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Eastman School of Music Appoints Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media
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Michael Ricci
The Eastman School of Music has recently announced Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media. Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has been described as “an original voice on the international jazz scene… [and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,” by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. Christine will make the move from Montreal to Rochester, joining nine other new full-time faculty at Eastman. “I am excited to be working, teaching, and learning with colleagues and students ...
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Expressive Vocalist Christine Hitt Releases "Magical Kite," Produced By Geoffrey Keezer
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Mouthpiece Music
For vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Christine Hitt, music is a family affair. Her father was a band director and her mother was a piano teacher and professional vocalist. Hitt married a trumpet player, and two of her three sons appear on Hitt’s newest CD, Magical Kite. Hitt’s warm voice can express a rich tapestry of tones, and she sings ballads and swing tunes with equal facility. The selection of songs on Magical Kite, from standards to gospel to bebop, reflects Hitt’s ...
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Red Piano Records To Release The New Recording From: Pianist/Composer Ran Blake & Vocalist Christine Correa: The Road Keeps Winding
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
The Road Keeps Winding, the second volume in their ongoing tribute to Abbey Lincoln Available on April 21, 2015 Brooklyn-based Red Piano Records is proud to announce the release of The Road Keeps Winding from pianist/composer Ran Blake and vocalist Christine Correa. This album represents the second volume in the duo's ongoing, respectful and creative tribute to the late, great Abbey Lincoln. In addition to paying tribute to Lincoln, The Road Keeps Winding is the latest yield from Blake and ...
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Christine Allen steps down as Trustee of Jazz Services
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Michael Ricci
Jazz Services Ltd announced this week that Christine Allen will be stepping down as Vice Chairman of the board of trustees. Christine has had a long and influential career in the UK Jazz industry and next to her position on the board of trustees for Jazz Services she is also Managing Director of Basho Music. Jazz Services issues the following statement. Vice-Chair Christine Allen has stepped down from Jazz Services Ltd. after almost 8 years. She was an active member ...
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Christine Tobin Trio For Limerick Jazz Festival 2013
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All About Jazz
Jazz retakes the city of Limerick for four days as the Limerick Jazz Festival returns for its second edition from the 26th – 29th September at various venues around town. Legendary Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart kicks off the festival on Thursday, in an intimate duo performance with pianist Jim Doherty. Winner of the special jury prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968, Stewart is described by Cormac Larkin of The Irish Times as “one of the finest, most ...
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Singing for Christine
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Most of the Twin Cities vocalists who were not among the fifteen on the Dakota stage Tuesday night were in the audience, and many more musicians, writers, jazz fans, friends and family crowded the club for nearly four hours to pay respects and send off a musical tribute to popular singer Christine Rosholt. Rosholt, whose suicide on December 28th shocked family and community, leaves a significant hole in the area jazz family. She performed at every conceivable venue from southern ...
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Jazz Face: Christine Rosholt, RIP
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
I first heard Christine Rosholt sing at the Dakota, maybe in 2004. She had a sincere perkiness that was contagious and carried over into her renditions of great tunes from the 30s and 40s. She was just at the beginning of her singing career, and her voice was still finding its mark. But she already knew how to draw in an audience to hear her stories, well prepared from her education at the Children's Theater and as a performance art/photography ...
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Christine Jensen - Treelines (Justin Time Records, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Composer and arranger Christine Jensen (Jazz Session interview) has assembled an eighteen musician big band to realize her musical ideas on this well done large ensemble album.
The music is deeply textured and exists in a multi-layered state emphasizing certain characters in the music especially trumpeter Ingrid Jensen while keeping the music focused on the ensemble as a whole. “Arbutus" has the group together as a unit with their shine building to an interior crescendo, before throttling back to a ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Christine Hayward - Live at E.F. Lane (2009)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski In the past handful of years, I have jettisoned a few distractions: namely, sports and television, which are sort of related. Rounding out the list is politics. I have decided that, because my thoughts on “the right thing to do" are so far outside of the mainstream, it's just not worth bothering with the daily catfights, arrogant proclamations, and other such buffoonery. I've come to believe that the two-party “system" in the United States is fundamentally broken ...
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