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The First Public Company For Jazz 'BeBop' Makes History On The Stock Market
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Sue Veres Royal
The BeBop Channel Corporation (OTC PINK: BBOP), made history earlier this month as the first Jazz public company, giving a Wall Street voice to the world of Jazz – America’s classical music. Many people in the New York area are already familiar with ‘BeBop’ from their programming, including their recent Off-Broadway production God Doesn’t Mean You Get to Live Forever, the New York Jazz Film Festival, and the television series Giant Steps starring the late Mickey Bass and many top ...
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The Bebop Channel Issues Stock Grants To Official Selections Amid Worldwide Festival Cancellations
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Gregory Charles Royal
Many up-and-coming filmmakers' dreams for success have been crushed indefinitely due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. As pointed out in Shirley Li's piece in The Atlantic entitled The Pandemic Is Hitting One Part of Hollywood Especially Hard, film festivals around the world—arguably the most important life-line for new filmmakers—have been cancelled. One festival has given over 750 of these young and up-and-coming filmmakers from over 85 countries something positive in the face of the crisis. In a move that is ...
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The Bebop Channel To Begin Airing On Spectrum New York In 2020
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Gregory Charles Royal
The BeBop Channel (beboptv.com), the multicultural multi-platform streaming network from Harlem, is set to begin airing its programming by early 2020 to certain New York City cable households over Spectrum. The BeBop Channel will air in the north Manhattan region from the Upper West Side extending into the Bronx. Channel executives, which are currently developing a seven channel streaming format to accommodate BeBop’s" growing and racially inclusive Harlem content for jazz, lifestyle, comedy, teen, culture, competition/game shows, festivals, theatricals, “Top ...
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The Bebop Channel To Acquire The New York Japanese Jazz Festival
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Gregory Charles Royal
The BeBop Channel (beboptv.com), the first television station to focus on scripted jazz programming, is acquiring The New York Japanese Jazz Festival (NYJJF) as soon as October, 2019. NYJJF, originally conceived by Art Blakey and Duke Ellington Orchestra alum, trombonist Gregory Charles Royal back in 2014 and licensed this past June to saxophonist Vincent Herring, who produced the festival with Smoke Jazz & Supper Club in July, fits perfectly into “BeBop’s” plans says Royal, who is also The BeBop Channel ...
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The Bebop Channel Expands As 'Official Television Network Of Harlem'Seeks Content Submissions
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Gregory Charles Royal
The BeBop Channel, the first TV station focused solely on jazz culture is expanding programming to brand itself the 'Official Television Network of Harlem'. The BeBop Channel (beboptv.com), the first television station focused solely on jazz culture, which launched in December 2018, is expanding its programming to brand itself the 'Official Television Network of Harlem' and is seeking submissions for pilots. Expanding its original mission as the first channel to broadcast scripted jazz television shows and New York Jazz Film ...
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Historic Jazz Play It's a Hardbop Life Opens in New York February 2011
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Gregory Charles Royal
NEW YORK, NY It's a Hard bop Life, the first play to feature an entire cast of jazz musicians, will open February 2011 at the Producers Club in midtown Manhattan. The play, which originally debuted as a Special Event at the 2004 New York JVC Jazz Festival and was featured in Jazz Times Magazine, has undergone some revisions. The play was written by and stars former Duke Ellington Orchestra and Broadway's Five Guys Named Moe trombonist Gregory Charles Royal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Charles_Royal ...
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Jazz in 'Grave' Danger Says Trombonist and Lecturer Gregory Charles Royal
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All About Jazz
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The MTV/Hip Hop Generation, which is indoctrinated in electronic and non-melodious music, has placed classical music and jazz in grave" danger, according to trombonist Gregory Charles Royal, an alumnus of the Grammy Award winning Duke Ellington Orchestra. Royal, artistic director of the American Youth Symphony (AYS) in Washington, DC says that the growth in Hip Hop and MTV has resulted in a 30- and-under generation with no appreciation of traditional music. In fact, Royal has ...
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Trombonist Gregory Charles Royal Stars in Jazz Play: It's A Hardbop Life
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All About Jazz
IT'S A HARDBOP LIFE, the new jazz play that features top musicians as principal actors, will make its New York debut as a Special Event during the 2004 New York JVC Jazz Festival.
The play will run for one week, June 22-27, at the Signature Theatre/Peter Norton Space.
We are offering a limited number of Priority Passes over the next couple of weeks, which represent a 50% discount to the play. Regular price tickets are $50.00.
Briefly, the play is ...
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