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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 4-10
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Fall is not only in the air, it's in the trees, on the street, along the river and up at the lake. Along with our newly arrived cloak of autumn color and cooler nights, we have a colorful variety of jazz artists in our midst, from talented locals to starbright visitors. It's hard to top a week that brought in Dave Holland, Billy Cobham and Gary Burton, but there really is no let down when you consider the artists coming ...
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Jazz This Week: The Bad Plus Plays Stravinsky, Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet, the Brubeck Brothers, Laurence Hobgood and Ernie Watts, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The good news is that it's another busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, including some very attractive free events. The bad news is that, absent time travel, cloning or some other fictional technology that doesn't exist, it's probably impossible for one person to hear it all. Nevertheless, to help you decide which shows are worth checking out, here are StLJN's picks for the week. Tonight, Dizzy Atmosphere plays swing and Gypsy jazz at The Shaved Duck, ...
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Dimitrije Vasiljevic To Perform Solo Piano Concert at Tenri Cultural Institute on Oct 11
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Danijela Milic/LeitmotivArts
Dimitrije Vasiljevic, New-York based award-winning pianist, will hold a solo piano concert on October 11, 2013 at 8pm at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. This jazz concert will include Vasiljevic’s own compositions as well as several original arrangements of songs by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Dimitrije Vasiljevic is performing extensively at renowned jazz clubs in New York City and had a successful release performance of his debut album The Path of Silvan at club Drom in ...
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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra 41st Season To Feature Blues, Opening Show Oct 9, Scullers Boston
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Rebecca DeLamotte
Praised for “spirited composition and inspired playing” (Jazz Alchemist- Poland) and called “spellbinding” (The Boston Globe), the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, one of the longest running large jazz ensembles in the world, will celebrate its 41st season with a series of Fall 2013 concerts featuring Blues and Other Hues. The venerable orchestra, led by award-winning composer Mark Harvey, will kick off the season at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, October 9 at 8:00 pm. The band, with vocalists Jerry Edwards and ...
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WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series Returns Saturdays In October + 1 In November
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM’s Award-Winning Kids Jazz Concert Series Returns with Five Free, Interactive Programs for Young People Fall Series Includes Concerts Featuring The Firey String Sistas!, Courtney Bryan Ensemble featuring Brandee Younger,New York Voices, Ignacio Berroa and Victor Jones Orchestrio NEWARK, NJ: WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM’s award-winning, free Kids Jazz Concert Series, which brings jazz culture and dynamic performances to young people in the Spring and Fall, returns in its 20th season with performances at five New Jersey venues ...
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A Legend In Concert: An Afternoon With Peggy King And The All-Star Jazz Trio
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Bruce Klauber
“A Legend in Concert: An Afternoon with Peggy King and The All-Star Jazz Trio,” pairs the famed jazz songstress with the area’s most swinging jazz group, live and in concert at the Philadelphia Ethical Society –1906 Rittenhouse Square—on Sunday afternoon, December 1st. Show time is 3 p.m., tickets are $25 and are available at the door or online. Call: 215-730-1789. Hosting the event is popular jazz broadcaster, WRTI radio personality, and WRTI “Voices in Jazz” host Bob Craig. “Pretty, perky ...
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Mike Jones: Plays Well with Others
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jazz has a long history of pianists with punch. Earl “Fatha" Hines, Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons are just a handful. All had a tiger-like attack on the keyboard coupled with an acrobatic technique. About a month ago a CD by pianist Mike Jones arrived that sizzled with excitement and I thought to myself—the punch, it lives! Weeks later, critic, pal and Duke Ellington biographer Terry Teachout sent along an email raving ...
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Jazz This Week: The Wee Trio, Yellowjackets, Ronnie Burrage, Dianne Reeves and Peter Martin, Diana Krall, Ahleuchatistas, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's a jam-packed week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, so much so that there's no time to even attempt a clever opening paragraph for this post. So let's go straight to the highlights... Tonight, the St. Louis Jazz Orchestra presents “A Tribute to Maynard Ferguson" with guest soloist Jim Manley on trumpet at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Also tonight, The Wee Trio, featuring St. Louis native Dan Loomis on bass, is in town to support the ...
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