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Daily Archives: June 21, 2012

Verve/Universal’s Brian Culbertson Soars to #1 on Charts with Dreams

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Concerts, Festivals & Tours, Music, New Music, Press Release, R & B, Smooth Jazz, Urban Jazz, Urban Music, Vocals, What's New?

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Brian Culbertson

Award winning R&B musician and Smooth Jazz multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson hits #1 on Contemporary Jazz Charts while his singles “Your Smile” and “Still Here” f/ Vivian Green find themselves respectfully in the Top 5 and Top 20 on both Smooth Jazz and Urban Adult Contemporary radio. Continue reading →

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New Release: Greg Lewis – Organ Monk: Uwo In the Black

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Concerts, Festivals & Tours, Contemporary Jazz, Independent Music, Jazz, Music, New Music, Press Release, What's New?

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(Self Produced) Greg Lewis – Hammond Organ, Ron Jackson – Guitar, Reginald R. Woods – Tenor Saxophone, Nasheet Waits – Drums & Cymbals

Street Date September 1, 2012

Greg Lewis, ORGAN MONK. Uwo In The Black

The second outing by Greg Lewis, Organ Monk: Uwo In the Black, builds upon the success of the first call New York keyboardist’s critically acclaimed debut date Organ Monk. Volume Two of a proposed trilogy of discs (uwo signifies the number two in North African Nubian dialect) exploring the music of Thelonious Monk, Lewis expands upon his original concept here, adding the tenor saxophone of Reginald Woods to the powerful mix supplied by his Hammond C3 organ, the guitar of regular bandmate Ron Jackson and drums of longtime colleague Nasheet Waits (sitting in the seat previously occupied by Cindy Blackman-Santana), while filling out the program of ten Monk melodies with four of his own inspired compositions. Continue reading →

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Bassist/Composer Alexis Cuadrado to premiére Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet A Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Concerts, Festivals & Tours, Creative Music, Improvised Music, Jazz, Modern Jazz, Music, Music News, Press Release, What's New?

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Alexis Cuadrado, Antonia Nelson, Bassist, Ben Wendel, Bjur Records., Composer, Jason Rigby, Jody Redhage, Lois Martin, Red Cat Publicity, Sara Caswell, Satoshi Takeishi, The Jazz Gallery

Performances at the Jazz Gallery
Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd, 2012
Located at 290 Hudson Street, NYC, Tel 212 242 1063, www.jazzgallery.org

Alexis Cuadrado © by Álvaro Felgueroso

Featuring: Ben Wendel (saxophones and bassoon), Jason Rigby (saxophones, flutes and clarinets), Satoshi Takeishi (drums and percussion), Sara Caswell (violin), Antonia Nelson (violin), Lois Martin (viola), Jody Redhage (cello) and Alexis Cuadrado (bass)

With his new work, Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet, Alexis Cuadrado continues to define his compositional voice following his recent impressive works, A Lorca Soundscape and Noneto Ibérico. With this Jazz Gallery Residency Commission (performances on June 22nd & 23rd), Cuadrado takes a new musical step, this time with strings, exploring the intersection of jazz, flamenco and new chamber music. Continue reading →

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