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Afro-Cuban jazz under the banyan trees
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Latin fire is in pianist Chuchito Valdés' genes. He's the son of Chucho Valdés and grandson of the late Bebo Valdés, two of Cuba's venerable jazz pianists.Though now based in Cancun, Mexico, he carries on the family tradition, much like his globetrotting father. Chuchito shared many elements of his Afro-Cuban jazz technique with a crowd beneath the majestic banyan trees at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota FL on Sunday, February 19. He performed in a trio format with ...
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Lola Danza debuts her project "Janya" at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Friday May 13th 2011 at 6pm
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Lola Danza
In Sanskrit Janya means to be born and in Korean Janya means around dawn. Janya was created by four unique musicians— all derived from Korean descent and all women. The music is a fusion of East and West—the East: Seungmin Cha- Daegeum, Eun Sun Jung- Gayageum and Woonjung Sim- Janggo, the West with Half Korean American Singer Lola Jung Danza. Something shamanic and magical exists between the four musician women and so— Janya was born... around dawn. Janya will make ...
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Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane's Spiritual Aesthetics, with Franya Berkman, Lewis and Clark College
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Yulanda Denoon
Monday, March 28, 2011, 8:00 pm 622 Dodge Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus Free and open to the public. The author will sign copies of her book at the event. Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm- and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and Western art music. Her childhood experiences ...
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Tanya Tagaq: 1st US Solo Tour August 8-20
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Michael Ricci
Award Winning Inuit Throat Singer Tanya Tagaq Headlines Her First US Solo Tour
Award winning performer Tanya Tagaq will embark on her first US solo tour in August to showcase her unique style of Inuit throat singing that has critics raving as “mind-blowing" (Time Out UK), “fiercely contemporary, futuristic even," (NY Times), and “remarkable" (LA Times). The Nunavut-born singer has gained notoriety through partnering with the world's most groundbreaking artists, including a successful 2008 tour that she co-wrote and performed ...
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Zimbabwe: Ganyau Launches Debut Jazz Album "Ndiripo"
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All About Jazz
NO wonder many Zimbabwean female musicians are taking up jazz music! The genre -- famed for its soft and tender tunes that probe the soul -- is just ideal for sentimental, romantic hearts, which most women are gifted with. The latest in the line of such females to embrace jazz music is none other than talented former Amagents backing vocalist Faith Ganyau. The 27-year-old songbird, who until now had been a music nonentity, said she had to be content with ...
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Benoit Delbecq / Tanya Kalmanovitch duo performance (Sun.9/25) in New York!
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All About Jazz
"Sundays at 5“ PRESENTS ... BENOÎT DELBECQ (piano, prepared piano) TANYA KALMANOVITCH (violist/violinist) September 25th at 5pm at Hudson View Gardens “Lounge" 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Washington Heights $12 French Canadian pianist/composer BENOÎT DELBECQ and Canadian, now New York-based violist/violinist TANYA KALMANOVITCH will perform new music and improvisation for this very special concert and musical meeting of strings.
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New York Debut For Jazz Violist Tanya Kalmanovitch at Cornelia Street Cafe, March 2 @ 8:30 PM
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All About Jazz
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 NEW YORK DEBUT FOR JAZZ VIOLIST TANYA KALMANOVITCH Juilliard-trained violist and violinist performs acoustic and electric sets at Cornelia Street Café, March 2 @ 8:30 PM Named 2004's “Best New Talent" by All About Jazz New York, violist & violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch makes her New York debut as a ...
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New York Debut For Jazz Violist Tanya Kalmanovitch at Cornelia Street Café, March 2 @ 8:30 PM
Source:
All About Jazz
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 NEW YORK DEBUT FOR JAZZ VIOLIST TANYA KALMANOVITCH Juilliard-trained violist and violinist performs acoustic and electric sets at Cornelia Street Café, March 2 @ 8:30 PM Named 2004's “Best New Talent" by All About Jazz New York, violist & violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch makes her New York debut as a ...
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