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South Bend Jazz Festival Returns For Its 7th Year For Two Dates. Friday, October 5th & Saturday, October 6th
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Lampkin Publicity Service
Friday, October 5th and Saturday, October 6th @ Century Center: 5:00 – 11:00 pm We start off with a Festival Night at Merriman’s Playhouse, October 4th @ 8:00 pm Festival Tickets are $15.00 available @ instantseats.com and $18 @ Door. You can purchase a ticket for both nights for $25. Party to World Class Jazz, from funky to classic to world & everything in between. Our performers are coming from England, Holland and across the USA. Savor craft ...
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Anika Larsen And The Larsen/Maxwell Quintet Present Make You Feel My Love
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Dan Watt
Anika Larsen and The Larsen/Maxwell Quintet present Make You Feel My Love: The Musical Romance of a Jazz Cat and a Broadway Baby at 54 Below on Friday October 19th at 9:30 pm. Award winner Anika Larsen teams up with her husband and jazz trumpet player Freddie Maxwell for their Feinstein’s/54 Below and New York City debut of Make You Feel My Love: The Musical Romance of a Jazz Cat and a Broadway Baby. Best known for her Tony nominated ...
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Jazz Legend Benny Golson To Appear At Baltimore's Jazzway 6004
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Jazz Beyond Borders
Internationally-acclaimed bebop/hard bop saxophonist, composer, and educator Benny Golson, who will turn 90 years old in January 2019, will appear at Baltimore’s Jazzway 6004 on Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. The NEA Jazz Master and newly-inducted member of the DownBeat Hall of Fame will perform his famous tunes such as “Killer Joe,” “Whisper Not,” “I Remember Clifford,” and “Stablemates” in an intimate setting for one night only. Mr. Golson is one of only two remaining jazz greats from ...
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Satchmo Summerfest 2018: Two Birthdays For Louis Armstrong
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Watch Jazz Happen by Dan Kassell
Satchmo Summerfest Louis Armstrong House and Museum Queens, NY August 3-5, 2018 New Orleans, the birthplace of Louis Armstrong celebrated August 4th, 2018 with this three day affair for the eighteenth year produced by French Quarter Festivals at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint in the French Quarter. In Corona, Queens, New York at Louis Armstrong's House and Museum they celebrated on July 4th and continue ...
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Elio Villafranca Launches Cinque World Tour! Australia To Mexico
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Cinque will be on a Worldwide Tour this year and the next, with performances in: Australia Friday, Sept 7, Nexus Arts Centre, Adelaide Saturday, Sept 8, Wharf, Ulverstone, Tasmania Wednesday, Sept 12, Darlinghurst Theatre Company's Eternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst Mexico Wednesday, Nov. 6 Instalaciones del ITESO Guadalajara, Mexico Sydney Adelaide Elio Villafranca voted: DownBeat Winner- Rising Star- Keyboard and 4.5-star review for Cinque! He was recently interviewed on Univision 41 and is featured on Lorens Chuno's “Doing ...
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ARJUN at The Iridium in NYC On August 31st - One Night Only! Power Jazz Rock Trio - Jam Band!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
If you like Jeff Beck, John Scofield, Mike Stern...you'll love these guys! ARJUN The Iridium 1650 Broadway (at 51st St.) New York, NY phone: 212-582-2121 August 31 at 8pm- $20 Cover Reserve Now! New EP Due This Fall! ARJUN, the three-piece instrumental band from New York, has been trailblazing their own hybrid of rock and improvisational jazz since 2003. Featuring Eddie Arjun Peters on guitar, Andre Lyles on bass guitar ...
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Trumpeter Eamon Dilworth's Australian / New Zealand Album Launch Tour Runs From July 26th to August 3rd
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Eamon Dilworth
Sydney trumpeter Eamon Dilworth (Tijuana Cartel, Ed Kuepper, Low Down Riders) is touring his latest Jazz album Viata across Australia & New Zealand July 26th-August 3rd with Alister Spence & Paul Derricott. Special guests in each city will include Julien Wilson, James Muller & Roger Manins. Eamon is best known for his previous albums with The Dilworths (“Introducing") & Tiny Hearts (“Alluvium”) and has performed with Dale Barlow, James Muller, The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, Nigel Kennedy, Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy ...
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Keystone Jazz Collective, Co-Founded By Pittsburgh Trombonist Reggie Watkins & Philadelphia Bassist Nimrod Speaks, Announces New Organization & July Concerts
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The Keystone Jazz Collective is a tale of two Pennsylvania cities. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, not to mention the surrounding regions, have brought far more than their share of jazz to the world. Whether it’s Billy Strayhorn and Art Blakey from Pittsburgh, Henry Mancini from the nearby town of Alquippa, or Benny Golson, John Coltrane, and McCoy Tyner from Philadelphia, the list rapidly expands to include dozens of the greatest musicians of all time periods. Now the newly formed Keystone Jazz ...
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