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The Russ Kassoff Big Band - RKBB 2-15-11 8 & 9:30PM - Bahai Center

Source: Russ Kassoff
February 13, 2011

The Russ Kassoff Big Band will be at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium—Tuesday 2/15/11 at 8 & 9:30 PM FEBRUARY 15, 2011 8 & 9:30PM The Russ Kassoff Big Band with vocalist Catherine Dupuis Tue, February 15, 8:00pm-9:30pm 53 East 11th, New York City Description Tuesday, February 15, 2011: The Russ Kassoff Big Band with vocalist Catherine Dupuis Two Shows: 8:00 & 9:30 PM. For reservations and information please call ...

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So, How Many Music Conferences Are There, Anyway?

Source: Digital Music News
February 11, 2011

It's ironic: go to a music conference, and everybody says the same thing. There are simply too many music conferences! And we should know: we go to alot of these things.

But how many conferences are there, actually? And how many should there be? Not counting the smaller networking events and workshops, we attempted to list every conference happening over the next 12 months, starting February 1st.

The result? We found 36 major events, and despite our diligence, we know ...

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Pamela Rose Celebrates Women's History Month with 2 San Francisco Shows

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
February 9, 2011

In honor of Women's History Month, jazz and blues vocalist Pamela Rose brings her internationally acclaimed multimedia show, Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era, to two San Francisco venues next month. The theatrical concert celebrates the lives, times, and music of the rarely mentioned women songwriters who helped create the American Songbook. On Wednesday, March 16, Rose returns to Yoshi's San Francisco, where she first presented Wild Women as a work-in-progress in the fall of ...

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Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko (WD-41) Launch Crowdfunding Drive

Source: Willie Oteri
February 9, 2011

The Beyond Jazz duo of Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko aka WD-41 have launched a crowdfunding effort at Chipin.com to raise money to help with their tour of Italy in July and to support a very unique film festival in Pauda Italy. If you enjoy the more outside the box forms of music and films and feel they deserve more support then please make a contribution. Any amount will help greatly. Thanks from Willie and Dave. For more information or ...

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New Music Seminar Announces The Definitive Top 100 Artists On The Verge Chart

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2011

Providing the most accurate evaluation and identification of new American music talent New York, NY—New Music Seminar (NMS) announces The Artist on the Verge Top 100, the most comprehensive list to date for emerging artists in America. The first published Artist on the Verge Top 100 is available now. Click here to view it. The NMS Artist on the Verge Top 100 is compiled based on analytics both online and traditional. Factors considered include: music sales (physical and digital) ticket ...

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Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, Ireland: March 2011)

Source: Han-earl Park
February 9, 2011

(Cork, Ireland) Expect powerful and inventive musical interactions as internationally renowned composer-improviser Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith performs with the virtuosic, cross-idiomatic ensemble Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith) in Cork and Dublin, Ireland in March 2011. This two-date tour marks Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith's first appearance in Ireland, and the Irish debut of Mathilde 253. Hailed as “one of the most vital musicians on the planet today" (Bill Shoemaker, Coda), legendary composer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser and educator Ishmael ...

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Jimmy Heath Returns To Hold Booksigning In North Carolina

Source: Larry Reni Thomas
February 9, 2011

By Larry Reni Thomas Chapel Hill, NC—The legendary saxophonist/composer/arranger Jimmy Heath, a Philadelphia native, a former Wilmington, North Carolina resident, and a 1943 graduate of Williston High School, in that coastal city, will return to North Carolina, for a booksigning and concert, February 13, 2011, at 3 pm, at The Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, North Carolina. He will appear as a part of the 8th Annual Valentine's Day Jazz Festival, which will feature bands from Duke University, North Carolina Central ...

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Boston's Beehive Jazz Club - Four Days of Luv'n to Celebrate Valentine's Day

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
February 8, 2011

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