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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, March 8-15

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
March 10, 2012

A full week again, with women jazzers leading the way, from local vocals to imported talent. Highlights This Week March 9-10. Fans of vocal swing and spot-on harmonies will welcome the return of The Manhattan Transfer. Nominated for multiple Grammies over their three-plus decades of performing, the quartet brings their infectious brand of jazz, big band and pop to the Dakota. TMT includes founding members Tim Hauser, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel, along with long-time member Cheryl Bentyne. (Siegel will ...

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Vijay Iyer: The Surprise of Sound

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
March 9, 2012

The recent two-night Vijay Iyer mini-festival, dubbed “The Sound of Surprise," covered what Walker Art Center curator Philip Bither described as a “curious diversity" of the wide-ranging projects of the creative pianist. Iyer, whose work of the past fifteen+ years has garnered critical praise, Grammy nominations, and certainly, the “sounds of surprise," embodies that “curious diversity" in his projects and in his physical being. His doctoral research at UC-Berkeley addressed musical cognition, an area of study usually limited to physicists ...

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Jazz Pianist Ramsey Lewis Playing at Scullers Jazz Club on March 8-9

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 9, 2012

Jazz pianist, composer and legend Ramsey Lewis brings his Sun Goddess Tour to Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Thursday, March 8 and Friday, March 2012. Joining Ramsey on the tour is Henry Johnson, Tim Grant, Joshua Ramos and Charles Heath. Show times are 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. both nights. Tickets are $38 and can be purchased online. The Chicago native hit the jazz scene in the 1950s with a string of hits like The In Crowd. Lewis has three ...

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson Opening at Huntington Theatre Company in Boston on Friday, March 9

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 9, 2012

Huntington Theatre Company is presenting August Wilson's award-winning play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Boston University Theatre, from March 9 through April 8, 2012. The play is part of Wilson's Century Cycle, and was Wilson's first Broadway hit. In the play, legendary 1920s blues singer Ma Rainey and her musicians gather in a run-down Chicago studio to record new sides of old favorites when generational and racial tensions suddenly explode. Find ticket information here. See a full schedule of ...

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The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Announces Its 2012-2013 Jazz Season

Source: Emily Krahn
March 8, 2012

Inaugural season of Jason Moran to highlight: An Evening of Comedy & Music with David Alan Grier and the Jason Moran Ensemble The Music of New Orleans: The New Orleans Bingo! Show Performances by the Heath Brothers, Kurt Elling, and Dr. Lonnie Smith Supersized Jazz Club Election Night Jam NPR's A Jazz Piano Christmas The Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival A Jazz New Year's Eve with ...

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Jazz This Week: Peter Martin and Inner Circle, Jack Wright, Rick Haydon, Jazz St. Louis' Annual Gala, Delfeayo Marsalis, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 8, 2012

There's lots going on this week with jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and due to impending deadlines, not much time to tell you about it. So, without further preamble, let's go to the highlights.... Tonight, the free improvising saxophonist Jack Wright returns to St. Louis for the first time in four years for a performance at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. Always eager to collaborate with other improvisors, Wright will be aided and abetted by saxophonist Dave Stone and ...

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Legendary Drummer Chico Hamilton Continues Monthly Concert Series at NYC's Drom

Source: AMT Public Relations
March 7, 2012

NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico" Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a “Living Jazz Legend," and appointed to the President's Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers. DROM presents EUPHORIC—Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night ...

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Jazz Drummer Kendrick Scott, Live from Berklee's Cafe 939, on March 8

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 7, 2012

Famed jazz drummer Kendrick Scott is performing a live concert at Cafe 939 in Boston's Back Bay. The show is part of the new collaboration between York area jazz station WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, NPR, and Berklee College of Music, designed to to showcase Berklee alumni. Read the full press release here. The show is sold out but listeners can hear the show live by clicking here. The Checkout—Live at Berklee brings critically acclaimed, New York-based Berklee alumni back to ...

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