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Barry Romberg's Random Access CD Release Party at the The Rex Hotel

Source: All About Jazz
August 23, 2006

Romhog Records & The Rex Hotel presents Barry Romberg's Random Access at The Rex Sunday September 17th at 9:30 pm to celebrate the release of their new live CD Accidental Beef. Two time national jazz award nominee for best electric group, Random Access features some of Canada's finest musicians: Kevin Turcotte (trp), Kelly Jefferson (sax), Geoff Young (gtr), Rich Brown (bass), Blair Mackay (perc), David Occhipinti (gtr), and Barry Romberg (drums).

Not to be missed!

The Rex Hotel Jazz & ...

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The Jazzschool: New Quarter, New Classes & Programs

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2006

Berkeley, California, Aug 21, 2006 -- The Jazzschool's Fall 2006 catalog, just off the presses, promises a wealth of new classes, workshops, and programs for students of all levels and aspirations. “We want to help our students to refine their craft, express themselves artistically, and simply enhance their everyday lives in the classroom and on the stage," says Executive Director Susan Muscarella, who founded the Jazzschool in 1997. Muscarella is particularly excited about the school's new Artist in Residence Program, ...

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Vince "The Prince" Seneri Brings His Magic Back To Zanzibar Blue

Source: All About Jazz
August 20, 2006

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Community Arts Festival Celebration 2006

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2006

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Upcoming Mel Martin Shows

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2006

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Matthew Shipp Opens Firehouse 12's Fall 2006 Season on September 22nd

Source: Improvised Communications
August 16, 2006

Friday, September 22nd at 8:30 and 10 p.m. Matthew Shipp Firehouse 12 45 Crown Street in New Haven, CT Tickets are $15 (opening set) and $10 (second set) Tickets are available online or by phone at (203) 785-0468

New Haven's Firehouse 12 will launch its 12-event Fall 2006 concert season on Friday, September 22nd with a two-set solo performance by pianist Matthew Shipp. Known as “one of the ...

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Drummer Charli Persip Live at Harlem Speaks Thursday, August 24th 6:30pm-8:00pm (free to the public)

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 16, 2006

The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/

Drummer Charli Persip Live at Harlem Speaks

Charli Persip, bandleader/drummer August 24, 2006 6:30pm-8:00pm

Charli Persip's fifty-plus year mission includes distinguished residencies with the big bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine, as well as gigs and recordings with Tadd Dameron, Frank Foster, Eric Dolphy, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, among many others, including Dinah Washington, Harry Edison, Harry James, Zoot Sims, Gil ...

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Legendary Jazz Pianist Randy Weston Opens the 2006-07 Performing Arts Series Season at the University of Nevada, Reno

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2006

Legendary American jazz pianist, composer and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston has spent much of his 80 years immersed in the sounds and cultures that have shaped the rich history of African American rhythms and melodies living at the very roots of jazz.

Opening the University of Nevada, Reno's 2006-07 Performing Arts Series, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. in Nightingale Concert Hall, Randy Weston's African Rhythms Quintet with the Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco will perform work the ...

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