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28 Hours of Innovative Art: To Benefit Arts for Art

Source: Michael Ricci
October 28, 2009

28 Hours of Innovative Art To Benefit Arts For Art And NYC's community of innovative music and arts November 20th 6 PM thru November 21st at midnght - Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Lower East Side The purpose of this event is to support Arts for Art's community-building initiatives to strengthen the presence of innovative music and art in the LES. This “marathon" of music and arts, is a real First. It ...

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Free Concert! Jazz Vocalist Michelle Walker Performs at the Zinc Bar

Source: Michael Ricci
October 26, 2009

Jazz Vocalist Michelle Walker Performs a FREE CONCERT @ The Zinc Bar!

Location: Zinc Bar Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Street: 82 W 3rd St City/Town: New York, NY Subway: West 4th Street

This performance is a Special Showcase at the popular jazz lounge THE ZINC BAR. She will be presenting a program of her latest arrangements. She writes her own music as well as arranges ...

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Live Traditional Dixieland Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
October 26, 2009

Cape May Traditional Jazz Society Presents Dixieland Jazz Thursday Dec 10, 2009 from 6 to 8 pm Where VFW Post 386 419 Congress St. Cape May, NJ 609-884-7961 Who Atlantic City Jazz Band Herb Roselle trombone, Franny Smith banjo, Bob Rawlins clarinet, Bob Ferguson trumpet Harry Salotti tuba, Tom Angello drums, Nancy Rawlins keyboard playing great Traditional Dixieland Jazz. Ticket charge $10 advance purchase 609-884-7961 $15 at door everyone is ...

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World Jazz Summit Featuring Randy Weston, Emilio Valdes, Cedar Walton, Stefon Harris and Lionel Loueke

Source: Michael Ricci
October 25, 2009

Rahway, NJ - On Saturday, November 21st at 6PM the UCPAC will launch its inaugural World Music Summit Series event with the World Jazz Summit. Produced by WorldPianoSummit.com, the evening will feature five internationally-renowned jazz artists in a wide-spectrum of musical settings from African rhythms to Cuban funk to an American jazz vibraphonist. The evenings concert is sponsored in part by Northfield Bank Foundation as well as Merck Company Foundation. Producer Jim Luce of WorldPianoSummit.com has filled the evening with ...

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21st Annual Christmas Jam

Source: JamBase
October 24, 2009

WARREN HAYNES' YEARLY BENEFIT CONCERT RETURNS

Warren Haynes by Robert Chapman Long renowned for bringing extraordinary musicians from across many genres together each year for a marathon benefit concert to benefit Habitat for Humanity, Warren Haynes Presents: The 21st Annual Christmas Jam will take place Saturday December 12, 2009 at The Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, NC.

THE INITIAL LINE-UP

Counting Crows Ani Difranco Gov't Mule moe.

With Special Guest Musicians Troy ...

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Cota Festival Orchestra Featuring Sax Legend Phil Woods to Perform on November 12th

Source: Michael Ricci
October 23, 2009

East Stroudsburg, PA--Imagine a place where youngsters learn to play jazz at the feet of world-class professionals; a camp where kids have fun with other kids while developing mentoring relationships with nurturing jazz elders. Now, add a library where these budding musicians can immerse themselves in recordings, photographs, books, videos, sheet music and oral history interviews of the legends of jazz.

Too good to be true? Well, this wonderful opportunity already exists, right here in the Poconos, in the forms ...

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Sonny Rollins to Perform Benefit Concert for Pete Seeger's Clearwater Dec. 6

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
October 21, 2009

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. The concert will begin at 2:00 pm. Rollins's performance in Tarrytown on behalf of Pete Seeger's Clearwater will mark the first time the renowned environmental organization has ever hosted a benefit concert dedicated solely to jazz, and is also the first time that the saxophonist has performed a fund-raiser ...

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'Hot and Cool' Trumpets NEC's Jazz Odyssey

Source: Michael Ricci
October 21, 2009

New England Conservatory has the party hat on for what Mayor Thomas M. Menino has dubbed Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC Week. The shindig marks the anniversary of the first fully accredited jazz studies program at a music conservatory. Credit musician, historian, author and former NEC president Gunther Schuller for putting the program in place back in 1969 when conservatories were primarily bastions of classical training. Schuller assembled a heavyweight faculty of performer/educators that included Jimmy ...

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