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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gregory Porter
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Gregory Porter's birthday today!
Gregory Porter discovered the music of Nat King Cole through his mother. At the age of five he wrote a song called “Once Upon A Time, I Had A Dreamboat” and recorded it onto a tape. When his mother returned home from work and heard it, she exclaimed in amazement “Boy, you sound like Nat King Cole." From that moment on, Gregory had a desire to know more about this man ...
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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center Presents In-Person, Live Jazz Performances Starting September 24th With Grammy Award-Winning Vocalist Gregory Porter
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AMT Public Relations
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is welcoming live, in-person jazz back to its stage throughout 2021 beginning with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Gregory Porter (Sep 24). The TD Jazz Series continues in the Fall with “Salsa Meets Jazz” (Sep 25), saxophonist Boney James (Oct 14), and vocal powerhouse duo Tierney Sutton and Ann Hampton Calloway (Oct 15). Celebrating its 10th anniversary is the annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival showcasing an all-star lineup of the country’s best musicians, held ...
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Jazz this week: Cyrille Aimée, Gregory Porter, Branford Marsalis, Jeff Barnhart, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Although the official celebrations during Mardi Gras week in St. Louis typically don't offer much for jazz fans, leaning heavily on rock cover/tribute bands and DJs, this year the concert calendar countdown to Fat Tuesday just happens to feature several noteworthy touring jazz headliners, plus an assortment of shows from local performers. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 3 Singer Cyrille Aimée makes her St. Louis debut in the first of four nights continuing through Saturday at Jazz at ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The return of Gregory Porter
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's check out some videos featuring singer Gregory Porter, who's returning to St. Louis for the first time since January 2013 for a concert presented by Jazz St. Louis on Saturday, February 6 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. A lot has happened in Porter's career in the three years since he made his St. Louis debut at Jazz at the Bistro, including international touring, headlining gigs at major festivals, multiple appearances on US and UK television, and ...
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Blue Engine Records Celebrates the Holidays with BIG BAND HOLIDAYS: New release from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis features guest vocalists René Marie, Cécile McLorin Salvant and Gregory Porter
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Michael Ricci
CD streets October 30, 2015; limited edition 180g vinyl coming soon Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records celebrates the most wonderful time of the year with the release of Big Band Holidays, a compilation of holiday classics performed live by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Special guests on Big Band Holidays are some of today’s commanding new voices in jazz: René Marie, Cécile McLorin Salvant and Gregory Porter. Big Band Holidays will be released ...
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National Jazz Museum in Harlem Conversations on Civic Jazz with Gregory Clark, Loren Schoenberg, and Guests on June 16 - June 27
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
All events are free to the public Civic Jazz author Gregory Clark and National Jazz Museum in Harlem Artistic Director Loren Schoenberg engage in lively conversation for five exciting sessions in June at 7:00pm. The discussions will set the context for an afternoon of 'live' music that demonstrates the swinging sort of democracy that makes jazz happen. Join us at the museum located at 104 E. 126th Street, Harlem. Tuesday, June 16: Civic Jazz and cultural work of the music ...
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The Checkout — Live At Berklee New York Broadcasts Continue April 1 With Gregorio Uribe Big Band At The Red Room At Café 939
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Berklee Media Relations
Presented by New York’s WBGO-FM and Berklee, The Checkout — Live at Berklee brings critically acclaimed alumni back to their alma mater for intimate concerts in the Red Room at Cafe 939, broadcast live on the radio and streamed on the web. The series continues on Wednesday, April 1, with the Gregorio Uribe Big Band, a 16-piece orchestra that blends Colombian rhythms with big band arrangements. The Checkout — Live at Berklee: Gregorio Uribe Big Band airs live in New ...
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Gregory Butler, WholeWorldBand Managing Director, North America Looks Back on 2014
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HypeBot
WholeWorldBand Managing Director, North America Gregory Butler is up next on Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. “We have enough data to show that people believe music has value - more options for people to choose how music can be devalued isn't exactly positive. I'm not specifically saying the options mentioned are positive or negative, but until a fair, multilateral system exists for streaming, every option is suspect." Find out more about Gregory Butler's position on where music streaming is headed ...
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Remember Gregory Herbert?
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Gregory Herbert, one of the most talented saxophonists of his generation, was born in jny: Philadelphia 67 years ago this month. After a brief engagement with Duke Ellington when he was 17, Herbert spent four years as a music major at Temple University in his hometown, concentrating on alto saxophone, clarinet and flute. In 1971 he joined Woody Herman’s Herd, that perpetual incubator of young talent, and began to specialize as a tenor saxophonist. Based on his work with Herman, ...
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The Tony Digregorio Sextet releases "I Love Pancakes!"
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Tony DiGregorio
Tony DiGregorio has just released his second CD on the Bovine Bop label entitled I Love Pancakes! The album is a study in lyricism and dissonance performed by the composer on guitar along with Tim Hays on alto, Nathan Paris on trombone, two virtuoso bassists in Hill Greene and Joe Peterson and Andy O'Neill on the drums. These artists are among the finest jazz musicians active in New York today. The recording is available at CD Baby as well as ...
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