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Jazz this week: Omaha Diner, Eliane Elias, Stanley Clarke, Susan Werner, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's shaping up to be another busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a handful of visiting headliners in town at various venues, a couple of homecoming shows featuring former St. Louisans, and a full schedule of performances from local players as well. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, November 18 The quartet Omaha Diner, featuring guitarist Charlie Hunter, saxophonist Skerik, drummer Bobby Previte, and trumpeter Eric Bloom, makes their St. Louis debut in the first ...
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Rap Legend Ice-T and Jazz Trumpeter Ron McCurdy Debut The Langston Hughes Project At The Barbican On November 21, 2016 At 7:30pm!
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Nu Jazz Publicity
Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ creative masterpiece, the epic twelve-part jazz poem: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A homage in verse, music, and multi-media to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 1960s, Ask Your Mama evokes Hughes’ life and times and a message that resonates as strongly ...
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Jazz Clarinetist Rick Bogart: From New Orleans To New York
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Rick Bogart Appearing Weekly at the New York Yankees Steakhouse! NEW YORK YANKEES STEAKHOUSE Presents: The Rick Bogart Trio Sundays: JAZZ BRUNCH - 12 noon to 3pm Fridays: 5 pm to 9 pm The Steakhouse of The New York Yankees is located at 7 West 51st St., across from Rockefeller Center. Every Sunday two tickets for next season's hometown games will be given away! About New York Yankees Steakhouse From the finest 21-day USDA ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 13-19
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
We're starting to see holiday ads and decorations, so we might as well getting into the spirit of the season—and there's plenty of jazz to add to the celebrations. This week brings the final two nights of the Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret with jazz, global music, and genre-defying new works at Studio Z; more great music on the Friday Night Jazz at the Nicollet and Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series; the next installment of the 8 O'Clock ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 6-12
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Still no hard frost? Perhaps the heat of the local jazz scene is keeping winter at bey! Probably we can not hope for many more relatively warm days, but we can surely count on a string of hot nights thanks to gigs, concerts, mini-fests and CD releases in the Twin Cities in the coming week! Big Gigs This Week Friday, November 6. Over the past decade, since completing studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Graydon Peterson has been one ...
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Acclaimed Composer Maria Schneider And Her Orchestra Tour To 10 European Cities, November 6 – 20
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
“...this magnificent, nature-drunk masterpiece, one of the great jazz records period, not just one of the great recent jazz records.” –Jeff Simon, Buffalo News 5-stars. “...a sound world of rare eloquence… the singularly most beautiful record I’ve heard this year.” –Peter Quinn, The Arts Desk (London) “...an extravagant show of her strengths: precise, expressive harmony; ribbons of diaphanous texture; a rhythmic momentum that doesn’t feel propulsive so much as wind-borne. Her new pieces, inspired by various ecological and personal epiphanies, ...
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New England Conservatory Presents Realization Of A Dream: An 80th Birthday Tribute To Ran Blake
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
New England Conservatory celebrates the artistic vision of NEC’s founding Contemporary Improvisation Department Chair Ran Blake, and the evolution of his music in Realization of a Dream: An 80th Birthday Tribute to Ran Blake at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 13. The concert takes place at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston and is free and open to the public. NEC also hosts a symposium on Blake’s work on Sunday, November 15 at 11 a.m. at Pierce Hall. For ...
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Internationally Renowned Saxophonist/Composer Miguel Zenón And His Quartet Tour To Ten European Cities From October 30 To November 13, 2015
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
“Two words: cultural treasure!” —Sandra Guzman, NBC News Internationally acclaimed saxophonist/composer Miguel Zenón performs in ten European cities from October 30 to November 13, 2015. Zenon will be joined by his quartet featuring drummer Henry Cole, pianist Luis Perdomo and bassist Hans Glawischnig, performing new music as well as music from his highly acclaimed 2014 recording Identities are Changeable, a groundbreaking project focusing on the cultural identity of the Puerto Rican community in NYC. Performance dates: Friday, October 30
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