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Saxophonist Kirk Edwards Release 'SHOUT' Features Donald Vega

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
January 10, 2024

For the past eight years Kirk Edwards has studied jazz improvisation with the celebrated pianist Donald Vega. As an organic outgrowth of this association Kirk often shared original compositions with Donald. Mr. Vega would offer suggestions to enhance these songs and Kirk would implement those elements into the pieces. As the original compositions became more refined Donald suggested that Kirk record them, adding that he would also play on the recording with him. So, that was the genesis of Mr. ...
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Ximo Tebar Band "The New Son Mediterraneo" Jazz With Sea Flavor At Smalls Jazz Club New York on May 24th With Jim Ridl, John Benitez & Donald Edwards

Source: Jazz Friends News
May 8, 2018

Virtuoso and innovative spanish jazz guitarist Ximo Téba will perform on May 24th at smalls jazz club accompanied by Donald Edwards, Jim Ridl and John Benítez. Creator of “Son Mediterráneo" style, Ximo Tebar is one of the most international Spanish musicians, with an impressive career, numerous awards, excellent recordings and performances in the most prestigious festivals around the world. Son Mediterráneo is the hallmark of the innovative Valencian guitarist Ximo Tebar since the early '90s, a mix of jazz jazz ...
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The Inimitable Teddy Edwards

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 19, 2016

As part of its reissue of select albums on the Xanadu label, Resonance Records has just released The Inimitable Teddy Edwards, which was recorded in June 1976. The album is important because it features tenor saxophonist Edwards in spectacular form accompanied by a sterling trio—Duke Jordan (p), Larry Ridley (b) and Freddie Waits (d). By '76, Edwards had been around since the mid-1940s but never seemed to be able to forge a brand image for himself as a leader. Part ...
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Vocalist Dara Tucker Debuts "The Sun Season" At Smoke Jazz & Supper Club On August 20th Featuring Peter Bernstein, Helen Sung And Donald Edwards

Source: Greg Bryant
July 15, 2014

Jazz vocalist and songwriter Dara Tucker will celebrate the release of her new CD, The Sun Season, at New York's Smoke Jazz Club (2751 Broadway) on Wednesday, August 20th. The sets will feature pianist Helen Sung, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Donald Edwards, who also appear on the CD. The third of Dara’s studio releases, The Sun Season is a celebration of life, energy and the human experience though the eyes of a unique singer and composer. The performances will ...
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Video: Teddy Edwards, 1962

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 5, 2014

In the tenor sax pantheon, there's Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But then there are dozens of smaller giants who were solid, fluid, soulful players, including Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, Harold Land, Hank Mobley, Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, Frank Wess and Sonny Stitt. Often forgotten today is Teddy Edwards, who was born in Mississippi, moved to Detroit and wound up in Los Angeles in the 1940s and remained there for much of his ...
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The Chicken Raid, An Annual Festival Celebrating The Life Of Georgia Music Legend Frank Edwards

Source: 9th Floor Music
March 20, 2014

The Chicken Raid is an authentic blues and soul experience at the venerable Northside Tavern in Atlanta Georgia, and features over 40 local, regional, and national artists performing over two days in celebration of the life of blues legend Mr. Frank Edwards (1909-2002). The Chicken Raid will be held on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 March, 2014. Veteran blues artists taking part include the incredible Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Albert White (Piano Red, Joe Tex, The Tams), R&B and soul artist Roy Lee ...
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Jazz Thursdays in Cold Spring, NY with Rob Scheps, Francesca Tanskley, Bruce Edwards, John Abercrombie...

Source: Rob Scheps
July 13, 2011

A new regular jazz night has begun at the Silver Spoon, a venue in Cold Spring, NY in the Hudson Valley, an hour north of New York City. Every Thursday , saxophonist Rob Scheps is joined by master duo partners.The schedule:

THURS. JULY 14—JAMIE REYNOLDS- PIANO ; THURS. JULY 21- JEFF PITTSON—PIANO ; THURS. JULY 28—BRUCE EDWARDS- GUITAR ; THURS. AUGUST 4—FRANCESCA TANSKLEY -PIANO ; THURS. AUGUST 11—FRANCESCA TANKSLEY , PIANO; and THURSDAY AUGUST 18TH, a very special event with ...
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Conversations with Composers: Henry Threadgill in Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards

Source: Yulanda Denoon
November 29, 2010

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents its Conversations Series, through which Brent Hayes Edwards will engage leading composer Henry Threadgill in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Threadgill's compositions are strikingly original, always surprising, and far-reaching. Though his ensembles—Air, the Sextett, Very Very Circus, the Society Situation Dance Band, Make a Move, and Zooid—are all very different, his compositional voice is ever present and identifiable, always fresh and challenging. Threadgill is also ...
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jazzlotion releases direct to stereo EP by the Peter Edwards Trio

Source: Adam Sieff
November 21, 2010

jazzlotion is a new company dedicated to recording the finest young jazz musicians direct to stereo in a state-of-the-art environment. There are no drop-ins, mixdowns, effects or gadgetry of any kind—just great musicians performing live in the studio without a safety net and their performance going straight to a Studer half-inch tape machine. It's the closest you can get to the purity of a live show where all that matters is the performance and the music. jazzlotion will release this ...
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Leila Adu Does It Again with the Don'ts (John Edwards & Steve Noble) in UK Video Premiere Show with Steve Beresford and de Santis

Source: 4961 Polemics
April 2, 2010

"Leila Adu is a rebel-inspirer. And not in the way that calls for the raising of fists, or the hurling of sharp word-blades. Her defiance is decided...Anger isn't its mother. Wonder may be." -- Purple Magazine London - Leila Adu, the London born songwriter/free improv singing sensation, comes home to the UK's cutting-edge hot spot, Vortex Jazz Bar. She will be working with her trio Leila Adu & the Don'ts on August, 3rd at 8pm in a special performance to ...
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