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Bhob Rainey to Perform Sunday, December 23 at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 17, 2012

In what's become a holiday tradition, improvising saxophonist Bhob Rainey will be back in St. Louis just before Christmas to perform at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. The concert at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 23 also will include sets from composer Jack Callahan and epicycle, featuring Travis Snyder and Mark Sarich. This is the eighth year running that Rainey (pictured) has played a late-December date at LNAC. A prolific collaborator both live and on record, his most recent album is ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, December 14-20

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
December 15, 2012

The holidays are ever closer, the snow is deep enough to create ice dams and igloos, and the entertainment options around the Twin Cities can be mind-boggling. Here, let me help you! The jazz choices are abundant and joyful. Some Big Gigs This Week Friday, December 14. In the “Deep End/Community Pool" tonight at the Black Dog, a double percussion quintet of fearless improvisers takes the bandstand, with Erik Fratzke, Peter Leggett, Pete Hennig, Nathan Hanson and Brian Roessler. That's ...

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Sierra Jazz Society Concert Series With Faculty And Students

Source: Nora Nausbaum
December 15, 2012

Sierra Jazz Society Presents our second concert in our Winter Concert series. It's Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 2 p.m. the location is Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains at 246 S. Church St., Grass Valley. Bill Douglass leads the faculty, friends and students of Sierra Jazz Society in a concert full of variety and wonderful jazz. Special guest artist, jazzharpist Motoshi Kosako will join us for this concert. Complementary coffee and snacks at the intermission and wine will be ...

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Jazz This Week: Zappa Plays Zappa, Chris Potter Trio, Peter Martin and Romero Lubambo, George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 13, 2012

It's another busy weekend for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and with two of the week's headliners in town for performances this evening, there's no time to waste. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Frank Zappa repertory group Zappa Plays Zappa, led by FZ's younger, guitar-playing son Dweezil Zappa, returns to St. Louis play at The Pageant. In case you're keeping track, this will be ZPZ's fourth stop at that particular venue since the band was formed in ...

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Monkadelphia At The Barnes In Philly On Friday Dec. 21st!

Source: Jim Miller
December 13, 2012

Monkadelphia (Tony Miceli, vibes; Chris Farr, saxophone; Tom Lawton, piano; Micah Jones, bass; Jim Miller, drums) will be playing at the Barnes Museum, 2025 Ben Franklin Parkway in Philly on Friday Dec. 21st from 6 - 8 PM, which of course is the End of the World according to those who believe in the Long Count Mayan calendar, the Planet X Nibiru or any combination thereof, predicting doomsday (yet again) that very night...What a way to go! Anyway, it just ...

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New Orleans Bassist Ed Wise In Cheltenham Pa On Wednesday January 2nd!

Source: Jim Miller
December 13, 2012

Jazz Bridge in Cheltenham PA presents bassist Ed Wise and his New Orleans Jazz Band at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 439 Ashbourne Road in Cheltenham, on Wednesday January 2nd. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. Bassist Ed Wise, a native of Houston, Texas, has been playing jazz professionally since he was 17 years old. With a master's degree from the renowned University of North Texas, he's played ...

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Jazz Vocalist Rhenda Fearrington In Collingswood Nj On Thursday January 3rd!

Source: Jim Miller
December 13, 2012

Jazz Bridge in Collingswood presents vocalist Rhenda Fearrington at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 Collings Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey on Thursday, January 3rd. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. This promises to an exciting evening of jazz. Jazz singer and native New Yorker Rhenda Fearrington, who counts Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley as among her first influences, is an individual, versatile and creative artist with extensive and impressive ...

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Saxophonist Dave Wilson In Kennett Square On Wed. January 2nd!

Source: Jim Miller
December 13, 2012

Jazz Bridge in Kennett Square! presents saxophonist Dave Wilson at Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley in Kennett Square, on Wednesday January 2nd 2013. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. The huge-toned saxophonist Dave Wilson first received press attention for his traditional/New Orleans ensemble the Canal Street Hot 6, and has carried through with his admiration for that genre with today's Dave Wilson's Rampart Street Ramblers, which continues to tour. ...

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