from worlds as diverse as Rampal & Galway in Classical Music; Richard Egues’ …
Los Angeles, CA – Hip-hop duo The Seige command attention with the release of their highly anticipated double EP, Duality. The record delves into the symbiotic relationship between man and machine, traversing the worlds of trap, epic lyricism and electronic-fused anthemic hip-hop reminiscent of Kanye West circa ‘07. Duality is …
Los Angeles, CA — Coinciding with the recent grand opening of its new Nashville Artist Relations Center, Roland has appointed James Hatem to serve as Artist Relations (A/R) representative, to be based in Nashville and serve the city’s growing A/R needs on behalf of the Roland and BOSS brands. The …
It’s not every day that a new recording label comes along. Online availability of new music has taken care of that. But now, at the start of a new year, a new recording label has gone back to the future by packaging previously unreleased live recordings from a more than …
It should come as no surprise that Lorraine Feather, a poet at heart, writes her song lyrics first. The musical notation comes later. Feather’s unique style of poetic imagery mixed with honest descriptions of personal relationships continues on her most recent album, the intriguingly titled Math Camp. Feather isn’t a …
Stefon Harris’ Blackout has proven to be an enduring concept, and Harris has grown to be an enduring presence in the international jazz scene. The title of Blackout’s first album, 2004’s Evolution, proved be prophetic, even if its original meaning intended a broader perspective. For Blackout has evolved through the …
Hip-hop has been mistaken for many things and it is unlikely that hip-hop, even in its most commercial forms, has ever been mistaken for “smooooove” jazz. Obviously no one has ever explained this to Steve Mckeever and the Hidden Beach label which assembled an all-star collection of session musicians, including …
