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Jazz This Week: Marlena Shaw, Four in One, Cornet Chop Suey, Oikos Ensemble, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's finally spring in St. Louis, and it's Jazz Appreciation Month all over the world, so it's a good week to get out and hear some live jazz and creative music. Here's a look at what's going on around town over the next few days... Tonight, singer Marlena Shaw (pictured) returns to Jazz at the Bistro for the first evening of a four-night engagement. Known for signature songs such as “Go Away Little Boy" and “California Soul," Shaw performed in ...
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Vocalist Sherry Wilson Butler @ Kennett Sq. PA Flash On Wed. May 1st!
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Jim Miller
Appearing at Kennett Flash — 102 Sycamore Alley in Kennett Square — on Wednesday, May 1st is singer Sherry Wilson Butler. Tickets are $10, $5 for students and are available only at the door. Showtime is 7:30. Information: 215-517-8337. Sherry Wilson Butler is a singer, entertainer, development teacher/coach, music educator, lyricist, event-programming specialist, educational administrator, actress, and short story writer. Her career spans over 30 years in the music industry. She’s performed and recorded all over the world, with artists ...
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Vocalist Kitty Mayo @ Cheltenham PA Center For The Arts Wed. May 1st!
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Jim Miller
Appearing at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts — 439 Ashbourne Road in Cheltenham — on Wednesday, May 1st is singer Kitty Mayo. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Kitty Mayo was born into a musical family and was singing before she walked. She received her early experience in her hometown of Chicago, where her father would take her to sing— while she was still a child—at ...
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Vocalist Barbara Montgomery In Collingswood NJ Thurs. May 2nd!
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Jim Miller
Appearing at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 Collings Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey on Thursday, May 2nd is singer Barbara Montgomery. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Barbara Montgomery has been in the entertainment field for over 30 years as a music industry executive, publisher, producer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, and television producer. After working in a production capacity for the Mike Douglas Show, and later ...
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Jazz Appreciation Month: From the Sublimated to the Ridiculous, All in Good Music
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
April is Jazz Appreciation Month across the country, and special events can be found from small town theaters to major city venues. We're fortunate to live in an area that not only sports a couple of those major venues, but a wide range of jazz across predictable and unlikely settings. And it's hard to imagine more disparate renderings of “jazz" than the past weekend in Minneapolis, with a 3-concert, multi-ensemble marathon celebrating John Zorn at the Walker Art Center (Saturday) ...
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Martha Lorin Returns To Metropolitan Room With Mother's Day Show
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Lampkin Publicity Service
Martha Lorin Returns to the Metropolitan Room for a special afternoon of jazz in: “My Mother’s Favorite Songs" Featuring Harvie S (bass), Ralph Lalama (alto saxophone), and Richard Siegel (piano). One Show Only! Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 2:00 p.m Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) Music Cover: $20.00. Two Drink Minimum. Reservations suggested - please call: (212) 206-0440 “My Mother's Favorite Songs" will include love songs from the jazz standards songbook, plus several songs ...
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Emmanuel Baptist Church Welcomes Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon To Their Next Jazz Vespers
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Emmanuel Baptist Church Jazz Vespers
Brooklyn, NY: Extraordinary and Award-winning jazz artist Wycliffe Gordon will be performing at the next edition of Emmanuel Baptist Church’s highly popular Jazz Vespers series. He will be bringing his unique hard-swinging, straight-ahead style to a diverse audience of true jazz lovers. The Jazz Vespers service will take place in its standing home at the historic Emmanuel Baptist Church, 279 Lafayette Avenue, located in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, New York, on April 28, 2013 at 3:00 PM. Currently ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 5-11
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Some of the excitement this weekend takes place across state lines as the annual Eau Claire Jazz Festival welcomes hometown hero Geoffrey Keezer and Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, but there's plenty of hot competition right here, with the multi-set 60th birthday party for avant-garde leader John Zorn at the Walker, Happy Apple on a rare weekend gig at the Icehouse, and “the Legend" Billy Holloman back “home" at the Artists Quarter. And the week starts off with a double dose ...
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