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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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The joy and legacy of the Duke Ellington songbook
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Duke Ellington's impact on jazz seems beyond measure, no matter how you count it. He wrote, co-wrote or took credit for writing more than 1,000 compositions over a 50-year span. According to one family bio, it was more than 3,000 songs. The numbers really don't matter as much as the imprint Duke left on the music. That's what the Dan Miller-Lew Del Gatto sextet celebrated in their Charlotte County Jazz Society concert appearance on Monday, January 10. They dug into ...
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Igor Butman: Russian Jazz at Dizzy’s
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All About Jazz
Jazz internationalization has widened in the last few decades to include musicians from practically every country imaginable. At Jazz @ Lincoln Center the programming has reflected this phenomenon and patrons have been given generous helpings of foreign artistry. The club has become a veritable hub for this music and thus enhanced Gotham's reputation as the world's Jazz capitol. On December 19th the latest international leader saxophonist Igor Butman took the stage at Dizzy's celebrating the release of his new recording ...
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Downtown's Premier Jazz Club, The Django, Announces Line-up For February Including La Reserve Records Anniversary, Calvin Johnson CD Release, Mingus Festival And More
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AMT Public Relations
The Django, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, continues to host today’s jazz legends and rising stars. On February 3, The Django celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Brooklyn-based record label, La Reserve, with special performances by the label’s artists. Two enchanting female vocalists celebrate Valentine’s Day 2/14 in back-to-back concerts: Martina DaSilvafollowed by Lauren Henderson. For the 14th year, the Charles Mingus Festival and High School Competition hosts the most important event in jazz education today (2/19-20). The Django’s weekly ...
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Kenny Washington delights - again
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Oakland CA-based singer Kenny Washington is a marvel, plain and simple. And his return performance to Artis Naples' All That Jazz series on Wednesday, December 13 showcased the diminutive singer's skills,tone and wide range, and his artful scatting on two of the evening's 10 tunes. Washington was special guest with the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra, which on this evening was stretched from its usual sextet to a septet. The mega-talented band this night included tenor saxophonist and artistic director Lew ...
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