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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Jaimie Branch
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring trumpeter Jaimie Branch, who will be making her St. Louis debut in a concert with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg to be presented by New Music Circle on Saturday, February 9 at The Stage at KDHX. Branch, who's 34 years old, grew up in Brooklyn, NY and Chicago and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and Towson University. She has gained significant national attention since ...
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'A Toast To George Freeman' April 28, 2018 Special Guest Billy Branch, With Joanie Pallatto And Sparrow
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Lampkin Publicity Service
Southport Records and Lampkin Music Group presents: “A Toast to George Freeman"- Special Guest Billy Branch, with Joanie Pallatto and Sparrow on April 28, 2018 This is a general admission seated event. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 on the day of the show. Media Sponsor: The WFMT Radio Network's Jazz Network. George Freeman is the current living warrior of sound, the Mad Max of the 6-string guitar. The music of George Freeman defies any known mold of musical ...
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NJPAC's Brick City Jazz Orchestra debuts in Newark's Branch Brook Park
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Christine Saunders
Music blossomed in Newark when the Brick City Jazz Orchestra made its premiere under blue skies. With the opening notes of Kenny Dorham’s “Blue Bossa,” NJPAC’s Brick City Jazz Orchestra heralded its official debut in Newark’s Branch Brook Park. The sun was hot, but the student musicians were the epitome of cool. The park’s famed cherry blossoms weren’t totally in the pink yet for the annual Bloomfest (aka the Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival), but the 20-piece orchestra was feeling ...
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Branch Out: The Value of Multiple Income Streams for Musicians
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HypeBot
By Allison Sharpe from music website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Twitter: @Bandzoogle Making a living in music has always been a challenge, but with digital music being so readily available it's important for you as a musician, artist, or band to branch out with your music. It's not enough to just press up some CD's and throw some tracks on your website and expect to make a decent living. Working as a musician means just that, working! It means getting ...
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Listening to Jazz Workshop Features the Music of Monk at Boston Public Library, Dudley Branch, on Saturday, February 4
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Jazz trombonist Bill Lowe and pianist John Kordalewski are leading a Listening to Jazz Workshop at the Boston Public Library's Dudley Branch, 65 Warren Streetin Roxbury on Saturday, February 4, 2012, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The workshop helps participants understand common compositional structures (blues and 32 bar song forms) and demonstrates how an improvised solo relates to the composition being played. This session features the work of jazz pianist Thelonious ...
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One Track Mind: James Cotton and Billy Branch, "Rocket 88" (2011)
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Something Else!
Like an aging boxer making an heroic late-round stand, James “Superharp" Cotton brilliantly tangles on a timeless favorite from his 1960s tenure with Vanguard, giving fellow harp master Billy Branch all he can handle. Even now, Cotton's playing style closely resembles his bandleading heyday—a memorably robust player, you imagine smoke and spit blasting out of the other side of his harmonica as he blows—but the 74-year-old has found both a suitable inheritor, and a worthy opponent, in Branch. Perhaps that's ...
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Jazz Singer Celebrates Black Music Month with The Roots of Jazz Baltimore Exhibit at The Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch
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Tamm E Hunt
Baltimore, MD—"The Roots of Jazz Baltimore The Movers, Shakers and Music Makers" an exhibit curated by Jazz singer/author/historian Tamm E Hunt celebrates Black Music Month and provides glimpses of Baltimore's historic Jazz life from the 1920's through the present day. The exhibit is hosted by Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch, in the Annex corridor, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD from April 1 through the summer of 2011. The display can be accessed during the library's hours: Mon-Wed 10 am-7 ...
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Makanda Project with Warren Smith Performing at Dudley Branch of Boston Public Library in Roxbury on March 12
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
The Makanda Project, dedicated to the compositions of Boston musician Makanda Ken McIntyre, is performing at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library on Saturday, March 12, 2011 from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. Jazz percussionist Warren Smith is the featured artist. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information call617 442-4414. McIntyre was a gifted musician and educator who composed over 400 pieces of music in his life. The Makanda Project continues the legacy of ...
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Robert Branch - Courage to be (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico A couple of months ago, Robert Branch self-released an appealing little guitar fusion record that you just might to pay attention to if guitar fusion is your thing. But first, a short introduction to the man behind the album. Robert Branch grew up in Ft. Worth TX, but he pursued a music degree at USC, taught at West New Mexico University and since last year, makes his home in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Throughout his childhood and travels as an ...
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Umbrella Recordings Releases Carrie Shull/Tara Flandreau/Reuben Radding – "The Branch Will Not Break"
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All About Jazz
New York bassist Reuben Radding who made a critical splash in 2003 with the gorgeous and haunting Luminesence, on AUM Fidelity (a collection of duets with altoist Daniel Carter), is back with a new CD, The Branch Will Not Break (UMR030), with Carrie Shull on oboe and English horn, and violist Tara Flandreau, now available on Umbrella Recordings. This collection of eleven chamber improvisations is stunningly evocative, and inventive, inhabiting a unique space somewhere between contemporary classical music and free ...
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