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“Understanding the order of time is important to anyone hoping to manifest a dream,” says Valerie June. “There is a time to push, and a time to gently tend the garden.”

Since the release of her 2013 breakout Pushin’ Against A Stone, June has been patiently at work in the garden of song, nurturing seedlings with love and care into the lush bloom that is her stunning new album, The Order Of Time. Some songs grew from seeds planted more than a decade ago, others blossomed overnight when she least expected them to, but every track bears the influence of time. See, time has been on June’s mind a lot lately. It’s the only constant in life, even though it’s constantly changing. It’s the healer of all wounds, the killer of all men. It’s at once infinite and finite, ever flowing with twists and turns and brutal, churning rapids that give way to serene stretches of placid tranquility. Fight against the current and it will knock you flat on your ass. Learn to read it, to speak its language, and it will carry you exactly where you’re meant to be.

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OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

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Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy.
 
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realised music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.

Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”

Thirty years after her formative busking days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospheric version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrack of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades
include the coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honour.
 
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.

With endearing passion and great curiosity the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
 
Madeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the industry and loyal fans alike, it is the immense talent and utter dedication to her craft that shines through.
“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein, “she has the capacity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar, great things happen.”

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I 3AlBot nascono nel 2009 da un interesse comune: Il Jazz. La formazione definitiva si assesta nel 2011, dopo un avvicendarsi di diversi contrabbassisti, fino all'arrivo di Lorenzo Buffa, con Luca Ceribelli al sax, Davide Bussoleni alla batteria e Francesco Orio al pianoforte. Con questa lineup i 3AlBot iniziano a studiare e sperimentare tutte le tradizioni del Jazz, in maniera inclusiva, senza pregiudizi di sorta; il linguaggio che ne fuoriesce è estremamente caratteristico e sintetizza bene le qualità di ogni singolo componente, dando origine ad un suono coeso e libero allo stesso tempo.
Nel corso degli anni il gruppo si fa le ossa suonando in tutto il territorio lombardo e successivamente inizia a farsi conoscere a livello nazionale classificandosi e vincendo diversi concorsi, tra cui il primo posto al “Chicco Bettinardi 2014” di Piacenza, primo premio al “Jazz by the Pool 2013” di Padova e finalista al “European Jazz Contest 2014”.
Nel frattempo registrano il primo disco intitolato “A Dog’s Life”, con musica completamente originale recensito sulla rivista “Musica Jazz” e presentato in diversi importanti festival come Nuoro Jazz Festival, Modena Jazz Festival, Piacenza Jazz Fest, Umbria Jazz e Soresina Jazz Festival.
Dal 2015 approdano Loris Leo Lari al contrabbasso e successivamente Andrea Ragnoli al piano per un repertorio tutto nuovo. Dopo essersi esibiti in diversi festival come Modena Jazz festival, Crema jazz Art festival, nel gennaio del 2018 registrano "Dognado", un lavoro discografico che riunisce le diverse influenze dei membri del gruppo. L'esperienza maturata negli anni va a confluire in un disco dalle sonorità originali, che spaziano da reminescenze etniche al jazz tradizionale, nonchè al mondo moderno della musica newyorkese.

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