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Jazz This Week: Good 4 the Soul, Lowdown Brass Band, Bonerama, All That Tap XX, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
While the summer weather here in St. Louis continues to define the word “sweltering," this week also brings a variety of jazz and creative music suitable for beating the heat. Let's see what's coming up... Tonight, the summer edition of the Jazz at Holmes Series at Washington University wraps up with a free concert from The Poor People of Paris. (The series will be on hiatus for the month of August and then, presumably, will resume again in September.) On ...
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Brubeck Institute's Summer Jazz Colony to Offer Two Free Concerts This Year
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Patrick Giblin
Some of the best and brightest high-school-aged jazz musicians will be on the Stockton Campus of University of the Pacific to hone their skills and get advice from some of the best professional musicians in the world of jazz. But that advice no longer has to be kept between the students and professionals. For the first time in the history of the Brubeck Institute's Summer Jazz Colony, members of the public are invited to observe the evening jam session workshops ...
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Acclaimed Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore Returns to Feinstein's in "Some Like It Hot: the Music of Marilyn Monroe"
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Miller Wright & Associates
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York" by New York Magazine and “an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Summer 2011 season with the return of jazz vocalist REBECCA KILGORE in her new show “Some Like It Hot—The Music of Marilyn Monroe." She will be joined by The Harry Allen Quartet which features Allen on the tenor saxophone, Rossano Sportiello on piano, Joel Forbes on bass, and Chuck Riggs on ...
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Joe Chambers' "Moving Pictures" Orchestra, September 13-18 at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Joe Chambers' “Moving Pictures" Orchestra, September, 13-18, 2011 Featuring: Conrad Herwig Craig Handy, Xavier Davis, Dwayne Burno, Steve Berrios Where: Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Broadway at 60th St. New York, NY Phone: 212-258-9595 The Centerpiece for the orchestra is the commissioned composition “Moving Pictures." a four movement suite composed and premiered for the Lincoln Center Orchestra in March of 2003. This suite was conceived as a kind of Concerto for Drums (percussion) and Orchestra, Synthesizing polyrhythms, “straight ahead" swing , ...
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North Mississippi Allstars: New Shows in Fall
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JamBase
LATE SUMMER AND FALL APPEARANCES North Mississippi Allstars have announced they will be performing an Austin City Limits After Show at Antone's on September 15th. Tickets for this show go on sale Thursday at 10am. The Allstars are scheduled to perform at Austin City Limits the following day. Get more details here. NMA has also announced they will be playing 2-days at the Rancho del Gumbo Festival in Colorado Sept 23-24. Other bands expected at the festival include Ivan Neville's ...
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Grady Tate; Jammin' On The Hudson
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Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC
Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our seventh consecutive year are pleased to present: “ Jammin' On The Hudson." 'Jammin'; The Summer Concert Series for the 'serious' Jazz Lover! The series features 'World-Class' Players, appearing one Sunday in July and one in August. What could be more inviting than listening to the sounds of great Jazz Artists, cast out over The Hudson River, at sunset, for Free?! On Sunday August 7th we present a talented ...
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Nicole Henry to give New York City jazz fans a special embrace
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Accomplished ensemble to back the song stylist at Dizzy's the night before the release of Embraceable Miami, FL: On the eve prior to the release of her fourth album, Embraceable, Nicole Henry will take the stage at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola accompanied by an outfit of world-renowned musicians. The August 22nd performance previews the new recording that will be released the following day by ArtistShare. Set to join Henry on stage are Grammy nominated guitarist Julian Lage, ...
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Cylinder Plays New Jazz with a Thoughtful Smoulder
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
We met up with bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and her notable first album on the Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog (see link on this page). We cross paths with her again today, this time with the group Cylinder (Clean Feed 219). This, as the liner notes tell us, is a San Francisco-based cooperative group. The players share the composition duties, and the compositions form interesting and substantial frameworks for the freestyle improvisations on the album. It's a well-matched group of players. ...
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