Event News

Bluenote-Latin-Jazz CD Release by Anna Acevedo Lyman at Hermann's, Victoria, BC, Canada

Source: All About Jazz
October 4, 2008

Mexicanamerican Latin-Jazz Vocalist, Anna Acevedo Lyman will be performing selections from her new Latin-Jazz CD “Sway - Quien Sera" at 7:30 pm, Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria, BC, 753 View St. A feature of her composition style is the addition of Bluenote's and Blues progressions to Latin Jazz for a distinctly personal sound. She writes Swing, Latin-Jazz, and being resistant to genre boundaries, crosses them freely and happily! PERSONNEL FOR THE CONCERT: Piano: Darcy Phillips Trumpet: Greg Bush

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2009 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert Friday, October 17th

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2008

Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts will host the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in a program dedicated to the honorees’ works. Special guest performances to be made by 2009 NEA Jazz Masters George Benson, James “Jimmy" Cobb, Lee Konitz and “Toots" Thielemans. The concert will include video biographies of each 2009 NEA Jazz Master as well as a jam session with previously named NEA ...

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African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2008

On Saturday, October 18th, The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey will bring back 24 of the artists whose works the museum has displayed to help celebrate its 5th anniversary. The celebration will take place at the museum, located in the Martin Luther King Center in Newtonville, NJ from 5 to 9 pm. It will feature the work of 24 emerging local and regional artists who helped fulfill the museums mission of helping local talent enter the world ...

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Clifford Brown Symposium: "Brownie Speaks" in Philadelphia, October 30 - November 1

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

Jazz aficionados, musicians and educators will gather at The University of the Arts (UArts) October 30-November 1 for “Brownie Speaks," a symposium and concert series celebrating and documenting the life, music and legacy of Clifford Brown, the influential jazz trumpeter who died in 1956 when he was just 25. The Philadelphia Music Project, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts, sponsors the performance ...

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Schedule for Clifford Brown Symposium: "Brownie Speaks" in Philadelphia, October 30 - November 1

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

A three day symposium and concert series celebrating and documenting the life, music and legacy of Clifford Brown. For people interested in attending symposia events or evening concerts we have provided an on-line registration form and invitation providing further details regarding concert tickets and so forth. There is no cost to register for daytime symposia events! “BROWNIE SPEAKS" SCHEDULE Thursday, October 30, 2008

9:00AM - 5:00PM - Registration: Caplan Center for the Performing Arts: Lobby Terra ...

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Abigail Riccards Live at the Kitano on October 8th

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

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Musicians Donate Art for War Child International Benefit

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

Los Angeles - R.E.M., Modest Mouse, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Jarvis Cocker, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists whose handmade signs featured in Under the Radars Protest Issue will be auctioned off beginning September 30th to benefit War Child International.

Earlier this summer, Under the Radar magazine published its Protest Issue, which featured an array of musicians sharing their thoughts on todays political climate. ...

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9th Central Brooklyn Jazz Anniversary Celebration

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC presents Jazz & Its African Elements, our 9th anniversary celebration, on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Brooklyn's Jazz966 located in Fort Greene section of the borough, 966 Fulton Street, from 3:00 to 7:00 PM. Donations $20 in advance, $25 at the door. For information contact 718.569.1869 or [email protected]

Musical presentations by: Dr. Randy Weston / Randy Weston African Rhythms - National Endowment of Arts Jazz Master, vocalist Pauline Jean - New York native of Haitian ...

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