Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet -][- Dub Orbits – [Plaza Mayor Company, Ltd., 2011] –

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Composer, Naruyoshi Kikuchi, Plaza Mayor Company, Saxophonist

Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet, DUB ORBITS

Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet -][- Dub Orbits –Mp3– [Plaza Mayor Company, Ltd., 2011]

The Tokyo Kinema Club was packed for the latest semi-annual concert from Kikuchi’s fabulously popular and energetic Dub Sextet. Few jazz musicians can pull in as big a crowd as Naruyoshi Kikuchi, and fewer still for the right reasons, as he does. The strangely converted dance club he chose to play felt more like a set from a David Lynch movie than a traditional jazz place. However, it was a good, big space to let the large crowd stand and dig the new style jazz of the sextet.

The sextet does not put really put in dub as in Jamaican reggae, but dub in terms of splicing in a variety of styles, moods and ways of playing. The music was in turns, modal, straight-ahead, four beat, lushly balladic and occasionally stretching out into free jazz. In short, good strong muscular music, energetically played. Many in the audience might have been drawn by the slick, cool polish of the performers. This isn’t the old school jazz of most clubs in Tokyo, but one where the musicians dress in designer black. Regardless of what got them into the club, they got a stellar evening of intense music. The all-standing crowd loved every minute of the show. -[::: jazzinjapan.com :::]-

You can check out more music by Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet at iTunes.apple.com

Philippe Saisse -][- Dorian’s First Christmas – [Dorian 2000 Music, 2012] –

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Composer, Dorian 2000 Music, Keyboardist, Philippe Saisse, Pianist, Producer

Phillippe Saisse, DORIAN’S FIRST CHRISTMAS

Philippe Saisse -][- Dorian’s First Christmas –Mp3– [Dorian 2000 Music, 2012]

No other Christmas celebration will ever have as big an impact on our family as Christmas 2004. Its particular significance was due to the fact that it was the first that our son Dorian really became aware of Santa Claus, making the list, checking it twice, mailing it.

The look on his face come Christmas morning was out of this world: his expression of total disbelief at the sight of all the gifts he had on his list was truly something that no other Holiday Season will ever inspire. We will never see that look of utter bewilderment. That moment was so moving that I strolled down to my studio (which in those days was in the basement of our house) and started playing the piano, tunes inspired by the feeling of Christmas as seen through our son’s eyes.

Manu Dibango -][- JOUE SIDNEY BECHET – [Cristal Records, 2012] –

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Distribution 13, Manu Dibango, Metropole Orchestra of Rotterdam, Saxophonist

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Manu Dibango, JOUE SIDNEY

Manu Dibango -][- JOUE SIDNEY BECHET – [Cristal Records, 2012]

A symbol of world music since he travelled all around the world, as well for his music as for his humanitarian actions, Manu Dibango represents the emergence of world music. He likes Gospel which reminds him his childhood and which is the ambassador of the Acid-jazz birth. Lately, his musical nomadism brought him to cooperate with classical orchestras such as the , and more recently with the Orchestra of Paris. 50 years after Manu Dibango started playing music, he comes to his first love of jazz, releasing a tribute album to Sidney Bechet, native to New Orleans bayou.

A tribute to Cousin Sidney’s forgotten music, which is revisited by Manu Dibango in collaboration with vibraphonist Dany Doriz. The music is characterized by tones coming from original instruments, and by interpretations which are full of humor and poetry: from “Petite Fleur” to “Oignons,” a real antidepressant administered by high-level musicians… what bliss!

Release Date: 11/13/2012

::: SOURCE: distribution13.com :::

Project Trio -][- WHEN WILL THEN NOW – [Harmonyville Records, 2012] –

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entertainment, Eric Stephenson, Greg Pattillo, Harmonyville Records, instrumental ensembles, Peter Seymour

“Packed with musicianship, joy, and surprise!” —Downbeat Magazine

Project Trio, WHEN WILL THEN NOW

Project Trio -][- WHEN WILL THEN NOW –Mp3– [Harmonyville Records, 2012] –

PROJECT Trio is taking chamber music to a whole new level. Greg Pattillo, flute, Eric Stephenson, cello, and Peter Seymour, bass, are pushing the boundaries of chamber music with a high-octane mix of classical, jazz, hip-hop, and rock. The Trio performs to enthusiastic audiences of all ages in concert halls, clubs, and classrooms around the world. Acclaim for the Trio and its members runs the gamut from Downbeat Magazine, which praises PROJECT Trio as “packed with musicianship, joy, and surprise” to the New York Times, calling beatboxing flutist Greg Pattillo “the best in the world at what he does.” The Wall Street Journal hails the group’s “wide appeal, subversive humor and first-rate playing.”

Toshizo Shiraishi -][- INSIDE OUT – [inmylife production, 2012] –

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Bassist, Berklee College of Music, Guitarist, inmylife production, Japan, Producer, Toshizo Shiraishi

Toshizo Shiraishi, INSIDE OUT

Toshizo Shiraishi -][- INSIDE OUT –Mp3– [inmylife production, 2012] –

Toshizo is guitarist, bassist, producer who produced one of the biggest free music festival in Japan called “UEDA JOINT” for ten years.

After graduate from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), he came back to Japan and started his career as musician in Japan.

Since then he played in many bands as guitarist and/or bassist such as “blissed” “WESTLAND” “ALBATRUS” and more.

:::: SOURCE: reverbnation.com ::::

Grupo los Santos -][- CLAVE HEART – [OA2 Records, 2012] –

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Davis Ambrosio, Grupo los Santos, OA2 Records, Paul Carlon, Pete Smith, William 'Beaver' Bausch

Grupo Los Santos, CLAVE HEART

Grupo los Santos -][- CLAVE HEART – [OA2 Records, 2012] –

Grupo los Santos has been together for 15 years developing a strong following and individual sound, with a patented blend of Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Flamenco and NYC Jazz influences; creating unique, original rumba, samba, and funky acoustic music. Drawing from the traditional/folkloric music of the Americas, played with an open and spontaneous jazz sensibility, the band cuts a very atypical profile in New York’s Jazz and Latin Jazz scene. The band’s love and individual deep study of these musical traditions has born great fruits, both compositionally and in performance and execution. The sound is coherent, focused and intelligent-the music is both classic and forward-looking at the same time-and the expression is original, soulful, high-energy and transcendent of idiom.

Carol Saboya -][- BELEZAS – [AAM Music, 2012] –

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AAM Music, Carol Saboya, Vocalists

Carol Saboya, BELEZAS

Carol Saboya -][- BELEZAS –Mp3– [AAM Music, 2012] –

During the second half of the 1960s, just after bossa nova had decisively conquered the musical world, the Festival Era dawned in Brazil and was largely responsible for ushering in what is known as the Golden Years of MPB (Brazilian Popular Music). Those festival contests brought countless major music talents to the public’s attention. Among them: composers Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento, who went on to achieve enormous success at home and abroad, their music admired and interpreted by the foremost jazz musicians and singers in the world.

Tizer -][- DOWNBEAT – [Lao Tizer Music, Inc, 2012] –

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Chieli Minucci, Jeff Kollman, Karen Briggs, Lao Tizer, Raul Pineda, Rufus Philpot

Tizer, DOWNBEAT

Tizer -][- DOWNBEAT –Mp3– [Distribution 13, 2012] –

Downbeat is the highly anticipated new album from acclaimed jazz, world, fusion group, Tizer (2011 Jazz Group of the Year), to be released on September 18. This collection of 12 new original tracks encompasses a wide-array of musical flavors to make for a memorable listening experience for any fan of creative, jazz-inspired music. Tizer‘s founder and leader, keyboardist and composer, Lao Tizer (former Best New Jazz Artist nominee), has transformed his strong solo following from his acclaimed 2007 release, Diversify, by assembling a truly unique cast of diverse, world-class musicians to create Tizer’s Downbeat. In addition to Lao, the album includes Contemporary Jazz great, guitarist, producer and Emmy winner, Chieli Minucci (Special EFX), violinist extraordinaire Karen Briggs (Yanni), guitarist Jeff Kollman (Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats), UK bassist Rufus Philpot (Down To The Bone), Cuban drum phenom Raul Pineda (Chucho Valdes, Michel Camilo) and multi-instrumentalist.

Sandro Marinoni -][- NUMBER FOUR – [Frames Music, 2012] –

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European Jazz, Flute, Frames Music, Italian, Sandro Marinoni, Saxophonist, Trombone

Sandro Marinoni, NUMBER FOUR

Sandro Marinoni -][- NUMBER FOUR –Mp3– [Frames Music, 2012] –

Stefano Roncarolo is a young and virtuoso Italian bass player and Sandro Marinoni is a saxophone, flute and trombone player.

At your leisure, visit his label Frames Music and Marinoni’s site for more details.

:::: SOURCE: Amazon.com ::::

Marc Antoine -][- GUITAR DESTINY – [Frazzy Frog Music, 2012] –

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Acoustic Guitar, Composer, Distribution 13, Frazzy Frog Music, Marc Antoine

Marc Antoine, GUITAR DESTINY

Marc Antoine -][- GUITAR DESTINY –Mp3– [Frazzy Frog Music, 2012] –

Guitarist Marc Antoine returns to true form with Guitar Destiny, an instrumental journey illustrating Marc’s pursuit of his long and illustrious career. The album’s ten all-new tracks have a strong connection to Marc. He recalls always stopping to watch the trains go in and out of the station, when crossing an old bridge that was close to his old home when he was growing up in Paris. Little did he know those train tracks would take him around the world in pursuit of an international and successful career. Marc’s magic touch ties it all up in this wonderful voyage through places and musical genres.