TWO GREAT CITIES, TWO GREAT FESTIVALS UNITE TO CELEBRATE RICH HISTORY OF JAZZ

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CareFusion, Jazz, Newport Jazz Festival, Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival

SISTER FESTIVALS:
CareFusion | Newport Jazz Festival® (August 6 – 8), Newport, RI
Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival (November 3 – December 4), Barcelona, Spain

Newport Jazz Festival - 2010

Jazz Impresario George Wein Performed at May 17 Reception in Barcelona to Announce Collaboration

Norman Brown | Sending My Love

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African American, Guitar, Male Vocalist, Norman Brown

Norman Brown - Sending My Love

Norman Brown | Sending My Love – [Peak Records, 2010] – Release Date: 6/22/2010

For almost two decades, it has been a veritable love fest between GRAMMY® Award winning guitarist, composer and singer Norman Brown and his legions of fans. And, with his long-awaited new recording, Sending My Love, set for a June 22 release on Peak Records, Brown keeps the good vibes going.

Brown intensifies an already much-beloved recipe of sound, with ten tracks, nine of which he wrote) that flow easily from steamy R&B to guitar lashed flights of instrumental fantasy, all the while keeping things right in the pocket. From the first track – the easy breezy, horn laden, “Come Go With Me” – to the sexy groove of the R&B track “I’m Pouring My Heart Out” to the gentle acoustic guitar melody of “One Last Goodbye,” Brown shows off the stylistic diversity that has gained him a loyal following. He does so by utilizing some of the tried and true musicians, songwriters, and producers he’s worked with in the past: longtime collaborator Herman Jackson, bassist Alex Al, drummer Teddy Campbell, rhythm guitarist Jubu, and percussionist Kevin Ricard. He also reached out to R&B production camp Tha Bizness and R&B songwriters Melvin Moore III (who happens to be his godson) and Floyd E. Bentley III from his Kansas City hometown for the hop vocal tunes “I’m Pouring My Heart Out” and “One Last Goodbye.”

John Escreet | Don’t Fight the Inevitable

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Jazz, John Escreet, Piano

John Escreet - Don't Fight the Inevitable

John Escreet -|- Don’t Fight the Inevitable – [Mythology Records, 2010]

John Escreet – Pianist/composer b. Doncaster, England, 1984.

Since moving to New York in 2006, John Escreet has had a powerful impact, and is emerging as one of the most creative and original pianists on the music scene there. He is highly revered amongst his peers for his creativity, openness and for his own original music, which draws inspiration from many different sources, and encompasses them all and much more. He recently received a commission by Chamber Music America to compose new music as part of the New Jazz Works Program for 2009. Escreet keeps himself busy touring and performing all over the world, but when not on the road he resides in New York City, working on and performing his own original music, constantly challenging himself and searching for something new and original. In the summer of 2008 he graduated from the Master’s Program at Manhattan School of Music, where he studied piano with Kenny Barron and Jason Moran.