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EJ Hughes
Hughes is a current instructor at Music and Arts and has helped Georgia State University’s RYJO high school jazz program. In the past, EJ was the instructor of jazz saxophone for Emory University and also taught Advanced Improvisation and Jazz applied saxophone for Georgia State University before returning to his hometown in New Hampshire to be the band director and general music instructor.
Hughes received classical instruction on clarinet and flute in his undergraduate work at Valdosta State University where he received his bachelor's degree in music performance. Hughes returned to Atlanta to finish a masters degree in Jazz Pedagogy in 2001-2003 as a graduate assistant.
EJ has taught, performed, and recorded in New York, Georgia, Florida, New Hampshire, and Singapore as well as extensive cruise ship work traveling to over 20 countries.
EJ recently performed with Jennifer Holiday of the original Broadway cast of Dream Girls and has performed and recorded with Grammy-winning artists while recording as a leader on the blue canoe record label with his debut album, “Something to Say”. Hughes currently resides in Johns Creek, Georgia and plays in the greater Atlanta area.
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: February 2019
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in February, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! EDITOR'S PICKS Secret Treetop Annie Chen From: Secret Treetop 8:10 At Beenleigh Marcus Penrose From: Aurelius- ...
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EJ Hughes And His Emotional Vampire Sessions on Blue Canoe Records
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Karen Frieske
EJ Hughes is back in the light with his riveting Blue Canoe Records release The Emotional Vampire Sessions, a followup to his 2005 release on Blue Canoe Something to Say. The Saxophonist has traveled extensively performing in many genres with a passion and deep-rooted training in jazz, classical, and contemporary music. Mr. Hughes has taught, performed, and recorded in New York, Georgia, Florida, New Hampshire, and Singapore as well as extensive cruise ship work traveling to over 20 countries. He ...
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Bandleader Percy Hughes, 1922-2015
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
One of the beloved legends of Minnesota jazz, bandleader and multi-reed player Percy Hughes passed away on December 30 at age 93. Most recently known as the leader of Ellington Echoes, Hughes was inducted into the Minnesota Jazz Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Minnesota Music hall of Fame in 1996. He was also well known for his skills on the tennis court as a player and teacher, and was the subject of a 2011 book, Sports and All ...
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RIAA CTO David Hughes Responds To Hi-Res Music "Confusion"
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HypeBot
Last week we published a piece by Bobby Oswinski of Music 3.0 describing what he sees as the “confusing" new RIAA campaign to promote Hi-Res music. Today, David Hughes, the Chief Technology Officer for the RIAA responds. Guest post by RIAA Chief Technology Officer David Hughes I understand there might be some confusion about exactly what constitutes ‘high resolution music.’ This confusion is likely because a number of similar sounding terms have emerged to describe music being offered in some form ...
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Rap Legend Ice-T and Jazz Trumpeter Ron McCurdy Debut The Langston Hughes Project At The Barbican On November 21, 2016 At 7:30pm!
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Nu Jazz Publicity
Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ creative masterpiece, the epic twelve-part jazz poem: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A homage in verse, music, and multi-media to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 1960s, Ask Your Mama evokes Hughes’ life and times and a message that resonates as strongly ...
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Guitarist/Composer Ken Hatfield Celebrates The Genius Of Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes With "For Langston", An Enthralling Song Cycle Drawn From His Blues-Steeped Verse
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Ken Hatfield
To Be Released February 1, 2013, Langston’s Birthday A supremely lyrical guitarist and award-winning composer with a deep love of literature, Ken Hatfield is always on the lookout for texts ripe for musical interpretation. He found an ideal muse in the great American poet Langston Hughes, whose rhythmically agile verse, marked by penetrating observations about love, life and politics, takes flight on For Langston, due out on Arthur Circle Music on February 1, 2013, Langston’s birthday. A chamber jazz work ...
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Jazz This Week: The Langston Hughes Project; Julian Lage; Hamiet Bluiett's Big Orchestra Band, Youth Division; Orange CD Release; and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's jazz and creative music offerings in St. Louis are a varied lot, from a multimedia project with an historical focus to a concert featuring a 50-piece band of students playing the compositions of one of St. Louis' greatest living jazz musicians, plus lots more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, trumpeter Ron McCurdy brings his multimedia presentation The Langston Hughes Project to SIUE's Meridian Ballroom. For much more about this musical look at the jazz-influenced poet, author and ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Langston Hughes Project
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we turn our video spotlight on T he Langston Hughes Project, a multi-media setting of Hughes' 1961 poem “Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz" that will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at the Meridian Ballroom on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville under the auspices of SIUE's Arts And Issues series. Led by trumpeter and jazz educator Ron McCurdy, the project combines a reading of Hughes' ...
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Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook
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David Brent Johnson
We know Langston Hughes as a celebrated African-American author of poems, essays, stories, memoirs and more. But Hughes also wrote songs-hundreds of them. Music was at the heart of his work, with jazz and blues informing the cadences, structures, and subject matter of many of his poems. In an early essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," he touted jazz and blues as a valid and vital expression of African-American identity in art; he was one of the few ...
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"Things Are Getting Better", New CD by Luther Hughes & the Cannonball-Coltrane Project
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
"It all started as I was sitting around one day listening to The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, a landmark album recorded in 1959. This album was the only time Cannonball and Coltrane appeared together on record other than their work with Miles Davis. As I was listening to this album I thought it might be fun to re-create and perform the original arrangements. While I was mulling over this idea, two dear friends came to mind—Glenn Cashman and Bruce ...
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Primary Instrument
Saxophone
Location
Atlanta
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Credentials/Background
In the past EJ was the instructor of jazz saxophone for Emory University and also taught Advanced Improvisation and Jazz applied saxophone for Georgia State University before returning to his hometown in New Hampshire to be the band director and general music instructor.
Music
Ghosts In The Machine
From: The Emotional Vampire SessionsBy EJ Hughes
