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Brownie Speaks At Burlington Discover Jazz Festival!

Source: Don Glanden
May 31, 2017

Brownie Speaks: A Video Documentary will be presented at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival on Sunday, June 4 beginning at 3 PM. The 90 minute screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Don Glanden. The event will take place at: The BCA Center, 135 Church Street, Burlington, VT. The event is free and open to the public. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown made an outstanding and influential contribution to music. In an era ...

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University Of The Arts - Graduate Jazz Ensemble To Perform At Burlington Discover Jazz Festival

Source: Don Glanden
May 31, 2017

The University of the Arts Graduate Jazz Ensemble will be featured at this year’s Burlington Discover Jazz Festival in Burlington, Vermont. They will present a two-hour set on Sunday, June 4 beginning at 5 PM on City Hall Stage. Admission is free. Hailed as one of the premier jazz programs in the United States, the University of the Arts, School of Music is currently celebrating 140 years of excellence in music education. Its long list of distinguished alumni include Vincent ...

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Musician? Join Michael Bisio At The Atlantic Center For The Arts

Source: Michael Bisio
May 23, 2017

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

Source: Isabelle Deconinck
May 16, 2017

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

Source: ARE GROUP
May 15, 2017

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"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 11, 2017

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

Source: Isabelle Deconinck
May 10, 2017

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

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2017

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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