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Temple University’s Boyer College Of Music And Dance Presents A One-Night Only Classical-Jazz Concert April 16 At Jazz At Lincoln Center With Orchestral Premieres By Billy Childs And Bill Cunliffe
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AMT Public Relations
Featuring Performances by 100+ Student and Faculty Artists including Temple University’s Symphony Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, and Faculty Jazz Sextet: Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, Mike Boone, and Justin Faulkner. In Celebration of TU’s Faculty Jazz Sextet’s Album Release Fly With the Wind The award-winning Temple University Jazz Band (TUJB) today announced its return to Jazz at Lincoln Center in a one-night only concert April 16th at 8:00 p.m. Hailed as one of today’s leading jazz student ensembles, ...
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A Family Feeling: Temple University Jazz Faculty Record New Music By Bruce Barth
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All About Jazz
In June, six members of Temple University’s noted jazz faculty gathered in Bunker Hill Studio in Brooklyn to record eight tracks of new music composed by Bruce Barth. Terell Stafford, director of Jazz Studies at Temple, lead the charge and the result, Family Feeling, is a reflection on the warm camaraderie between Terell Stafford (trumpet); Dick Oatts (also/soprano saxophone); Bruce Barth (piano); Tim Warfield, Jr., (tenor/soprano saxophone); David Wong (bass); and, Byron Landham (drums) that has been forged over many ...
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John Coltrane - Offering: Live At Temple University, A Long-Awaited Recording Of An Historic 1966 Performance
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Fully Altered Media
Features Coltrane In Rare Form, Exhorting Through The Saxophone & Vocal Chants Trane with Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Rashied Ali, Sonny Johnson & Percussion In High-Fidelity Audio Taken From Recently Discovered Tapes To Be Released September 23, 2014, Coltrane’s 88th Birthday via Impulse!/Resonance Records Resonance Records and UME are proud to present Offering: Live At Temple University, documenting a legendary concert by John Coltrane at Temple University in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1966, six weeks ...
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Kirk Whalum Performing "Gospel According to Jazz Christmas" on Saturday, December 1 at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Saxophonist Kirk Whalum (pictured) will perform a “Gospel According to Jazz Christmas" concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, December 1 at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 5515 Doctor Martin Luther King Dr. Whalum, a popular smooth jazz and R&B performer and the nephew of St. Louis pianist, saxophonist and singer Hugh “Peanuts" Whalum, first launched the “Gospel According to Jazz" concept in 2002 with an album of the same name. His 2010 release The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III included ...
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Booker T. & the MGS, Staple Singers & Johnnie Tatylor Launch Stax Remasters Series
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conqueroo
Inaugural titles to be released May 10, 2011 LOS ANGELES, Calif.—From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, the Stax label dominated soul, R&B, gospel, and related genres with a stable of artists who have since become iconic figures in the history of American popular music. Now a part of the Concord Music Group, the Stax catalog is a treasure trove of some of the most visceral and influential recordings of the 20th century. On May 10, 2011, Concord reaches back ...
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Ben Sidran to Perform Sunday, September 12 at Kol Am Temple
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Keyboard player, singer, composer, author and broadcaster Ben Sidran (pictured) is coming to St. Louis for a performance at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, September 12 at Kol Am Temple, 1023 Chesterfield Parkway. KWMU's Dennis Owsley will serve as host as Sidran performs and shares “his insights on Jews, Music, and the American Dream." Sidran first gained fame working with the Steve Miller Band, and has gone on to perform and record with musicians and signers including Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, ...
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Country Music Impresario Johnnie High Dead at 80
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All About Jazz
Johnnie High, a north Texas country music showman who gave such performers as LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80. High's daughter, Luanne Dorman, says her father died Wednesday after battling heart disease. The impresario of “Johnnie High's Country Music Revue" began his Saturday show in 1974 after converting an old movie theater in Grapevine, a Dallas- Fort Worth suburb, into the Grapevine Opry. There, he gave Boxcar Willie and Rimes, then ...
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Eric Alexander Release New CD "Temple of Olympic Zeus" (HighNote)
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All About Jazz
Tenor saxman Eric Alexander has more than lived up to his Young Lion hype. Last year he released his amazing 18th recording as leader for HighNote, It's All in the Game (HCD 7148). It only reinforces what has been clear from his work of the past decade Alexander is one of the leading talents of modern tenor saxophone. Eric describes his musical mission as “assembling good musicians that I'm comfortable playing with, getting quality material--a combination of originals and standards ...
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"Albert Ammons Centennial Concert" Sept. 22, 2007 at Chicago Temple
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Georgia Gould-Lyle
The “Albert Ammons Centennial Concert" will celebrate the 100th birthday anniversary of the late legendary jazz and boogie-woogie pianist on Saturday, September 22, 2007, 4:00 PM, in the historic First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL 60602, www.chicagotemple.org/ 312-236-4548, with the support of Cleveland Steel Container Corporation. The downtown location is directly across the street from Daley Plaza and the Picasso sculpture. Tickets are $25.00 at the door, in advance at PayPal or ...
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Stax Reissues Johnnie Taylor's Live Album, "'Live at the Summit Club," Recorded in South L.A. Club at Time of Wattstax
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conqueroo
Recorded in 1972, the album accents the soul great's blues side
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Johnnie Taylor, one of the greatest soul singers who ever lived, was at the peak of his game on September 23, 1972, when he sang to an effusive crowd at the now-defunct Summit Club in South Los Angeles. The show was captured on tape and will be reissued February 20 by Stax Records as Johnnie Taylor: Live at the Summit Club.
The live album, produced ...
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