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Jazz This Week: River City Mess Around, a New Weekly Jam Session Debuts, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The live jazz and creative music offerings in and around St. Louis are bit less numerous than usual this week, thanks to several factors including the holiday weekend, the recent closings of Robbie's House of Jazz and a couple of other live music spots, and the temporary closing for renovations of Jazz at the Bistro. Still, there definitely are some jazz shows happening over the next few days, and here's where you can find them... Tonight, drummer Bernard Long Jr. ...
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Peter Epstein Will Tour In Support Of New Songlines Release, Polarities
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GoMedia PR
Saxophonist Will Perform on East and West Coasts from July through September Reno-based saxophonist Peter Epstein, whose new Songlines CD, Polarities, has garnered such strong reviews as “it's music of a higher order that's filled with endless surprises...expanding and contracting in fascinating ways" (allaboutjazz.com) and “it's a controlled burn...Epstein never loses the lyricism that defines his style"(Improvised blog), will tour throughout the US in the late summer/early fall. Epstein's slate of performances will begin in NYC on July 29, with ...
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Trumpeter Duane Eubanks In Hawthorne Park Concert Thurs. July 24th!
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Jim Miller
Jazz Bridge and Friends of Hawthorne Park present Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, bandleader and recording artist Duane Eubanks and his Quartet on Thursday, July 17th (rain date, July 24th). This is the third in the four-concert Jazz in Hawthorne Park series, each featuring our area’s finest jazz artists. Hawthorne Park is at 12th and Catharine Streets, and performances run from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Further information: jazzbridge.org or hecphilly.org. Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs! Philadelphia native Duane Eubanks is ...
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Critically Acclaimed Vocalist Michelle Walker At The Sidedoor Jazz Club (CT) August 8, 2014 8:30 PM
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Michelle Walker
JGP Recording Artist Michelle Walker will Perform Tracks from her upcoming CD “Love Misery” New York, NY – Gearing up for the release of her next studio album, jazz vocalist Michelle Walker and her band will be performing live at The Sidedoor Jazz Club in Old Lyme, CT on Friday August 8, 2014 performing a special pre-release concert showcasing tracks from her upcoming release, “Love Misery”, to be released in Fall / Winter 2014. Joining Michelle will be Ron Affif ...
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Looking Ahead: Southwest Florida Jazz in the Summer
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The snowbird concert season for jazz may be over in the Sarasota to Naples territory, but there’s still jazz to be found. Most of it is in the form of regular gigs at restaurants that offer jazz multiple times a week. They include J.D.’s in Port Charlotte (after its vacation week hiatus ends July 8), The Orange House in Punta Gorda, The Roadhouse in Ft. Myers, The Haye Loft upstairs at Euphemia Hay on Longboat Key, and a most-welcome new ...
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Marc Hoffman Returns To Tega Cay on June 29th
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Marble Arch PR
CHARLOTTE, NC – Virillion Music recording artist Marc Hoffman will perform Sunday, June 29th from 6:00 to to 9:00 p.m. at Casual Water in Tega Cay, SC as part of their summer jazz series. Hoffman, a NC native will include original instrumental and vocal jazz in his performance, as well as standards and pop. “I’m really excited to be back this year at Tega Cay for the summer jazz series,” Hoffman said. “Casual Water is a beautiful and fun venue ...
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Guitarist/Composer Roni Ben-Hur Celebrates 30 Years On The NYC Jazz Scene With Two Nights At The Kitano!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
RONI BEN-HUR CELEBRATES 30 YEARS ON THE NYC JAZZ SCENE WITH TWO NIGHTS AT THE KITANO, NYC FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 11 & 12 Showtimes are 8 & 10 PM On Friday & Saturday, July 11 & 12 at The Kitano, guitarist/composer/bandleader Roni Ben-Hur celebrates 30 years on the New York City jazz scene with two trios that reflect his career. During his three decades here, audiences could always find him naturally placing one foot in Brazil/Latin America, ...
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Resonance Jazz Summer Heat At Old First Concert Series and Live On KPFA
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Allison Bliss
Resonance Jazz, a one-of-a-kind Bay Area jazz octet, performs at the “Old First Concert Series” in San Francisco for a 4:00pm performance on Sunday July 27, 2014. Performances offer a rich composite of original standards from Duke Ellington to George Gershwin and Keith Jarrett, marrying the sounds of this unusual orchestration with violin, viola, flute/vocals, cello, sax, double bass, drums and piano. Bandleader Steve McQuarry introduces his new jazz originals and arrangements of tunes by Brubeck, Gershwin, and pop tunes ...
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