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New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Nearly 60 Free Performances For The Spring 2013 Season
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Highlights include Miguel Zenon's Multi-Media Masterpiece: Identities Are Changeable: Tales From The Diaspora Randy Weston with the NEC Jazz Orchestra Faculty Recitalby Fred Hersch and Tanya Kalmanovitch In The Mix - 36 one-hour concerts by exceptional student ensembles – and many more New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation Departments announce nearly 60 free concerts for the Spring 2013 season. Highlights include the third-ever performance of MacArthur Fellow and NEC faculty member Miguel Zenón’s multi-media masterpiece Identities ...
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BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Presents Monk in Motion: The Next Face of Jazz
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Allyson Morgan
New York, NY: The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is proud to present the talented winners of this year’s Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. This year’s competition highlighted outstanding drummers. Announced in September 2012, this year’s three finalists ─ Jamison Ross in First Place, Justin Brown in Second Place and Colin Stranahan in Third Place ─ will perform three solo concerts on February 2, March 2, and February 16, respectively. Each evening begins with a FREE humanities event (panel or ...
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The Lead Sheet: Live Jazz in the Twin Cities, January 4-10
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Seems that 2012 ended, and 2013 began, with no real break in the jazz action in the Twin Cities. And the jazz action for the coming week starts out with a Dave Hagedorn mini-festival as the vibes virtuoso is in residence three consecutive nights at the Artists Quarter (in duo with Dan Cavanagh and in quintet with Spiral Visions). It's also a Minnesota-New York reunion weekend as four musicians with ties to both cities come together in a new quartet ...
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Mark Berman Debuts New Power Trio At 78 Below, Wednesday January 9
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Miranda Callaway
Mark Berman, whose iconic montuno piano playing on the theme to “Sex and the City" assured his place in the pop culture pantheon, brings his hard-hitting power trio to 78 Below, 380 Columbus Avenue at 78th Street, on Wednesday, January 9, from 8 pm until 10 pm. Berman, whom Oscar host and Hollywood star Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables) calls “a rock of creativity" (the two have performed together live both in New York and Las Vegas), will air his new ...
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Music Without Borders Presents Upcoming NYC Concerts
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Chris M. Slawecki
Music Without Borders, a music and arts consulting firm based in Stamford, CT, is pleased to announce highlights of its upcoming NYC concert calendar. MWB has long been associated with producing concert events at diverse venues such as Symphony Space, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the Beacon Theater, the 92nd Street Y, and the Rubin Museum of Art’s Naked Soul Concert Series. Naked Soul Concert Series @ the Rubin Museum of Art: 150 West 17th Street - New York, NY 10011 ...
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Jazz This Week: Gregory Porter, Wack-a-Doo, a Jazz/Funk Tribute to the Beatles, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Call it a post-holiday hangover, a winter break, or whatever you like, but with one major exception, it's a pretty slow week for touring jazz and creative musicians visiting St. Louis. Fortunately, there are plenty of local musicians who aren't vacationing and/or hibernating, and thus are prepared to take up some of the slack. The big attraction of the week is singer Gregory Porter (pictured), who's making his much-anticipated St. Louis debut with a four-night engagement starting tonight and continuing ...
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George Kahn - Secrets Quintet To Perform At Catalina Jazz Club Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
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Imaginary Friends
GEORGE KAHN ‘SECRETS’ QUINTET TO PERFORM AT CATALINA JAZZ CLUB WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30TH, 2013 What happens when the 2008 Winner of the Chuck Niles Bebop Award gets together with a top Contemporary Jazz saxophonist, a star Latin Jazz trumpet player and a rhythm section featuring the drummer who played on “Birdland” with Weather Report? Find out on Wednesday, January 30th, 2013, at 8 PM as this ‘secret’ is revealed with the GEORGE KAHN “SECRETS” QUINTET. In celebration of Kahn’s most ...
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Stick Against Stone Orchestra - Album Release Party At Joe's Pub - 1/29/13
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rock paper scissors, inc.
All-star lineup of members from Losers Lounge, Burnt Sugar, Dizzy Ventilators and Time of Orchids rehydrate the long-lost songbook of Stick Against Stone as part of the upcoming documentary GET IT ALL OUT. Album release party by the Stick Against Stone Orchestra at Joe's Pub - January 29th, 2013 - 9:30pm “A smorgasbord of solid grooves seasoned with global spices - served in a punk funk setting." —Liquid Liquid’s Salvatore Principato Thirty-one years ago, a six-piece band/collective called Stick Against ...
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