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2008 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) Extends Deadline Until December 1, 2008

Source: Just Roots PR
October 18, 2008

Legendary Music Artists Team Up With Record Label Executives To Judge ISC

October 18, 2008 -- The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has extended its submission deadline until December 1, 2008. ISC will continue to take online, mail-in, and MySpace entries until this date. All entries must be postmarked or uploaded online on or before December 1, 2008. So, if you have not already entered ISC and wish to do so, you still have time to enter.

ISC gives away over ...

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Leni Stern to Play with Morley, Salif Keita, Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 17, 2008

Leni Stern Joins Morley, Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra and Salif Keita for Upcoming 'Special Guest' Appearances Stern to Appear in Documentary on Hermeto Pascal Recent Television Appearance Features Two Live Performances New Leni Stern CD in the Works; Headlining Shows Set for NYC Acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist Leni Stern will make a series of 'Special Guest' appearances in the weeks and months ahead. On October 23rd, she will join her friend Morley at Joe's Pub in New York City, for the CD ...

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Jazz Interlude 15th Anniversary - Roy Haynes, Bob Cranshaw, and Jeremy Pelt

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2008

Benefit Honors Agnes Gund and David Rockefeller, Jr., Co-Founders of MoMA's Friends of Education, And Trustees of the Museum

WHAT: Jazz Interlude: Honoring Agnes Gund and David Rockefeller, Jr.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 18, 2008

WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street (between Fifth and Sixth avenues)

EVENT: Cocktail reception: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jazz Performance: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Black-tie Dinner: 8:30-11:00 p.m.

The Museum of Modern ...

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Nefja Announces Season Opener Concert Supper

Source: All About Jazz
October 15, 2008

The Northeast Florida Jazz Association (NEFJA) invites you to return to the Big Band era with the music of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, and Arthur Prysock performed by the fabulous Doug Carn Big Band featuring Carn as Count Basie and popular vocalists Mary Louise and Laurence Walden as Sarah Vaughn and Arthur Prysock.

All proceeds will go to the Jeep McCoy Scholarship Fund and will be used to provide scholarships to talented music students enrolled in a jazz studies program ...

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Bush Tetras Benefit Show

Source: All About Jazz
October 15, 2008

As a result of Hepatitis C Infection original bassist and founding member of the Bush Tetras, Laura Kennedy, needs an immediate liver transplant. There will be a benefit show for Laura at Cake Shop in New York on October 26th.

Funk/punk stars of the 80s New York club scene, the Bush Tetras were one of the most popular and exciting groups of the era. More importantly, they are a major force in todays 80s post-punk/new wave revival which includes The ...

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CNY Jazz Orchetra Series Opens with Dennis Mackrel

Source: All About Jazz
October 15, 2008

On Saturday, October 25th at 8pm, the CNY Jazz Arts Foundation will officially open their 13th season with a concert by the CNY Jazz Orchestra with special guest artist Dennis Mackrel, famed drummer with the Count Basie Orchestra and McCoy Tyner Big Band, an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and educator. The event will take place in the Carrier Theater, 411 Montgomery Street in Syracuse. Tickets are on sale now at the OnCenter Box Office at $19.50, $24.50 and $27.50, with ...

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Concert to Benefit Hospice Music Therapy November 23rd

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2008

WHEN: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 3 PM

WHAT: HEALING VOICES, CARING HEARTS: A Concert to Benefit Hospice Music Therapy

WHO: TOM CHAPIN AND FRIENDS FAMILY SHOW FEATURING MICHAEL MARK AND JON COBERT WITH SPECIAL GUESTS BAR SCOTT AND TERRY BLAINE Reception, Meet the Artists & CD signing immediately following performance

WHERE: OLIN HALL AT BARD COLLEGE Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

COST: Adult - $15 | ...

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A Half-Century of McCabe's Guitar Shop

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Little shop of adorers

Hanging from the walls are a saz, a charango, a bouzouki and dozens of djembes, didgeridoos and kalimbas, along with hundreds of ukuleles, mandolins, banjos and guitars variously stringed, shaped, amplified and not. A couple of harp guitars (the baroque axe Robbie Robertson played in The Last Waltz), a 19th-century varietal, and electric guitars with Hello Kitty stickers, oddly popular with young boys. Theres even a section reserved for the left-of-hand. Coming upon an open office ...

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