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NJPAC Celebrates Governor Brendan T. Byrne’s 90th Birthday With A Celebrity Comedy Roast Benefit Featuring Roastmaster Governor Chris Christie, Five Additional Former NJ Governors And Special Guest Comedians
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Christine Saunders
NEWARK, NJ – NJPAC will celebrate Governor Brendan T. Byrne’s 90th birthday on Tuesday, April 1 at 5:30pm with a Roast and toast of the former Governor by his predecessors in the New Jersey governor’s office, celebrity comedians and other New Jersey politicians. Held in NJPAC’s intimate Chase Room and benefiting the Arts Center’s education initiatives, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will act as Roastmaster and lead Tom Kean, James Florio, Donald DiFrancesco, Jim McGreevey, and Richard Codey, as well ...
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Governor Deval Patrick Declares April as Jazz Month in Massachusetts
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick has issued a proclamation declaring April 2011 to be Jazz Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The proclamation praises the legacy of jazz as an American art form and the contributions of Massachusetts jazz performers like Chick Corea from Chelsea, Roy Haynes from Roxbury, Phil Woods from Springfield and others. And the proclamation points to the 5th annual Jazz Week in greater Boston sponsored each year by JazzBoston, which takes place April 29 through May 8, 2011. ...
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Jazz Man: Kelly Roberti Honored with 2010 Montana Governor's Arts Award
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Michael Ricci
From The BOZEMAN DAILY CHRONICLE: by Rachel Hergett
As a child, Kelly Roberti pondered what instruments people played, assuming that the whole world was one big orchestra. “Obviously he plays the tuba," Roberti said of an imagined passerby. “That guy's a flute..." The son of a piano teacher and musical supervisor in public schools, Roberti never wanted to be anything other than a musician. “I was caught, spellbound as a child by music." Roberti, 55, considers himself a bassist, composer ...
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Governor Deval Patrick Donates His Father's Jazz Archives to Boston's Berklee College of Music
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is honoring his late father's musical and cultural legacy by donating the vast collection of jazz musician, composer, and arranger Laurdine Kenneth “Pat" Patrick to Berklee College of Music's Africana Studies archive. The historical Pat Patrick Collection comprises hundreds of scores, photographs, personal materials, and recordings. Best known for his 40-year association with the avant-garde artist Sun Ra, Patrick also played with jazz greats John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and many others, according to The ...
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Sun Ra Arkestra Member/Father of Massachusetts Governor's Collection Dedicated to Berklee S Africana Studies Archive
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Michael Ricci
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and his family, is honoring his late father s musical and cultural legacy by donating the vast collection of jazz musician, composer and arranger Laurdine Kenneth Pat" Patrick to Berklee College of Music s Africana Studies Archive. The historical Pat Patrick Collection comprises hundreds of scores, photographs, personal materials, and recordings. A dedication ceremony and celebration of Pat Patrick s life and work will be held on March 24 at the college s Africana Studies Archive. ...
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Governor Proclaims April Jazz Appreciation Month
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All About Jazz
A proclamation issued by Governor Mitch Daniels today officially declares April “Jazz Appreciation Month," or JAM for short. Indiana now joins nine other states that have followed the lead of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History's Jazz initiative to increase awareness of this original American art form. Jazz roots run deep in Indiana and Indiana University's Distingushed Professor of Music and Chairman of the Jazz department--David Baker--is also the Smithsonian's Jazz Masterworks Orchestra's Artistic Director. Young Audiences of ...
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Cecil Payne Receives "Certificate Of Merit" From New York's Governor Pataki
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All About Jazz
On Sunday, July 28th Delmark recording artist Cecil Payne was honored during his performance at one of the “Jammin On The Hudson" concert's held on alternate Sundays in Riverbank State Park, in New York City. Cecil Payne on baritone sax, Bob Cunningham on bass, Dwight Dickerson on piano and Dion Parsons on drums, created their own wave of heat with the “BeBop" agenda of music, some written by Payne himself.
During a short break, Roger Daniels, Special Events Coordinator and ...
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