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Drummer - Educator David F. Gibson’s Last Performance Is On Collaborative Project – Squeeze In Tight
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SM Communication Solutions
Album is a tribute to the joy this gentle man left though his music and his life Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) co-founder, Managing and Artistic Director Eli Yamin, better known as Dr. E., got together with some of his favorite musicians and friends to make an album under the JPI label some months ago. The album, Squeeze In Tight, set for release on September 1st, is meant as a tribute “…to the joy that jazz and blues inspire,” said Dr. ...
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Jazz Arts Project Celebrates Its 20th Year With 'A Summer Of Jazz' In Red Bank, NJ
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Jazz Arts Project, Inc.
Celebrating its 20th year the nonprofit Jazz Arts Project is gearing up for a busy summer in Red Bank, NJ. This year, a non-stop array of world-class jazz artists will perform in dozens of events, including park concerts, café nights, masterclasses, and jam sessions. There will also be several weeks of music camps and training programs for young musicians in the area. All of this is presented in honor of America’s music—jazz. The organization is thrilled to announce an exhilarating ...
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Christian McBride's World At Sea Sets Sail January 2026
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G Sibley
Nine-time GRAMMY Award-winning bassist Christian McBride has a new production in the works: his very first cruise, Christian McBride’s World at Sea. A celebration of jazz and more, McBride personally invited an expansive lineup of jazz greats, incomparable vocalists, top comedians and special guests to join his cruise, including Ledisi, Samara Joy, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Angélique Kidjo, José James, Melissa Walker, comedians Alonzo Bodden and George Wallace, featured instrumentalists Benny Green, Gregory Hutchinson, Sullivan Fortner, Christian Sands, Julius Rodriguez, Steve ...
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All-Star Tribute To Clyde Criner at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance on June 14, 2025
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Joseph Gold
An “All-Star" group of legendary musicians will join with other artists in a festive “Tribute to Clyde Criner," an Albany native and noted music performer, composer, and educator, who passed at 39 in 1991. The performance will be on Saturday, June 14, from 1:00-2:30pm at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance in Williamstown MA, as part of the program for the 50th Reunion of Criner's Class of 1975. It is free and open to all. Leading the All-Stars quartet ...
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April 29: Visionaries And Eccentrics: Ives’ Problem Children Explores Charles Ives’ Musical Legacy In Multiple Musical Genres
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
With his concept of musical transcendentalism, Charles Ives paved the way for a century of experimentation in multiple modes of musical expression. In Visionaries and Eccentrics: Ives’ Problem Children, Contemporary Musical Arts students explore the worlds of collage, postmodernism, and other genres of multi-layered music, including rock, jazz, funk, noise, and other contemporary genres, drawing on the music of Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart, Parliament Funkadelic, Connie Converse, Polly Bradfield, and others. This special concert, produced by Anthony Coleman and Lautaro ...
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The Sound Of Connection: Made In New York Jazz Gala Begins A New Chapter
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Michael Brovkine
After years of successful performances, the Made In New York Jazz Gala returns in 2025 with a bold new chapter—taking the stage for the first time at the prestigious Neidorff-Karpati Hall at Manhattan School of Music on Friday, May 31 at 7:30 PM. This year’s Gala continues its tradition of bringing jazz legends and international rising stars together for a one-of-a-kind celebration of creativity, collaboration, and global connection. The Gala is a signature event of the Made In New York ...
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Symphony Space Presents Stephane Wrembel's 'Django á Gogo' Concert on May 9
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Kristin Cook
SYMPHONY SPACE PRESENTS STEPHANE WREMBEL'S DJANGO Á GOGO, A CONCERT CELEBRATING THE LEGACY OF DJANGO REINHARDT, MAY 9 Evening Features Two Sets of Music: One Focused on Reinhardt’s Guitar Style, with Guitarists from the U.S., the Netherlands, and France, Including Django’s Great-Grandson Simba Baumgartner; and One Blending the Sounds of “Gypsy Jazz” and New Orleans Jazz Concert Is the Latest Chapter in Symphony Space’s Longtime Collaboration with Wrembel, and Anchors His Week-Long Django á Gogo Music Festival, Perhaps the Foremost ...
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Sortiesjazznights.com 22nd Birthday Bash, Community Jazz Jam on May 2nd
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Sortiesjazznights.com PR
sortiesjazznights.com is celebrating it’s 22nd birthday with the greater jazz community Friday May 2nd at La Sala Rossa! This is our 3rd yearly party and jam session and is the largest meeting of the Québec greater jazz community. The 2024 party was at the Patro Vys with a full house of friends, musicians, collaborators and partners and lovers of good music and the QC jazz community. And to top it off, a trio of some of the best Quebec jazz ...
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