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  New Release:  The Path of a Tear from Jo Harrop Label:  Lateralize Records Release Date:  April 8, 2025 Websites:  www.joharrop.com Insta/FB - @joharropmusic YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/JoHarrop/videos Jo Harrop possesses a voice that resonates with contemporary audiences from her contemplative style to her soothing tone and storytelling manner.  Her repertoire integrates jazz, soul, and blues into an alluring mixture that brings out a distinctive beauty in each track. The Path Of A Tear , Harrop’s fourth offering on London-based jazz label, Lateralize Records, illustrates her prowess as a songwriter with 6 original tunes and a selection of covers written by Leonard Cohen, Steve Earle, and Leon Russell.  Supported by guitarist Anthony Wilson, drummer/percussionist Victor Indrizzo, pianist Jim Cox, double bass player David Piltch, and electric bassist Larry Klein, Harrop gravitates to lyrics that reflect about the matters of the heart with mus...

  New Release:  Let's Fall in Love from Judith Whitmore Label:  Self-Released Release Date:  April 25, 2025 Website:  https://www.judywhitmore.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JudithWhitmoreWriterSinger/ @JudithWhitmore (IG/Twitter) Vocalist Judy Whitmore has honed a reputation as a prolific interpreter of songs from the Great American Songbook.  Her latest endeavor, Let's Fall In Love , has her teamed up with producer Chris Walden.  The compilation of songs featured on the recording, Whitmore's fifth solo effort, take audiences back to the Golden Age of big band music, fashioned with contemporary sensibilities where Eydie Gormé meets Brenda Earle Stokes.  Backed up by a 22-member string section, Whitmore is also accompanied by Josh Nelson on piano, Andrew Synowiec on guitar, Edwin Livingston on bass, Peter Erskine on drums, Wade Culbreath on vibraphone, Hendrik Meurkens on harmonica, Laura Brenes on French horn, and Gayle Levant on harp, as well as ...

  New Release:  Vagabond from Royce Campbell and the Vosbein Magee Big Band Label: Max Frank Music Release Date: April 21, 2025 Label Website: maxfrankmusic.com/catalog/vagabond Guitarist Royce Campbell is joined by the Vosbein Magee Big Band, directed by Terry Vosbein on Vagabond .  The music is iconic big band jazz with all tracks composed by Royce Campbell, except for “Body and Soul,” which was composed by Edward Heyman, Frank Eyton, John Green, and Robert Sour.   The arrangements are done by Carroll DeCamp, who is Royce Campbell's uncle.  The scores have a traditional bopping rhythm, sprinkled in blazing horns that swing and surge, as Matthew Billings's piano keys join with jaunty interludes and Campbell's guitar slides across with billowy riffs.  Having performed with such legendary artists as Gene Bertoncini, Bucky Pizzarelli, Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughn, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Cobb, Rosemary Clooney, Henry Mancini, and Ken Poplowski, Royce Campbell tap...

  New Release:  Loving You from Kieran Brown Label:  Cellar Music Release Date:  July 11, 2025 Websites:  Instagram: @kieranbrownmusic Facebook: @Kieran Brown Jazz TikTok: @kieranbrownmusic Jazz vocalist Kieran Brown comes out of the gate as a thoroughbred champion with her debut release Loving You.    Every inch of the recording is honed to perfection from her caressing vocal resonance and nuanced vocalese to the flawless orchestration, producing an atmosphere that is dreamy and sublime.  Featuring an assortment of jazz standards and two original tracks by Brown, the lyrical themes focus on the thoughts, impressions, and emotional development that a young woman experiences through the early stages of life's journey into maturity.  Her engaging duet with singer Nathan Farrell on their rendition of Stephen Sondheim's "Loving You" highlights such maturity.  Brown lulls the listener into a tranquil dreamscape, demonstrating the ardor of mus...

  Label:  Self-Released Release Date:  June 20, 2025 Websites:  www.thebevelededges.com https://www.shellybhushan.com/music/ https://www.anthonylanni.com/music.php https://linktr.ee/thebevelededges Singer-songwriter Shelly Bhushan has a voice that can stop traffic.  Her collaboration with nylon string guitarist-composer Anthony Lanni goes by the moniker The Beveled Edges.  Their debut release I Guess We're Not Alone is a listening experience that leaves a lasting impression on its audience.  The succor-rich strumming of Tex-Mex tones complimented by an alluring sway emanates from Lannie's guitar strokes, embroidered throughout the tracks as Bhushan sweetly serenades the listener with her shimmery timbres and elastic resonance.  A romantic gleam shrouds the tracks in a torchlight mist as Bhushan takes the listener by the hand, guiding one through a proverbial woodland of aural tranquility and  sonic bliss.  Their fusion of soul, blues, s...

  New Release:  Planet D Nonet presents Doctor Professor Leonard King in Tribute to Joe Williams Release Date: April 19, 2025 Label: Eastlawn Records Website: https://rjspangler.com/ The late Big Band vocalist Joe Williams, who sang with the Count Basie Orchestra through the 1950's and later enjoyed being a solo artist, is treated with reverence on Planet D Nonet's latest recording Planet D Nonet Presents Doctor Professor Leonard King in Tribute to Joe Williams .  King's vocals take the listener down memory lane, when jazz combos filled ballrooms with rhapsodic romps, swinging scat, bluesy candlelight vibes, and smoldering bebop.  The scores may stem from the 20th century but King's arrangements are contemporary, sowing meaningful interpretations that lure the listener in from his catchy vocal inflections to Michael Zaporski's percolating keys and the impromptu raptures of the horns.  The interaction is emblematic of the spontaneity audiences recall that made ja...