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Cedar Walton & Roy Hargrove at Jazz at Lincoln Center on January 9-10

Source: All About Jazz
December 10, 2008

WHO/WHAT: Pianist, composer and arranger Cedar Walton and acclaimed trumpeter Roy Hargrove join forces to make beautiful music in the second concert of Jazz at Lincoln Centers Duo Tones series. Dubbed The Maestro by his peers, Mr. Walton is an influential musician whose career has included performances with John Coltrane on his 1959 Giant Steps sessions, as well as with Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers alongside Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter. His younger companion in this series, Mr. Hargrove ...

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Urgent Call for Universal Human Rights

Source: All About Jazz
December 9, 2008

New York, NY - A young woman, scaling the Himalayas on foot, flees the Chinese work camp where she was born, her tiny son in tow. A boy, forced to fight in Sudan's bloody civil war at age six, winds up in a refugee camp where he regains his dignity, but not his childhood. An outspoken singer is compelled to leave Zimbabwe in the wake of police intimidation at her concerts and a pervasive atmosphere of political and economic repression. ...

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Jobim, Piazzolla, Pixinguinha, Other Jazz-Oriented Composers Celebrated at Juilliard on January 14

Source: Reva Cooper
December 9, 2008

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS), whose recent program, “Fugitives," was acclaimed as Profoundly moving, (New York Times) and Extraordinary what we want all concerts to be, (Howard Kissel, New York Daily News) presents its fourth annual program with The Juilliard School on January 14, 2009 at 8 PM, NYFOS@Juilliard: Latin Lovers. This collaboration between NYFOS and The Juilliard School celebrates the creative energy and superlative vocal talent of tomorrows brightest stars, building on NYFOSs distinctive programming and performing style. ...

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Sherman Theater Presents a COTA Christmas

Source: All About Jazz
December 9, 2008

On Monday, December 29, at 7:30 p.m., the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) and the Sherman Theater in downtown Stroudsburg are teaming up to present a program of Yuletide Jazz featuring outstanding artists who’ve performed at the award- winning COTA Festival over the past 31 years. The lineup includes the premiere of the COTA Cat Alumni Big Band; Eric Doney’s Pacific Street Swingin’ Jingle Singers; and a jingle jam hosted by Spencer Reed, featuring jazz greats Phil ...

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Holiday Season with Latin Jazz & Funk

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2008

Fox Sports en Espanol will host another exciting event surrounding its sponsorship of “Art in the Park, “ one of the most successful cultural events in South Florida. The series is organized by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana, and will celebrate the arrival of the Holiday season on Friday, December 5th at 2800 Ponce de Leon Blvd. from 6:00pm-12:00am. The concert series is held during the first Friday of every month, and will continue to delight local residents through ...

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Michael Wolff Trio, Creole Jazz Serenaders, Red Clay Ramblers Set NY Showcase

Source: Seth Cohen PR
December 5, 2008

Triple Showcase at the West Bank Cafe to Feature Michael Wolff Trio, Creole Jazz Serenaders with Don Vappie, and the Red Clay Ramblers January 10th and 11th Events Open to the Public, and Part of APAP Conference as Well Three incredible bands will deliver two nights of top-notch music, with January 10th and 11th showcases at the West Bank Cafe in NYC: The Michael Wolff Trio, featuring Victor Jones and Chip Jackson, will preview Wolff's infectious, upcoming CD, “Joe's Strut," ...

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Quincy Jones to Keynote at SXSW

Source: Billboard Magazine
December 5, 2008

Veteran producer Quincy Jones will deliver a keynote address March 19 as part of the annual South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas. Jones is a 27-time Grammy winner and 79-time nominee who has also won seven Oscars, an Emmy, and been honored by the Kennedy Center. Jones' current and upcoming projects include the recently released book “The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions," a feature film documentary on Brazil's annual Carnival Festival, a biopic mini-series on jazz ...

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San Francisco Jazz Heritage Center Announces Its First Major Exhibition

Source: All About Jazz
December 4, 2008

Rare art and photographs from the Fillmore Jazz Era of the 1940s and 1950s highlight free exhibit.

SAN FRANCISCO (Dec. 2)-- The Jazz Heritage Center, San Franciscos only permanent cultural and educational complex dedicated to jazz, announced that it will be holding its first exhibition, Harlem of the West Revisited.

Beginning Dec. 6, 2008 and lasting until March 7, 2009, the Jazz Heritage Center will feature art and photography from The Fillmore bustling jazz era of the 1940s and 1950s. ...

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