Event News

A Celebration of Life for Ronnie Mathews

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

A Celebration of Life for Ronnie Mathews

Monday, June 23 - beginning at 7pm Sweet Rhythm 88 7th Ave S New York, NY 10014 212-255-3626 On Monday, June 23 there will be a “A Celebration of Life for Ronnie Mathews" for the great jazz pianist Ronnie Mathews at Sweet Rhythm Jazz Club in NYC at 88 7th Avenue South. Doors open at 7:00 P.M. and jazz music will be played throughout the ...

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5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Friends of Negro Spirituals and the Greater Bay Area Celebrate

Negro Spirituals Heritage Day on Sunday, June 22, 2008, 3:30 PM -5:30 PM, at the West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, Oakland, CA. Doors will open at 3:00 PM. Although unofficial, Negro Spirituals Day is the only known annual day of special recognition of the 350-years-old, irreplaceable Negro Spiritual folk songs, birthed by enslaved Black Americans. The celebration, featuring an African Drum Tribute to the Ancestors performed by Ghanaian ...

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Eddie Palmieri at Tavern on the Green

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

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E Dog Benefit for Detroit Sax Man

Source: JazzStage Productions
June 13, 2008

Although he was born in Cleveland and has lived in the San Francisco area for the past 12 years, Scott Petersen, ("E Dog" to everyone he knows) has always considered Detroit his musical home. This hardworking saxophone player is known and loved from coast to coast having played with many Detroit acts and renowned names such as Aretha Franklin and Dizzy Gillespie. One of the world's longest surviving adults with cystic fibrosis, he is now awaiting a double lung transplant. ...

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Tuesdays on the Terrace: Fred Anderson at MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Tuesdays on the Terrace presents another inspiring season of free evening jazz concerts on the MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden. Hosted by local radio personalities, visitors are invited to enjoy cocktails, Puck's Express snacks, or a dinner buffet from Puck's Cafe while listening to Chicago's finest jazz musicians. Dinner reservations at Puck's are recommended, call 312.397.4034. In case of rain, the event takes place in Puck's. Tuesdays on the Terrace: Fred Anderson Tuesday, July 1 5:30 ...

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Jazz Memorabilia Show in New York

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Tons of rare jazz items will be available including records (LPs, 45 rpm, 78 rpm), sheet music, photographs, posters, books, magazines, jazz art, miscellaneous items. Records include traditional jazz of Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet and other early New Orleans innovators; blues artists such as Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith and Joe Turner; swing era big bands of Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman: bebop stars such as Charlie Parker and Miles Davis; later jazz ...

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Reviews of Kidd Jordan at Vision Festival XIII

Source: Improvised Communications
June 13, 2008

Critics review the lifetime achievement celebration of Kidd Jordan in the New York Press, New York Sun and New York Times. The Vision Festival continues through Sunday night. About Kidd Jordan Edward Kidd Jordan's multi-faceted legacy is among of the most influential and enduring in the history of improvised music. An integral part of the seminal musical tapestry of New Orleans, he is the patriarch of one of the city's most respected musical families and his parallel careers as a ...

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Prashant Aswani at CMI Frontrunner 2008

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

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