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Musician? Join Michael Bisio At The Atlantic Center For The Arts
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Michael Bisio
Applications are now being accepted for Associate Artists-in-Residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts. Deadline extended through June 11, 2017. All instrumentalists, composer and vocalists are welcome to apply. Join Bassist/Composer Michael Bisio on the beautiful ACA campus in New Smyrna Beach, FL. from October 15 to November 4, 2017. Atlantic Center for the Arts is an innovative nonprofit artists-in-residence program that provides artists with an opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s masters in the ...
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The Göz/Kurtág Jr./Lukács Trio & Lukas Ligeti at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on May 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm
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Isabelle Deconinck
A double bill featuring THE LÁSZLÓ GŐZ / GYÖRGY KURTÁG Jr. / MIKLÓS LUKÁCS TRIO—an opto-acoustic experimental music performance & THE WORLD OF COMPOSER LUKAS LIGETI With Ariadne Greif (soprano), Ji Hye Jung (marimba), Members of wild Up and Ligeti’s ensemble Notebook Bing Theater at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm Balassi Institute–Hungarian Cultural Center in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) are pleased to ...
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Cuban Drummer Francisco Mela Returns To New York's Cornelia Street Café To Lead The Crash + One
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Cuban drummer Francisco Mela (Joe Lovano, McCoy Tyner, Chucho Valdés) will return to Greenwich Village's Cornelia Street Café to lead his ensemble, The Crash Trio + One, for a one-night performance on May 20, 2017. Joining him that evening will be Tony Malaby (tenor sax), Leo Genovese (piano), and Gerald Cannon (bass). 2017 has been a busy year for Mela thus far, with a performance with McCoy Tyner at the Cully Jazz Festival in Switzerland, European dates in late April with his band ...
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King Crimson To Tour North America Summer 2017 In Support Of Forthcoming Live Ep "Heroes"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Seminal rock band King Crimson begins their 2017 North American tour with the summer leg including a 17-show run spanning June 11 to July 10. The “Radical Action Tour 2017” will begin at Seattle's Moore Theatre on June 11. The tour will run through cities Saratoga, Oakland, San Diego, Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis. King Crimson ends June with appearances at the Chicago Theatre on June 28 and Kodak Hall in Rochester on June 30. The band begins July with ...
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László Gőz/György Kurtág Jr./Miklós Lukács Trio @ Le Poisson Rouge, May 22
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Isabelle Deconinck
MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 at 7 PM (Doors open at 6 PM) Le Poisson Rouge, New York Balassi Institute–Hungarian Cultural Center in New York and Le Poisson Rouge are pleased to present Moment’s Notice, a rare encounter between three leading experimentalists from different corners of new music – jazz trombonist and stalwart of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde László Gőz, acclaimed electronic sound artist György Kurtág Jr., and cimbalom extraordinaire Miklós Lukács. Inspired by the Hungarian electronic classical music scene ...
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Jazz Metropolis And Crowd Puller: 12th Jazzahead! Achieves New Visitor And Participant Record
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All About Jazz
12th jazzahead! achieves new visitor and participant record The 12th jazzahead! ended in Bremen on Sunday. The international exhibition and festival in Bremen ensured packed concert halls at the Bremen Exhibition Centre and a new participant record amongst exhibitors and participants from 60 countries. With approximately 17,600 visitors at the exhibition and concerts last weekend alone, the jazzahead! audience has, once again, grown. Exhibition with more participants 1,356 exhibiting companies (2016: 969) and 3,169 professional participants (2016: 2,742) came to ...
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Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz Presents The Joe Bushkin Centennial at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 4
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest running jazz concert series, concludes its record breaking 45th season at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York City, with The Joe Bushkin Centennial concert, celebrating the rich musical legacy of the legendary pianist/composer with an all-star revue featuring Wycliffe Gordon, Harry Allen, Eric Comstock, John Colliani, Nicki Parrott, Ted Rosenthal, Steve Johns and ...
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Drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. To Lead "All Sides Of Ella” with Friends At Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola In New York City
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Grammy-Award winning drummer and musical director Ulysses Owens, Jr., will return to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola from April 28-30 to take part in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Ella Fitzgerald Festival. He will lead a notable ensemble consisting of pianist Allyn Johnson, trumpeter Alphonso Horne, and bassist Alex Claffy, with featured vocalists Brianna Thomas and Alyson Williams. Of his group's upcoming performance at the Ella Fitzgerald Festival, Owens states “I first fell in love with Ella's voice in my teens. Since then I ...
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