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Third Annual Philadelphia Guitar Summit Features The Areas Elite Musicians

Source: Helen Haynes
October 6, 2011

Blue Bell, PA: The Third Annual Philadelphia Guitar Summit is here!!! Partnered with Montgomery County Community College, this year is spectacular with a stellar line up of jazz guitarists/educators. Pat Martino's hard hitting organ trio, the glorious solo flamenco guitarist Carlos Rubio and this year introducing the PGS Guitar Ensemble featuring Tom Gaicabetti, Monnette Sudler, Matt Davis, Charles Ellerbe, and Avi Rothbard. We will be swinging, celebrating the music of the late jazz guitarist Grant Green. October 28, 2011 (concert) ...

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Performance / Tour

Billy Harper Quintet to appear at Montgomery County Community College (Bluebell, PA) on October 15

Source: Helen Haynes
October 3, 2011

Blue Bell, PA: Montgomery County Community College's Lively Arts Series will present the Billy Harper Quintet, Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 8PM at Science Center Theatre. Billy Harper is one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists who actually built upon the master's work, rather than simply copy it. His 1973 album Capra Black “remains one of the seminal recordings of jazz's black consciousness movement—a profoundly spiritual effort that channels both the intellectual complexity of the avant-garde as well as ...

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