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Wadada Leo Smith Is Recognized As A National Treasure And His New Double Album "America's National Parks" Is Out Now On Cuneiform Records
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
“Wadada Leo Smith, in the middle of his seventh decade now, has created a body or work that qualifies him as one of America's artistic geniuses, in a league with Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis. A visionary America's National Parks, along with virtually every recording he has released in the new millennium, confirms it.” —Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz (read review) Legendary composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith creates a new masterwork inspired ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Aaron Parks
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Aaron Parks' birthday today! “Somebody once asked me to find two words that describe the music I make, and the words I picked were ‘spontaneous’ and ‘cinematic,’” says Aaron Parks. Having clarified the essence of his art, the pianist kept those two words closely in mind while conceiving and recording Invisible Cinema, his extraordinary debut for the Blue Note label. In its virtuosity and harmonic complexity... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day widget ...
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City Parks Foundation Presents The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, August 23-24, 2014
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Michael Ricci
New York, NY: City Parks Foundation is proud to announce the 22nd edition of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. Founded in memoriam of beloved jazz musician Charlie Parker, this festival annually attracts thousands of fans to two historic parks in Manhattan. The festival will kick off in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, blocks from the famous jazz clubs where Parker graced the stage, and move to Tompkins Square Park in the East Village on Sunday, just across the street from ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Aaron Parks
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Aaron Parks' birthday today!
“Somebody once asked me to find two words that describe the music I make, and the words I picked were ‘spontaneous’ and ‘cinematic,’” says Aaron Parks. Having clarified the essence of his art, the pianist kept those two words closely in mind while conceiving and recording Invisible Cinema, his extraordinary debut for the Blue Note label. In its virtuosity and harmonic complexity... Read more.
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Columbus Jazz Orchestra Pays Tribute To Rosa Parks In Suite Rosa - Jan. 25-26 At Lincoln Theatre
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH – Under the direction of Byron Stripling, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra (CJO) is proud to celebrate the courage, dignity, and legacy of “the mother of the modern Civil Rights Movement," Rosa Parks in “Suite Rosa" (January 25-26, 2013 at the Lincoln Theatre). In connection with the 100th anniversary of her birth, this multi-disciplinary concert will recall the day in 1955 when Rosa Parks courageously refused to give up her seat on the bus, and, through modern and historical ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Aaron Parks
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Aaron Parks' birthday today!
“Somebody once asked me to find two words that describe the music I make, and the words I picked were ‘spontaneous’ and ‘cinematic,’” says Aaron Parks. Having clarified the essence of his art, the pianist kept those two words closely in mind while conceiving and recording Invisible Cinema, his extraordinary debut for the Blue Note label. In its virtuosity and harmonic complexity... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Aaron Parks
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All About Jazz is celebrating Aaron Parks' birthday today!
“Somebody once asked me to find two words that describe the music I make, and the words I picked were ‘spontaneous’ and ‘cinematic,’” says Aaron Parks. Having clarified the essence of his art, the pianist kept those two words closely in mind while conceiving and recording Invisible Cinema, his extraordinary debut for the Blue Note label. In its virtuosity and harmonic complexity..."Somebody once asked me to find two words that describe ...
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Jazz Pianist Aaron Parks is Back on the Farm -- The James Farm
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Michael Ricci
When exactly the jazz pianist Aaron Parks became a prodigy is unclear, although he fit the description by the time he enrolled, at age 14, in the University of Washington to study music. Now 26, what Parks remembers more clearly is the day, about four years later, that it seemed his time was up, when someone much younger than he sat in front of him and played the piano.
James Farm: Matt Penman, Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Eric Harland
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Aaron Parks: To the Big Screen, and Back to the Jazz Scene
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All About Jazz
"Aaron Parks: Seattle's Boy Genius" is not the story anymore. The local jazz piano prodigy, who went to the University of Washington straight out of junior high, is now 25, living in New York City for the past eight years. He's moved into movies, assisting his mentor Terence Blanchard on soundtracks for Spike Lee's Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke" (among other Lee titles) as well as the filmic adaptation of “Their Eyes Were Watching God"; and Parks has a ...
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Kenn Cox Named King, Chavez, Parks Visiting Scholar at University of Michigan - Dearborn
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JazzStage Productions
Kenn Cox, internationally acclaimed jazz musician, composer and educator, has been awarded the King, Chavez, Parks (KCP) Visiting Professorship for 2008-2009 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Mr. Cox has been named to this post in recognition of his extraordinary brilliant and productive career as a jazz leader, pianist and composer of music in widely diverse genres. His fame began with the highly-esteemed Contemporary Jazz Quintet (CJQ), which he founded and developed during the 60's and 70's. Jazz historian and critic ...
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