Event News

Professional Drum Shop 50th Anniversary Show

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

Hollywood's famed Professional Drum Shop celebrates it's 50th Anniversary June 6th at the Avalon theater.

The Pro Drum Shop on Vine Street in Hollywood has been the landmark destination for the world class drummers for over 50 years. The anniversary show features a short documentary film on the fabled drummers paradise with live music by Ronald Brunner Jr. with the Bruner Brothers and Emil Richards 17 piece All Star Big Band.

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Uptown Blues Bash Comes to Cambridge, Ohio on May 23

Source: Just Roots PR
May 8, 2009

Meltdown Productions and Cambridge Elks Lodge present the winners of the 2009 River City Ohio Blues CompetitionLong Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings and regional heavywights The Blues Cannibals and The Troubled Troubadours.

On Saturday, May 23, Award-winning Columbus act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings will team up with Cambridge all-stars the Blues Cannibals and The Troubled Troubadours for a special blues event at the Cambridge Elks #448. The event is open to the public.

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Miles Davis London Art Exhibition Coming in June

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

The last exhibition ever of drawings and oil paintings by the late Miles Davis, considered by many to be the worlds greatest jazz musician, will be showcased at The Exchange Court Gallery, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2 OJU, UK, from Monday 1st June 2009. Tel: (44)020 7420 4300. The Exhibition also includes some of the love notes Miles wrote to his girlfriend, Jo Gelbard, before his death. Acquired from the private collection of Jo Gelbard, his sculptress girlfriend, who ...

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Arturo O'Farrill, Rachael Price Featured at Saratoga Springs, NY, Venue's Extended Season

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2009

Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, is featuring Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra--winners of a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album--and rising star vocalist Rachael Price among the artists of the 2009 Extended Season this month.

Also performing will be the world-renowned Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble.

Performances are scheduled for May 23, 29 and 30 in SPAC's Little Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be ordered ...

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Free Louis Armstrong Collage Exhibition - Jazz at Lincoln Center

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2009

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a free art exhibition entitled The Collage Aesthetic of Louis Armstrong: “In the Cause of Happiness." The exhibition is open to the public and features large scale images of collages created by Armstrong from clips of photographs, news stories, postcards, letters, telegrams and other materials that Armstrong artfully affixed to the boxes of his vast private collection of audio tapes. In a letter to a friend in 1953, Louis Armstrong said, My hobbie (one of ...

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Groundbreaking Exhibit Celebrates Jazz Ambassadors: Gillespie, Armstrong, Brubeck, Ellington, Goodman at Jazz Heritage Center

Source: Maven Communications
May 5, 2009

Jazz Heritage Center to Unveil Groundbreaking Exhibit Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace The World Only West Coast Stop Performances by the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet and a special celebration kick off exhibit on May 17 The Jazz Heritage Center today announced the unveiling of a groundbreaking new exhibit that chronicles a time when the U.S. government used American jazz musicians as front-line cultural diplomats instead of traditional symphony orchestras and ballet companies. Titled Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace ...

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Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship to Headline Woodstock Anniversary Show

Source: Billboard Magazine
May 5, 2009

Some performers from the 1969 Woodstock concert will get back to the garden for a 40th anniversary show this summer. On the bill for August 15 are The Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Co., Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Mountain, and Country Joe McDonald. They'll perform at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel. It was built on the site of the dairy farm trampled on by some 400,000 people on the weekend ...

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Culture Project Presents the Cat Who Went to Heaven, Captivating Jazz Puppet Show at the Harlem School of the Arts with Music and Lyrics by Nancy Harrow

Source: Two Sheps That Pass
May 5, 2009

Based On The Newbery Award-Winning Book By Elizabeth Coatsworth Directed By Will Pomerantz Six Special Performances Begin Wednesday, May 13, 2009 (suggested donation $10) New York, NY — Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director), who brought to the stage the successful, seven season run of the children’s show Maya the Bee, has announced a special, six-performance run of the acclaimed children’s jazz puppet show The Cat Who Went to Heaven at The Harlem School of the Arts Theater (647 St. ...

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