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Start New Year with Jazz Brunch at Boston Langham Hotel on Sunday, January 1

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
January 1, 2012

The famous Sunday Brunch at Cafe Fleuri at Boston's Langham Hotel, featuring the Robert Rivera Ensemble, is taking place on Sunday, January 1, 2012. The cost is $65 for adults, $30 for children ages 5-12, and complimentary for children under four. The adult price includes one glass of sparking wine or mimosa. Reservations are available at 11:30 a.m., Noon, 1:30 p.m and 2:00 p.m. To make your reservation, call 617 451-1900, ext 7125. To see the New Year's Day menu, ...

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Adam Kolker Quartet Featuring Billy Hart, Bruce Barth & John Hébert, January 3 at Iridium in New York City

Source: Scott Foster
December 31, 2011

The Adam Kolker Quartet Featuring Billy Hart, Bruce Barth & John Hébert will perform January 3 at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. Adam Kolker, a critically acclaimed jazz composer, tenor saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, bass clarinetist and Sunnyside Records artist, also leads the Adam Kolker Quartet Featuring John Abercombie. Drummer Billy Hart has appeared on more than 150 records, including Miles Davis' “On the Corner" and Herbie Hancock's “Sextant," as well as eleven records as a leader. Pianist Bruce ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, December 30 - January 5

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
December 30, 2011

The joy of celebrating and anticipating the New Year is tempered this week with the loss of our dear friend and jazz chanteuse Christine Rosholt. But she would be the first one to tell us to get out and share some good music with friends and family. So let's do it, there's enough to keep us in good spirits every day. Highlights This Week With a Saturday night of New Year's Eve special gigs, it might be easy to overlook ...

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Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, Betty Shirley featured in Jazz Journey concert with Virginia native Rene Marie

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
December 29, 2011

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents a Jazz Journey concert featuring the legendary song stylist Rene Marie, along with three of New Orleans' greatest female jazz singers: Germaine Bazzle, Stephanie Jordan and Betty Shirley. The concert takes place on Friday, Jan. 13, at Dillard University's Lawless Memorial Chapel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts promptly at 7:00 p.m. René Marie, the award winning singer and Virginia native whose ...

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Tuesday Nights Will Never Be the Same

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
December 29, 2011

It was the Tuesday after Christmas, and throughout the Artists Quarter, not a chair or barstool stood empty, not even a mouse could squeeze in. The drinks poured freely, the $5 admissions piled high; even the Strib sent photographers to cover the gig. Up on the stage, Bill Brown made the B-3 bubble and hum; Billy Franze tossed and turned that guitar inside out with his usual big grin; and owner Kenny Horst pounded and rattled the drumkit into submission. ...

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New Year's Eve Blues with J. Geils, Jeff Pitchell and Texas Flood at Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
December 29, 2011

Blues masters J.Geils, Jeff Pitchell and Texas Flood are performing in concert at the Sawtell Room at Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley Massachusetts on Saturday, December 31, 2011. The cost is $90 and includes dinner, the show, champagne toast and party favors. Dinner is at 7:00 p.m. and the show starts at 9:00 p.m. Check out the menu. To purchase tickets online, click here. Also at the Bull Run Restaurant on New Year's Eve: the Amy Black Band performs in ...

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David Maxwell's Maximum Blues Concert at Regattabar in Harvard Square on New Year's Eve

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
December 29, 2011

Blues master pianist David Maxwell is performing a Maximum Blues concert to usher in New Year's starting at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at the Regattabar Jazz Club in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Winner of the 2010 Blues Music album of the Year award, Maxwell is joined by a high-powered band that includes Brian Templeton on vocals, Greg Piccolo on tenor sax, Tony Gonyea on guitar, Jon Ross on bass, Per Hanson on drums Tickets to the show ...

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Bill Anschell Will Not Be Playing Christmas Tunes This Friday

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
December 29, 2011

From Bill Anschell: I'm happy to announce that this Friday, my trio will celebrate the close of yet another joyous holiday season by NOT PLAYING the Charlie Brown Christmas Song! How many times do you think you heard it this year? How many times do you think I played it? Well, I can tell you: 17 1/2. The half happened when I reached the middle last Friday at exactly 12:10 pm, which happens to be break time on my solo ...

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