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20th Anniversiary Jazz Montana Festival
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Ryan Montana Matzinger
Celebrating our 20th Anniversary, Jazz Montana has partnered with The MSU School of Music and The Ellen Theatre to present you with an incredible jazz festival experience! Come join us for 4 fun-filled days of jazz music and learning. This year the festival will host 6 featured artists, and a jazz big band in concerts, masterclasses, jam sessions and lectures, with opening acts featuring our local Montana jazz stars! The Ellen Theatre The Ellen Theatre is a marvelous reflection of ...
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Jazz Concert Benefit Dizzy Gillespie Memorial At Cotton Club on October 16, 2012
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La Belle Usine Productions
The Cotton Club Harlem 656 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027 7:30 PM Christopher Kennedy Lawford to host Jazz Concert Benefiting the Dizzy Gillespie Fund In NYC. The Historic Cotton Club Harlem, Ruby Flower Productions and a stellar line up of musicians present on October 16, 2012 the Dizzy Gillespie/Englewood Fundraiser. The Dizzy Gillespie Memorial Fund helps underwrite the costs of hospitalization, diagnostic tests, and a full range of surgical and medical care ...
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SF Musictech Summit Next Week; Interview with Coordinator Brian Zisk
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HypeBot
Next Tuesday (10/9) in San Francisco, the SF MusicTech Summit kicks off from the Kabuki Hotel in S.F.'s historic Japantown district. The ever-popular event continues its tradition of bringing together some of the top minds and companies within the music and technology sectors, along with a number of developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations. Hypebot's Hisham Dahud reached out to event organizer Brian Zisk for insights as to what makes San Francisco an appropriate fit for the ...
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George S. Clinton Named Film Scoring Chair
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Chris M. Slawecki
Berklee College of Music announces that noted composer George S. Clinton has been named chair of the college’s Film Scoring Department. Clinton will build on the 32-year legacy of the department and ensure that graduates have the skills to thrive in a field that is undergoing continual transformation. Berklee offers the world’s only undergraduate film scoring degree as well as a unique minor in video game scoring. Clinton is an award-winning film composer who has built a reputation for scoring ...
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Jazz For Obama 2012 @ Symphony Space on October 9th
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Kim Smith Public Relations
The Jazz Concert for America's Future Jazz For Obama 2012, Tuesday October 9th Featuring Ron Carter Dee Dee Bridgewater Jim Hall Roy Haynes Kenny Barron Joe Lovano Kenny Garrett Christian McBride Jimmy Heath Jeff Tain Watts Claudia Acuña Ravi Coltrane Gretchen Parlato/Becca Stevens Arturo O'Farrill Geri Allen And Very Special ...
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Follow the 2012 Dutch Jazz & World Meeting Online!
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Michael Ricci
The Dutch Jazz & World Meeting is completely sold out! Nearly 175 international jazz and world music presenters will visit the Dutch Jazz & World Meeting on October 5-6, 2012 in Amsterdam. Attendees will see and hear 26 showcases of the best and most distinctive Dutch jazz and world groups currently on the scene. In addition to the showcase events, several side programs are offered including keynote speeches by Ben Ratliff (NY Times critic) and Lucy Durán (BB3, London School ...
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Legendary Rock From Macedonia - Leb I Sol
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Sotir Stojcevski
The legendary Balkan progressive rock / jazz band Leb i Sol – touring the new continent in October-November 2012. Following many successful concerts around the Balkans, Paris, Prague, Chicago, Amsterdam, New York, London, Toronto, Thessaloniki and many other cities around the globe, the best Macedonian band are to tour Australia for first time ever. Perth – 26 October 2012 (Friday) @ The Charles Hotel Melbourne – 27 October 2012 (Saturday) @ The Hi-Fi Sydney – 31 October 2012 (Wednesday) – ...
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Foster Youth, Fashion-styled Performances, And Standing Ovations Is What Indie Hotspot Is All About
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Sean McKenzie
Doing her favorite 1960s jazz standards, Kaylene Peoples and her all-star “orchestra” proved to be a big hit at the benefit concert held at the House of Blues on Sunset Strip Friday September 28, 2012. The show opened with the band performing jazz instrumentals followed by Peoples’ arrival on stage, where Kaylene spoke briefly about the mission of Agenda Foundation. “Thank you all for coming out and supporting the cause of foster youth in filmmaking. These youth will be given ...
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