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Singer Carolyn Fitzhugh Demonstrates Vocal & Compositional Chops On 'Living In Peace,' Set For March 15 Release By IYOUWE Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Carolyn Fitzhugh’s soul-infused jazz vocals attain new heights with her March 15 release of Living in Peace, for Lenny White’s IYOUWE Records. Fitzhugh’s second album also finds the Chicago native in esteemed company. Produced by Grammy nominee Mark Ruffin and given lush arrangements by state-of-the-art pianist and composer Amina Figarova, the recording features Figarova’s working band—a murderer’s row of major jazz musicians that includes tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, guitarist Rez Abbasi, and drummer Rudy Royston—and, on one track, the legendary ...
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Rest In Peace Paul Allen: Friend Of Music and Much More
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HypeBot
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recently passed away, and is remembered as a tech billionaire and noted philanthropist. The Seattle music industry was among the beneficiaries of his generosity, with Allen helping to foster the creative sector. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy Paul Allen was a co-founder of Microsoft and hence a “tech billionaire.” But he used that wealth to make a contribution to music in smart and lasting ways through supporting music in Seattle and by ...
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Boogie Stomp To Appear At Two Special Shows Featuring Music From The Forthcoming CD “Disturbing The Peace"
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Lampkin Publicity Service
BOOGIE STOMP WILL PERFORM MUSIC FROM THEIR FORTHCOMING SUMMER RELEASE “DISTURBING THE PEACE” WITH TWO SPECIAL CONCERTS AT THE EAST LANSING SUMMER SOLSTICE JAZZ FESTIVAL AND AT PIANOFORTE IN CHICAGO On Friday, June 22nd, Boogie Stomp will appear at The Summer Solstice Jazz Festival (SSJF) The SSJF salutes jazz one of the truly American art forms, and offers this free two-day event in a lively outdoor setting. Friday, June 22nd, 2018 Summer Solstice Jazz Festival 410 ...
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Lisa Hilton Sets Forth On A Journey Promoting Peace, Tranquility and Positive Energy with "Escapism" - Available December 1 on Ruby Slippers Productions
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Lisa Hilton
Lisa Hilton often settles in at her piano and riffs on everyone from Miles Davis and Horace Silver to The Black Keys and Green Day, until she can find peace within the notes, letting them fill the room and fall where they languish in this glow of calm with a touch of brooding blues. Then this past year, the world changed a bit and finding that calm seemed a little more elusive. “Everything is charged with politics, a large portion ...
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For Notespeak, Peace Is The Word
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Lisa Marie Simmons
Lisa Simmons and Marco Cremaschini have announced that they are raising funds on IndieGoGo for NoteSpeak, a unique collaboration that intertwines poetical and musical forms to raise awareness of real-life triumphs and struggles around the world. NoteSpeak will explore creative paths formerly established by such artists as The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, and Brian Jackson, but venture down contemporary avenues to address current topics of which many remain unaware. Based in Garda Lake, Italy, Simmons and Cremaschini are primary forces ...
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SLM Ensemble: Solo And Chamber Works For Peace on December 7 at The Cell Theatre
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Sarah Weaver
SLM Ensemble: Solo and Chamber Works for Peace on December 7, 2015 at 8:00pm. $20/$15. The Cell Theatre 338 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 Ray Anderson, trombone David Taylor, bass trombone Samir Chatterjee, tabla Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone Zafer Tawil, oud, violin, qanun, Arab percussion Joe McPhee, saxophone, trumpet Miya Masaoka, koto Sarah Weaver, composer In remembrance of Pearl ...
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Ola Onabulé - "It's The Peace That Deafens" Release Date: September 18, 2015 On Dot Time Records!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
UK Singing Sensation! New CD: It's The Peace That Deafens (Dot Time Records) Release Date: September 18, 2015 Following up on his recent UK chart success with the re-mix of Soul Town, Ola Onabule’s new album It's The Peace That Deafensis his 8th studio album and marks a departure from his previous two releases featuring a largely acoustic set uniting jazz, soul and world influences. The album contains 12 evocative songs about identity, reconciliation and nostalgia. Words, melodies ...
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When Haiku Inspires Music: Bobby Zankel Ensemble Performs Original Composition Celebrating Peace
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Victor L. Schermer
Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane inspired saxophonist and composer Bobby Zankel is usually heard with his Warriors of the Wonderful Sound big band performing large-scale compositions such as his recent re-setting of Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. Here, on the occasion of a celebration of mural art, which has turned numerous outside walls of Philadelphia buildings into high art, Zankel was inspired to produce a more compact piece for six instrumentalists and singer. The stimulus for the composition was a wall ...
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Pacific's Brubeck Institute Brings Jazz, Peace And Dave Brubeck To United Nations, Smithsonian
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Keith Michaud
STOCKTON, Calif. – University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet will perform later this month at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and two days later during the first-ever Dave Brubeck Forum at the United Nations in New York City. The events are in conjunction with UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, the Smithsonian Institute’s proclamation that April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and the 35th session of the UN General Assembly. The BIJQ will perform “Dave Brubeck – Across ...
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Grammy Award-Winner Danilo Perez, Unesco Artist for Peace, Signs to the International Yamaha Artist Roster
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DL Media
Pianist and Educator to Participate in Distance Learning Event at Berklee College of Music on April 4th, 2013. Yamaha Artist Services, Inc.(YASI) is pleased to announce the signing of GRAMMY Award-winner Danilo Pérez to its international Artist roster. “We are honored to welcome a pianist who is known not only as an exemplary performer, but also as an excellent composer, an innovative educator and a global humanitarian. Danilo represents the consummate Yamaha Artist-he continually inspires audiences through his virtuosity, creativity ...
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