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Rosa grew up in a musical household; her parents played in a reggae band, they toured as a family, homeschooling Rosa into her early teens, limiting her listening primarily to Sade, oldies, Brazilian and Afrobeat music. After moving to Chicago, she connected with hip-hop collective THEMPeople. Born in Chicago, Shehade fell in love with DJ culture as a kid and took up music production and engineering; his interest eventually led to professional opportunities, including studio work with Chance the Rapper, Kanye West, and music projects for MTV and Bravo.
In early jam sessions the chemistry was clear; Rosa’s soulful delivery interlocked with Shehade’s chic Chicago house-infused production style. A lovesick sound emerged over two EPs — Gallows in 2016 and Lies After Love in 2018 — and caught the ear of Ghostly International. With its founding roots in the Midwest, independent philosophy, and wayward approach to electro-pop and dance music, the label proved to be the logical home for the next era of DRAMA.
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hudson hall Announces A Semi-staged Musical Drama Based On The Life Of Frederick Douglass no Cowards In Our Band, November 2, With Musical Arrangement By Orrin Evans
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AMT Public Relations
Concept and Libretto: Anthony Knight, Jr. Musical Arrangement: Orrin Evans Director: Michael Hofmann Masud Olufani, Frederick Douglass Nia Drummond, soprano Edward Washington II, tenor Gregory Sheppard, bass Orrin Evans, piano Saturday, November 2, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. Hudson Hall Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 Tickets on sale now. Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House announces No Cowards in Our Band, a powerful musical drama ...
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Russia Welcomes Sun Ra - November 19 With The Jazz Drama Program Presentation Of "Message From Saturn"
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Sun Ra Heads To Russia! Euro-Asian Premiere November 19, 2016 “Saxophonist Knoel Scott told me Sun Ra came into rehearsal and said, 'I just got a message from Saturn. We are not playing enough blues!' I thought about this for ten years, then joined up with Clifford Carlson to write this story." —Eli Yamin Eli Yamin and friends bring the Blues to Russia for the Euro-Asian premiere of Message From Saturn in Yekaterinburg on November 19! ...
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Jazz Drama Program Honors Jon Hendricks & Cobi Narita On October 14 at the DiMenna Center in New York City
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Hosted by Good Morning America News Anchor Ron Claiborne Good Morning America news anchor and music fan Ron Claiborne will host a gala evening honoring vocalese original Jon Hendricks once dubbed the “James Joyce of Jazz" by Time magazine, and producer Cobi Narita who founded and led both the Universal Jazz Coalition and New York Women's Jazz Festival for several decades. The event takes place Wednesday, October 14, from 7-9pm at the DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street in midtown ...
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"Strange Fruit" Radio Drama Released
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S.G Provizer
RADIO THEATER PROGRAM MARKS 75th ANNIVERSARY OF “STRANGE FRUIT" Distributed on PRX.ORG BOSTON, MA: The song “Strange Fruit," which graphically describes lynching in the South, is one of the most controversial songs in American music. The 75th anniversary of the recording of the song is being marked by a radio theatre production telling the story of the creation of this dramatic song and its performance by vocalist Billie Holiday in 1939. The program was written, directed and produced by Brookline ...
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Successful Motema Music and Jazz Singer/Songwriter Rondi Charleston Video Release Results In $8,500 Donation To The Jazz Drama Program
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GoMedia PR
Significant Contribution Generated as a Result of 8,500 YouTube Views—almost 500 views every day during the special promotion period—of Charleston’s Live Performance of her Original Song “DNA” Thinking creatively, Charleston and her label, Motema Music, agreed in mid- December to donate $1 to the Jazz Drama Program (JDP) for every view of “DNA,” a track from Charleston’s critically acclaimed 2013 release, Signs of Life; the YouTube video captured a live performance from August of last year at Yoshi’s in San ...
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Motema Music And Rondi Charleston Celebrate The Season Of Giving To Support The Jazz Drama Program
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GoMedia PR
Clicks on YouTube to View New Video from 2013 Yoshi’s Performance Will Result in Contributions to Jazz Drama Program In August of 2013, vocalist Rondi Charleston, who was recently lauded as one of Entertainment Tonight’s “Artists to Watch” on ET.com, performed with her All Star Band at Yoshi’s in San Francisco. The performances have been captured in a series of three videos that will debut on YouTube on December 13, and that will launch a special holiday promotion to benefit ...
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Tamela D'Amico signs on to "Casey," A Tragic, Romantic Drama
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Tamela D'Amico
American jazz singer, actress, and filmmaker, Tamela D'Amico, has attached to Made U Look Production's first, feature film, Casey. Casey is an independent film that weaves the trials and tribulations of miscarriages, with the psychological trauma of child abuse and alcoholism. As one of the top 24 finalists on FOX's reality show, On The Lot, Tamela has gone on to form La Strega Entertainment, the banner for her sultry, jazz album, “Got A Little Story," executive produced by Peter Krause ...
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"Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer": All That Jazz and Plenty of Drama
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All About Jazz
Anita O'Day sang like an angel, lived like the devil and made enough great music to fill a couple of lifetimes. Actually, she did live twice, considering that a heroin overdose killed her briefly in 1966, before revival with a then-experimental electric-shock device. It's practically a miracle O'Day lived to age 87, singing nearly until the time of her death in 2006. “Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer" tells the tale in documentary form, enabling the self-destructive diva ...
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The Jazz Drama Program Presents Message From Saturn An Original Jazz Musical For Children
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All About Jazz
June 2, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] The Jazz Drama Program Presents Message From Saturn An Original Jazz Musical For Children By composers Eli Yamin & Clifford Carlson Saturday, June 4th at 7 PM The Louis Armstrong Middle School “The hippest move in jazz education, ever." -- JazzTimes The Jazz Drama Program proudly announces its eighth season at The Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens. Over 70 middle school students, high school and ...
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Katahdin's Edge Brings Tension and Drama to Jazz Landscape
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All About Jazz
Willie Myette, John Funkhouser, and Mike Connors have the kind of pedigree that would lend itself to astonishing and unexpected results. Their debut together as Katahdin's Edge is exactly what you'd expect from three adventurous performers, and nothing like you've heard before.
Step Away, the band's inaugural CD, brings profound drama and depth to what is normally a very predictable jazz format: the trio. Myette, the group's voice on piano, proved he had a flair for melody and arranging on ...
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