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Composer Dave Burrell’s Civilians During War Time Premieres at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Jan. 18 & 21
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Canary Promotion + Design
World-renowned jazz pianist performs new compositions inspired by Civil War research Wednesday, Jan. 18, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, 2:00-3:30 p.m. and 7:00-8:30 p.m. Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia Free with museum admission, but RSVP is required. To RSVP, call (215) 732-1600, ext. 123 or email [email protected]. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for children under five. For more information visit rosenbach.org. The Rosenbach Museum & Library welcomes ...
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Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry
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Just Roots PR
Before the 1930s and the advent of what has come to be called the “talkies," opulently decorated vaudeville and movie theaters were built. Predating the earliest sound systems they were created to be acoustically perfect. Every small town had one. Michigan at one time had many from its south western most border to Detroit and points north. Today many of these theaters still stand, painstakingly restored and faithfully tended. Now as a musician you can play many of these theaters ...
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LAJC Residency at Blue Whale Part II: Thompson/Otto Duo, Ariel Alexander Group, Matt Otto Quintet
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Los Angeles Jazz Collective
LAJC Residency at Blue Whale, Part II, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA, Wednesday, January 11, 8pm Leonard Thompson/Matt Otto duo (CD release) Ariel Alexander Group Matt Otto Quintet Leonard Thompson/Matt Otto Duo Pianist Leonard Thompson grew up listening to jazz via his father Rex, a well known jazz pianist in Orange County, and eventually followed in his dad's footsteps, after a brief flirtation in college with becoming a geologist. Sexy rocks couldn't pull him away from ...
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Westchester Jazz Orchestra To Perform Bossa! Tango! Flamenco! On January 28 In Irvington
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Emily Tabin
Music of South America and Spain showcased by world-class group Westchester, NY—The Westchester Jazz Orchestra—"the best we've had since those wonderful aggregations headed by Duke Ellington, Count Basie" (JazzScan.com)—will perform Bossa! Tango! Flamenco! on Saturday, January 28 at 8 PM at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY. WBGO's Gary Walker is set to host the concert. “Two years ago, WJO performed a program of South American music. The band played to a packed house and standing ...
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Jazz Poetry Pioneers at Jammin' at the Gem in February
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Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
The next concert in the Jammin' at the Gem series features Valentine and Black History Month and a Salute to Jazz Poetry. The Jazz Poetry Jams program at the American Jazz Museum is in its 9th year. The combining of jazz music performance and jazz poetry on the Gem Theater stage in concert is scheduled for Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8:00 pm with the legendary Roy Ayers performing with jazz poetry pioneers: Louis Reyes Rivera and Jessica Care Moore. ...
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Ron Della Chiesa, Radio Host and Author, Speaking at Stellina Restaurant in Watertown on January 4
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Ron Della Chiesa, Boston's popular radio host on 89.7 WGBH, is discussing and signing copies of his new book, Radio My Way, at Stellina Restaurant in Watertown on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. The 304 page book, which is available for sale at the event, is a collection of profiles of jazz, opera and classical musicians Della Chiesa has interviewed over the past thirty five years, from Dizzy Gillespie and Dave McKenna to Rosemary Clooney and ...
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APAP | NYC 2012 Hosts JazzConnect: January 6-10
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Michael Ricci
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters features jazz—its leaders, masters and music—at annual performing arts industry conference in New York City. Friday Jan. 6, 2012 9 AM-Noon PRE-CONFERENCE FORUM: FREE Building Jazz Culture—Local to Global Hilton, Sutton South How do you build and support a thriving cultural community? What are the possibilities using jazz to do this? Where are the obstacles preventing effective growth and community building? What are the successes? How can jazz ...
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Alternative Guitar Summit brings together Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Ben Monder, Thurston Moore: Jan. 13-15, plus many more
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Fully Altered Media
Joel Harrison presents the Alternative Guitar Summit Co-sponsored by the New York Guitar Festival Featuring Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Vic Juris, Ben Monder, Thurston Moore and many more! January 13, 14 and 15, 2012 Rockwood Music Hall 196 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 (212) 477-4155 The guitar these days is a kind of magic wand, a poly-theistic blow torch, lovely, raging, gentle, noisy, intimate, voluminous, hallucinogenic, funky, juvenile, ageless. More than ...
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