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Michele Rosewoman Trio With Special Guest Julian Priester At The Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 8, 2012

Source: Seton Hawkins
May 21, 2012

On June 8, 2012 at 9:00 p.m., the pianist/composer Michele Rosewoman leads her trio, featuring bassist Andy McKee and drummer Billy Hart, with special guest trombonist Julian Priester, in a concert at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, performing a selection of original works by Rosewoman and by Priester. Hailed by AllAboutJazz.com as a “propulsive bandleader [who] guides the listeners and the players on a most seductive journey," Michele Rosewoman has made her mark in the jazz world by fusing Afro-Cuban influences ...

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Playfi Lets Bands Play Shows Online and Sell Tickets

Source: HypeBot
May 19, 2012

Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We've just received word of a promising-looking new online music outfit out of Australia whose main premise is to help bands sell tickets to online shows, which they can then webcast using their own equipment to fans worldwide, or just in specific regions. PlayFi is a fairly standard online music store that lets fans set prices for MP3s and sell them while giving 30 percent to PlayFi, which is the standard deal. ...

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Free Concert May 22 with MPC Swing Band, Monterey County High School All-Star Combo

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
May 18, 2012

Monterey Peninsula College’s Free Annual Spring Concert Features MPC Swing Band, Monterey Jazz Festival’s County High School All-Star Combo, May 22 at MPC Music Hall Donations Also Accepted for Monterey Jazz Festival’s County High School All-Star Band’s 2012 Tour of the Pacific Northwest Monterey, CA; The Monterey Peninsula College Swing Band will present its annual Spring Concert on Tuesday, May 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the MPC Music Hall. Under the direction of Dr. Rob Klevan, the 21-piece band will ...

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Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open Season Finale with Dave Liebman & Scott Colley and May 19th!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 18, 2012

CONNECTION WORKS PRESENTS The Season Finale of BROOKLYN JAZZ WIDE OPEN @ The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Concert Hall The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is located at 58 Seventh Ave (at Lincoln Place), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, Tel 718 622 3300, reduced admission! FINAL Concert of the 2011-2012 season Saturday, May 19 @ 8:00 PM (two sets) WORKS with special guests DAVE LIEBMAN & SCOTT COLLEY Dave Liebman - saxophones Michel Gentile ...

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Sheldon Announces "Buy One, Get One Free" Offer on Tickets for Madeleine Peyroux

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

The Sheldon Concert Hall and MetroTix have announced a “buy one, get one free" offer on tickets for the upcoming concert by singer, songwriter and guitarist Madeleine Peyroux (pictured). Peyroux will make her St. Louis debut at the Sheldon at 7:30 p.m. this coming Sunday, May 20. Regular ticket prices for the concert are $45 and $40. The two-for-one offer is available online at the MetroTix website; by phone at 314-534-1111; in person at the Fox Theatre box office; or ...

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Terence Blanchard Commissioned to Write New Work for Opera Theatre St. Louis

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

Trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard (pictured) has been commissioned to write a new work called Champion for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. The opera will get its world premiere during OTSL's 2013 season, with six performances taking place between June 15, 2013 and June 30. Based on the story of professional boxer Emile Griffith, Champion is a joint project of OTSL and Jazz St. Louis. OTSL artistic director James Robinson will direct a cast starring Denyce Graves, Aubrey Allicock, Arthur ...

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Jazz This Week: Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo, Madeleine Peyroux, Eastern Blok, Marcus Lewis, Miles Davis Jazz Festival, and More

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

The week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis offers a wide variety of sounds and sights, including Balkan-tinged guitar, funk trombone, fusion harp, saxophone-playing twins, a festival featuring St. Louis musicians paying tribute to our area's most famous jazz icon, and much more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, guitarist Goran Ivanovic and his band Eastern Blok are coming down from Chicago to play a show at Pop's Blue Moon celebrating the release of their new CD ...

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Bassist Amanda Ruzza CD Release Performance, Zinc Bar, NYC, May 22, 2012

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 16, 2012

Electric bassist, Brazilian musical artist and composer Amanda Ruzza (http://www.AmandaRuzza.com) celebrates her new CD release, This is What Happened with a CD release party on Tuesday May 22, 2012, and performances at 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM, at the Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street (between Thompson & Sullivan), New York City. The multi-lingual, Brazilian Native, a virtuoso electric bassist, an in-demand studio player, and jazz music artist will lead her band of internationally-renowned, New York-based jazz musicians through a matrix of her ...

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