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       THE ALL NEW JAZZED AND BLUE PRESENTS:
JAZZ PiANiST OSCAR PEREZ OF THE OSCAR PEREZ NUEVO COMiENZO AND THEiR NEWEST RELEASE 'AFROPEAN AFFAiR' AND MUSiC FROM JANE BADLER, THE DANGLiNG SUCCESS AND MORE!!!  FEBRUARY
12, 2012 - The weekly
online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in
Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at
Rockwired.com and features an exclusive interview with Oscar Perez of
the Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo regarding the brand new release Afropean
Affair. In the opening segment, Perez discusses the
inspiration behind the tracks of his new project, working with a
stellar combo
comprised of saxophonist Stacy Dillard, trumpeteer Greg
Glassman, percussionist Emiliano Valerio, drummer Jerome Jennings, aand
bassist Anthony Perez and his wide musical pallete. The second half of
this edition of Jazzed
and Blue
will feature music from such jazz and blues artists as Dee Dee
Bridgewater, Victor Wainwright and the Wild Roots, Teddy Pressberg,
Veronneau, The Dangling Success and more.
“After being gone for about three months, it is great to finally be
back and doing this show again. " says Jazzed and Blue host Brian Lush.
“It's a real treat to end a long week with a show like this and to kick
back and listen to some great music."Perez is part of a new generation of musicians busy erasing the old distinctions between straight ahead and Latin jazz, forging thrilling new group concepts by blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms and postbop idioms. With this second album, Perez places himself firmly in the forefront of this rising movement. The CD will be released on October 11 on Chandra Records. Featuring Perez with his stellar young band Nuevo Comienzo, Afropean Affair focuses on the pianist's original music, which he designed to showcase his group's improvisational prowess and conservatory-honed facility for interpreting extended compositions. The combo features some of the most prodigious young players on the scene, including saxophonist Stacy Dillard on tenor and soprano, Greg Glassman on trumpet and flugelhorn, percussionist Emiliano Valerio, drummer Jerome Jennings and bassist Anthony Perez (who also happens to be Oscar's younger brother). "I grew up listening to my father's albums of traditional Cuban music," says Perez, 36. "But we're American jazz musicians and we're not trying to be anything else. The concept I'm going for filters everything through the writing. In picking the members of the band, they needed to have their own sounds. Jerome is a drummer who just loves to groove. He's not playing straight Cuban rhythms. He's always mixing it up, which is true for all of us." TODAY'S
PLAYLiST
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BRiDGEWATER'MiDNiGHT SUN' MiDNiGHT SUN ViCTOR WAiNWRiGHT AND THE WiLD ROOTS 'BiG DOG'S RUNNiN' THiS TOWN' LiT UP TEDDY PRESSBERG 'OUTCRiES FROM A SEA FO RED' OUTCRiES FROM A SEA OF RED REMiXED VOLUME 2 TRACY NELSON 'ViCTiM OF THE BLUES' ViCTiM OF THE BLUES VERONNEAU 'LA MER' JOiE DE ViVRE RANDELL K. 'FORBiDDEN FRUiT' RANDELL K. K.K. MARTiN 'GiN SOAKED BLUES' NAKED BLUES VOLUME 2 JANE BADLER 'WHAT A MESS i'VE MADE' TEARS AGAiN THE DANGLiNG SUCCESS 'CiTY OF LiFE' CiTY OF LiFE DOWNLOAD PART ONE - OSCAR PEREZ PROFiLE HERE!!! DOWNLOAD PART TWO- FREE FORM MUSiC SEGMENT HERE!!! RELATED LiNKS: WWW.OSCARPEREZMUSiC.COM ABOUT THE HOST:  BRIAN
LUSH holds a BA in Creative Writing from the UNIVERSITY OF
NEW MEXICO. He established ROCKWIRED on New Years of 2004 and hasn't
looked back
since. He is currently the host of all of ROCKWIRED.COM's programming
which includes such shows as ROCKWIRED RADIO PROFILES and ROCKWIRED
FREE FORM RADIO. As
program producer for ROCKWiRED.COM, LUSH is hands-on when it
comes to
interviewing and building a lasting rapport with the artists that come
ROCKWiRED's
way. As a youngster, BRIAN LUSH had no idea what kind of seed was being
planted
by reading magazines such as HIT PARADE, HIGH TIMES, SPIN, REQUEST
(remember
that one?) and even ROLLING STONE. "Those were the days before the
internet and being a rock journalist
looked
like the coolest job imaginable." says LUSH "But reading these
magazines had me
imagining that one day I'd be the artist giving all of the clever
answers to
some poor guy with a tape recorder. Well, life has a way of surprising
you.
Now, I'm the poor guy with the tape recorder and asking all of the
questions."CONTACT
BRiAN LUSH
AT: djlush@rockwired.com
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