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"Essentially Ella" Lina Orfanos New Release At Metropolitan Room December 6, 13 & 26
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Lina Orfanos's Essentially Ella out on December 12 Metropolitan Room Performances December 6, December 13 and December 26 Featuring: John Benitez, Essiet Essiet, Spiros Exaras & More! About Essentially Ella The sublime new CD by Lina Orfanos and her New York City Jazz crew hits the streets on December 12! An exciting homage to The First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald. This CD captures the rhythms, the aliveness, the joy of Lady Ella and the songs she sang. ...
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Jazz This Week: The Bad Plus, Nathaniel Bartlett Plays Stockhausen, Lina Koutrakos, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As St. Louis continues to dig out from the big storm, it looks like this week's jazz and creative music performances around town should go on as scheduled. Should the weather turns nasty again, however, we encourage you to call ahead before heading out to your venue of choice, and this site will be updated with any cancellation info received at StLJN HQ. Hoping for warmer temperatures soon, let's go to the highlights... Tonight, The Bad Plus returns to St. ...
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Lina Allemano Four - USA Tour & "Jargon" CD Release, Oct 2010!
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Michael Ricci
LINA ALLEMANO FOUR: Lina Allemano, trumpet Brodie West, alto saxophone Andrew Downing, double bass Nick Fraser, drums Toronto's cutting edge avant-jazz band, LINA ALLEMANO FOUR—known for their inventiveness and synergy—deftly blur the line between composition and improvisation. LINA ALLEMANO was featured as one of DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE's top innovative trumpeters for the future. The band has toured extensively over the past 5 years, having released two widely acclaimed CDs, and releasing their 3rd ...
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Lina Allemano Four's New CD "Gridjam" is Now Available!
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All About Jazz
Lina Allemano Four's new CD Gridjam is now available! Read the latest reviews and purchase CDs at her website.
About Lina Allemano Lina Allemano is a Toronto based jazz trumpeter, improviser and composer with an established and active career performing, recording and touring internationally. Her trumpet playing, compositions, and artistic vision have gained her recognition in the media as being “adventurous, expressive, compelling, forward thinking, inventive, and sophisticated". As well as fronting her band Lina Allemano Four and the improvising ...
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A Defiant Rock Edge: Lina Koutrakos at the Metropolitan Room.
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Michael Ricci
Teardrops on Her Pillow? Not for This Torch Singer
The singer Lina Koutrakos deconstructs the oldest cabaret clich in the book in “Torch," her sagacious new show at the Metropolitan Room. If that loaded title conjures images of a lovelorn diva masochistically wallowing in mistreatment and rejection, Ms. Koutrakos is anything but a self-pitying crybaby. As she sang “The Man That Got Away" on Friday evening, she didn't beckon you to follow her down a yellow-brick road to a tear-soaked ...
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