Concord-Telarc Division of Concord Music Group Receives 18 Grammy® Nominations

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Arturo Sandoval, Billy Vera, Chick Corea, Chuck Loeb, Concord Jazz, Concord Picante, Concord Records, Eddie Gomez, Esperanza Spalding, Gerald Albright, Gordon Goodwin, Heads Up International, Kurt Elling, Norman Brown, Paul Motian, Pilar Sanz, Shemekia Copeland, Telarc, Thara Memory, Vince Mendoza, Wally Minko

Cleveland, OH – The Concord-Telarc Division of Concord Music Group received 18 GRAMMY® nominations, as announced by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) on December 5, 2012. All nominations were for albums released from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012. Winners will be announced at the 55th Annual GRAMMY® Awards on Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 8:00 PM ET/PT from Staples Center in Los Angeles, airing live on the CBS Television Network.

The Concord-Telarc Division nominations are:

Best Pop Instrumental Album:

24/7

Gerald Albright & Norman Brown

[Concord Jazz]

Eddie Gomez -][- Per Sempre – [BFM Jazz, 2012 | Review] –

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Bassist, Composer, Eddie Gomez, Marco Pignatro, Massino Manzi, Matt Marvuglio, Teo Ciavarella

Eddie Gomez, PER SEMPRE

Eddie Gomez -][- Per Sempre –MP3– [BFM Jazz, 2012 | Review] –

I’ll have to admit, it’s been awhile since I’ve pampered my listening space with any solo projects by the renowned bassist Eddie Gomez. Nonetheless, the time has come. Gomez is here with an inexhaustible new recording titled “Per Sempre” that’s ready, auspicious, and refined by nurturing sounds waiting for jazz aficionados to submerge themselves into with repeated listens.

At an early bassist extraordinaire Eddie Gomez moved from Santurce, Puerto Rico eventually land in the metropolis of New York City. The irony of this journey he unknowingly stake claim to this marvelous gift in music in one of the most diverse cultures and musical landscapes on the planet.

Chick Corea’s MARIKA GROOVE to be released by Big Round Records on April 3, 2012

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Eddie Gomez, Mika Yoshida, Steve Gadd

Richard Stoltzman, Markia Groove

“Marika Groove” is a twelve-minute instrumental tour-de-force by Chick Corea written for virtuoso marimba soloist Mika Yoshida and Grammy®-winning clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. Drummer Steve Gadd and bassist Eddie Gomez join Yoshida and Stoltzman to capture Corea’s composition in a sprawling, ebullient track featuring finely-honed instrumental interplay, muscular rhythmic structures, and ceaselessly inventive melodies, which Yoshida delivers with her signature inspiration and aplomb. The track was recorded at Avatar Studios in New York NY, engineered by Jay Messina and produced by Gadd and Yoshika.

RESONANCE RECORDS to Issue Unreleased Live Performances by legendary Pianist BILL EVANS

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Bill Evans, Composer, Eddie Gomez, Marty Morell, Piano

HISTORIC PERFORMANCES CAPTURED BY LABEL PRESIDENT GEORGE KLABIN MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO

LISTEN TO EXCLUSIVE STREAMING TRACKS FROM LIVE AT ART D’LUGOFF’S TOP OF THE GATE

Bill Evans, Live at Art D'Lugoffs Top of The Gate

With Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate, Resonance Records offers listeners a table at the front of the stage for a stellar performance by one of jazz’s greatest trios. It’s October 23, 1968 in Greenwich Village, and legendary pianist Bill Evans is joined by bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell for two top-notch sets, represented here in their entirety. Aired only once, on Columbia University radio station WKCR-FM, this concert hasn’t been heard for more than forty years and has never been released in any form.

“This gives people a good idea of what it must have been like to be in the room at the time and experience the music,” says producer Zev Feldman. “We’ve done everything short of building a time machine.”

Frank Caruso & Eddie Gomez -][- Analea [Caruso/Gomez, 2102]

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Bass, Eddie Gomez, Frank Caruso, Piano

Frank Caruso & Eddie Gomez, Analea

Frank Caruso & Eddie Gomez -][- Analea –MP3– [Caruso/Gomez, 2012]

Pianist Frank Caruso played with the US Navy Jazz Band the FRANK CARUSO: Piano Performed with the Commodores in Washington D.C., and was a featured performer at the White House birthday party for Duke Ellington. Since then, he has appeared with many well-known musicians, such as Luciano Pavarotti, Henry Mancini, Louis Bellson, Maynard Ferguson, the Count Basie Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His most recent albums “Heart of the City,” in collaboration with saxophonist Mark Colby, and “Songs from the Kingdom of Jazz,” with saxophonist Jim Massoth, have all received wide critical acclaim. He has recently co-written with Karl Mollison a jazz piano method book, “Piano Improvisation—A Powerful Practical System.”

Legendary bassist EDDIE GOMEZ has been on the cutting edge of music for over four decades. The Latin GRAMMY® award-winner’s impressive resumé includes performances with jazz giants such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan and Benny Goodman. Eddie’s unique sound and style can be heard on hundreds of recordings spanning the worlds of jazz, classical, Latin jazz, rhythm & blues, popular and contemporary music. -[Biographies]-

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Corea, Gomez and Motian -][- Further Explorations [Concord Jazz, 2012]

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Bass, Chick Corea, Composer, Drums, Eddie Gomez, Jazz, Paul Motian, Piano

Corea, Gomez and Motian, Further Explorations

Corea, Gomez & Motian -][- Further Explorations -(MP3)- [Concord Jazz, 2012]

Produced by Corea, Further Explorations was recorded May 4-17, 2010, live at the Blue Note in New York City. (2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Evans’ original Explorations LP with Motian and bassist Scott LaFaro on the Riverside label.) In preparation, Corea, Gomez and Motian examined the entire Bill Evans discography. Rather than approach the music as a tribute, his material provides more of a template. Each musician also contributes original material. The results are inspired, as this elevated piano trio plays with near-telepathic empathy and a remarkable blend of ingenuity and emotional depth.

Eddie Gomez -][- Forever [Plus Loin]

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Bass, Cesarius Alvim, Eddie Gomez, Jazz

Eddie Gomez - Forever (2010)

Eddie Gomez -][- Forever – [Plus Loin, 20010]

Legendary bassist Eddie Gomez and pianist Cesarius Alvim commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the ir first recorded collaboration with Forever (Plus Loin). The two masters take on a varied repertoire: from standards such as “Spring is Here” and “Invitation,” original compositions from both Gomez and Alvim, and Brazilian pianist Luiz Eça’s piece “The Dolphin.”

Alvim first met Gomez through Bill Evans, with whom Gomez played for eleven years. “Meeting Bill Evans was a musical and human encounter of which the memory is unforgettable,” says Alvim. “He had a beautiful message of love for life and music. Afterwards I met Eddie, a musician whom I had always admired. From the first notes we played toge the r, everything was said. We had the same rhythmic and harmonic sense, and the same passion for melodic phrasing.” Gomez elaborates on the ir penchant for melody: “The repertoire is very melodic and also rhythmically treated. The melodies are very strong, and are approached in poetic way with a strong sense of the jazz feeling and ares the tic.”