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PJ Morton, Will Downing, Paul Jackson Jr, Jeff Lorber, Everette Harp, Tito Puente Jr, Maysa & More At The 6th Annual Dymally Jazz Festival
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Daryl Sweeney
The 6th Annual Dymally International Jazz & Arts Festival is being held at Dignity Health Sports Park on the campus of California State University Dominguez Hills on April 26th, 2025 with two stages, a visual arts pavillion and specialty retail and food vendors. The event is set to please jazz lovers from around the globe. The festival is co-produced by Rainbow Promotions, producers of the Long Beach and San Diego Jazz Festivals. This year's festival lineup will include Grammy Winner ...
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Saxophonist/Composer Javon Jackson And Poet Nikki Giovanni Nominated For NAACP Image Award In 'Outstanding Jazz Album' Category
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies, a collaboration between the groundbreaking poet and activist Nikki Giovanni and saxophonist/composer Javon Jackson, has been nominated for a 56th NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Jazz Album. Recognized as the nation’s preeminent multicultural awards show from an African American point of view, the NAACP Image Awards celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances in the arts, as well as individuals and groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. The ...
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Dan Morgenstern (1929-2024)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Dan Morgenstern, an eight-time Grammy winner for his album liner notes, the former director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, author and a “jazz advocate," as he liked to be called, died on September 7. He was 94. Despite all of those titles, Dan was the music's most well-regarded historian and paternal figure among writers and critics. But despite his seniority and in-depth, first-hand knowledge of post-war jazz, he never lost his wit, passion or ability to put jazz's ...
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Yes! Trio: with Ali Jackson, Aaron Goldberg and Omer Avital release 'Spring Sings'
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Four years after the success of Groove du Jour, named best album of the year in 2019 by the French Academie du Jazz, Yes! Trio is finally back! Strengthened by their differences, these musicians, who never seemed predisposed to meet—a drummer, scion of the great African-American jazz family; a hippie bassist with Yemenite and Moroccan roots; a bon ton Bostonian with a Harvard degree pianist—united by thirty years of love of swing continue to embrace jazz with the same happiness, ...
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day With A Free Concert Featuring The Music Of Two Iconic American Singers: Chris Connor And Mahalia Jackson
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Department pays tribute to two of the most iconic and creative American singers of the 20th century in Night and Day: The Music of Chris Connor and Mahalia Jackson on Wednesday, February 14, 7:30 p.m. at Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. The program is curated by faculty members Hankus Netsky and Ran Blake. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For information visit https://necmusic.edu. The title of this Valentine’s Day concert, Night and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!
Dan Papirany is a former jazz pianist and a jazz bassist based in Bundaberg, Austalia. As a pianist Dan took his group to perform two shows at Europe's prestige festival EUROPAfest 2016 and he also performed two solos in EUROPAfest 2018 gala concerts. Dan was on a panel of Judges in the 2017- 2019 international jazz competition in Romania. Dan first album was nominated for Jazz Album of the Year at ...
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An Empty Room - An Episodic / Live Stream & Podcast Series Continues With Tyrone Jackson Watch Party On November 6, 2022
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Cyber PR
An Empty Room, the six part original series that explores the connective tissue between six uniquely influential artists from the Atlanta music scene, which debuted on Volume.com continues with composer, performer, and educator Tyrone Jackson on Sunday November 6. Being born in the New Orleans, he embodies the spirit of the Crescent City. His boundless creativity coupled with harmonic mastery, he utilizes the piano as a blank canvas. The blends of jazz, funk and Afro-Caribbean melodies are ever present in ...
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Nightfly - Biography of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen Available Now on Chicago Review Press
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All About Jazz
September this year marks the 50th anniversary of the first record by Steely Dan, the band formed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in 1972 that went on to release nine albums over the 30 years that followed. Now Chicago Review Press is publishing Nightfly: the Life of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen by music journalist and author Peter Jones. The book is a warts-and-all account that not only relates the often-untold stories behind one of rock’s most iconic bands, but ...
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A Misty Night for Dan Miller
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Musician friends, family and friends, and students from near and far packed The Barrel Room at Twisted Vine Bistro in downtown Fort Myers on Thursday night, September 1, for a jazz night unlike any other the venue has seen. They were all there, standing room only through the first set, to celebrate the musical legacy of trumpeter and educator Dan Miller, who died unexpectedly on August 19 at age 53. The Barrel Room has been the Thursday night home for ...
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Dan Miller: A Life Well-Lived, And Then Some....
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Someone's impact on others is a more meaningful measure of a life well-lived than the number of years they spend on the planet. That notion was reinforced today when we received word that Dan Miller died unexpectedly yesterday (Friday, August 19). He was just 53. Dan was passionate about a lot of things—auto racing and other sports, fine food, and his family. Most of us knew him best through his many contributions to the world of jazz. He was a ...
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