Event News

The Ed Cherry Group @ The Blue Note -Sat .Oct. 22,2005

Source: All About Jazz
October 21, 2005

The Ed Cherry group will be performing following the “Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Band" at the Bluet Note on sat. Oct.22nd. 1am-3am(late night grooves) adm.10$ w/todd coolman-bass jay collins-sax/flute diego voglino-drums ed cherry-guitar see bio below: Ed Cherry Instrument | Guitar Biography I've been playing the guitar since the age of 12. Rock and soul music at first (Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Kool and the Gang, Jeff Beck, Wilson Pickett). After high school, in 1972, I spent 4 months at Berklee ...

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Pat Metheny Joins The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Joins Music Player Live Expo In New York on October 22

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2005

State-of-the-Art Mobile Recording & Multimedia Studio Hosts Jazz Legend Pat Metheny WHO: Pat Metheny, students and on-board engineers WHAT: The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, the unique non-profit mobile recording and multimedia studio, will host public tours and demonstrations at Music Player Live (MPL). The Lennon Bus will have highly respected musician Pat Metheny on-board working with students from area schools to write and record an original composition. Participants in the Bus workshops, which are conducted ...

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Illinois Jacquet Dedication Ceremony and Concert at The Woodlawn Cemetery

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2005

On Sunday, October 30th, at 2 pm, the memorial marking the final resting place of tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet will be dedicated at The Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Dr. Eugene Callendar of St. James Presbyterian Church will lead the ceremony. Phil Schaap, Curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will recount his memorable interviews with the jazz great. After the monument is unveiled Victor Goines, Artistic Director of Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School, will lead a ten piece jazz ...

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Bo Diddley's 77th birthday

Source: All About Jazz
October 19, 2005

One of the founding fathers of rock & roll, BO DIDDLEY celebrates his 77th birthday on Friday December 30th 2005 and we encourage all his many fans around the world to sign the BO DIDDLEY-The Originator website Guestbook with their birthday greetings and messages.

As we always do at this time of the year, we are making special arrangements for BO DIDDLEY to view each and every one of your greetings. This is an opportunity for you to convey your ...

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5th Annual Jazz Competition for Vocalists

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2005

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Free concert program at Bard features 'ASR Records Artists

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2005

BARD MUSIC PROGRAM PRESENTS: AN EVENING OF CLASSICAL MUSIC AND JAZZ ON OCTOBER 19 Free program at Bard features 'ASR Records Artists the Erica Lindsay/Sumi Tonooka Quartet ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.--The Bard Music Program presents a classical/jazz concert on Wednesday, October 19. Free and open to the public, the program will begin at 8:00 p.m. in Olin Hall. The classical section of the program features the ...

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NEC Celebrates Protean Gunther Schuller on 80th Birthday

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

“I Hear America”: New England Conservatory Celebrates Gunther Schuller’s 80th Birthday, November 14—22, 2005

Bruce Brubaker Directs Festival that Features New New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Schuller Chamber Music, Jazz

Celebrations Include Collaborative Events with Boston Symphony Orchestra and Office for the Arts at Harvard University

“Renowned as a composer, conductor, historian, publisher, hornist, and educator, Gunther Schuller is a key witness to American musical culture. In his pioneering study Early Jazz, his rediscovery of ragtime, his championing of the ...

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Galt MacDermot and His New Pulse Jazz Band Premier "The City Suite" and Perform Excerpts from "The Tinderbox"

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

New York, New York – October 17, 2005 – Grammy and Tony Award-winning composer of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Galt MacDermot will be performing with his New Pulse Jazz Band and Broadway singers at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening, November 18th at 8:00 PM.

MacDermot will premiere The City Suite, to be released on Kilmarnock Records in the spring, and excerpts from a new composition, The Tinderbox, an adaptation of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy ...

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