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Jazz This Week: Marcus Roberts Trio, Denise Thimes with Cyrus Chestnut and Tom Braxton, Pedrosaxo, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Although it's getting to the end of the spring presenting season for jazz and creative music here in St. Louis, this Mother's Day weekend nevertheless offers plenty of options for your listening enjoyment. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, pianist Marcus Roberts (pictured) and his trio will be the featured performers for the tenth annual “Evening of Hope" event benefiting the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Roberts last played in St. Louis in November 2012 ...
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BreakOUt OUtwest Tour with OU and Amy Denio!
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B Dahlia
SPOOT MUSIC AND B DAHLIA PRESENT: BreakOUt OUtwest TOUR! with OU (Italy) and Amy Denio (Tiptons, Kultur Shock) “...a joyful, multidimensional romp through the Mediterranean and the Americas... OU shows a remarkable ability to turn on a dime without jarring the listener.” —Matt Cole, DooBeeDooBeeDoo, NY “...an exquisite parenthesis of alleviation... a veritable treat.” —Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes OU and Amy Denio bring you a Mediterranean joyride of vivacious original songs by Sardinian composer Ersilia Prosperi: Folk jazz ...
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Hawthorne Park (12th & Catharine) Free Edgardo Cintron Quartet Concert May 15th!
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Jim Miller
It’s time to bring those lawn chairs, beach blankets and picnic baskets out of storage! Jazz Bridge is once again partnering with Hawthorne Empowerment Coalition (HEC), sponsor of Friends of Hawthorne Park, for a series of free summer concerts. Jazz Bridge and HEC, both Pennsylvania nonprofit corporations, will sponsor Jazz in Hawthorne Park, a four-concert series to be performed in Hawthorne Park at 12th and Catharine Streets in Philadelphia on May 15th, June 19th, July 17th, and August 21st. Each ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 2-8
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Old friends, new friends, local heroes and visiting young giants, and the sounds of jazz future make for a busy and enticing week on the Twin Cities jazz scene. Sunshine is nice, too. Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 2. In Minneapolis, Saint Paul or the burbs, you'll see some familiar faces that should put smiles on your own. Last minute change at Jazz Central — Kenny Horst had to pull out of his gig due to a knee injury ...
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Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators - New Release - Motema
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators All-Star Afro-Caribbean Band CD Release Celebration at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on June 13-15 Pianist Elio Villafranca is much-in-demand these days with a new CD release Caribbean Tinge (Motema Music) some special dates at Jazz at Lincoln Center and a performance at the annual Jazz Journalists Awards ceremony. With his all-star band, the Jass Syncopators, Villafranca is a breath of fresh air, or as Wynton Marsalis says “Pianist and composer Elio Villafranca is an inspired ...
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Jazz This Week: Joe Lovano and Us Five, Cornet Chop Suey, Jeff Anderson and Chad Evans, Sarah Jane and the Blue Notes, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Though it's the last day of Jazz Appreciation Month and some local not-for-profit presenters already have wound down their seasons, there's still some interesting jazz and creative music to be heard in St. Louis this week, including the long-awaited return of one of the top tenor saxophonists working today. That would be Joe Lovano, who will be back in St. Louis for the first time since the year 2000 with his band Us Five for a four-night stand opening this ...
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FringeArts Presents "The Beautiful Noise," An Interdisciplinary Homage To Jazz Legend Sun Ra
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Canary Promotion + Design
PHILADELPHIA — Bringing together an intergalactic performance as only FringeArts can, “The Beautiful Noise: A Special Tribute to Sun Ra" will be presented as an unrehearsed, one-time-only event on Friday, June 6. Curated by composer King Britt and artist Kate Watson Wallace, electronic-based musicians, body-based performers and videos artists will improvise a never before, never again collision of artistic synergy in tribute to their music hero, jazz surrealist Sun Ra. The Beautiful Noise pairs local and international artists who are ...
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Bill Frisell's Roots Of Americana Series Electric Guitar In America
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Michael Ricci
Featuring Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Appel Room on June 6-7 New York, NY – Guitar icon Bill Frisell presents the final concerts of his Roots of Americana Series for the 2013-14 season on June 6-7 at 7pm & 9:30pm in The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. Throughout the series, Frisell and an array of guest musicians have explored the intersections of rock, country, jazz and ...
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