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Jazz Supergroup Other Dimensions In Music To Close Out 2011 Evening Music Series At Chapel Of Our Lady Restoration In Cold Spring, NY, November 5th
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James Keepnews
"These are a generation's masters at the very height of their powers." —Tad Hendrickson, CMJ New Music Report The avant-jazz supergroup, Other Dimensions in Music, closes out the new evening music series for its first season at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration on Saturday, November 5th at 7:30 PM. Each member of the ensemble—Roy Campbell, Jr. on trumpet, fluegelhorn and flute; Daniel Carter on saxophones, clarinet, flute and trumpet; William Parker on bass; and Charles Downs on drums—is a ...
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Marc Hoffman Quartet Returns for 7th Annual Blues & Jazz Event
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Marble Arch PR
Quartet brings original jazz and standards to the City Club of Rock Hill Charlotte, NC: Jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Marc Hoffman and his quartet will return to the City Club of Rock Hill this Friday, September 30, from 7 to 11 PM as part of 7th Annual Blues & Jazz Festival. The City Club of Rock Hill is located at 140 Main Street in downtown Rock Hill, SC. For this performance, Hoffman will be joined by Chris Garges on drums, Terry Peoples ...
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Theo Bleckmann: From the Fifth Dimension of Human Voice and Mind
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
The New York Times refers to him as “from another planet." He must be. Theo Bleckmann and I can not possibly share the same anatomy of mouth and throat, let alone brain. But standing alone on the chancel of the Macalester Plymouth United Church on the Macalester College campus, Bleckmann looked anything but alien. In fact he sort of looks like Peewee Herman. And he took us on a Big Adventure. Labeling Bleckmann a “vocalist" is like labeling Picasso a ...
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Peter Martin, Wendell Brunious to Perform for Benefit on Saturday, November 19 at the Sheldon
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Pianist Peter Martin will team with New Orleans trumpeter Wendell Brunious to provide the music for “ArtSounds: French Quarter Fête," an event to benefit the Sheldon Art Galleries to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 19 at the Sheldon. Martin and Brunious will team with bassist Chris Thomas—who, like Martin, originally is from St. Louis—and drummer Jason Marsalis in a group billed as the New Orleans Modern Jazz Masters. Brunious, 56, has played with the Preservation Hall Jazz ...
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Elio Villafranca and The Jass Syncopators at The Painted Bride Arts Center on October 29th
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Michael Ricci
Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators featuring Victor Lewis and special guest, members of Los Pleneros de la 21 Sat. October 29 | 8pm $25 in advance, $30 day of show 20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. About Elio Villafranca Cuban-born Latin/modern jazz pianist-composer Elio Villafranca, internationally acclaimed for his genre-bending approach to modern Latin jazz, returns to the Bride to deliver a brand new project. Backed by his quintet and members of Los Pleneros ...
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Today's Top Artists Gather On-stage for Giants of Jazz at SOPAC on October 1
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AMT Public Relations
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2011 at 9:00PM SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (1 SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ, 07079) About Giants of Jazz The New York Times called it the “premier (jazz) festival in the state." Zan Stewart, jazz critic for the Star Ledger states it ..."is easily one of the top jazz show of the year...anywhere." In 1998, the cream of the jazz world came to take part in Giants of Jazz, an amazing standing-room-only performance. Now in its thirteenth ...
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"I Played and Bill Evans Listened"
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
From time to time, I open JazzWax to guest posts in an ongoing series called “Eyewitness," which features first-hand accounts of jazz artists or events as seen from a novel vantage point. Today, pianist Peter Boe [pictured in 1980] writes below of an unusual encounter 32 years ago and what it meant to him... “Back in 1979, I enrolled as a freshman at the University of Oregon in Eugene. At the time, the jazz-club scene in town was active with ...
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Lehman Center For The Performing Arts Announces Spectacular 2011-12 Season
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Joe Alterman
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts proudly announces the lineup for its 2011-12 Season, which continues its 31-year tradition of bringing world-class entertainment to the Bronx. The season will include the return of multi-Grammy Award-winning legend Smokey Robinson and Latin jazz master Paquito D'rivera with the great Mambo Legends Orchestra. Audiences will thrill to the hot salsa of Grupo Niche, Sonora Ponceña, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Raphy Levitt Y La Selecta and Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and Salsa Palooza, featuring Tito Nieves, ...
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