Wayne Escoffery -][- The Only Son of One – [Sunnyside, 2012] –

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Composer, Saxophone, Wayne Escoffery

Wayne Escoffery, The Only Son of One

Wayne Escoffery -][- The Only Son of One –MP3– [Sunnyside, 2012] –

Wayne and his mother emigrated to the United States and settled in New Haven, Connecticut in 1986. At eleven Escoffery joined The New Haven Trinity Boys Choir and began taking saxophone lessons from Malcolm Dickinson. At sixteen he left the choir and began a more intensive study of the saxophone, attending the Jazzmobile in New York City, the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. During his senior year in high School, he attended the Artists Collective in Hartford, Connecticut. He met Jackie McLean, a well known alto saxophonist and founder of the jazz program at The Hartt School.

Edmar Castaneda -][- DOUBLE PORTION – [Arpa Y Voz Productions, 2012 | Review] –

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Edmar Castaneda, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Hamilton de Holanda, Harpist, Miguel Zenón

Edmar Castaneda, DOUBLE PORTION

Edmar Castaneda -][- DOUBLE PORTION –MP3– [Arpa Y Voz Productions, 2012 | Review] –

Harpist-composer Edmar Castaneda’s third solo album “DOUBLE PORTION” plays a dual role meshing together poetic, sumptuous and uplifting bouquet of songs with his unique signature. At the same time, he cultivates a provocative sound from the cavity of his soul and develops a stimulating yet progressive framework merges his voicings with a cluster of sensuous, adventurous and angelic impressions and baptize them as one to create a pool of authentic sounds.

TOWNER GALAHER To Release UPTOWN! The Drummer/Composer’s Nod To Hammond B-3 Organ Groups, Available June 19 on Rhythm Royale Reocrds

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Brian Lynch, Craig Handy, Donald Harrison, Pat Bianchi

GALAHER ASSEMBLES ALL-STAR LINEUP FEATURING BRIAN LYNCH, DONALD HARRISON, CRAIG HANDY, AND PAT BIANCHI TO SUPPORT HIS LATEST ALBUM

Towner Galaher, Uptown!

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO STREAMING TRACKS FROM UPTOWN!

As a follow up to 2009’s Courageous Hearts, his ingenious melding of Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, New Orleans second line and straight ahead swing rhythms, drummer-composer-bandleader Towner Galaher follows a different muse on the aptly-named Uptown!, his paean to Hammond B-3 organ groups that played at places like Small’s Paradise in Harlem during the ’50s and ’60s. “It runs between all the usual suspects like Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff and Lonnie Smith, but there’s also an element of Larry Young in there too,” says Galaher. “With an organ record people right off the bat think guitar, but this album has a different twist because it’s organ plus three horns.”

Jazz Soul Seven Release “Impressions of Curtis Mayfield” on BFM Jazz

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Bob Hurst, Curtis Mayfield, Ernie Watts, Henry Gibson, Phil Upchurch, Russ Ferrante, Terri Lyne Carrington, Wallace Roney

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB.com) – Curtis Mayfield ranks among the most important and influential artists of the past century, the definition of soul both as leader of the Impressions and as a solo artist. As a singer and musician, his pure tone melted hearts and as a songwriter, he was peerless, a voice of African-American pride as well as a man whose insights into the ways of the heart spoke to generations.

Jazz Soul Seven, IMPRESSIONS OF CURTIS MAYFIELD

Mayfield’s impact on artists of all persuasions is incalculable, and jazz musicians have long found much in his words and melodies to inspire new interpretations. Impressions of Curtis Mayfield (available everywhere April 17th) is a new collection of a dozen reimaginings of some of the late, great soul man’s most potent compositions, recorded by a collective of jazz aces calling themselves the Jazz Soul Seven: Terri Lyne Carrington–-drums, Russ Ferrante—piano, the late Master Henry Gibson—percussion, Bob Hurst—bass, Wallace Roney—trumpet, Phil Upchurch—guitar, and Ernie Watts—saxophone. Each of these players is a giant in his or her own right, who brings to these timeless songs a lifetime of experience and knowledge. Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff, co-produced by Upchurch, and recorded by Andy Waterman at The Bakery in North Hollywood, California, Impressions of Curtis Mayfield forces a rethink of just how rich and durable is the catalog of Curtis Mayfield, who passed away in 1999, more than nine years after suffering a paralyzing accident that never stopped him from spreading his message.