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Friday, January 6, 2012

Cleveland Heights Resident Josh Rzepka Releases His Third CD

'Rising Young Artist' trumpeter's life revolves around jazz, classical music

More than 325 copies of Cleveland Heights resident Josh Rzepka’s newest CD, Into the Night, are on their way to jazz radio stations across the country.  The 27-year-old trumpeter has high hopes for Into the Night, which comes two years after the release of his debut jazz album, Midwest Coast. The first album reached No. 33 on the JazzWeek Chart, No. 2 on the Roots Music Report Top 50 Jazz chart and No. 15 on the CMJ Jazz Chart. “My playing and writing had evolved so much since my first jazz album that I really was ready to create something new that was more representative of what I was currently playing,” Rzepka said of Into the Night’s Oct. 28 release. Rzepka recently received the Rising Young Artist award from the Akron Area Arts …

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