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Jazz Connect Conference at APAP|NYC 2013 Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2013

Jazz Connect 2013 is free to all attendees. Register here. LOCATION: Hilton New York 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 54th St. New York, NY 10019 THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00 am Workshops 1. Full Stream Ahead: Music Streaming Rights & Issues As music makes continues to make its bumpy transition to digital, new technologies are shaping how artists reach audiences. In the last decade, we've seen downloads make way for streaming, with more and ...

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Stephanie Jordan Pays Tribute To Lena Horne During Southern Mississippi’s Mlk Birthday Celebration

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
January 9, 2013

Ocean Springs, MS - In conjunction with the Committee for Coast-Wide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, New Orleans jazz singer Stephanie Jordan is gracing the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center stage, 1600 Government Street in Ocean Springs, Mississippi on Saturday, January 19, at 7:00pm, with a tribute to the fabulous ((Lena Horne}}. Seating is reserved and limited. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the Mary C Box Office or online at http://www.themaryc.org/Tickets/Index.html, or by phone at ...

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Indelible Festival, Friday, January 11 At Highline Ballroom: Produced By Jill Newman Productions

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
January 9, 2013

Meshell Ndegeocello presents Spirit Music Jamia, Cecil Taylor, DJ ?uestlove, AYO, Guy Davis, Grégoire Maret, The Dust Rays ft. Kirk Douglas & Mark Kelley of the Roots & Ricc Sheridan from Earl Greyhound INDELIBLE FESTIVAL IS DEDICATED TO ABBEY LINCOLN WITH A TRIBUTE TO LIVING LEGENDS CECIL TAYLOR AND RUBY DEE Friday January 11, 2013 Highline Ballroom 431 West 16th Street, NYC Showtime @ 8:00 PM, Doors open @ 7:00 PM VIP Seating: $65 Adv / ...

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Kobo Town @ Mundial Montreal Showcase

Source: Press Junkie PR
January 7, 2013

KOBO TOWN @ The Living Room Saturday, January 12, 2013 154 Ludlow St New York, NY 10002 10:40 pm / FREE “Merging calypso, roots reggae, acoustic performance, dub studio techniques and Trinidadian/Jamaican cultures, Kobo Town is a unique, stylistic, trans-national composite of rhythm, poetry and activist journalism. Kobo Town resurrects, reinvigorates and redefines calypso for the new millennium.” —Exclaim! Founded by Trinidadian-Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town takes the intricate wordplay of ...

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Cold War Jazz At The Coral Springs Museum Of Art, FL

Source: Les Blachut
January 3, 2013

Cold War Jazz is a music project sponsored by the Coral Springs Museum of Art and a grant from the Chautauqua Institution. On January 5, 2013, at 3PM the Coral Springs Museum of Art csmart.org will host the International Jazz Ensemble to play music, discuss the issues and display artwork of Cold War era by jazz musicians from Poland and Hungary. The jazz movement in Eastern Europe is believed to have contributed to the fall of Communism and the increased ...

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David S. Ware Memorial Service At Saint Peter's Church

Source: Chris Rich
January 2, 2013

The friends and family of the late David S. Ware will gather at Saint Peter's Church at 619 Lexington Avenue where it meets 54th Street on Monday, January 7, 2013 at 7:30pm The musical portions of the service will be presented by Cooper–Moore: solo harp William Parker: special presentation Muhammad Ali and Darius Jones: in duo Joe Morris (guitar) and Warren Smith: in duo Andrew Cyrille, Daniel Carter, Joe Morris (bass): in ...

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Dafna Naphtali, Michael Gregory, Jen Baker and Ras Moshe at Spectrum in NYC on January 3

Source: Michael Gregory
January 1, 2012

Spectrum January 3, 2013 at 7:00pm 121 Ludlow St. New York, NY, 10002 Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity, Circle, Triangle and Square” The opening “Clarity” begins with terse acoustic guitar arpeggios, keening flute and tenor, and then moves through an evenly-spaced upward tone row, following along a path outlined by Smith’s concept of rhythm units. The shock — at least to those solely weaned on improvised music — comes when Gregory spins out a delicate, ...

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Bob Gluck & Aruan Ortiz: "Textures And Pulsations: CD Release Concert

Source: Bob Gluck
December 29, 2012

Pianists Bob Gluck and Aruán Ortiz will celebrate the release of “Textures and Pulsations," their new duet recording on Ictus Records at the Booklyn-based Shapeshifter Lab on Thursday, February 7. The 9pm show will feature improvisational works for two pianos, Moog Synthesizer, and digital processing. The duo's improvisations range across genres and musical forms, and feature poignantly etched live electronics, creating a colorful, virtuosic brew of subtly shifting textures, lyrical melodies, and great grooves. Dave Sumner (eMusic “Jazz Picks") writes: ...

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