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Jazz Of "Many Colors" By Joyce Spencer New CD Pre-Order
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Joyce Spencer
Dallas/Ft Worth entertainer and independent recording artist, Joyce Spencer, is back with her much anticipated second CD release entitled Many Colors, bringing the many colors of jazz from traditional to contemporary and smooth to funk/fusion, along with three covers (John Coltrane, Billy Cobham and Billie Holiday) and seven original tracks. The original music, including lyrics, were all written and produced by Joyce Spencer, and the CD is slated to be released on January 15, 2015. No matter what “groove", Joyce's ...
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Jordan Family Headlines Opening Of George And Joyce Wein Jazz Center
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Sylvain Music Notes
NEW ORLEANS, LA - After years of planning and many months of construction, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation will celebrate the grand opening of the new George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center with a gala concert. The Dec. 12 event will feature music by saxophonist Edward “Kidd" Jordan, who founded the Jazz & Heritage Foundation's Don “Moose" Jamison Heritage School of Music in 1990. Joining him onstage will be four of his musical children: Kent, Marlon, ...
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Irish Chamber Music Performance of James Joyce Poems at Princeton University
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Chris M. Slawecki
Soprano Judith Kellock, pianist Janice Weber and theater critic Fintan O'Toole will present a chamber music performance of Ross Lee Finney's setting of poems by James Joyce on Friday, February 10 at 4:30 p.m. at the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Ross Lee Finney (1906-1997) was an American composer who taught for ...
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Carnegie Hall & Joyce/George Wein Foundation Present Ambrose Akinmusire Big Band
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
JAZZ TRUMPETER AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE LEADS HIS BIG BAND FOR ITS WORLDWIDE DEBUT PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, IN ZANKEL HALL Jazz trumpeter and Blue Note recording artist Ambrose Akinmusire leads his big band for the ensemble's worldwide debut performance on Saturday, December 3, at 10:00 p.m. in Zankel Hall. The trumpeter, whose talents have been increasingly recognized since 2007 when he won both the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition, was signed ...
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Enter the "Claire Daly - Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose" CD Giveaway at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
New Release by Baritone Saxophonist Claire Daly, The Mary Joyce Project: "Nothing to Lose," Inspired by the Spirit of her Pioneering Ancestor, Will be Released in September
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GoMedia PR
Daly's Second Cousin, Mary Joyce, Owned Saloon in Alaska in the Early 20th Century, and Ran Supplies For the Allies by Dogsled in WW II In September, award-winning baritone saxophonist Claire Daly, will release The Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose, a musical homage to her father's first cousin, Mary Joyce. A pioneer who made a 1,000 mile dogsled journey from Juneau to Fairbanks in 1935-36, the story of Joyce and her three month journey is an amazing tale of ...
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Joyce Kwon Releases "To a Certain Boy" EP
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Michael Ricci
A concept album in the tradition of Frank Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours, vocalist & songwriter Joyce Kwon addresses each of her five songs 'to a certain boy' on her first trio EP. She hopes to not be singing these songs past her twenties, and wishes to find a title to the third track in good time. And while guilty of indulging in artificial sweetener, Joyce is trying to break the habit, as it leaves a strange aftertaste. This ...
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Joyce Cobb & Michael Jefry Stevens CD Release Thursday August 19th
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Chris M. Slawecki
Joyce Cobb & Michael Jefry Stevens CD Release on Thursday August 19th Joyce Cobb: vocals & harmonica; Michael Jefrey Stevens: piano; Jonathan Wires: bass Renaldo Ward: drums.
Special event in celebration of our CD release on Archer Records. CDs will be available for purchase at that time and the event is free to the public. AMRO Music: 2918 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38111-2722 (901) 325-6406 | http://www.amromusic.com/
On their resultant self-titled album Joyce Cobb with the Michael Jefry ...
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Joyce Collins, 1930-2010
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The pianist and singer Joyce Collins died recently in Los Angeles following a long illness. She was 79. Highly respected in jazz circles, Collins played with a sensitive touch and subtle use of chords. Her singing was an outgrowth of those values, with attention to interpretation of the meaning of songs and, as Marian McPartland put it, “...deep feeling, a way of lingering over certain phrases, telling her story in a very poignant way." Collins's recorded debut as a leader ...
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The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Grooves in Conversation with Chart Topping Eclectic Smooth Jazz Guitarist/Vocalist Songwriter Joyce Cooling
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entertainmentPR
Minneapolis - One of the hottest and most unique celebrity driven radio podcast platforms to hear some of Billboard's chart topping music producers, composers, arrangers and engineers discuss their production techniques and preferences, influences, music instruments, their craft, state of the art recording equipment and upcoming projects is The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight. Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight is also prolific and gifted on keyboards, guitar/bass, drum programming, engineering and is an avid Logic Pro 8 and MacBook ...
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