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January 28 2013
by PATRICK JARENWATTANANON
January 27, 2013
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Wayne Shorter, who turns 80 this year, is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. He would merit that praise based on the first 40-odd years of his career alone, when he was playing in and writing for groups led by Art Blakey and Miles Davis, and making canonical studio albums under his own name. The next few decades were more controversial; suffice it to say that he embraced electric instruments wholeheartedly, and not all of his fans agreed with that. But for the last dozen years and change, he's been performing with a band which put the jazz world on notice: Wayne Shorter is back — or, more precisely, he never really left.
January 22 2013
SOUL/R&B LEGEND TO HEADLINE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL IN THE SPRING
NEVILLE HONORED AS FEATURED ARTIST ON LIMITED-EDITION, COLLECTIBLE JAZZ FEST POSTER
NEVILLE TO PERFORM AT THE GRAMMY MUSEUM ON JANUARY 28TH
January 22nd, 2013 — New York, NY — My True Story, the new album from soul/R&B legend and multiple Grammy Award-winning artist Aaron Neville, is out today on Blue Note Records. The album, produced by Blue Note Records President Don Was and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, finds Neville revitalizing some of his favorite songs from the doo-wop era that have become the underpinning for all of the remarkable music he has created across five decades. (Watch a video about the making of My True Story here.)
January 2 2013
Preview the forthcoming record from the acclaimed tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano and his quintet Us Five, with special guest Lionel Loueke on Soundcheck (WNYC Radio). Cross Culture will be released January 8, 2013 and is available for pre-order now on Amazon and iTunes
December 10 2012
Record-Breaking Single “Lately” up for 2013 “Best Traditional R&B Performance”
Songwriter, performer, producer and R&B icon Anita Baker has just been nominated for her 16th career Grammy Award for her record-breaking single “Lately.”
Baker will look to garner her ninth Grammy Award with “Lately,” which is nominated for “Best Traditional R&B Performance.” She has won eight Grammy awards previously.
“Lately” is from Baker’s forthcoming album, Only Forever, due out 2013. The much-anticipated album will be her first in eight years, and the single “Lately” instantly became the biggest release of her career, debuting at #10 on Billboard’s Urban AC Chart – the highest single debut of anyone in 15 years.
The success of “Lately,” which recently hit #1 on Billboard’s Adult R&B chart and sat atop the Jazz chart for five consecutive weeks, also put Baker in the record books. With her latest #1, she surpassed Whitney Houston for the longest span of number-one hits. Houston’s record was 14 years; beginning with Baker’s first #1, 1994’s “Body & Soul” to 2005’s “How Does It Feel?” and up to “Lately,” she sets the new mark of 18 chart-topping years.
“Lately” was released digitally on August 7, 2012, and was produced by The Underdogs and executive-produced by Anita Baker and Don Was. Currently touring in support of Only Forever, Baker performed at Radio City Music Hall and sold out four shows in five days in late August, including the famed Hollywood Bowl.
Baker is an eight-time Grammy winner, with four platinum and two gold albums to her name. She shot to fame with her classic album Rapture, and experienced critical and commercial success with subsequent albums Giving You the Best I Got, Compositions, Rhythm of Love, and My Everything. She has also released a successful greatest hits (The Best of Anita Baker), holiday (Christmas Fantasy), and live album (A Night of Rapture: Live).
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