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The 2nd Annual Bradley Beach Jazz Festival 2026 Announces Five Days Of World‑class Music Across The Jersey Shore
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Gregory Burrus
The 2nd Annual Bradley Beach Jazz Festival 2026 returns with an expanded five‑day celebration of world‑class jazz, blues, and community spirit, bringing together legendary artists, rising stars, and local favorites for one of the region’s most anticipated cultural events. From February 3–7, venues across Bradley Beach will come alive with electrifying performances leading into a powerhouse Mainstage Weekend. Festival Schedule February 3 The soulful Marel Hidalgo Organ Trio igniting The Elbow Room. February 4 Stringbean Blues featuring Bernard Purdie brings ...
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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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Negative Press Project Delivers Its Most Accomplished Album Yet With 'Cycles I,' Set For Release January 30 On Envelopmental Music
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Negative Press Project reaches new heights of ambition with Cycles I, their fifth album, arriving January 30 via Envelopmental Music. Though scattered to the four winds, the San Francisco Bay–founded chamber jazz octet came back together to realize 12 compositions by pianist Ruthie Dineen and bassist Andrew Lion—and joined forces with the world-renowned cutting-edge string ensemble Friction Quartet (violinists Otis Harriel and Kevin Rogers, violist Stephanie Bibbo, and cellist Doug Machiz). The result is a stunning coalescence of post-bop jazz ...
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Drummer Konrad Ciesielski Releases 'Koniec' -- Cinematic, Contemporary Jazz on Mindses Music
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Mindses Music
Koniec—a cinematic journey by Konrad Ciesielski through sound, emotion and contemporary expression. Koniec is the solo release by Konrad Ciesielski, drummer and composer known from Blindead, Octopussy or Tranquilizer, who this time embarks on a fresh sonic exploration. It is music built on cinematic tension and emotional depth, blending ambient textures, experimental electronics, contemporary jazz inspirations and film-like sound design. Konrad Ciesielski has been a recognizable presence on the Polish alternative scene for many years. As a co-founder of Blindead, ...
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Billie Davies Brings A Surprising New And Special Avant-Garde Music
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Cobra Basement
Billie Davies will release a duo album on December 10, 2025, entitled 2455 (Music For The Future). What music will exist in the 25th century? What styles will people listen to? How will sound continue to evolve? These are the questions that inspired Billie Davies to begin her project No Boundaries, Music for the 25th Century / Music For The Future—an ever-evolving exploration of free improvisation from a deeply natural, instinctive, and intuitive place. It is a spontaneous expression through ...
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Quadro Nuevo Release 'Inside The Island' on October 24, 2025 on GLM Music
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Matt Fripp
It is a journey inward – not only geographically, but musically and spiritually as well. Inside the Island, the new album by Quadro Nuevo, will be released on October 24, 2025, by GLM Music, distributed by Edel (LP/CD) and Kontor New Media (digital). More than a collection of pieces, it is a musical travelogue, born on the Greek island of Samos. There, where waves, light, and sun shape the landscape, where ancient villages slumber in the hills, and a kafenion ...
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The Institution-builder At The Keyboard: How Luping Robyn Xu Is Powering A New Era For New England’s Music Ecosystem
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All About Jazz
The Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu has rapidly become one of the defining musical forces in New England, a marquee artist whose piano, leadership, and pedagogy are shaping the future of multiple top-tier institutions. Since 2024, she has held a leading post at the North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) as Lead Pianist and Piano Pedagogue, a role the organization has already extended through 2028. In that capacity, Xu is central to NEMPAC’s concerts, musical productions, events, and ...
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Creatures Of Sound Explores The Connection Of Dance & Music To The Human Spirit - An original work that tributes the ideas and music of Don Cherry
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Michele Brangwen
Creatures Of Sound is a new dance and music work that tributes the ideas of composer and trumpeter Don Cherry, featuring choreography by Michele Brangwen, original music by GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter & composer Tim Hagans, and movement and music created spontaneously in the moment by all ten performers. Don Cherry was interested in the relationship of music to the human spirit, and how music could be a force and a presence in our daily lives. Co-presented at the Duffy by Ivesian ...
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Music Journalist And Fiction Author Matty Bannond Releases Debut Jazz Novel, 'Cutting Contest'
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Matty Bannond
Cutting Contest is an energetic novel about a dry-humoured and hot-tempered young trombone player on the brink of financial, professional and personal ruin. Published in September, 2025: Connie Benson is a 26-year-old trombone player whose reckless online persona is taking over her life—and trashing it. She is buried under a mountain of personal debt, her professional reputation is falling apart and her relationship with her mother is hanging by a thread. When she snatches the last open spot in a ...
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Grails Opens in New Haven, a Sanctuary for Audiophiles and Music Lovers
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All About Jazz
Yale University Properties will welcome Grails, a music playground reimagining the record store as a cultural destination, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1020 Chapel Street on Wednesday, October 22, at 11 a.m. with founder King Kenney and distinguished community partners including New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker and Hope Chávez, executive director of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Nestled among The Shops at Yale, Grails embodies the lifelong passion of Kenney, a marketing executive, arts advocate, DJ, and music ...
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