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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra Performs at Scullers Jazz Club on February 22
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra is performing at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online. Their performance is entitled “Blues, Ballads and Beyond," and features music by Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham and Duke Ellington, plus original music by Mark Harvey, trumpeter and music director of the orchestra. Founded in 1973, the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra has premiered over 100 original works for jazz orchestra ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, February 17-23
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
It's a very densely packed weekend for jazz fans, from a hip CD release at the AQ to a rare performance by one of the area's most highly regarded experimental jazz ensembles to a sublime vocal pairing at Orchestra Hall to the brief return of one of our beloved former residents and another production featuring a favorite duo + friend. If the weekend isn't enough, we have a trio of top jazzers coming into Jazz Central Monday, a long-awaited return ...
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Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra Performing in Cambridge on February 18
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
New Black Eagle Jazz Band Performs at Rogers Center in N. Andover on February 17
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
The New Black Eagle Jazz Band, one of New England's foremost disciples of the New Orleans jazz tradition, is performing in concert at the Rogers Center for the Arts at Merrimack College in North Andover on Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. The band formed in 1971 and since then has played in concert halls around the world. Tickets are $20 in advance and can be purchased online, or by calling 978 837-5355. Tickets are $25 the day of ...
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Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club Presents Alto Saxophonist Jim Snidero
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Sara Donnelly
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University in partnership with the Peabody Institute has launched a new jazz series, Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club, an exciting concert experience for its alumni, associate members, and guests. The spring series will feature four outstanding concerts beginning with two sets by the Jim Snidero Quartet on February 25th for general and student admissions. Originally from Camp Springs, MD and hailed as an “alto sax virtuoso" and “master musician" by Downbeat Magazine, Jim Snidero ...
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Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club: New Series Launched by Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Institute
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Sara Donnelly
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University in partnership with the Peabody Institute has launched a new jazz series, Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club, an exciting concert experience for its alumni, associate members, and guests. The Spring 2012 season will feature four dates by outstanding artists beginning with two sets by the Jim Snidero Quartet on February 25th for general and student admissions. For Artistic Director, Gary Thomas Peabody's Director and Chair of Jazz Studies, Jazz at the Johns Hopkins ...
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SFJAZZ Announces SFJAZZ Collective Spring 2012 Concert Tour
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Michael Ricci
SAXOPHONIST ANTONIO HART TO SUBSTITUTE FOR ORIGINAL COLLECTIVE MEMBER MIGUEL ZENÓN PERFORMANCES DEVOTED TO REPERTOIRE OF STEVIE WONDER AND COMPOSITIONS BY COLLECTIVE MEMBERS Antonio Hart—Alto Saxophone Mark Turner—Tenor Saxophone Avishai Cohen—Trumpet Robin Eubanks—Trombone Stefon Harris—Vibraphone Edward Simon—Piano Matt Penman—Bass Eric Harland—Drums SAN FRANCISCO, CA: SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast and presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival and SFJAZZ Spring Season, ...
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Nolafunk Jazzfest Series: 7 Walkers, Salmon, Lobos, Alo
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JamBase
ALL SHOWS GO ON SALE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 AT NOON EST The first annual Nolafunk Jazzfest Series, produced by Creative Entertainment Group (CEG), will take place April 27—May 5, 2012, during the evenings of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The inaugural event will launch at Republic on Friday, April 27 with a lineup that pulls out all the stops. Anders Osborne will be joined by the Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann, Little Feat's Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett, and ...
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