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Performance / Tour

Trumpeter Tatum Greenblatt And His Quintet To Perform At Smalls Jazz Club August 30th

Source: Jennifer Kramer
August 27, 2012

Tatum Greenblatt Quintet August 30 at Smalls Jazz Club, NYC 9:30pm – Midnight | $20 cover featuring Tatum Greenblatt, trumpet Geoff Vidal, tenor sax Adam Birnbaum, piano Sam Minaie, bass Ulysses Owens, drums For his Smalls Jazz Club debut, Tatum and his band will perform selections from his latest 2012 release, Imprints as well as favorites from his two previous recordings and new compositions. His third recording as a leader, ...

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Performance / Tour

Riza Printup, Harp And Rose Rutledge, Flute Join Forces at NYC’s Drom April 25

Source: Jennifer Kramer
March 26, 2012

NYC musicians Riza Printup, harp and Rose Rutledge, flute make their collaborative debut with a quartet on April 25th at Drom in lower Manhattan. With original compositions as well as jazz arrangements, the duo takes flute and harp to a new improvisatory level. “With upmost humility, we carry on the legacy implementing our own voices through originals (Haunt, Venti, Before Dawn, Rebirth) and arrangements of classic standards." Riza explains, “Our hope is to stir the heart while stimulating the ears, ...

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Recording

Trumpeter Tatum Greenblatt To Release Third Recording "Imprints" Available March 13, 2012

Source: Jennifer Kramer
February 8, 2012

BI-COASTAL CD RELEASE CONCERTS IN MARCH 2012: NEW YORK CITY'S DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA MARCH 12 & SEATTLE'S TULA'S JAZZ CLUB MARCH 29 Tatum Greenblatt offers his third recording as a leader, Imprints, which will be released for digital and hard copy sales beginning March 13, 2012. Imprints is a follow-up to his two previous recordings; Break of Day (2008) was recorded with The Here and Now Quintet for Origin Records OA2 label, and Mance's Dance (2006) recorded with Tatum's quintet ...

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Performance / Tour

Saxophonist Erica von Kleist Travels To Cuba With Horns To Havana Group

Source: Jennifer Kramer
September 9, 2011

DELIVERING 120 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, CONDUCTING WORKSHOPS & PERFORMING New York, NY: Saxophonist-flautist, Erica von Kleist traveled from New York City today to Havana, Cuba with the Horns to Havana not-for-profit organization to conduct workshops and perform at four Cuban music academies. Horns to Havana's lyrical cultural exchange between the American jazz community and Cuban music students based on music with deeply shared African as well as European roots. Horns to Havana delivered a full planeload of musical instruments and nearly ...

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Education

Horns To Havana To Deliver 120 Donated Instruments To Cuban Students

Source: Jennifer Kramer
August 26, 2011

(New York, NY) HORNS TO HAVANA will take a full planeload of musical instruments and nearly another planeload of jazz musicians, luthiers and brass, percussion and woodwind repair technicians to four Cuban music academies from September 4-11. All U.S. Government licenses and approvals have been granted that will facilitate shipping and travel for Horns to Havana's lyrical cultural exchange between the American jazz community and Cuban music students, based on music with deeply shared African as well as European roots. ...

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Music Industry

Music Company RS Berkeley Donates A Full Orchestra Of Musical Instruments To Cuban Music Students

Source: Jennifer Kramer
July 7, 2011

New York, NY—In a major announcement last week, Les Silver, President and CEO of RS Berkeley Musical Instruments, pledged that the company will donate all the brand-new, acoustic instruments needed to completely outfit a student orchestra at the Amadeo Roldán Academy of Music in Havana, Cuba's premier academy of music. The New Jersey company will contribute 28 brass, woodwind, stringed and percussion instruments—saxes, trumpets, trombones, violins and basses, even a tuba—to the New York organization, Horns to Havana, which intends ...

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Award / Grant

Music for Lifelong Achievement and Horns to Havana Instrument Drive Garners Seventeen Instruments for Schools in Havana, Cuba

Source: Jennifer Kramer
June 22, 2011

ST. LOUIS, MO—Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) has wrapped up a successful instrument drive for Horns to Havana, a non-profit organization based out of The Center For Cuban Studies in New York City. The drive, which took place from February through May, garnered seventeen instruments including a trumpet, saxophone, keyboard, three guitars, three trombones, four flutes and four clarinets. Music for Lifelong Achievement was the first organization in the country to partner with Horns to Havana on this important project, ...

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Performance / Tour

Saxophonist Erica von Kleist Performance & CD Release at NYC’S Jazz Gallery June 9

Source: Jennifer Kramer
May 11, 2011

Erica von Kleist & No Exceptions Performance & CD release party Thursday, June 9, 2011 2 sets: 9pm & 10:30pm Cover: $10—$20, Members $5 -10 withvalid student ID The Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street (btwn Spring and Dominik) New York, NY 10013 212.242.1063 Saxophonist-flautist, Erica von Kleist releases her second self-produced CD, Erica von Kleist & No Exceptions leading her band at NYC's Jazz Gallery for the official CD release ...

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