Event News

Concert to Benefit Ovarian Cancer Research

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2007

UNION, N.J. - Enjoy wonderful music as well as contribute to a national cause during the “Spring Into Jazz Concert Series 2007", the first of an annual concert series dedicated to raising awareness and funding for ovarian cancer research. The concert will be held on May 3, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the Junior Woman's Club of Maplewood located at 60 Woodland Road, Maplewood, N.J. Spearheaded by Nealsight Records, in partnership with The Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation at 14 Pennsylvania ...

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Mychelle Colleary, David Budway, Essiet Essiet, Montez Coleman at Iridium 4/17

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2007

MYCHELLE COLLEARY 2007 MAC award nominee for Outstanding Female Jazz Vocalist

Performs at IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 Broadway @ 51st street

Tuesday, April 17th ONE NIGHT ONLY 7pm Reservations recommended 212-582-2121 $15 cover ($10 for MAC members)+ $10 min

With zany-uber talented David Budway on piano, Essiset Essiet on bass, and Montez Colemen on drums, this is going to be a spectacular ...

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Mychelle Colleary, Elias Bailey, Art Hirahara at Mannahatta 4/16

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2007

2007 MAC nominee for Outstanding Jazz Vocalist MYCHELLE COLLEARY with Elias Bailey on bass and Art Hirahara on piano

at MANNAHATTA LOUNGE 8pm-10pm 316 Bowery @ Bleecker, New York City http://www.mannahatta.us 212.253.8644

Monday, April 16th 8pm-10pm NO COVER , 1 drink minimum per set

This is PICK-UP jazz... Like pick-up basketball... We show up and just play! Great good fun of improvised, arrangements while-you-wait, loveliness

This ...

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Jazz Appreciation Month Events at the Woodlawn Cemetery

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2007

April is Jazz Appreciation Month and many of the world's greatest jazz musicians are at rest in The Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Joseph “King" Oliver, Jonah Jones, Milt Jackson and Illinois Jacquet are among the musicians and composers in Woodlawn's care. The Friends of The Woodlawn Cemetery will pay tribute to the jazz greats by hosting special walking tours and a concert honoring Duke Ellington. Leaders of the Harlem Renaissance - ...

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Cape May Jazz Festival -- April 20-22 -- Tribute to Wes Montgomery

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2007

The 27th Cape May Jazz Festival pays “Tribute to Wes Montgomery" whose ingenuity and extreme dedication, plus his soft, swinging sound, set the pace for jazz as an art form in the 1960s. Cape May Jazz Festival April 20-22, 2007 Performers Include: Pat Martino -- His new CD Remember is a tribute to Wes Montgomery. Jazz Week reports that Remember was the #1 played recording in 2006, with over 6,600 radio spins! Terence Blanchard with sextet opens Saturday ...

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Food, Fashion & Music Team up to Fight Hunger at New York's 1st Annual Action Against Hunger

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
April 11, 2007

Food, Fashion & Music Team Up to Fight Hunger at New York's 1st Annual ACTION AGAINST HUNGER Celebrity Kick-Off Party on Thursday, April 12, 8:00 p.m.

Event Promotes National Restaurants Against Hunger fundraising and awareness campaign from April 10 to May 9, 2007

Music by Jazz Vocalist SOMI + DJ D-NICE

TV personalities of Chefs for Humanity and Fashion Indie support Action Against Hunger's Celebrity Kick-Off Party on Thursday April 12, from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Altman Building, ...

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The Talons Beat the Drums in Vallejo on Saturday Night

Source: Listen & Be Heard
April 11, 2007

What is self evident is that The Talons play together for the love of music, the love of the drum beat, and just for love too. Originally from a garage in East Palo Alto, The Talons have solidified into a band that keeps the heartbeat of a night meant for fun and exultation alive. Usually they come with a few surprise guests and often with master trumpeter Mark Wright.

This Saturday April 14, promises to provide more of the same, ...

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This Week at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem: Christian McBride and Barry Harris

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
April 10, 2007

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street, Suite 2D New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/ THIS WEEK THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM PRESENTS CHRISTIAN MACBRIDE AND BARRY HARRIS

Tuesday, 4/10@ 7 p.m.

JAZZ FOR CURIOUS LISTENERS continues with a special visit from Jazz Museum in Harlem Co-Director CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE leading a free jazz course at the Metropolitan Methodist Church (126th St/ Madison) Register at http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/curious.html ...

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