Postal Service Offers Exclusive Frannk Sinatra CD
WASHINGTON, DC (Top40 Charts/ Postal Service U.S.) - The "Chairman of the Board's" children joined the Postal Service's Chairman to celebrate the achievements of "Ol' Blue Eyes" by dedicating the Frank Sinatra commemorative stamp in the first of three ceremonies taking place in New York City, Las Vegas ...
| Anya Singleton Journeys To The Other Side
New York, NY. (Top 40 Charts/ Anya Singleton Official Website) - Born in Tunisia and raised in South Africa and England before arriving in New York, singer-songwriter Anya Singleton's first full-length album, The Other Side, will hit stores August 12 and features 11 tracks all co-written by Singleton. ...
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Great New Album 'Leaving New York' From Blues Guitarist Steve Johnson
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ ACM Records) - ACM Records Is proud to announce the new release of 'Leaving New York' by blues guitar virtuoso Steve Johnson. Steve is burning up the airwaves as we speak. Steve reaches right through to your heart with his amazing talents while his band frames his musical ...
| Viola One Woman Band - The Newest Voice In Experimental World Jazz
Brooklyn, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Leanne Darling Official Website) - Leanne Darling CD release party to be held at the Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall at 58 Seventh Ave. (corner of 7th Ave. and Lincoln Pl.), Park Slope, Brooklyn. The show will start at 8:00 p.m. and there is a $10 suggested donation. ...
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Steve Tyrell Set To Perform Songs From His Upcoming CD 'Back To Bacharach' @ NYC's Blue Note Cafe!
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ KOCH Records) - Steve Tyrell will bring his brand of Bacharach to New York City's Blue Note Cafe and a number of other East Coast venues this summer in support of his upcoming album "Back to Bacharach," set for release on June 24th, 2008. "Back to Bacharach" (on New Design ...
| 2008 Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival Line Up Announced
WEST BEND, WI. (Top40 Charts/ Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival) - The West Bend Sunrise Rotary Foundation, Inc., producers of the annual Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival (KMJF), announced that the line up for the 2008 event, to be held Fri., Sept. 5 - Sat., Sept. 6, will once again feature an internationally ...
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AFRISSIPPI & Eric Deaton @ Terra Blues, NYC May 14-15
Oxford, MS. (Top40 Charts/ Hill Country Records) - Oxford, MS based Afrissippi is creating a veritable flood of excitement amongst world-blues and roots aficionados with their remarkable coalescence of north Mississippi hill country blues and their ancestral traditions from West Africa. The band features ...
| Wayman Tisdale Is 'Throwin' It Down' With New Grooves On 'Rebound'
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Wayman Tisdale's eighth album 'Rebound' will be out on June 3 (Rendezvous Entertainment) and the album's first single "Throwin' It Down" is already a top 20 hit on the Smooth Jazz Charts. Capturing the celebratory mood of the album, "Throwin' It Down" ...
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Victoria White: Jazz and R&B Influenced Singer-Songwriter's Debut Single 'Can't Buy Love' Creates a Jazzy Grooving Soul Sensation on Smooth Jazz and Urban Radio
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Koch Records) - With the smooth jazz and urban radio success of her sensual and exotic, easy grooving debut single 'Can't Buy Love,' Victoria White keeps on adding to the list of cool all-star jazz and R&B company she keeps. The first artist signed to Earth, Wind & Fire ...
| Maryland Summer Jazz Festival Launches 2008 Season
ROCKVILLE, MD. (Top40 Charts/ Maryland Summer Jazz) - Marylanders and tourists will be treated to a cool helping of jazz when the Maryland Summer Jazz Festival stages its fourth annual event July 15-25, 2008 in Rockville, near the nation's capital. For musicians, the event offers exciting workshops ...
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Hot Blues Nights... Live At 2120!
CHICAGO, IL. (Top40 Charts/ Dixon Landing Music) - Dixon Landing Music (www.dixonlandingmusic.com) has teamed up with legendary bluesman Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation (www.bluesheaven.com) to sponsor "HOT BLUES NIGHTS... LIVE AT 2120!" (www.hotbluesnights.com) This 3-day event, being held June ...
| Earl Klugh Brings THE SPICE OF LIFE To Radio And Retail On KOCH Records
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ KOCH Records) - EARL KLUGH, Grammy Award-winning innovator and master of the acoustic guitar, today releases just his second album in nine years, THE SPICE OF LIFE, on KOCH Records. Klugh's last album, the 2005 solo masterpiece "Naked Guitar," drew Klugh's eleventh career ...
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Saxophonist James Carter Debuts On Emarcy Records May 20, 2008 With 'Present Tense'
Richmond, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Emarcy Records) - Ever since he arrived in New York City from his native Detroit at age 21, James Carter's awesome virtuosity on a number of instruments and his postmodernist embrace of the past, present, and future of jazz have been causing listeners' jaws to drop. A consistent ...
| Smithsonian Folkways Gives You Plenty Of Reasons To Be Happy About The Blues
Washington, DC (Top 40 Charts/ Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) - On June 24, 2008, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will release 'Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways,' the latest volume in the popular 'Classic' series introducing audiences to the label's extensive collection of historic recordings ...
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WORLD-CLASS TROMBONIST DON IMMEL RELEASES HIS FIRST CD AND MIXES GENRES
Colorado Springs, CO. (Top40 Charts/ CREATIVE SERVICE COMPANY) - Don Immel is passionate about re-introducing the trombone into the music scene spotlight. With the release of his debut solo album, Long Way Home, he showcases his talents as a world-class trombonist and one of the few who can play equally ...
| Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, Colonial Theatre Collaborating On Oct. 17, 2008 'Jazz Meets Symphony' Concert
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (Top40 Charts/ Pittsfield City Jazz Festival) - The Pittsfield CityJazz Festival and the Colonial Theatre today announced a collaboration that will return the festival to that historic venue for a headline concert on Oct. 17. "Jazz Meets Symphony" will feature the New Black Eagles ...
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Mindi Abair To Release New Album 'Stars' On May 6 Featuring Her No 14 R&R Hit Single 'Smile'
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Rogers & Cowan) - MINDI ABAIR, saxophonist/ vocalist/ composer, is set to release her first Peak records CD (a division of Concord Records) titled STARS on May 6, as one of an exciting new generation of crossover artists. Mindi is also set to perform live - previewing STARS ...
| Bruce Cockburn To Record His First Ever Live Solo Album On Spring Tour 2008
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Bruce Cockburn Official Website) - Bruce Cockburn will be recording a live solo album on his spring tour of the Northeast US and one date in Quebec taking place during the Festivaldes Guitars Du Monde. This will be Bruce's 30th recording in a career that stretches back to 1969 ...
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Kelly Joe Phelps Returns To Hugh's Room Sunday May 4, 2008
TORONTO, Canada (Top40 Charts/ Hugh's Room) - Kelly Joe Phelps, considered one of the best guitarists playing today, built his career as a jazz and experimental musician, and then made a life-changing discovery of classic blues. But over the past few albums, Phelps has been shifting gears again - this ...
| Stevie Holland Releases 'Before Love Has Gone' On June 24, 2008
(NEW YORK Top40 Charts/ 150 Music) - Stevie Holland's new CD Before Love Has Gone is a collection of rarely recorded classics and standards as well as original songs penned by Holland and her collaborator, award winning composer Gary William Friedman, who also did the arrangements, and whose jazz roots ...
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