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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 2017
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
September promises to be one of the hottest jazz months of the year in the Twin Cities, with visits from Eliane Elias, Mike Stern, John Raymond, the Yellow Jackets, Curtis Stiegers, Jay Clayton, Evan Christopher, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Bad Plus with Bill Frisell and more, as well as performances from local and regional artists including Red Planet with Bill Carrothers, cellist Tomeka Reid, Arne Fogel and Maud Hixson reprising the Crosby-Clooney Story, the ...
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Swinging the heck out of gypsy jazz
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
There is something simultaneously exotic, passionate and downright swinging about gypsy jazz. That's the all-strings musical style that guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli popularized with their Hot Club of France collaborations in the 1930s and '40s. Southwest Florida has its own splendid version of that Hot Jazz/Jazz Manouche sound. Sarasota-based Hot Club of SRQ, directed by violinist Keven Aland, plays regularly all over the area with groupings that range from duo, trio and quartet to larger possibilities depending ...
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Jazz this week: The Bridge Trio, Mo Egeston album release party, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The end of August usually is an in-between time for live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with most summer series having wound down and Labor Day and the fall presenting season yet to come. Even so, there still are some noteworthy events happening this weekend, so let's go to the highlights... Thursday, August 24 The Bridge Trio will perform at the The Dark Room in the penultimate date of a two-week Midwestern tour. Based in New Orleans, the ...
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David Rogers, Classical Crossover Guitarist Performs at Silvana in NYC on October 16th
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David Rogers
Solo classical crossover guitarist David Rogers performs Monday, October 16th from 7-8:00pm at Silvana. Silvana 300 W. 116th Street New York, NY 10026 No cover. Termed, “a prominent guitarist," by the New York Times and praised by The Washington Post for his “astonishingly florid" improvisations, David Rogers presents an evening of solo guitar music with strong leanings towards jazz, world, folk and classical music. An endorsing artist for GHS Strings, his music has been ...
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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies And Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present 100+ Performances And Events For 150th Season
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
2017-2018 Season highlights include: World premieres of new works by Darcy James Argue and Anthony Coleman Monk’s Dream: Thelonious Monk at 100 with T.S. Monk Manteca: Dizzy Gillespie and the Birth of Latin Jazz celebrating Gillespie’s centennial Residency featuring Matana Roberts Music of Jerry Bergonzi and Ken Schaphorst New England Conservatory’s (NEC) internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation (CI) Departments announce more than 100 concerts for the celebratory 150th anniversary season. The 2017-2018 season continues to build on NEC’s ...
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Steve McQuarry's Mandala Nonet And Orchestra To Perform The Music Of Gil Evans, Sept 30, At SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Oakland-based keyboardist-composer Steve McQuarry has long been in love with the unique music of Gil Evans, the late, largely-self-taught Toronto-born composer, arranger, and keyboardist best remembered for his numerous collaborations with Miles Davis. “The whole way he thought about orchestrating using instruments and also pushing those instruments in different ranges is really fascinating,” McQuarry says of Evans. “I remember talking with Maria Schneider about this. She said he would write the trombone parts really high and things like that, which ...
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Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist Kellye Gray Returns To Nola For A CD Release Concert For "Rendering" at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro on August 19th
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Mouthpiece Music
Acclaimed jazz vocalist Kellye Gray performs a CD release concert for her latest album, Rendering, at NOLA’s Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro on Saturday, August 19th with two shows at 8:00pm and 10:00pm. Raves are pouring in for Gray’s Rendering. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “She’s as great a storyteller as she is a singer, and you hear it in every note... powerfully expressive.“ Jazz Mostly calls her album, “hugely entertaining,“ while Cabaret Scenes says, “Palpable four-octave-range vocals emanate from ...
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Exceptional jazz with firepower
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
John Allmark’s Monday evenings at the Met Café in Pawtucket, RI generally feature his very fine big band. This past Monday, Allmark presented his octet, a brass-rich band that gives each player a bit more time in the spotlight than the big-band format permits. For that evening, the horn line included Allmark on trumpet, Tucker Antell and Mark Vint on tenor saxophone, Angel Subero on trombone and Bob Bowlby on baritone sax, Dennis Hughes (piano), Bill Miele (electric bass) and ...
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