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Bill Mays and the Inventions Trio Live at the Rubin Museum - NYC - March 28th, 2008

Bill Mays and the Inventions Trio Live at the Rubin Museum - NYC - March 28th, 2008

Source: Two for the Show Media

The Inventions Trio is: Bill Mays - piano Marvin Stamm - trumpet Alisa Horn - cello Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street New York, NY 10011 For Info Call: 212-620-5000 March 28th, 2008- Showtime- 7:00 PM Tickets $18/$20 Bill Mays Bio: Pianist, composer and arranger William Allen Mays (Bill Mays), born February 5, 1944, came from a musical family. In his northern California home, ...

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Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, Bill Stewart Trio @ Birdland NYC - March 19-22nd, 2008

Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, Bill Stewart Trio @ Birdland NYC - March 19-22nd, 2008

Source: Two for the Show Media

Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, & Bill Stewart Trio Gary Peacock- bass Marc Copland- piano Bill Stewart - drums Birdland Jazz Club 315 West 44th Street Broadway New York, NY March 19th-22nd 2008 Set Times are 8:30 PM & 11:00 PM $30 general admission; $40 orchestra For information call 212.591-3080 “Transcendent...makes one realize how ordinary, how formulaic, so much of the rest of today's music ...

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Vibist, Jerry Tachoir Clinic/Concert Tour

Vibist, Jerry Tachoir Clinic/Concert Tour

Source: All About Jazz



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Joe Chambers & His "Outlaw Band" at the Lenox Lounge

Joe Chambers & His "Outlaw Band" at the Lenox Lounge

Source: All About Jazz

The Lenox Lounge, the Uptown haven for Jazz located @ 288 Lenox Avenue (124th & 125th St.) is proud to present a World renowned Composer, Arranger, Educator, a 'Percussionists Percussionist', who is one of the most recorded Drummers ever, on the “Blue Note" Record Label. The recordings he made, with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and McCoy Tyner, make him one of the most sought after Percussionists on the New York Jazz Scene, besides which, each of these ...

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Eastern European Jazz Performers Daniel Szabo Trio and Marta Topferova at the Kimmel Center March 29

Eastern European Jazz Performers Daniel Szabo Trio and Marta Topferova at the Kimmel Center March 29

Source: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kimmel Center Presents 2007/08 Season Sponsored by Citi

“One could describe Szabo's highly original, closely bonded trio music as chamber jazz but for the additional fire and sensuality of their Hungarian blood, which keeps things as forceful as they are lyrical."--Jack Massarik, This is London entertainment guide

Hungarian pianist-composer Daniel Szabo and his Trio explore Eastern European jazz at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 7:30pm as part of the Mellon Jazz Up Close “Goes ...

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Legendary Wayne Shorter Quartet Performs with Terell Stafford Quartet as Part of Mellon Jazz Fridays at the Kimmel Center March 28

Legendary Wayne Shorter Quartet Performs with Terell Stafford Quartet as Part of Mellon Jazz Fridays at the Kimmel Center March 28

Source: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kimmel Center Presents 2007/08 Season Sponsored by Citi

“Wayne Shorter is jazz's all-around genius, matchless in his field as a composer, utterly original as an improviser...one of the freshest saxophonists in jazz, as well as possibly its best small-group composer ever."--New York Times

“A smart and assertive trumpeter...Mr. Stafford does a superlative job with a broad range of themes."--New York Times

Legendary saxophonist-composer Wayne Shorter returns to the Kimmel Center to explore the metaphysical heights of jazz with his Quartet ...

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Sten Hostfalt, Melissa Kassel & Matt Renzi at Abc No Rio NYC March 16

Sten Hostfalt, Melissa Kassel & Matt Renzi at Abc No Rio NYC March 16

Source: All About Jazz

LIVE IN CONCERT sunday MARCH 16 2008 at 8 pm / $7 at ABC NO RIO, NEW YORK CITY STEN HOSTFALT - guitar MELISSA KASSEL - voice MATT RENZI - saxophones and clarinets “Melissa Kassel is among the best vocalists to appear in years" - Harvey Pekar, WBCN, NPR “Sten Hostfalt may be considered Groundbreaking"

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Vampire Suit at Barbes in NYC - March 27th

Vampire Suit at Barbes in NYC - March 27th

Source: All About Jazz

Vampire Suit is excited to announce the imminent release of 'A New Song', a follow up to 'Gaze at Your Omphalos', its debut release from 2004. In support of the new release, Vampire Suit will perform at Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn on March 27th at 10:00 pm. The group consists of: Jay Vilnai - guitar Skye Steele - violin Gary Pickard - sax and clarinet Greg Heffernan - cello Rich Stein ...

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