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Studio Senakwami Presents: The Gustavo Casenave Quartet Featuring John Patitucci on June 9 at The Appel Room
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Gustavo Casenave is a three time Latin Grammy Award nominee, a Steinway Artist and a 2015 ACE Awardee. Mr. Casenave is a Uruguayan pianist and composer who has collaborated and recorded with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Bette Midler, Eddie Gomez, Robert Duvall, Neil Sedaca among many others. The Quartet features the acclaimed, Grammy nominated jazz bassist John Patitucci. Mr. Patitucci was a member of three Chick Corea groups: the Electrik Band, the Akoustic Band and the Quartet. He has ...
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Friends, Colleagues And Students To Celebrate Janet Lawson In NYC on May 15th
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Friends, current and former students, and many of the incredible musicians she has collaborated with over the years will gather on Monday, May 15th 2017 from 7 to 10pm at the extraordinary Minnie Petrie Synagogue at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, 1 West 4th St. (near Broadway) in New York City, to offer a loving, healing tribute to Janet in celebration of her incredible impact on so many artists and students of jazz. Engaged in a health crisis, ...
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Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group at Lilypad in Cambridge on June 4
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Melissa Kassel
Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group : Melissa Kassel Vocalist, Tom Zicarelli Pianist, Bruce Arnold Guitarist, David Clark Bass & Gary Fieldman Drums. June 4 at 6:30 p.m. Lilypad 1353 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA $12.00 cash at the door. Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli invite you to an eclectic evening of original music and jazz standards. About Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group Keven Lowenthal the Boston Globe writes that “This smart, sensitive, and quietly adventurous ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 12-18
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
It looks like a great spring week coming our way with national headliners and local talents—talents that could be national headliners. Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 12. One of the most lauded composers and bandleaders of his generation, saxophonist Steve Coleman brings his rarely performed project, Natal Eclipse, to the McGuire Theater at the Walker. The New York Times describes Coleman as “one of the most rigorously conceptual thinkers in improvised music." Usually that means it is over my ...
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Living his jazz mentors’ advice
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Bassist and educator Brandon Robertson practices what he teaches. Robertson earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in music performance at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where his mentors had sage advice. “They’ve all told me to go out and make my own name for myself. Make my own success,” Robertson says. “I just want to be positive, be professional and play as well as I can play.” He’s a busy addition to the Southwest Florida jazz scene since moving here summer. ...
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Urbanity US Tour June 2017
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
The collaboration between Albare and Phil Turcio started 27 years ago when Albert Dadon–aka Albare–was looking for a new pianist for his band. At the time Phil had just turned 18. Albare recalls, “He was not even the youngest member of the band then; our drummer just turned 17.” “These guys sounded so good, it was a pleasure already to play with them.” Phil explains that he and Albare hear music in the same way, “Everything I throw at Albare ...
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Jazz this week: Joey DeFrancesco, George Benson, Denise Thimes, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As the not-for-profit presenting season and the spring academic semester both approach their ends, this week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis nevertheless features performances from two major touring headliners, plus a number of other noteworthy shows. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, May 10 Organist Joey DeFrancesco returns to Jazz at the Bistro for the first of four nights, continuing through Saturday. DeFrancesco recently expanded his band from a trio to a quartet, and has ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 5-11
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
This week we celebrate more “Minnesota Jazz Legends" as well as enjoying the music of some Twin Cities jazz “newbies," Latin jazzers, and a few distinguished visitors. And rumor has it that we will also enjoy spring! Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 5.Fuzzy Math, the group named by City Pages as “tops for people who are bored with jazz," makes its Jazz Central debut. The band includes Mark Vandermyde on keys, Scott Fultz on sax, Curtis Lucky on trumpet, ...
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