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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Over 100 Free Performances For 2015-2016 Season
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Over 100 Free Performances for 2015-2016 Season Plus Residencies with World-Renowned Performers September 2015 — May 2016 Highlights include: Gunther Schuller Memorial Concert; Round Number Birthday Concerts – Anthony Coleman 60, Fred Hersch 60, Ran Blake 80 and Frank Sinatra 100; Annual Film Noir Concert In the Mix + CI Salon Nights – 81 one-hour concerts by exceptional student ensembles New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation ...
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The SLM Ensemble Album Release Concert at Roulette on October 8th
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Sarah Weaver
Program: “Spectral Syn” by Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver “Cycles of Awakening” by Sarah Weaver “SubTeleToning” by Mark Dresser “Multidimensional Tunings” by Sarah Weaver Jen Shyu, voice, Robert Dick, flute, Julie Ferrara, oboe, Rebekah Heller, bassoon, Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone, Oliver Lake, alto saxophone, Ned Rothenberg, bass clarinet, shakuhachi, James Zollar, trumpet, Ray Anderson, trombone, Dave Taylor, bass trombone, George Ziadeh, oud, voice, Miya Masaoka, koto, Ursel Schlicht, piano, Gerry Hemingway, drum set, ...
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Nicolas Bearde and Nat Adderley Jr CD Preview Concert at Yoshi's on September 15th at 8pm
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Nicolas Bearde
Vocalist Nicolas Bearde And Grammy-Winning Pianist/Composer Nat Adderley Jr. Hit The Jazz Trail Together “Bearde taps into music’s deeper currents, where love, desire and heartache freely intermingle." —Andrew Gilbert, jazz journalist “A powerful musical presence that touched each and every person in the audience." —John Handy About Nicolas Bearde A renowned jazz singer of remarkable depth, range and technique, with a compelling musical style has won acclaim from critics and jazz audiences worldwide. Forged from his Nashville roots, his 1980’s ...
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Stephanie Jordan Sings "Home" From The Wiz At Katrina 10 Commemorative At Smoothie King Center
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Sylvain Music Notes
New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is honored to have been requested by Mayor Mitch Landrieu to sing a big band with strings version of the classic tune “Home" from the Broadway musical The Wiz during Saturday's August 29th Katrina 10 Commemoration: The Power of Community at the Smoothie King Center. President Bill Clinton, New Orleans residents, faith leaders, and advocates who over the last ten years helped the City recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, will take part ...
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Chicago Jazz Fest Full Lineup For September 3-6, 2015 Program
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Fully Altered Media
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is pleased to announce the 37th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival. The festival will take place in Millennium Park and at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington Street), September 3-6, showcasing the very best of jazz music from noon to 9:30pm daily. Additionally, the festival is partnering once again with Pianoforte Foundation for a three-concert series to kick off Festival Week. The five–concert Neighborhood Nights series line-up will be announced ...
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Sneak Peek For Thomas Chapin Film At Litchfield Jazz Fest
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Stephanie Castillo
Join the Litchfield Jazz Festival's tribute to Thomas Chapin, tomorrow and Saturday at the Goshen Fairgrounds, in Goshen, Conn. for a musical concert featuring Chapin's music and a sneak peak of a new jazz film about him. Tomorrow evening August 7, the Litchfield Jazz Orchestra will salute Thomas Chapin as part of the festival's gala opening to its 20th Anniversary season. The LJO will play Chapin’s original arrangements, a concept proposed by bassist Mario Pavone, trombonist Peter McEachern and trumpeter ...
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Decentralized Events: How Live Streaming Revolutionized Live Music
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HypeBot
We are in an era where it is difficult to throw a proverbial rock in the metaphorical landscape of streaming without hitting one medium or another. Whether in professional sports, videogames, e-sports, music, the adult entertainment industry – even in haute couture with performances of ballet, theatre and opera – streaming technologies have left a considerable thumbprint on the ways these art forms are being distributed and thus consumed. But how has this change altered the experience of mediums themselves? What ...
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Brownie Speaks At Newport! A Special Night Of Film And Music
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Don Glanden
Brownie Speaks at Newport: July 30, 2015, 7:30pm (Eve of the Newport Jazz Festival) at the Jane Pickens Theater and Event Center (49 Touro Street Street, Newport, Rhode Island 02840). Free and open to the public. “Now it’s our pleasure to present a young man who has astounded the jazz world with his amazing talent in the last two years. His name is Clifford Brown. And here is his interpretation of I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with ...
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