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Announcing Star-Studded Line-up Of 2025 TD James Moody Jazz Festival, November 8-23, 2025
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AMT Public Relations
New Jersey’s Largest Jazz Festival Returns to Newark for 14th Year Hip-Hop Legends & Leading Poets Unite for Powerful Fusions of Music and Social Justice Festival Artistic Advisor Christian McBride Leads His Big Band with Andra Day, José James, and Ledisi The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced details of the 14th annual TD James Moody Festival, taking place November 8-23, 2025. Co-curated by NJPAC’s Jazz Advisor Christian McBride, this year’s festival, which draws ...
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Christian McBride Gives Fans A Preview Of McBride’s World At Sea Via New Musical Collaborations With Samara Joy, Ledisi, Cécile Mclorin Salvant And José James - All Are Scheduled To Perform On The Cruise, Sailing January 20-27, 2026
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G Sibley
Nine-time GRAMMY Award-winning bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride is giving fans a glimpse into the creative energy and collaborative spirit that will defineChristian McBride’s World at Sea, his week-long music cruise that sails from January 20-27, 2026. Starting this summer and continuing through October, McBride unveils a series of projects with artists who will join him on the cruise that will take place aboard the Celebrity Summit (departing from Ft. Lauderdale with stops in Jamaica and Grand Cayman). Earlier ...
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Yuchtet’s Debut Album 'Earworm' Is A Modern Big Band Jazz Statement Worth Hearing
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Chris Bush
Brooklyn-based composer, drummer, and bandleader Leo Yucht released earworm, the debut album from his jazz group YUCHTET. The six-track, 45-minute record is now available for streaming everywhere and on limited edition translucent blue swirl vinyl pressed by PMP in Nashville, TN. Blending influences from classic big band jazz to modern trap, earworm invites listeners on imaginative journeys across time and genre – evoking a jazzy, cool ride around New York City in “Citi Bike Anthem" or a frantic cannon battle ...
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Perfection: Harry James in the Late '50s/Early '60s
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Two big bands that knock me out from the late 1950s and early 1960s are the ones led by Count Basie and Harry James. Both could swing the house sideways, but both knew when enough was enough. Basie, of course, invented the concept of just enough, but James's decade-straddling band is often overlooked for the same quality. James's near-stalker passion for Basie is well known ("Two O'Clock Jump) but less known is that during this period, they shared the same ...
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Bob James And Dave Koz Team Up On Duets Album, Just Us, Set For March 7 Release
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Dave Koz
Just Us – An Intimate Evening Of Songs And Stories – Kicks Off On March 13 With Sold-Out Show In Traverse City, MI, James’ Hometown Contemporary jazz icons Bob James and Dave Koz mark a unique milestone in both their careers with the aptly titled duo album Just Us, scheduled for release on March 7 via Just Koz Entertainment. A piano and saxophone only collection of fresh originals and colorful re-imaginings of Great American Songbook standards, its inspired format—sans the ...
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Elio Villafranca Big Band Tres Aguas At Dizzy's Club on March 7, 8, 9, 2025
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Elio Villafranca's latest outstanding project is entitled Tres Aguas. This exciting performance will be held at Dizzy's Club on March 7, 8, 9 with sets at 7:00pm and 9:00pm. Commissioned by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Tres Aguas is an exhilarating celebration of rhythm and movement. Drawing from flamenco, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Peruvian, jazz, and New Orleans traditions, this suite brings together vibrant musical styles from across the Americas, the Afro-Diaspora, and Spain. Through the universal language of ...
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Trumpeter/Producer Volker Goetze Teams With Accordion Legend Guy Klucevsek On Quartet Debut: Little Big Top
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GoMedia PR
Echoes of the ballroom, barroom, bordello, circus, concert hall, and jazz club intermingle with folk traditions from around the world to create a new hybrid form. Step right up! Step right in… to Little Big Top, the charming debut album from a new quartet led by accordion legend Guy Klucevsek (kloo-SEH-vik) with visionary trumpeter Volker Goetze. This fine compendium of engaging Klucevsek creations that were written over two decades is produced by Goetze, arranged by Klucevsek, and is filled with ...
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New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra, Ken Schaphorst Big Band At Regattabar In Cambridge on November 6, 2024
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Ann Braithwaite
The 17-member NEC Jazz Orchestra makes an off-campus appearance on Wednesday, November 6 at the Charles Hotel’s Regattabar (1 Bennett St., Cambridge). The orchestra is the opening act for the Ken Schaphorst Big Band, the 17-piece ensemble of acclaimed composer, performer and Jazz Studies Co-Chair Schaphorst. The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20-$30. For information visit regattabarjazz.com. The NEC Jazz Orchestra performance celebrates the 150th birthday of revered composer Charles Ives by performing Schaphorst’s new arrangements of some of ...
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Announcing The 13th Annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival Presented By The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, November 7-24, 2024
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AMT Public Relations
Festival Hightlights Paquito D’ Rivera with New Jersey Symphony (Nov 7, 8 & 10) Tribute to Funk! with Bilal, Nona Hendryx, Christian McBride, Savion Glover, Vernon Reid, George Clinton, and More (Nov 14) NJMEA All-State Jazz Band + Choir (Nov 15) Tyshawn Sorey Trio featuring Aaron Diehl and Harish Raghavanand Sandbox Percussion (Nov 15) WBGO Children’s Concert with Davell Crawford (Nov 16) Madeleine Peyroux (Nov 16) Cindy Blackman Santana (Nov 17) Jazz Jams @ Clement’s Place (Nov 21) Bethany Baptist ...
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