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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month With Free Concerts, Diana Krall, And More
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AMT Public Relations
Bethany Vespers Series: Samara Joy Saturday, April 2 @ 6:00 pm Co-presented by Bethany Baptist Church and NJPAC, this month's Bethany Vesper Concert Series features a performance by jazz vocalist Samara Joy. With a voice and style mature beyond her 22 years, this is a rising star you won't want to miss. Samara won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition at NJPAC and released her self-titled debut album just last year. Samara is fresh off winning Best New ...
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New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra Celebrates The Centennial Of Massachusetts Jazz Master Jaki Byard on March 3
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
The Music of Jaki Byard" concert will highlight the multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger’s big band repertoire and his legacy at NEC World premiere of new work by composer Carl Atkins written in honor of Byard. International broadcast on Saturday, April 9 The NEC Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Ken Schaphorst celebrates the centennial of Jaki Byard in a live concert on Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Byard was one of ...
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Standard fare freshened with enthusiasm
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
You can't go wrong with the standards, be they items from the Great American Songbook, Braziliana or tried-and-true jazz chestnuts. You just need a talented band to deliver them with a fresh stamp—and a healthy dose of enthusiasm. Such was the case on Friday, February 11, when the Dan Miller-Lew Del Gatto quintet performed in the Jazzy Nightsconcert series at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center with special guest Jeremy Davenport. Later in the evening, there was a surprise ...
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Popular trio does it again – with charm and excellence
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The all-star International Trio returned to the Charlotte County Jazz Society concert stage on Monday, February 7 for their fifth appearance in 10 seasons, mixing concert staples with a few surprise treats. Drummer Eddie Metz Jr., bassist & singer Nicki Parrott and piano marvel Rossano Sportiello were happy to be back in front of a live audience. In this case, it was a packed house of more than 220 fans at Gulf Theater at The Military Heritage Museum in Punta ...
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New Jersey Performing Arts Center Presents Free 2022 Bethany Vespers Concert Series
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AMT Public Relations
Saturday, February 5 | 6:00PMStefon Harris This event turned virtual. Watch “His music needs no labels like ‘postmodern’ or ‘cutting edge’. It is Stefon Harris music, as Charles Mingus, he insisted, was Mingus music.” —Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times Magazine Educator. Vibraphonist and Composer, Stefon Harris has been heralded as “one of the most important young artists in jazz” by The Los Angeles Times. A four-time GRAMMY nominee, he is a seven-time Best Mallet player by the Jazz Journalist Association, the ...
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The Django Announces March Schedule Including Women's History Month Celebration, Slide Hampton Octet, And More
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AMT Public Relations
The Django downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, commemorates Women’s History Month by hosting more than 20 leading female jazz artists on its stage during March from Lezlie Harrison (3/19) and Roxy Coss (3/25) to emerging artists Marianne Solivan (3/5) and Endea Owens (3/11), to name a few. A special tribute concert for trombonist Slide Hampton (1932-2021) is slated for March 8th featuring an Octet performing Hampton’s own orchestrations. The Django’s weekly Mingus residency continues every Monday with two sets: Mingus ...
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Dara Tucker to perform at New Jersey Jazz Society January Social on January 29th
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All About Jazz
Other jazz musicians appearing on the album, in addition to Chestnut, include pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Dezron Douglas, drummer Johnathan Blake, saxophonist John Ellis, and trumpeter Giveton Gelin. Among additional song selections on Dreams of Waking are James Taylor's “Secret O' Life," Donny Hathaway's “Someday We'll All Be Free," and Wonder's “You Haven't Done Nothin.'" As a composer, Tucker collaborated in 2019 with Keb Mo' to write the title track for his Concord Jazz album, Oklahoma, which won a Grammy ...
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Still adventurous after all these years
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Trumpeter Terumasa Hino, at age 79 a jazz dynamo and elder statesman in his native Japan, divides his time between his homeland and the U.S. He worked steadily in New York starting in the mid-1970s, playing and recording in the bands of saxophonist Jackie McLean and drummer Elvin Jones, among others. This hard-bop player, whose musical forays have ranged from jazz-rock fusion to the avant-garde, became a snowbird four years ago. He was attracted to Southwest Florida primarily to golf ...
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