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L.A. Artist Beat: Theo Bleckmann at the Broad Stage
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Los Angeles Jazz Collective
THEO BLECKMANN: BERLIN TO LAS VEGAS The Edye at the Broad Stage, Santa Monica, CA Saturday, February 12, 7:30pm Theo Bleckmann: voice with Paul Romero: piano and The Bauhaus String Quartet: Elizabeth Hedman: violin Daphne Chen: violin Michael Lieberman: viola Paula Fehrenbach: cello Arrangements by Fumio Yasuda and Theo Bleckmann Saxophonist Ben Wendel is moonlighting as the producer of a show that features the outstanding vocalist Theo Bleckmann at the ...
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Harmonic Earthquakes and "Sonic" Notes from the Underground: Improvisation and Tremors of Transatlantic Discontent, a talk by Sarita McCoy Gregory, Vassar College
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Yulanda Denoon
This talk examines the musical festival documented in 2004 called Banlieue Bleues, which featured African American musicians from the AACM tradition. In scientific parlance, harmonic earthquakes are seismic pre-tremors that predict major earthquakes. Because the media tend to focus on the seemingly “spontaneous" events of “riots" or urban “protests," what is often missed are the tremors and sonic notes of disquiet that precede these events. These “harmonic earthquakes," while often neglected, can be valuable in learning the various strategies of ...
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Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal Added to Tibet House US Benefit
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JamBase
MARCH 3, 2011 AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NEW YORK; TICKETS ON SALE NOW Tibet House US is thrilled to announce that The Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal have joined the bill of their 21st Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on March 3, 2011. The Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal will join an esteemed line-up of artists curated by artistic director Philip Glass. The bill to date includes Michael Stipe, The Roots, Patti Smith with Jesse Smith and Michael Campbell, ...
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Rhonda Thomas performs at Atlanta's The Quad at Spring 4th on Sat., Feb. 5th
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Gail Thomas
Please join Rhonda Thomas at her CD release party on Saturday February 5th promptly at 7pm @ The Quad on Spring Street. Her band will perform in celebration of Listen. This show will be full of surprises, incredible musicianship and great fun! Come and share this moment with Rhonda! Spring4th Center 728 Spring Street NW Atlanta, GA 30308 About Rhonda Thomas Rhonda Thomas is soul personified and her vocal acrobatics landed her onstage for eleven years ...
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The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: The jazz composer, moving music off the paper
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Yulanda Denoon
A book reading and signing with Graham Collier “Jazz happens in real time, once." This mantra has provided the inspiration for my music and my beliefs about jazz, which are at the core of the jazz composer. The work of the three icons of jazz composition—Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans—is dealt with at length, alongside the question of why what their music can offer jazz composers has not been more widely taken up—particularly their philosophies, their openness, and ...
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The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston
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Yulanda Denoon
A book reading and signing with Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Randy Weston's life story as told to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston's childhood in the Brooklyn neighborhood where his parents imbued him with pride in his African heritage, his introduction to jazz, and his early years as a musician in the artistic ferment of mid-20th Century New York. Weston has performed in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, in the ...
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Celebrate Ray Santisi's Birthday @ Ryles Jazz Club, Tuesday Evening, February 1st
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Patricia Adams Ensembles
This Tuesday evening, February 1st, Ray Santisi celebrates a milestone birthday. Toast him and his trio while they gig at Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge. For information, call 617 876 9330. The music begins at 8:30pm. “As anyone familiar with the Boston scene knows, there are few things finer than hearing Ray take on an acoustic piano. This night, he decided to put on a clinic. It was a master indulging in the sheer joy of ...
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CD Release Party
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Michael Ricci
The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, a popular early jazz, swing and blues band throw a party celebrating the release of their greatly anticipated third CD Permanent Magic sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery. CD release party, live music performance and swing dance. The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn are an early jazz, swing and blues band composed of acoustic guitar/vocals, upright bass, homemade washboard percussion, trumpet, saxophone and trombone. Their repertoire of witty early jazz, swing and blues is augmented by original tunes ...
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