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Central Brooklyn Jazz Anniversary Concert

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
October 24, 2010

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) will celebrate its 11th anniversary on Saturday, November 27, 2010 at Jazz966 located 966 Fulton Street in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn with a jazz concert featuring the Steven Kroon Sextet. The bill also includes a youth jazz ensemble performance by Q City Soundz and a special award presentation to Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts' (MoCADA) founder and executive director Laurie Cumbo. Performances from 4 to 8:30 PM. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 ...

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Andre Canniere Group at The Oxford - November 1st

Source: Bridge Arts
October 23, 2010

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"Celebrating Mark Murphy!," 2nd Annual Mark Murphy Love Fest, Set for Mon. Nov. 15 at Yoshi's (Oakland)

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
October 21, 2010

Last year's “Celebrating Mark Murphy!" concert at Yoshi's Oakland was a highlight of the fall season—a benefit for the Jazzschool Institute's brand-new vocal jazz scholarship named for Murphy himself, one of the most original and gifted male jazz vocalists to perform over the last 50 years. The event was such a success that the Jazzschool is presenting the 2nd annual Mark Murphy love fest on Monday, November 15 at 8:00 pm, at Yoshi's in Oakland. Featured vocalists at “Celebrating Mark ...

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Celebration of Fred Smith's Birthday with Travel Through the History of Jazz: Part 2-- The Jazz Age: Swing is the Thing

Source: Premik Russell Tubbs
October 21, 2010

Fred Smith is an icon of our times. He has amassed an incredible wealth of experience as a performing musician and jazz historian. To celebrate Fred's birthday is a celebration of Fred's life. To experience Fred Smith is but a gift! Jazz historian Clarence Irving, multi-instrumentalist Premik Russell Tubbs and many others will be on board to help make this celebration one that is fitting for Fred's 76th birthday...guaranteed to be a night you will remember for years to come. ...

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Driving the Poem: Hettie Jones with Dr. Guy's Musiqology

Source: Yulanda Denoon
October 19, 2010

Poetry and jazz is about one+one=one, the spoken word as instrument, its meaning become tone and tempo, another voice in the band. “Driving the Poem" takes its cue from Hettie Jones's first poetry collection, Drive, plus the complementary pulse of the music behind her. Hettie Jones's twenty-three books for children and adults include her memoir of the Beat scene, How I Became Hettie Jones; Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin' Mama, Five ...

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Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Conversations with Composers: Steve Coleman

Source: Yulanda Denoon
October 19, 2010

As part of its Conversations Series, the Center's renowned faculty will engage leading composer Steve Coleman in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Steve Coleman is one of the most influential saxophonists and composers of the last 30 years, as well as an important theorist of the music and its spiritual and social implications. He is one of the most travelled musicians of our time, having taught and worked with musicians in Ghana, Cuba, Puerto ...

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Piano Great David Bennett Cohen Live at the East Hampton Bowl

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
October 19, 2010

New York, NY—David Bennett Cohen will be performing live at the East Hampton Bowl on Friday, November 19th, 2010 from 9 to 10:30 pm. David Bennett Cohen is the original pianist for Country Joe and the Fish and is a dynamic live performer and respected music educator. He will be performing solo at the East Hampton Bowl with possible Special Guests. “Mr. Cohen isn't the average hippie gone Wall Street, he's also a certifiably smokin' barrel house rumba boogie-woogie pianist ...

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Marc Hoffman Trio To Perform During Historic Charlotte's Preservation Awards Event

Source: blueplate pr
October 19, 2010

(CHARLOTTE, NC)—For the third year, the Marc Hoffman Trio will provide entertainment for Historic Charlotte, Inc.'s Annual Preservation Awards event, to be held this year on Thursday, October 21, from 6:30-10:30 p.m., in the new Mint Museum Uptown. Led by composer/pianist/vocalist Marc Hoffman, the trio will include Terry Peoples on bass and Bill Scott on drums. The event, now in its tenth year, is entitled “Blast for the Past." Hoffman will perform tunes from “Curioso," his new eclectic, all-original jazz ...

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