Upcoming NU JAZZ RELEASES for 2013?

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Bernt Rosengren Big Band, Corbin Andrick, Edward Maclean's Adoqué, Gino Rosaria, Hans Ulrik & Lars Jansson Trio, James Saxsmo Gates, Jawanza Kobie, Joe Lovano, KENDRICK SCOTT ORACLE, Los Quemados, Manhattan Vibes, Massoud Godemann Trio, Process Seven, Ray Kelley, Richard D. Ruttenberg, Stephen Scott, Tim Green, Tom Schuman, Wayne Shorter

Greeting’s jazz aficionados, it’s great to be with you at this moment as I wrap up 2012 with a sneak preview of forthcoming jazz recordings for 2013 featuring a variety of artists playing stimulating yet provocative music in various shades, moods and textures hopefully will satisfy your ongoing taste for quality music. In closing, HAPPY NEW YEAR in advance with all the blessings for you not only this coming new year but for years to come. –Rob Young | Urban Flux Media

TIM GREEN, Songs For This Season

Nnenna Freelon & John Brown Big Band -][- CHRISTMAS – [Brown Boulevard, 2012] –

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The first Christmas album from the six-time Grammy nominee finds her beautifully backed by the John Brown Big Band on ten songs sure to put some swing into your holiday season.

Nnenna Freelon and John Brown Big Band, CHRISTMAS

Nnenna Freelon & John Brown Big Band -][- CHRISTMAS –Mp3– [Brown Boulevard, 2012]

Nnenna Freelon’s mother was a lover of Christmas – the story, the anticipation, the excitement, but most of all, the gathering of her family around her. In her passing, she left her daughter with a gift that has resulted in a dream fulfilled and a holiday album that will extend a mother’s love of Christmas to listeners everywhere.

Venerated jazz vocalist and six-time Grammy nominee Freelon had long wanted to record a holiday album, but couldn’t garner enough interest from her label. So she did what most people do in need of a little help, she turned to a loved one. With a small inheritance received from her mother, she approached John Brown, a long-time member of her musical family, director of Duke University’s jazz program and leader of John Brown’s Big Band. The two, who have shared the stage and collaborated often during their twenty-year friendship, have now joined together to release Christmas, a selection of holiday songs. Brown produced the album and will release it on his own label, Brown Boulevard.

Anthony Branker and Ascent -][- TOGETHER – [Origin Records, 2012] –

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African American, Anthony Branker, Composer, Donald Edwards, Jonny King, Kenny Davis, Mark Gross, Music Director, Princeton Professor, Producer, Ralph Bowen

“With a unique combination of depth and accessibility, Branker is able to put forth a jazz perspective steeped in soulful optimism.” – ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Anthony Branker and Ascent, TOGETHER

Anthony Branker and Ascent -][- TOGETHER – [Origin Records, 2012]

Composer and Princeton Professor Anthony Branker brings together saxophonists Mark Gross & Ralph Bowen, pianist Jonny King, bassist Kenny Davis, and drummer Donald Edwards for a powerful, swinging quintet date on his fourth Origin release.

Driven by an infectious rhythmic sensibility, lyrical melodies, and sophisticated harmonic underpinnings, this recording of soulful performances is another outstanding addition to Branker’s fast growing and musically rich discography.

Produced by Anthony Branker

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Jean-Luc Fillon -][- ECHOES OF ELLINGTON – [Cristal Records, 2012]

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Antoine Hervé, Bassist, Distribution 13, English Horn, Glenn Ferris, Jean-Luc Fillon, Oboist, Paolo Fresu, Patrice Caratini

Jean-Luc Fillon, ECHOES OF ELLINGTON

Jean-Luc Fillon -][- ECHOES OF ELLINGTON– [Cristal Records, 2012]

Jean-Luc Fillon is one of the rare French musicians with such an original path: bass player, oboist, fond of English horn, he also leads a classical and jazz musician career. Appreciated leader (with Patrice Caratini, Antoine Hervé, Glenn Ferris and Paolo Fresu), he shows real talents of melodist with his favourite instrument, the oboe. Talents that his last two albums Oboa and Flea Market perfectly illustrate. Echoes of Ellington is the result of an exceptional collaboration around original arrangements of the great Duke’s music realized by Jean-Luc Fillon. With his fellow traveller, João Paulo, on the piano, Jean-Luc Fillon marries the english horn lyricism with the warm tone of Glenn Ferris’ trombone. A good rhythm section supports this trio with the drummer Tony Rabeson and the bass player Jean-Jacques Avenel, both important actors of the jazz scene (with Henri Texier, Eddy Louis, Michel Portal for the first one, with Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron, Archie Shepp or David Murray for the latter). A great success, both refreshing and captivating.

Release Date: 11/13/2012

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Hurricane Sandy Jazz Benefit Concert Sponsored by Truth Revolution Records, Revive Music Group, Motema Music, and DL Media – Thursday, November 8 at Le Poisson Rouge

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Truth Revolution Records, Revive Music Group, Motéma Music and DL Media are proud to join forces to bring the jazz community together for one night to raise much needed funds for the victims of Hurricane Sandy in the outer boroughs. The concert is being sponsored by the Jazz Foundation of America to offer support to the many jazz musicians that have been directly affected. Please join us at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleeker St., between Sullivan & 5th Ave.) this Thursday, November 8, 2012 from 9PM to 2AM where a number of musicians from the New York community and beyond, including David Weiss & Point of Departure, Julian Lage, Gregory Hutchinson, Jesse Fischer, Philip Dizack, Manner Effect, Richie Barshay and many others, will come together in an evening filled with music that will inspire and touch many to give generously for Hurricane Sandy victims.

Clayton Brothers Team Up With Wycliffe Gordon and Stefon Harris on New ArtistShare Release, The Gathering, Available November 6

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Acoustic Bass, African American, Alto Saxophone, ArtistShare, Clayton Brothers, Flute, Gerald Clayton, Jeff Clayton, John Clayton, Obed Calvaire, Stefon Harris, Terrell Stafford, Wycliffe Gordon

“John Clayton is one of the most technically imposing bassists in jazz… Jeff maintains a sweet, preaching delivery; the Adderley influence runs deep in him.” – The New York Times

Clayton Brothers, THE GATHERING

“John and Jeff Clayton are two of the most soulful, swinging siblings on the planet.” – NPR “JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater”

Stream Tracks From The Gathering

A new Clayton Brothers release is always a family affair – not only due to the actual blood ties of siblings John and Jeff Clayton and son/nephew Gerald, but in the sense that quintet-mates Terell Stafford and Obed Calvaire have become part of the Claytons’ extended musical family through years of touring and recording.

Available Now: NEA Jazz Master Bobby Hutcherson Returns with Somewhere in the Night on Kind of Blue Records

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First Release in Three Years Continues Vibraphonist
Partnership With Organist Joey DeFrancesco

**Streaming Tracks From Somewhere In The Night **

Bobby Hutcherson, Somewhere In The Night

New York City is the jazz capital of the world and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in Jazz at Lincoln Center is one of the music’s greatest venues. On October 10, 2009, over the course of two sold-out sets, legendary vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded what would become Somewhere In The Night. The album, which is being released on Kind of Blue Records on September 25, also features the Joey DeFrancesco Trio — guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Byron Landham as well as its organist namesake.

Mark Gross -][- BLACKSIDE – [Jazz Legacy Productions, 2012] –

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African American, Educator, Jazz Legacy Productions, Mark Gross, Saxophonist

Mark Gross, BLACKSIDE

Mark Gross -][- BLACKSIDE – [Jazz Legacy Productions, 2012] –

Mark Gross swings and sings with soul and rhythm along today’s jazz vanguard. He constantly pushes the music forward, while staying true to the elements of the classic sound. Mark Gross has recorded on over 80 notable jazz recording, including 2 GRAMMY AWARD winning projects by the Dave Holland Big Band – ‘What Goes Around’ on ECM Records, and ‘Overtime’ on Dare 2 Records. Mark’s recordings ‘Preach Daddy’ on King Records and ‘Riddle of the Sphinx’ on J Curve Record have received rave reviews.

Jazz for Obama 2012: The Jazz Concert for America’s Future – October 9 at Symphony Space

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Kris Allen -][- CIRCLE HOUSE – [Truth Revolution Records, 2012] –

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Kris Allen, CIRCLE HOUSE

Kris Allen -][- CIRCLE HOUSE –Mp3– [Truth Revolution Records, 2012] –

Kris Allen inherited a love of music from his mother, a church organist who gave him his first lessons on a tiny xylophone. At a young age, he displayed considerable gifting as a classical pianist, but it was jazz that truly won his heart at age 14 when a friend loaned him trumpeter Lee Morganʼs album “ The Gigolo”. Kris began to devote most of his spare time to listening to great jazz records and practicing the alto saxophone.