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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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San Jose Comics Shop Host Erik Deutsch And The Jazz Outlaws on July 14 at 7:30pm
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Dan Vado
Erik Deutsch and the Jazz Outlaws will be making San Jose's The Art Boutiki a stop on their current west cost tour, bringing their brand of country influenced jazz into one of the most unique venues in the country. Having first come to prominence as a member of the funk-jazz collective Fat Mama, Brooklyn-based pianist Erik Deutsch has taken his talents across the globe to play with some of the finest musicians alive. Born in Washington D.C., Erik exists in ...
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The Second Annual Made In New York Jazz Gala Is Announced
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Michael Ricci
s music an international language? Looking at the international jazz scene it would be hard to argue otherwise. On June 27th, 2015 at in New York the international nature of jazz is being celebrated to its fullest, with the Made in New York Jazz Competition hosting international jazz, folk jazz and new flavor jazz artists all sharing the stage together. The Made in New York Jazz Competition has gone a long way in helping make people aware of how vibrant ...
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Rare Jazz Films at the Annual Jazz Record Collectors' Bash
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Michael Ricci
June 26-27, 2015 at the Hotel Woodbridge in Iselin, NJ Friday, June 26, 2015 8:00PM David Weiner's Rare Jazz Films Jazz collector and film historian David Weiner will present two hours of rare film and TV clips, showcasing jazz and pop artists of the 1920s into the 1970s. Among the featured performers will be soloists Stan Getz, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Pettiford, Phil Napoleon, Benny Morton, Louis Armstrong, Mel Powell, Jo Jones, Attila Zoller & ...
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Esperanza Spalding Headlines Free Concert At Celebrate Brooklyn!
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Matt Gross
BRIC is pleased to announce that Esperanza Spalding will headline a free concert at the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival (Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th St. & Prospect Park West), which is presented by Squarespace, on Friday, June 12. The concert, free to the public (with a suggested $3 contribution at the gate), begins at 7:30 P.M. with an opening performance by acclaimed vocalist José James. The captivating bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding’s “sprawling collage of jazz fusion, Brazilian, and even ...
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National Jazz Museum in Harlem Conversations on Civic Jazz with Gregory Clark, Loren Schoenberg, and Guests on June 16 - June 27
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
All events are free to the public Civic Jazz author Gregory Clark and National Jazz Museum in Harlem Artistic Director Loren Schoenberg engage in lively conversation for five exciting sessions in June at 7:00pm. The discussions will set the context for an afternoon of 'live' music that demonstrates the swinging sort of democracy that makes jazz happen. Join us at the museum located at 104 E. 126th Street, Harlem. Tuesday, June 16: Civic Jazz and cultural work of the music ...
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Plucky Strum CD Release Concert at Kitano Features Harvie S and Sheryl Bailey
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Mixed Media Promotion
TWO SHOWS: 8 PM & 10 PM Kitano 66 Park Avenue (at E 38th St) New York, NY 10016 212.885.7000 $15 cover, $20 minimum drink and food per person, per set About Plucky Strum The joy of acoustic music by Harvie S and Sheryl Bailey. Steeped in jazz but blended with a myriad of styles, Whaling City Sound’s latest release makes a unique and delicious feast for the ears. Plucky Strum may sound a ...
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