Feb 3, 2025 11:17 PM
Mack Avenue Music Sold to Exceleration Music
Exceleration Music, a music company dedicated to independent music, has acquired Mack Avenue Music Group, a jazz label…
Some of the artists with recent releases on Mack Avenue, acquired by Exceleration Music.
Feb 3, 2025 11:17 PM
Exceleration Music, a music company dedicated to independent music, has acquired Mack Avenue Music Group, a jazz label…
Apr 18, 2023 11:09 AM
Verve/UMe’s Acoustic Sounds Series continues to deliver with a trio of great new albums and plenty more to come.
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings
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Looking for last-minute gifts for your favorite jazz fan? Looking for a little something under the tree to place there…
An Ella Fitzgerald collection, The Complete Piano Duets (Verve), finds the vocalist exploring her rapport with a variety of pianists.
May 18, 2020 11:33 AM
Ella Fitzgerald mesmerized when she unleashed her virtuosic voice, especially when she engaged in quicksilver scats…
Ingrid Jensen stands for a solo during a Feb. 15 performance of the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, during the second Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival.
Mar 1, 2019 10:53 AM
On the final afternoon of the second Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival, a quintet led by pianist Kenny Barron…
Ambrose Akinmusire and Kris Davis perform in New York at Vision Festival, which ran May 23–28. Akinmusire’s Origami Harvest earned a 5-star rating in DownBeat during 2018.
Sep 26, 2019 4:45 PM
The list below is a round-up of the 5-star, 4.5-star and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during…
MPS has released singer China Moses’ Nightintales.
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Like a lot of well-off young men in the 1950s, Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer was a dedicated audio enthusiast. But while…
Kenny Barron and bassist Dave Young perform in an Oscar Peterson tribute concert at Symphony Center on April 7. Todd Rosenberg
Apr 14, 2017 12:20 PM
The evening of April 7 saw a rare procession of mainstream piano mastery cross the stage of Symphony Center in…
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