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The Po/Jazz Connection
The Po/Jazz Connection: Live From Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Poetry and jazz make a natural combination, as the history of experimental music has borne out over and over again. In this case, the Po/Jazz Connection features music by the Arpeggio Jazz and Music Ensemble, led by bassist/MC Warren Oree. Plus nearly a dozen different speakers, each of whom offers a different angle--all personal. The connection, at Philadelphia's Brave New World in mid-'99, makes for interesting listening. Most of the fascination lies in the sheer unpredictability of the poetry, which ...
Continue ReadingJazz-Con And Belongó Announce Partnership For Global Clave: The Spanish-speaking Jazz Connection
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Nu Jazz Publicity
Jazz-Con 2025, the international virtual jazz music business conference, is proud to announce a presenting partnership with Belongó, the Bronx-based nonprofit founded by Artistic Director and music legend, Arturo O'Farrill, and dedicated to advancing Latin and Spanish-speaking arts and culture, for the new session Global Clave: The Spanish-Speaking Jazz Connection. Taking place on Monday, September 15, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (EST), this panel will explore the thriving jazz communities across Latin America, Spain, and Spanish-speaking communities in ...
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Thanks, Freddy, for the jazz connection
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The fine pianist and singer Freddy Cole died Saturday, June 27, at age 88 at his home in Atlanta. He had been struggling with cardiovascular issues for a while. His manager, Suzi Reynolds, called him Mr. Magic. “He wove a web of sonic beauty with every note and kept listeners silently breathless with his casual, elegant storytelling...," she reflected Sunday via email. While working for many years in the immense shadow of his far-famous elder brother, Nat King Cole, Freddy ...
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Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Reni Thomas at Durham County (NC) Library's Summer Jazz Jam
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All About Jazz
By Larry Reni Thomas
Durham County Library presents SUMMER JAZZ JAM, Sunday, June 28, 2009, 2-6 pm, at the East Regional Library, 211 Lick Creek Lane, Durham, North Carolina. The event, “Express Yourself at The Library," will celebrate summer reading and will include a jazz jam session led by guitarist Scott Sawyer, vocalist Bobby Hinton, drummer Peter Joyner, bassist Freeman Ledbetter, keyboardist Bob Baldwin and reedman Stanley Baird. Young musicians, Tyler Montgomery and Alan Thompson are also scheduled to perform. ...
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Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Reni Thomas at Jazz Speaks at UNCW
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All About Jazz
Jazz Speaks at UNCW (The University of North Carolina at Wilmington), a lecture series conducted by distinguished professor and master musician Joe Chambers, continues, with its second installment, February 15, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., at Beckwith Hall, in The Cultural Arts Building, at UNCW. The lecture will deal with jazz as social history and will cover the jazz experience of the 1940s and 1950s up to today s scene. The lecture will also include an added attraction with a scholarly ...
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In Search of the Lost Riddim: The Jamaican Jazz Connection on February 26
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All About Jazz
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JAZZ STUDIES IN COLLABORATION WITH HARLEM STAGE PRESENTS... In Search of the Lost Riddim: The Jamaican Jazz Connection Featuring Cedric Brooks (saxophone), Ernest Ranglin (guitar), Orville Hammond (piano), Wayne Batchelor (string bass), Desmond Jones (drums), Cecil Sonny Bradshaw (trumpet & piano), Larry McDonald (conga), and Douglas Ewart (reeds & percussion) Thursday, February 26, 2009 Conversation at 6:00 pm Concert at 7:30pm Harlem Stage @ Aaron Davis Hall
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Warren Oree and The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble to Reissue Po/Jazz Connection CD at Philadelphia Museum of Art
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All About Jazz
December 14, 2001— Philadelphia, PA, Warren Oree and The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble will perform the Po/Jazz Connection on Wednesday, January 2nd at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ben Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia from 5:00 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Po/Jazz Connection will feature UVA who will perform intermittently throughout the evening, and an open mic forum that encourages other poets to perform their work while Warren Oree and The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble weave their music and instruments throughout the poetry, creating ...
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The Arpeggio Jazz and Music Ensemble to Kick off Po/Jazz Connection Tour at Brave New World on June 4, 2001
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All About Jazz
May 3, 2001 -- Philadelphia, PA, The Arpeggio Jazz and Music Ensemble will begin their Po/Jazz Connection Tour on Monday, June 4, 2001 at Brave New World, 720 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA at 7 p.m. The tour will continue to Tampa on June 23rd, where they will perform a solo concert at the Falk Theatre, hosted by WMNF-FM Radio. The group, (Warren Oree, acoustic bass; Umar Rahim - tenor and soprano saxophones; Greg “Ju-Ju""Jones - drums; Doug “Pablow" Edwards - ...
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