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11th Annual Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square in NYC Set For November 29th
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Sally Fischer Public Relations
The Lincoln Square BID Announces The 11th Annual Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square Neighborhood Tree-Lighting with JOHN PIZZARELLI Featuring the Winter's Eve Dance Tent with Live Music by EILEEN IVERS & IMMIGRANT SOUL Monday, November 29, 2010, at 5:30 PM New York, NY—On Monday, November 29, 2010 the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District (BID) celebrates the “most wonderful time of the year" in NYC with Winter's Eve 2010 at Lincoln ...
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Berklee Presents Latin Music and Culture Celebration in November
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Berklee Public Relations
Berklee presents its 12th annual Latin Music and Culture Celebration, showcasing musicians from 30 countries, including Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Spain, performing tango, flamenco, Latin jazz, salsa, merengue, traditional Venezuelan cuatro, and Afro-Cuban. The celebration features concerts by Mariano Martos, Maria Mulata, Nando Michelin, C4, Rodolfo Reyes, Larry Harlow, Almir Cortes, and several student groups. A unique program of additional events include a Day of the Dead Celebration; clinics and discussions with faculty, alumni, and guest ...
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George Duke to play with Dweezil Zappa for the first time ever!
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Lindsay Lyons
George Duke to play with Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa for the first time ever! George Duke will join the Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa shows in Los Angeles to celebrate Frank Zappa's 70th birthday. In honor & celebration of FZ's birthday, they will perform the works in sequence from the classic album Apostrophe (') in its unmitigated entirety. Hello Everyone, I'm just confirming for you that George Duke will be joining us on stage at the Music Box in LA in ...
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A Birthday Celebration Kenny Garrett's 50th Birthday Celebration at The Iridium October 9, 2010
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Notes on Jazz by Ralph A. Miriello
At fifty years old, the saxophonist Kenny Garrett has definitively come into his own. Despite forever being associated with Miles Davis, where he spent five years with the iconoclast trumpeter from 1986 through 1991, he is only credited on one Davis album “Amandla" from 1989. It is time to evaluate the fine saxophonist on his own merits and not on his past associations, no matter how storied they may be. On this evening of celebration, Garrett who was celebrating his ...
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NEA Jazz Legend Joe Wilder to perform at Rutgers-Newark on November 9
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Ed Berger
Trumpeter Joe Wilder will be featured in concert at the Institute of Jazz Studies on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, from 2 to 3:30 pm at the Dana Library on the Rutgers Newark campus. Mr. Wilder will be accompanied by Jack Wilkins on guitar and Nicki Parrott on bass. The concert is free and open to the public. Click here for directions. Joe Wilder was born into a musical family in Philadelphia in 1922. His father, Curtis, was a prominent local ...
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Jazz Collectibles Show: Every Saturday from November 6th to December 4th (NYC)
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Rob Hess
Jazz Collectibles Show Saturdays, November 6th to December 4th 155 West 72nd Street, 4th floor New York, NY 10023 10am to 2pm FREE 212-579-0689 Tons of rare jazz items will be available including records (LPs, 45 rpm, 78 rpm), sheet music, photographs, posters, books, magazines, jazz art, and miscellaneous items. Records include traditional jazz of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet and other early New Orleans innovators; blues artists such as B.B. King, Bessie ...
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Sam Hooper To Perform In Shanghai, Nov. 9-14 To Celebrate 15th Anniversary Celebration at House of Blues & Jazz
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Patricia Adams
The Los Angeles based guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and leader of Sam Hooper Group, returns to China as a special guest for this anniversary celebration at House of Blues & Jazz. The first time Sam Hooper Group walked through the door of House of Blues & Jazz, a huge photo of John Lee Hooker smiled down on them. “This is China?" they thought. Smiling back at the legendary blues man, they knew they had come to the right place. When they heard owner ...
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Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Presents Conversations with Composers: Roy Nathanson
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Yulanda Denoon
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents its Conversations Series, through which the Center's renowned faculty will engage leading composer Roy Nathanson in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Roy Nathanson is a composer, saxophonist, songwriter, poet, actor, and teacher. He is the leader and principal composer of the Jazz Passengers, a band that for the past 23 years has played the major festivals, toured Europe, and developed a remarkable repertoire of original ...
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