Renaissance Woman Ranee Lee to re-release beautifully re-mastered “Deep Song: A Tribute to Billie Holiday” on Justin Time Records

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“Lee isn’t afraid musically of plumbing the deep blue moods Holiday could never really escape.” –Peter Goddard, The Toronto Star

Ranee Lee, DEEP SONG . A Tribute to BILLIE HOLIDAY

Streaming Tracks From Deep Song

Ranee Lee is a true Renaissance woman. In addition to a career as a jazz singer that has taken her to stages in front of her fans around the globe, Lee is also a songwriter, award-winning actress, children’s book author, and jazz educator. Despite that resume, Lee actually got her start as a dancer. In an interview with Peter Kerr of The Montrealer, she said, “I was dancing with an Afro-Cuban touring dance troupe. We were in a small town in Ontario, and had to extend the length of our performance to fill the time allotted for the show. I was chosen to sing some songs with the band to fill that time, and the audience loved it!

Inspired bassist Sean O’Bryan Smith and a stellar ensemble pause for “REFLECTION”

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The soul, jazz and gospel album scheduled for release July 17 will be prefaced by the radio single “Blessed Be Your Name”

Nashville, TN (29 May 2012): A beatific album of hymns and inspired originals shepherded by bassist Sean O’Bryan Smith and anointed by an accomplished minion of 23 musicians, “Reflection” will be released July 17th on Groove Therapy Records. Smith produced and arranged the offering of soul, contemporary jazz and gospel selections that comprise the second solo album from the in-demand bass player. Previewing the 12-song disc, the rousing rocker “Blessed Be Your Name” featuring guitarist Chuck Loeb, saxophonist Tommy Ogle and pianist-songwriter Jeff Franzel (Taylor Swift, *NSYNC, Clay Aiken) goes for radio adds June 11th.

DAVE DOUGLAS RELEASES BE STILL, A Collection of Deeply Personal Hymns & Originals

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Featuring A Newly–Formed Quintet Plus Americana Vocalist AOIFE O’DONOVAN

Dave Douglas QUINTET, BE STILL

The Trumpeter/Composer/Label Founder Celebrates 10 YEARS of Festival of New Trumpet Music with Debut Performance By New Dave Douglas Quintet September 19, 2012 AT 92YTriBeCa To Be Broadcast Live on WBGO-FM & NPR Music

Featuring Jon Irabagon, Matt Mitchell, Linda Oh, Rudy Royston with Special Guest Aoife O’Donovan

Douglas To Launch 50-State US Tour in 2013 To Celebrate His 50th Birthday Benefitting Rails to Trails ® and Other Outdoors Charities.

Dave Douglas describes the title of his new release, Be Still, as “aspirational.” The continually evolving trumpeter and composer settles down for a ballad-like set that presents a series of hymns and folk songs with an intensely personal connection. Be Still brings out the most lyrical side of Douglas, and introduces both a newly configured Quintet, and an important new collaborator, vocalist and guitarist Aoife O’Donovan.

Greg “Organ Monk” Lewis -][- ORGAN MONK: Uwo in the Black – [Greg Lewis, 2012 | Review] –

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Greg Lewis, ORGAN MONK. Uwo In The Black

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Self-taught organist Greg “Organ Monk” Lewis’ ambitious new recording daringly unearths these marvelous stones with his groundbreaking interpretations of ten classics by jazz pianist, innovator and composer Thelonious Monk on his sophomore album “Organ Monk: Uwo in the Black.” At a glance, “Uwo” in the North African Nubian dialect signifies the number two in their culture, with that said the New York native broaden voice augments through four distinctive originals which undeniably compliments this homage paid to the iconic renaissance man Thelonious Monk.

Mosaic Records Celebrates 90th Birthday Anniversary of Charles Mingus with 6 CD Limited Edition Collection Including Previously Unreleased Material

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Charles Mingus The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65

Release Date: September 18, 2012

Charles Mingus, THE JAZZ WORKSHOP 1964-1965

Listen to a Streaming Track From The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65

Because this is the 90th birthday anniversary year of Charles Mingus, Sue Mingus called last spring to ask Michael Cuscuna whether he might be interested in issuing some of the unreleased Mingus tapes she had in the archives. It didn’t take long to make such a decision! Charles Mingus was always the most incandescent of jazz’s few true geniuses, and the mid-1960s was undoubtedly one of the most tumultuous periods in his – and America’s – storied history. In Mingus’ case, that personal, social and political upheaval was the recipe for some of his most ferociously creative output, represented here by four intense, combustible concerts by some of his most legendary groups.