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Shaken, Not Stirred: Texas Jazz Crooner Returns To Metropolitan Room With "A Saloon Jazz Mixology"
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Ken Slavin
The number-one male jazz singer in the home of the Alamo returns to the Big Apple the first week of the New Year for his fourth headline appearance at the popular Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd Street. Ken Slavin’s new show, “Cocktails With Ken: A Saloon Jazz Mixology" is slated for Thursday, January 7, at 9:30 p.m. EST. Doors open at 9 p.m. EST. Tickets are $25, $85 and $115 and are available online at Metropolitan Room.com or by calling ...
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Anat Cohen To Kick Off NPR's Toast Of The Nation Broadcast
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Margot Edwards
Clarinetist and Berklee alumna Anat Cohen will kick off National Public Radio’s Toast of the Nation annual coast-to-coast radio broadcast this New Year's Eve, December 31, 2015. Cohen’s concert—a rebroadcast of her acclaimed 2009 New Year’s Eve performance at the Berklee Performance Center—will begin the evening’s festivities at 9:00 pm Eastern time. Heard New Year’s Eve on more than 200 NPR affiliate stations, NPR Worldwide, Sirius XM Radio, and streamed on wbgo.org, Toast of the Nation begins with Cohen’s quartet, ...
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Ancient Future Concerts Celebrating Matthew Montfort's New Custom Scalloped Fretboard Guitar
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Matthew Montfort
Ancient Future Bay Area Concerts Debut Performances with Matthew Montfort's New Scalloped Fretboard Guitar Featuring World Guitar Pioneer Matthew Montfort, Tabla Virtuoso Vishal Nagar and Special Guest Composer/Santurist Mariah Parker One of the program variations of the trailblazing world fusion music ensemble, Ancient Future, this improvisatory ensemble features world guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort accompanied by renowned Indian tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar and composer/santurist Mariah Parker. Blending flamenco, raga, rock, Celtic, jazz and Asian music, they will perform music from Ancient ...
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Clarinets At Grace Cathedral
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Over the years, Grace Cathedral on San Francisco’s Nob Hill has hosted countless concerts of importance. Among them, both in 1965, were Duke Ellington’s magnificent Second Sacred Concert and pianist Vince Guaraldi’s Grace Cathedral Concert with his trio and an 86-voice choir. Rifftides reader and veteran audio expert Jim Brown attended last week’s more secular concert at Grace Cathedral. Presented by the SFJazz organization, it featured four clarinetists. Jim kindly offered to share his impressions of the event. SFJazz sent ...
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SLM Ensemble: Solo And Chamber Works For Peace on December 7 at The Cell Theatre
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Sarah Weaver
SLM Ensemble: Solo and Chamber Works for Peace on December 7, 2015 at 8:00pm. $20/$15. The Cell Theatre 338 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 Ray Anderson, trombone David Taylor, bass trombone Samir Chatterjee, tabla Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone Zafer Tawil, oud, violin, qanun, Arab percussion Joe McPhee, saxophone, trumpet Miya Masaoka, koto Sarah Weaver, composer In remembrance of Pearl ...
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Jacqui Naylor Invites Fans To Rate Songs At Upcoming Yoshi's Concert
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Jacqui Naylor
Tuesday, November 17th , vocalist and songwriter Jacqui Naylor returns to Yoshi’s in Oakland with new music and the opportunity for fans to vote. Guests will be invited to rate each song on a 1-5 scale and the artist will include the highest rated on her tenth recording, due out 2016, Ruby Star Records, eOne Distribution. Naylor is recognized for her wide range, unique vocal sound and the rare ability to interpret music of many genres as well as her ...
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Producer Orrin Keepnews To Be Honored At A Memorial Concert At Yoshi's, Oakland, Nov. 29
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Terri Hinte Publicity
When Orrin Keepnews passed away at his El Cerrito home on March 1, the day before his 92nd birthday, he left behind an unparalleled legacy as a jazz producer, advocate, and entrepreneur. Keepnews’s brilliant career spanned more than 60 years, during which time he founded three forward-thinking labels (Riverside, Milestone, Landmark) and produced hundreds of major jazz artists including Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, Cannonball Adderley, and Mulgrew Miller. Several of the artists he worked closely with—vocalist Wesla Whitfield, ...
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Down—But Not Out—In Los Angeles: How A Jazz Band Is Helping Solve The Homeless Crisis In Hollywood
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Imaginary Friends
By George Kahn There is a housing crisis in Los Angeles. Some people call it a homeless crisis—I think of it as a housing crisis. You see it in Downtown: As the gentrification picks up speed, the old “flop house” hotels get converted to hip apartments and the condos start selling at $550,000. You see it in West Los Angeles: Now starter homes are selling for $800,000 and being torn down by developers to make million-dollar houses. You see it ...
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