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Durham Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation Of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” For The Walltown Children's Theatre In Durham, NC
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Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” Holiday-Themed Program Runs at the Walltown Children’s Theater In Durham, North Carolina Weekend of Thursday December 12 – Sunday December 15 Young people and adults alike in Durham, North Carolina, will soon be touched by the mastery and magic of Lenora Zenzalai Helm when they tap into the bliss of her musical score for “Indigo Blue: A Reimagining of ‘The Pied Piper’.” Helm, the first ...
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Jazz Vocal Veteran Lenora Zenzalai Helm Launches Web Programs "Vocal Jazz Online" And "The Vocal Musicianship Academy" For Serious Singers In Search Of A Career In Music
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Inque Public Relations
Former U.S. Jazz Ambassador and Berklee College of Music Grad Shares Her Passion of Singing with Up and Coming Artists “Lenora Zenzalai Helm possesses an astonishing voice…she improvises harmonic changes with undeniable ingenuity..." —Geoffrey Himes, the Washington Post Lenora Zenzalai Helm is making it possible for people that say they want to be a “singer” to take a giant step further and become a Vocal Musician through two accessible and affordable on-line programs: Vocal Jazz Online and its offshoot The ...
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Piano Master Joe Sample Brings Trio To Maryland's Birchmere Music Hall Saturday September 29
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Inque Public Relations
Music master Joe Sample is bringing his jazz trio to Silver Springs, Maryland for a special concert at the Birchmere Music Hall, Saturday, September 29, 2012. Sample has just released a fine new Live CD (with singer Randy Crawford), but for this engagement, the spotlight will solely be on his piano mastery and that of his trio which includes world renowned drummer Steve Gadd and his accomplished son Nicklas Sample on upright bass. Joe Sample is world renowned as a ...
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Keyboardist Kevin Toney To Perform Sizzling Summer “California Concerts” Through August With Jazz Trio The Kevin Toney 3 And A Reunion Of '70s Soul-jazz Pioneers The Blackbyrds
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KT3’s V.I.P. CD Release Show at Vitello’s for Album - NEW AMERICAN SUITE Blackbyrds Share Opening Night of Long Beach Jazz Festival with The Isley Brothers “These performances represent the new (KT3) and the vintage (Blackbyrds) and is the culmination of my journey in music!" —Kevin Toney Keyboard wizard Kevin Toney is about kick the temperature up in August several more degrees with a series of exciting “California Concerts.” With the July 24 release of his classical jazz concept album ...
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PRA Records To Release Randy Crawford & Joe Sample – Live Featuring Steve Gadd On Drums And Nicklas Sample On Bass In Stores July 31st
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Inque Public Relations
Electrifying Performances Recorded On Tour at Various Concert Venues Throughout Europe From October – December 2008 Randy Crawford and Joe Sample have been making music together in one form or another for nearly 36 years. From their first hit together in 1979, “Street Life” (which Randy sang with Joe and The Crusaders) to “One Day I’ll Fly Away,” “When Your Life Was Low” and “Last Night at Danceland,” to their recent duo collaborations on the GRAMMY®-nominated CDs Feeling Good (2006) ...
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Award Winning Pianist/Composer Kevin Toney And His New Trio Kevin Toney 3 Releases New American Suite On July 24
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Founding Member of the Jazz/R&B Group The Blackbyrds Blends Traditional Jazz and Classical Music To Create A Musical Mosaic Which Pays Homage to America the Beautiful” In recent years America has seen a paradigm shift toward the manifestation of real, forward thinking change – especially in the minds of people of faith. On July 24th, award-winning keyboardist/composer/author Kevin Toney released an inspired project that blends traditional acoustic jazz trio music with the compositional expanse of classical movements. Titled New American ...
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Haitian Saxophone Master & Educator Jowee Omicil To Release New Freeflowing and Funky CD - "Roots & Grooves" on November 2nd - Recently Performed at the Obama White House
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Saxophone and winds master Jowee Omicil is in possession of what is simply one of the most soothing, soulful and spiritual sounds that his instruments of choice have ever rendered. Following several fruitful semesters of teaching students on all levels--from grade school to university--Jowee is focusing on getting out and performing the music of his amazing sophomore CD, Roots & Grooves, for the people he loves...which means everybody! The Montreal-born musician of Haitian descent had the distinct honor of being ...
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