Event News

Joe Lovano and the Bad Plus Live in Pittsburgh PA March 16-17

Source: All About Jazz
March 10, 2007

Marrch 16-17 - Joe Lovano / The Bad Plus

In this exceptional double bill, two contemporary groups, Joe Lovano Quartet and The Bad Plus, make their first appearance together at MCG. Tenor saxophonist and Downbeat “Jazz Album of the Year" award winner Joe Lovano is a well-established, Grammy Award winning artist in the jazz community. Lovano is an internationally recognized arranger, composer, and sax man. The Bad Plus redefines contemporary jazz by combining traditional piano jazz trio with modern favorites, ...

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Ryga and Taggart Duo at Mill Bay Sylvan United Jazz Vespers

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2007

Jazz Vespers at Sylvan United Church Campbell Ryga and Ross Taggart - Vancouver's Finest Jazz Duo Two of Vancouver's Finest will appear at the popular Sylvan Jazz Vespers program held every third Saturday at 4:30 in the beautiful sanctuary in the round. Campbell Ryga (saxophonist) was honored the Jazz Report Magazine's Award 'Canada's Alto Saxophonist of the Year 2000 presented to him at the annual Jazz Report Awards Ceremony held in Toronto in May 2000. The two former ...

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2007 West Coast Blues Hall of Fame and Award Show March 10 in Oakland

Source: imajinnWEST
March 9, 2007

Blues Hall of Fame Focuses on Family

OAKLAND--The 2007 West Coast Blues Hall of Fame and Award Show at Kimball's Carnival Jack London Square, 522 2nd Street, Oakland Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. in Oakland will have a strong family flavor--one that will be certainly evident in the latest crop of inductees.

“Groups such as Little Stanley and the Five Brooks, the Fuller Brothers, the Whispers, the Green Brothers, the Stovall Sisters and Ike and Tina ...

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Imagine One Song 33 Hours and 20 Minutes Long: May 12-13 in Phoenix

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2007

Imagine one song 33 hours and 20 minutes long writing and performed by some of the worlds best musicians! Why? To support live music and help promote the music and art scenes of various cities around the world.

After four very successful events in Italy, the Super Sessions come to America.

“33 1/3 PHX:" the first one in Phoenix and the first in the United States.

A world record, one of a kind music event designed to promote live music ...

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Town Hall Presents Kristjan Jarvi's "Absolute Arabian Nights" April 7

Source: Reva Cooper
March 7, 2007

The Town Hall will present the Absolute Ensemble, the new-music group called by Time Out New York “absolutely fabulous, absolutely innovative" on Saturday April 7 at 8 PM in the New York Premiere of Absolute Arabian Nights, a combination of classical music and jazz infused with the sound and spirit of the Middle East. Directed by Kristjan Jarvi, described by the New York Times as “a kinetic force on the podium, Leonard Bernstein reborn as a conductor of fusion bands," ...

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NEA Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern Featured March 8in the Harlem Speaks Series

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 7, 2007

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 NEA Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern Featured in the Harlem Speaks series Dan Morgenstern, Writer Mar. 8, 2007 at 6:30pm-8:30pm.

This discussion series is free to the public.

Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University since 1976, Dan Morgenstern is a jazz historian and archivist, author, editor, and educator active in the jazz field ...

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Anthony Braxton to Sign Copies of New Box Set at New York's Downtown Music Gallery

Source: Improvised Communications
March 7, 2007

On Wednesday, March 28th from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., legendary musician/composer Anthony Braxton will autograph copies of his forthcoming box set, 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006Firehouse 12 Records), at a special free signing event at New York's Downtown Music Gallery. This will also be the first chance for fans to purchase this set, which officially hits the streets on April 3rd. Braxton is in New York to perform with his 7tet at Iridium Jazz Club March 29th-April 1st.

9 Compositions (Iridium) ...

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6th Annual Jazz Foundation of America a Great Night in Harlem at the Apollo Theater

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2007

May 17, 2007 Hosted by Bill Cosby

“A Great Night In Harlem" benefit concert will raise money to assist the countless elder jazz and blues artists in crisis across America, who have spent their lives making ours rich with their music. In addition, to save hundreds of displaced New Orleans musicians who are still suffering without work, without homes and facing the threat of losing their very way of life, as well as the city that grew the ...

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