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New Patrice Rushen Vinyl Compilation Out Soon: Strut Records will release a new Patrice Rushen vinyl compilation on July 19. The new 3xLP collection is titled Remind Me: The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984, and documents the highlights from the prolific R&B singer and producer's peak years of commercial success, including her hit "Forget Me Nots." It also features some of the leading musicians in Los Angeles of the time, such as saxophonist Gerald Albright, drummer "Ndugu" Chancler and bassist Freddie Washington, among others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1shXb237Bk
Blind Lemon Jazz, After Hours (OFEH) Singer/songwriter James Byfield, a.k.a. Blind Lemon Pledge, is best known for his work in the blues and Americana genres. Here, he expands on the influences of such Great American Songbook composers as The Gershwins, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter and more, to present his own unique ride through the sound of the '20s, '30s and '40s era. Fronting an eponymously named quartet helmed by the keyboard and arrangement skills of Ben Flint, and beautifully voiced by alto Marisa Malvino, he presents on After Hours a set of new, stylistically diverse and thematically rich original compositions. 
Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis & St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Conducted by David Robertson, Wynton Marsalis’s Swing Symphony (Blue Engine) Wynton Marsalis’ third symphony, Swing Symphony, is his musical meditation on American ideals inspired by such composers as George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein, among others. Commissioned in 2010 by four different orchestras – the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic – and has since been played all over the world. This new album of the same name captures a performance of this at once invigorating and elegiac work performed in 2018 by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro David Roberston, in front of a sold-out crowd in St. Louis’s Powell Hall. It is described as its definitive performance. 
Peter Eldridge and Kenny Werner, Somewhere (Rosebud) Singer/songwriter and musical alchemist Peter Eldridge teams up with piano legend Kenny Werner on his latest album, Somewhere. This new LP also includes a 20-piece string orchestra conducted by cellist Eugene Friesen, and a sound that pairs timeless romanticism with sophisticated modern harmony in a program of classic standards and clever originals, to serve as an antidote to the tumultuousness of current times. “We live in incredibly strange times,” says Eldridge via a press release, “so this music is trying to offset that and help people feel a few moments of hope. We hope it offers a balm to the spirit.” Like this article? Get more when you subscribe.