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Announcing Smoke Jazz Club's January Line-up Including Joshua Redman Quartet, Brad Mehldau And More
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AMT Public Relations
Hailed as the “#1 Jazz Club in New York City (SecretNYC),” SMOKE Jazz Club today announced an exciting line-up to kickstart the New Year starting with the highly anticipated club debut of Joshua Redman leading his stellar Quartet (Jan 7-11). The month continues with two of today’s leading pianists in rare solo and trio performances: Brad Mehldau (Jan 14-18) and Cyrus Chestnut (Jan 21-25). SMOKE’s new Steinway Spiriocast concert series continues with a Sunday afternoon solo piano show by Cyrus ...
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South Beach Jazz Festival Marks 10 Years In Miami Beach With Grammy Winners And World-renowned Artists
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Amanda MacMaster
The South Beach Jazz Festival, presented by local non-profit Power Access, celebrates its 10th anniversary January 8–11, 2026, with a lineup worthy of its milestone year. The four-day festival will feature Grammy Award-winning and internationally acclaimed artists, and local legends performing throughout Miami Beach at venues including Faena Theater, The Bass Museum of Art, Collins Park, Lincoln Road, and the Miami Beach Bandshell. Free and ticketed performances. Leading the 2026 festival is the three-time Grammy Award-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra, performing ...
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The Court At Versailles Reimagines Tycho Through A Jazz Lens On Debut Single 'A Walk'
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Eric Palmquist
For longtime friends pianist Joel Pierson and producer Eric Palmquist, Acoustic Electronica has been years in the making—an idea that surfaced in late-night conversations whenever they crossed paths. As both artists carved out their own careers in music—Pierson in jazz and contemporary classical music, Palmquist in alternative, pop, and electronic production—their creative worlds eventually converged around a shared question: What would happen if a jazz trio reimagined the seminal works of electronic dance music? The Court at Versailles starts to ...
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Sarah Jane Cion Releases Jazz Memoir 'The Now Era'
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Sarah Cion
Jazz pianist, composer, and educator Sarah Jane Cion—known for her award-winning artistry and her acclaimed appearances on NPR’s Piano Jazz—announces the release of her debut memoir, The Now Era: Improvisations on Presence, Rhythm, and the Art of Being Human. The book offers an intimate, often humorous look at life in and around music, while exploring presence, creativity, grief, joy, and the rhythms that guide a meaningful life. About the Book In The Now Era, Cion recounts stories from the bandstand, ...
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Gregg Arthur: Live at City Recital Hall—A New Concert Special Featuring Australian Jazz Royalty
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Lucy Scott
Something very rare is happening on Australian television. In a landscape where live jazz concerts are seldom broadcast, SBS will premiere Gregg Arthur: Live at City Recital Hall, a major new music special co-produced with Australian Theatre Live. The broadcast offers audiences across the country an opportunity to experience an artform rarely showcased on screen, presented through the work of one of Australia’s most respected and internationally recognised jazz vocalists. The concert has already been met with exceptional critical praise, ...
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Jon Faddis To Appear In Red Bank Fundraiser In Support Of Jazz Arts Project's Music Education Programs on December 14, 2025
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Jazz Arts Project, Inc.
Jazz Arts Project presents “The Joys of Jazz with special guest artist, jazz great Jon Faddis: A 'Legends & Lions' Concert Event. Each winter, this gala concert & fundraiser brings together our Jazz Arts Academy students (the young Lions) with world-class professional jazz artists (the Legend) for a delightful afternoon of live music and joy. This inspiring event—set for December 14, 2025 at 5:00pm— not only presents world-class jazz in a beautiful theater setting but also helps support transformative arts ...
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Reconstructing The Map: Vatan Singh Rajan And The Expanding World Of Experimental Jazz
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All About Jazz
If jazz is a conversation—spiraling out from smoky back rooms, bursting across imaginative borders—then Vatan Singh Rajan is not so much a new arrival as a visionary cartographer, continuously redrawing its frontiers in real time. The Delhi-born composer, drummer, music director, and theorist is revered by critics, peers, and educators across two hemispheres for startling originality and sweeping influence. But Rajan’s ascent is less the tale of youthful mimicry, as Leoni Griffith tells it, and more the stuff of prodigious ...
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Composer/Pianist Gregory Golub Unveils Third Original Jazz Album — 'African And Other Jazz Passions’
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Gregory Golub
Gregory Golub is a composer, pianist and keyboardist whose music is full of surprises, creativity, and a blending of different idioms while always being inventive jazz. He was born and raised in the USSR and began teaching himself piano when he was 12. Although he would have a formal musical education, he has long had his own style. Early on, Golub performed at a jazz festival in Russia and received a prize for his writing talents. Since moving to Israel ...
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Jazz Generations Initiative Connects Jazz Scenes In New York & New Orleans, Announces Initial Programming
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Carla Parisi
INTRODUCING: THE JAZZ GENERATIONS INITIATIVE NEW IMMERSIVE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM UNITES, PRESERVES & CELEBRATES JAZZ SCENES IN NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS Backed by the Jazz Foundation of America, Funded by the Mellon Foundation The Jazz Generations Initiative, an immersive new program that will cultivate and grow the rich and vibrant jazz scenes in New York and New Orleans, has announced a diverse slate of programming that kicks off with events this week in both cities. Overall, the JGI’s programs will ...
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Jazz Pianist Bill Anschell Releases Debut Book Of Stories From 40 Years In And Out Of The Trenches
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Mr. P.C.
What happens when a jazz pianist spends his career bouncing between high-profile concert halls, hellish wedding gigs, major festivals, cruise ship disasters, recording dates, and insane jam sessions? Bill Anschell turns it all into comic gold. His debut book, Benched, released on November 25th, offers satirical stories that pull back the curtain on the absurd realities of jazz life. Drawing on four decades as a working musician, Anschell finds humor in the venues, audiences, industry, and artists that make up ...
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