NEW VIDEO: Linda Oh – Initial Here, Out May 22 on Greenleaf Music

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Acoustic Bass, Dayna Stephens, Fabian Almazan, Jen Shyu, Linda Oh, Rudy Royston

Featuring DAYNA STEPHENS (saxophone), FABIAN ALMAZAN (piano), RUDY ROYSTON (drums) and special guest: JEN SHYU (voice)

Album Release | Tuesday June 19 | Jazz Standard New York, NY

With her debut CD, Entry, bassist/composer Linda Oh asserted herself as a unique new voice on the modern jazz scene. On her follow-up, Initial Here, Oh draws deeply upon her rich cultural heritage and broad range of inspirations to further define her musical autobiography.

Zacc Harris Group -][- THE GARDEN – [Shifting Paradigm Records, 2012] –

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Guitarist, Zacc Harris

Zacc Harris Group, THE GARDEN

Zacc Harris Group -][- THE GARDEN –MP3– [Shifting Paradigm Records, 2012] –

Since moving to Minneapolis in 2005, Zacc Harris has gained a reputation as one of the area’s top guitarists, leading a host of creative projects including Atlantis Quartet, named 2011 Best Jazz Artist of the Twin Cities by the Citypages, as well as Vital Organ, Monk In Motian, and the Zacc Harris Group and Zacc Harris Trio.

Jazz Improv Magazine says, “Harris delivers a sound that is lucid, clear…providing rich-sounding accompaniment, and well-crafted solos” while Cadence Magazine calls some of Harris’ work on Atlantis Quartet’s most recent album “worthy of John McLaughlin.”

Metallic Taste of Blood Releases Edgy Self-Titled Debut on RareNoiseRecords

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Balazs Pandi, Colin Edwin, Eraldo Bernocchi, Guitarist, Jamie Saft

Metallic Taste Of Blood, Self-Titled

In an audacious meeting of the minds, guitarist/producer and sonic provocateur Eraldo Bernocchi, who recently released Winter Garden with Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie, has joined forces with Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin, keyboardist Jamie Saft (John Zorn, Bad Brains, New Zion Trio, Black Shabbis) and drummer Balázs Pándi (Obake, Merzbow, Venetian Snares) in the band Metallic Taste of Blood. Spanning the space between metal, progressive dub, alternative rock, free jazz and ambient music in a smooth and all-encompassing way, this latest offering in an ever-burgeoning catalog of renegade albums in the RareNoiseRecords stable ranging from bone-crunching intensity to cinematic soundscapes, with detours into reverb-soaked excursions and fuzz-fueled onslaughts along the way.

CLICK HERE TO STREAM TRACKS FROM METALLIC TASTE OF BLOOD

“There’s really no specific idea or concept at work here,” says Bernocchi, co-founder of RareNoiseRecords who has also collaborated with the likes of Bill Laswell, Mick Harris, Toshinori Kondo, Nils Petter Molvaer and Davide Tiso, and is a member of the experimental doom metal band Obake. “These are four musicians who enjoy working together and playing music where they are freely expressing themselves. I’d say it’s more of an emotional stream than a juxtaposition of styles. And it just comes by itself, helped by sound.”

Bobby Broom -][- UPPER WEST SIDE STORY – [Origin Records, 2012 | Review] –

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African American, Bobby Broom, Dennis Carroll, Guitar, Kobie Watkins, Makaya McCraven

Bobby Broom, UPPER WEST SIDE STORY

Bobby Broom -][- UPPER WEST SIDE STORY –Mp3– [Origin Records, 2012 | Review] –

We’ve come to meet another chapter in the life of affluent guitarist, composer and producer Bobby Broom. What a joy it is to take the plunge, relax and listen to one of the most unique voices on jazz guitar. Throughout his music career, considered a prodigy at sixteen until now the native New Yorker with perseverance he has propelled upward through generations of great musicians to hone his skills and develop the essential qualities generated the fruits of his love for music are eloquently communicated on the “Upper West Side Story” his tenth and current recording on Origin Records.