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CPG BITESIZE LAUNCH DAY!!!

Look alive folks we’ve only gone and launched weekly!! Three fantastic tracks picked especially by Courtney Pine: Cleveland Watkiss, Tigran Hamasyan, Jacob Karlzon - these flavour makers will blow your mind!  So get your cup of chai and check this Bitesize beauty out!!!

1. Cleveland Watkiss - Red Gold & Green  Cdubya
2. Tigran Hamasyan - De Dah Nonesuch
3. Jacob Karlzon - Subject To Change Warner

Coming up this week Fresh New Sounds emanating from Tokyo, NY, Chicago, Denmark, UK, San Francisco, Germany, UK-Asia & Israel.

 Courtney’s feelin' the vibe this week and these fresh new artists are really movin' him!  Miho Hazama mysteriously swing-marchin’ with Danish Radio Big Band, Aaron Seeber radiating NY energy, layer-upon-layer of the gorgeous Zara McFarlane, Michael Allemana’s Chicago respect, SFJAZZ taking pause before Gilad Hekselman’s strange and beautiful Magic Chord.  Orrin Evans full of praise, Clemens Grassman: joy personified! Arun Ghosh & friends dancin' us home…  Discover the happy moments folks - it’s another blinder from the one and only Courtney Pine!

1. Miho Hazama - Mimi’s March Edition
2. Aaron Seeber - Brandyn Cellar Music Group
3. Zara McFarlane - Nya Disintegrated
4. Michael Allemana - The Mediator Ears & Eyes
5. SFJAZZ Collective - Lift every voice SFJAZZ
6. Gilad Hekselman - Magic Chord Edition
7. Orrin Evans - Libra Smoke
8. Clemons Grassman - Chickens On A Trane Self-Release
9. Arun Ghosh - Sufi Stomp Camoci

!Look Alive friends!! Courtney Pine’s awesome Easter playlist’s Full of Love & launched today! A swingin’ handful of love from Harold Mabern & Crew, Grammy nominee Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin dreamin’…Big Feelings.Big grooves. Samara Joy & Pasquale Grasso slow-dance to classic Duke…sonic BOOM! all manner of radness aka Trombone Shorty, Karriem Riggins’ mixin’mashup on Nicholas Payton, Simon Phillips’s electric groove-fest… 

COME ON NOW we are FLYIN’ - TWEET #cpg_podcast while you listen folks we want to know how you’re feelin’ cos we are seein’ colours… Robert Mitchell’s two-step, Joel Ross’ blissful vibes reinvention, Ben Markley’s euphoric whirlwind WHAT??! Let the inimitable Renee Rosnes bring this Epic blowage home friends cause y’know, Life.Does.Not.Wait…

1. Harold Mabern - Straight Street Smoke
2. Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble – How I Love Bluenote
3. Pasquale Grasso/Samara Joy – Solitude Sony Masterworks
4. Trombone Shorty - Come Back Bluenote
5. Nicholas Payton/Karriem Riggins remix - Gold Dust Black Magic Smoke
6. Simon Phillips – Isosceles Phantom
7. Robert Mitchell: Anxieties Discus
8. Joel Ross: Doxology Bluenote
9. Ben Markley – Arrows and Loops OA2
10. Renee Rosnes - Life Does Not Wait (A Vida Não Espera) Smoke