USA: This Saturday! NICOLE HENRY returns to GINNY’s @ RED ROOSTER in Harlem

NICOLE HENRY
at Ginny’s Supper Club
at The Red Rooster – Harlem, New York
Saturday, Aug 27 - 7:30pm & 9:30pm

For tickets: Click HERE

Nicole Henry (vocals); David Cook (Piano); Robert Jost (Upright Bass); Darrian Douglas (Drums); Nir Felder (Guitar) Since her debut in 2004, Nicole Henry has established herself as one of the jazz world's most acclaimed vocalists, possessing a potent combination of dynamic vocal abilities, impeccable phrasing, and powerful emotional resonance. Ms. Henry's passionate, soulful voice and heart-felt charisma has earned her a 2013 Soul Train Award for “Best Traditional Jazz Performance," three Top-10 U.S. Billboard and HMV Japan jazz albums. Heralded by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, El Pais, Jazz Times, Essence and more, Ms. Henry tells real stories through repertoire from the American Songbook, classic and contemporary jazz, contemporary standards, blues and originals. “I had the sense of being in the presence of a pop-soul superwoman whose every gesture and inflection conveyed confidence and mastery…. time and again she invested familiar songs with an extra fillip of conviction and made you reconsider the words.” - Stephen Holden, The New York Times “…That predicted time of greatness has arrived. Nicole Henry emerges hands down as this generation's First Lady of Jazz.” - Sean Martinfield, Huffington Post www.ginnyssupperclub.com

www.nicolehenry.com

 

USA: Carol Duboc - Open The Curtains (2016)

01. In Pieces (Feat. Mindi Abair & Sheila E.) (3:28)
02. Feeling Good (Feat. Patrice Rushen & Rhonda Smith) (3:46)
03. Open The Curtains (Feat. Patrice Rushen) (4:51)
04. Forget Me Nots (Feat. Patrice Rushen & Bibi McGill) (5:00)
05. Whisper (Feat. Patrice Rushen) (4:27)
06. Faces (Feat. Patrice Rushen & Jennifer Batten) (3:43)
07. Fever (Feat. Aubrey Logan) (4:09)
08. Miss You Missing Me (3:25)
09. Precious (Feat. Mindi Abair) (3:57)
10. I'm Gone (Feat. Jennifer Batten) (4:51)
Open The Curtains has a star-studded line-up of musicians, who not only happen to be women but who are also some of the baddest musicians to grace this planet including; percussionist Sheila E., pianist/vocalist Patrice Rushen, saxophonist Mindi Abair, guitarists Bibi McGill and Jennifer Batten, drummer Queen Cora Coleman, bassist Rhonda Smith and trombonist and singer Aubrey Logan. Collectively these women have collaborated with everyone from Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana and Prince to Michael Jackson, Pink and Beyoncé, and beautifully carry Duboc’s message of female strength, wisdom and independence forward with grace, brawn and undeniable hipness. While seven of the ten songs on Open The Curtains are originals penned by Carol, she chooses to pay tribute to a trio of women who have long inspired her – Nina Simone, Patrice Rushen and Peggy Lee.The album introduces six new originals written by me, as well as the song “Precious” I wrote and arranged for Chante Moore and three songs written or made famous by female jazz artists including “Fever” (Peggy Lee,) Forget Me Nots” (Patrice Rushen,) and “Feeling Good” (Nina Simone.) On the title cut, I introduce my 9 year old daughter, who is an amazing music prodigy and vocalist!

USA Madeleine Peyroux-Secular Hymns (Verve 2016)

 

2016 marks Madeleine Peyrouxs twentieth anniversary as a recording artist with the release of Secular Hymns, a spirited and soulful masterwork of loping, skipping, sassy, feisty and sexy tunes delivered in a captivating melange of funk, blues and jazz.

With her trio that had been touring together for two years electric guitarist Jon Herington and upright bassist Barak Mori Peyroux set out to record in a live setting a collection of songs that have their own hymn-like stories of self-awareness and inner dialogue, a communal consciousness and a spiritual essence.

Music has been our spiritual life, she says. So I think of these as hymns, secular hymns songs that are very individual, personal, introverted.

Madeleine Peyroux intimately renders tunes by seminal blues artists (two penned by Willie Dixon and one by Lil Green), the classic gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the under-the-radar dub star Linton Kwesi Johnson, three renowned contemporary composers (Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Allen Toussaint), the 19th century composer Stephen Foster (considered to be the first great songwriter in America) and ending with a traditional African-American spiritual.

A note from Madeleine,
The story starts with a concert in the countryside of England in the tiny village of Great Milton, Oxfordshire, where we were invited to play by Raymond Blanc for Belmond Le Manoir in October 2015. Saint Marys church dates back to Norman times. Its small, musty, stone and wooden reverb is rich with ten centuries of history. This is where I heard the sound for this record, enveloped in the bosom of a soulful room.

Guitarist Jon Herington, upright bassist Barak Mori, and I had been building our trio repertoire for two years, playing all kinds of rooms, exploring the intimate in all kinds of music blues, gospel, Americana, even dub reggae. Each song we added gave me a sense of awe, a reverence for the small, everyday trials of our lives. They are personal, disarming and honest, and they come from all kinds of places and eras. But their rendering, if only by its sincerity, intends to share a universal message. Somehow I felt this little church gave us the sanctuary we needed for that to be heard.

We returned the following January to record, including a performance for the local townspeople. Post concert I received a most gracious compliment, that our show filled the hall with spiritual humanism. This is the result of those recordings and it is in this vein that I titled the album Secular Hymns.

USA/BELGIUM/UKRAINE/ISRAEL/JAPAN: CHICK COREA, LEGENDARY JAZZ MASTER, CELEBRATES 75TH BIRTHDAY WITH GLOBE-SPANNING TOUR

CHICK COREA,
LEGENDARY JAZZ MASTER, 

CELEBRATES 75TH BIRTHDAY

WITH GLOBE-SPANNING TOUR

22-time GRAMMY® Winner Reveals Epic 2016 Schedule:
177 Shows, 26 Ensembles, 60 Musicians

 

Aaron Meekcoms, courtesy of Chick Corea Productions

LOS ANGELES, CA - Music legend Chick Corea is spending his 75th birthday at home: on the road.

Corea has spent 50 years on the world's most venerated stages, playing with a pantheon of fellow-traveling musical compatriots, and now he's packing it all into one year.

For 2016, he's lined up an Iron-Man marathon of tour dates, literally circling the globe: Phoenix to Minneapolis to Naples to Stuttgart to Tokyo to Beijing to Honolulu and back to LA.

This activity will lead up to the greatest jazz birthday party ever: an unprecedented two-month residency at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club this fall, where Chick has assembled an unprecedented lineup of giants to do what they do best: create music magic, two shows a night, for eight straight weeks.

But it all started in April, which opened with Chick at the star-studded International Jazz Day concert, broadcast nationwide from The White House lawn. An East Coast duet tour with Béla Fleck preceded a solid month of shows in Japan with fellow pianist Makoto Ozone-including two nights with the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo playing Mozart's "Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra." July brought European concerts with the all-star "Homage to Heroes" quintet, featuring Wallace Roney, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Marcus Gilmore.

The past week at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood - ask any Chick fan - has been a long time coming: the Chick Corea Elektric Band returned, (Aug. 17-24) for a celebratory 7 nights and 14 sold-out shows at the iconic Hollywood club, which has hosted many legendary Corea performances. The classic lineup is in force: Corea, Dave Weckl (drums), John Patitucci (bass), Eric Marienthal (sax), Frank Gambale (guitar). The Elektric Band will also do a handful of U.S. theater dates in October, and kickoff Chick's landmark residency at the Blue Note New York.

An Italian excursion in September finds Chick renewing his legendary lifelong duo conversation with vibraphonist Gary Burton, including headlining La Villette Jazz Festival in Paris.
In the run-up to the Blue Note Celebration, Chick has managed to fit in three different configurations of his Trilogy trio: Following US performances in June and July with the GRAMMY®-winning band with Christian McBride (bass) and Brian Blade (drums), including performances at the Newport Jazz Festival where Chick was named Artist of the Year, younger firebrands Avishai Cohen (bass) and Marcus Gilmore (drums) join Chick for appearances in September in Israel, Kiev, and more throughout Europe and Asia. The trio will headline the grand opening of the Blue Note Beijing on Sept. 13. The legendary Eddie Gomez (bass) falls in with Corea and Blade for a residency at the Blue Note Hawaii (Sep. 21-24) and the San Francisco Jazz Festival (Sep. 29 - Oct. 2), plus West Coast concerts in September and October.

Back in his musical home, New York City, the Blue Note residency (Oct. 19 - Dec. 11) is the kind of honor and celebration befitting a career like Corea's: 22 GRAMMY® wins. NEA Jazz Master. Downbeat Magazine Hall-of-Famer. An artistic voice that has influenced and been inspired by countless musical traditions: modern jazz to traditional flamenco, western classical to electric jazz-fusion, acclaimed solo performances to many high-profile collaborations.

All the facets of his restless creativity will be on display at the Blue Note, in 80 shows with 60 iconic musicians playing in 15 bands (see bluenotejazz.com for a detailed listing).

These include a tribute to his mentor Miles Davis with other Davis alumnae; a week with longtime partner-in-crime and drum legend Steve Gadd; two nights of experimental electronica with drummer Marcus Gilmore and guests; and the return the Flamenco Heart. The Harlem String Quartet will join the simpatico duo partnership with Gary Burton. Perennial fan-favorite projects with Origin and the 15-piece Trodheim Jazz Orchestra will also occupy the Blue Note stage, plus a three-night series of duets with pianists yet to be announced.

The final two weeks of the run will feature the music of Return to Forever and more in two different contexts: the acoustic lineup (Nov. 30 - Dec. 4) includes Ravi Coltrane (sax), Hubert Laws (flute), Avishai Cohen (bass) and RTF drummer Lenny White; an electric band (Dec. 8-11) dubbed Return to Forever Meets Mahavishnu, featuring fellow legend John McLaughlin on guitar, bassist Victor Wooten and drummer White, will also delve into some classic Mahavishnu Orchestra material.

Corea's 2016 tour schedule is a shorthand sketch of his entire musical life: a virtuosic summary of 50 years of creativity, and a confident step toward exciting new possibilities for the future.

For more updates as this landmark year continues to unfold, visit chickcorea.com, facebook.com/chickcorea, and @ChickCorea on Twitter.

Ticketing information for these appearances is available at chickcorea.com/concerts and on each venue's website. 

 

UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

Chick Corea & Gary Burton Duet

September 1 - 2, Blue Note Milano, Milano, Italy (2 shows per night)

September 4, Jazz a La Villette, Paris, France

 

Chick Corea Elektric Band

October 12, Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, FL

October 14, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN

October 15, The Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC

October 16, Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA

October 17, The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA

 

Chick Corea Trilogy (Corea / Gomez / Blade)

September 21 - 24, Blue Note Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (2 Shows Per Night)

September 25, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Castle Theatre, Maui, HI

September 28, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA (2 Shows)

September 29, San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Francisco, CA

October 4 - 5, Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA (2 Shows Per Night)

October 7, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Detroit, MI

October 8, Xavier University Jazz Series at Gallagher Theater, Cincinnati, OH

  

Chick Corea Trilogy (Corea / Cohen / Gilmore)

August 30, Red Sea Jazz Festival, Eilat, Israel

September 5, Jazz a La Villette, Paris, France

September 7, Openluchttheater Rivierenhof, Antwerp, Belgium

September 10, Equi Jazz Festival -Equides Club, Kyiv, Ukraine

September 13 - 17, Blue Note Beijing, Beijing, China (2 shows per night)

September 18, Shimbun Akabane Hall, Hokkoho, Japan

 

Blue Note New York Residency

October 19 - 23, The Chick Corea Elektric Band (10 shows) October 26 - 30, For Miles (10 shows) November 2 - 3, Three Quartets Band (4 shows) November 4 - 6, The Leprechaun Band (6 shows) November 9 - 10, Experiments in Electronica (4 shows) November 11 - 13, Chick's Flamenco Heart (6 shows) November 16 - 17, Chick Corea & the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (4 shows) November 18 - 20, The Piano Duets (2 shows each with three pianists TBA) November 22 - 23, Chick Corea & Gary Burton feat. The Harlem String Quartet (4 shows) November 25 - 27, Origin II (6 shows) November 30 - December 4, The Music of Return to Forever (Acoustic) (10 shows) December 7, TBA (2 shows) December 8 - 11, Return to Forever Meets Mahavishnu (8 shows) 

CHICK COREA PRESS CONTACTS:
National & New York Publicity:
Jordy Freed at Blue Note Media Group / jordy@bluenote.net / 212.475.0049
Tour Publicity:
Carla Parisi at Kid Logic Media / kidlogicmedia@gmail.com / 973.563.8204

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USA: Rebecca Angel @ The Metropolitan Room Thurs, Sept 1st + New Single "Jet Samba"

Rebecca Angel Appearing @ The Metropolitan Room 34 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10010 (212) 206-0440 Thursday, September 1st 7pm Tickets & Info + New Single "Jet Samba" In a 5 star review, Grady Harp writes," The track is only 4:07 minutes but those are four minutes to excite, to satisfy, to stun and to make us wish for more. " Michael Doherty of michaelmusiclog  writes " Rebecca has a natural innocence and youthfulness to her voice which works perfectly with these lines"

REBECCA ANGEL "JET SAMBA" Label: Timeless Grooves Records UPC Code: 190394722616 Street Date: July, 25, 2016 Track Listing: Jet Samba 4:07 Music by Marcos Valle (Costa & Valle OBO Calunga Music) and Lyrics by Ronaldo Bastos ( EMI April Music, Inc. OBO Edicoes Musicais Tapajos Ltd). Produced by Jason Miles Mixed by Jimmy Bralower at Dynotone Records Mastered by Mike Fossenkemper at Turtle Tone Studios Appearances: The Metropolitan Room, New York City, Thursday, September 1. Musicians: Rebecca Angel-vocals, Jason Miles-keyboards, Dennis Angel-flugelhorn, Gottfried Stoger-flute, Christian Ver Halen-guitar, Adam Dorn-bass, Cyro Baptista-percussion and Brian Dunne-drums New York based jazz vocalist Rebecca Angel's new single “Jet Samba” a playfully rhythmic track, produced by and featuring keyboards of celebrated R&B/jazz producer Jason Miles. The release marks the first time that legendary Brazilian composer Marcos Valle’s 2005 instrumental hit has been recorded as a vocal. Miles heard the original tune on Pandora and reached out to Valle – best known for his late 60s million selling classic “Summer Samba”. The composer warmed immediately to the idea of adding lyrics and turned to renowned songwriter Ronaldo Bastos to pen the romantic, hopeful lyrics – which Rebecca enhances with her beautiful voice. “I like it a lot,” Valle says of the fresh interpretation. “It sounds like jazz-samba-pop, very sophisticated and charming –Congrats to Rebecca and also to Jason and the band for creating such a wonderful version of the song.” “Jet Samba” features Rebecca’s father, contemporary jazz artist Dennis Angel on flugelhorn, Gottfried Stoger (flute), Christian Ver Halen (guitar), Adam Dorn (bass), Cyro Baptiste (percussion) and Brian Dunne (drums). The track was mixed by Jimmy Bralower at Dynotone Record and mastered by Mike Fossenkemper at Turtle Tone Studios. “When Jason approached me with this great song and asked if I would be interested in recording it, I was immediately excited”. “I love its energy and quickly embraced the challenge of its complicated rhythms and complex harmonic structure. I’m really happy with the way it came out. I put in a lot of hard work to get it just right, and enjoyed every step of the process. I also love the way the band sounds and am always amazed at the way Jason’s production takes everything to the next level.” NATIONAL PRESS CAMPAIGN: JIM EIGO, JAZZ PROMO SERVICES, 272 State Route 94 South #1, Warwick, NY 10990-3363 Ph: 845-986-1677 / Fax: 845-986-1699 Cell / text: 917-755-8960 Skype: jazzpromo jim@jazzpromoservices.com • www.jazzpromoservices.com “Specializing in Media Campaigns for the music community, artists, labels, venues and events.” AVAILABLE FROM: rebeccaangel.net and iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby

USA/Boston: Will Calhoun Releases "Celebrating Elvin Jones" at Scullers Sept 8

 Sept 8 at 8 PM: Will Calhoun releases "Celebrating Elvin Jones" at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. 

Although he's best known as the hard-driving, groove-oriented drummer for the pioneering rock group Living Colour, Will Calhoun has played in a staggering variety of styles and traditions over the course of his eclectic career. Straight-ahead jazz, fusion, traditional African percussion, funk, hip-hop, and of course hard rock -- Calhoun has explored them all, and he traces the roots of all of them to one man: legendary drummer Elvin Jones.

Joining Will are Rick Germanson (piano), Gerald Cannon (bass), and Antoine Roney (sax.) Showtime is 8 PM. Tickets $35 (with dinner $75). "Elvin connected my worlds," Calhoun says. "Although I saw him playing jazz, I felt rock and roll, I felt fusion, I felt African music.

 It sounds electric, it sounds acoustic, it sounds very African, it sounds very Latin, there are all these elements in there." Courtesy KCC Productions.

 Your host will be William Raye (BaronBillRaye@aol.com)

Tickets are $35 ($75 with dinner) at scullersjazz.com. The club is in the Doubletree at 400 Soldiers Field Road in Allston. For more information call (305) 332-2623

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