Enjoy the ASCAP Audio Portrait on Composer/Bandleader Roland Vazquez and The Visitor

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Afro Latin, Drums, Jazz, Roland Vasquez

Listen too the intricate details about the new project by Afro-Latin drummer/composer/producer Roland Vasquez at Audio Portraits.

Roland Vasquez Band - The Visitor

The Visitor is Vazquez’ tenth album as composer/leader, his first studio recording in thirteen years, & a 19-piece all-star Afro Latin “big band” project made possible through a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund For Music.

The Visitor was recorded in Clinton’s Studio A in New York City, one of the last big rooms on the East Coast (this recording now stands as a testament to the dynamic energy of a big band sound captured “live in a room”), and was made possible in part by a Recording Grant from The Aaron Copland Fund For Music, Inc.

The Roland Vazquez Band featuring:

Aaron Heick, Joel Frahm, Dan Willis, Roger Rosenberg,

Tony Kadleck, Alex Norris

Luis Perdomo (piano), James Genus (bass), Ignacio Berroa (drums)

Samuel Torres (congas & percussion), Pete McCann (guitar)

Roland Vazquez (composer/conductor/producer)

To know Roland Vazquez is to know his music, and vice versa. Like many true artists, his work is inseparable from the essence of his character. One can hear in the music of Vazquez, the powerful optimism, wisdom, love, humor and joy that exudes so effortlessly from the man. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than on the award-winning and critically-acclaimed composer, bandleader and drummer’s glorious new recording, The Visitor, to be released on RVCD through iTunes on July 8, and through CD Baby on August 9.

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Larry Dunn at Catalina’s Jazz Club July 8

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African American, Earth Wind & Fire, Keyboardist, Larry Dunn, R&B

Larry Dunn

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Dayna Lynn -||- The Call

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African American, Dayna Lynn, Female Vocalist, Jazz, Soul

Dayna Lynn - The Call

Dayna Lynn -||- The Call – [Roth Stein and Brown Media Group, 2010]

The delivery of the quintessential artist: the message, the music, the voice …

The facile melodic lines she weaves are enough to make anyone a believer. So, if you think you’ve made up your mind about jazz, hold the verdict because the jury’s still out. Dayna Lynn is redefining this American art form for the 21st century by bridging the gap between generations: she is introducing some and reacquainting others with jazz.

Both contemporary and classic, Dayna Lynn’s music is called Progressive Soul-Jazz: where intricate harmonies make a bed for smoothly executed melodies. It combines the heart of soul music with the intellect of jazz. Her songs are carefully composed masterpieces where she is both songwriter and arranger. As food for the mind and water for the spirit, her lyrics create a looking glass through which her listeners see themselves and their world, and are thus motivated to make a change.

Violinist Christian Howes Joins with Guitarist Robben Ford On His Followup for Resonance Records, Out of the Blue, To Be Released August 10th

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Christian Howes, Jazz, Resonance Records, Violin

Christian Howes - Out of the Blue

Following a string of self-produced albums through the ’90s, virtuoso violinist and Columbus, Ohio native Christian Howes stepped into a larger arena by moving to New York, where he soon became an in-demand figure on the scene. A classically-trained player, Howes quickly earned a reputation in jazz circles by playing with the likes of trumpeter Randy Brecker, trombonist Steve Turre, guitarist Joel Harrison, pianist D.D. Jackson, saxophonist Greg Osby, drummer Dafnis Prieto, Dave Samuels’ Caribbean Jazz Project, Bill Evans’ Soulgrass, crossover pioneers Spyro Gyra and the legendary guitarist-inventor Les Paul. He made further strides in the jazz world with his 2003 recording Jazz on Sale, then revealed a more romantic side on his 2008 Resonance Records debut, Heartfelt, a lush, orchestral ballads project with jazz veterans Roger Kellaway and Bob Magnusson. Now Howes takes it up a few notches on his fiery followup for Resonance, Out of the Blue.