Event News

169 Bar Hosts Jazz Vocalist Sarah Lynch with Greg Skaff, Phil Palombi & Mark Ferber

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

New York City-based vocalist Sarah Lynch appears Monday, August 22nd at 169 Bar with Greg Skaff on guitar, Phil Palombi on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums.

Greg Skaff's latest CD, “Ellington Boulevard", is on the Zoho record label and has garnered critical praise. In addition to leading his own trio, he also works regularly with Bobby Watson, David “Fathead" Newman, and Gloria Lynne.

Bassist Phil Palombi, who plays both internationally and in New York, performs and records with such ...

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CAC in New Orleans Kicks Off 2nd Year of NEA Jazz Masters Series with McCoy Tyner

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2005

AUGUST 1, 2005 (New Orleans) —NEA Jazz Master and pianist McCoy Tyner performs at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans on Thursday, September 1, for two shows, 7 and 9pm. His trio will include Charnett Moffett on bass and Eric Kamau Gravatt on drums. Tyner’s performance kicks off the CACs second year as a NEA Jazz Masters on Tour presenter. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts selected the CAC among several not-for-profit presenting organizations in the country ...

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BBC To Honor Charlie Parker During Kansas City Visit

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

Kansas City USA -- The BBC is filming a special on Charlie Parker. Last week, they filmed most of the week in New York. Over the past weekend, they filmed at the Brecon Jazz Fest in the UK which featured a tribute to Bird. One stop they plan to make during their Kansas City visit, is to film the Parker grave site at Lincoln Cemetery. The BBC producer, wrote the following about the Brecon Fest: “. . . spoke with ...

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The Jazz Gallery In New York City Opens 10th Anniversary Season Sept. 6th with Los Musicos En Cuba: International Images From A Musical Island

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

The photo exhibit Los Musicos en Cuba, the initial visual arts component of The Jazz Gallery's 10th Anniversary Season, opens on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, with a reception from 6:00 -8:00 PM. The show brings together the work of three dedicated photographers - two Cuban and one American - who, in recent years, have focused their talents on portraying musicians in Cuba. The biographical notes below briefly trace the individual journeys that led to their photos being displayed in The ...

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Ropeadope And Blue Note Records Present: What Is Jazz? @ World Café Live Philadelphia

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2005

Brooklyn, NY: A monthly concert series that mixes and matches styles, sounds and players while begging the question...What is Jazz? The series will include film such as Electric Miles, Monk in Oslo and Mingus Triumph of the Underdog; an educational component with the graduate students from University of Pennsylvania's music studies division, and of course great music. The first of the series begins on September 21st and features: DJ Logic Trio w/ Calvin Weston & Jamaladeen Tacuma The ...

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9th Darmstadt Jazzforum — September 29th to October 2nd 2005

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2005

Treason !!! ... or Chance?

Jazz and its ambivalent relationship(s) with popular music

Jazz always resisted being pigeonholed: Some thought it to be the popular music of the 1930s and basis for many later styles in popular music, for others it was art music and as thus an alternative to the commercial aspects of popular music. Jazz musicians always had to live with this split identity of their music, they had to reflect it, but they also could make use ...

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Arts & Events Calendar for University of Nevada, Reno

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

ARTS365 — THE ARTS AND EVENTS CALENDAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO — AVAILABLE FOR FALL 2005

The School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno has published its new Fall 2005 edition of the popular events calendar, arts365, featuring world-class offerings from guest artists and performers, faculty and students within the school’s departments of dance, music, theatre and visual arts, as well as gallery exhibits and season openers of Argenta, the Performing Arts Series and Nevada ...

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Two Jazz Giants Open 2005 - '06 Season Series at University of Nevada, Reno

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

2005-06 PERFORMING ARTS SERIES SEASON OPENS WITH TWO JAZZ GIANTS — NEA JAZZ MASTER JIM HALL AND SCOTT COLLEY, TOGETHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

An evening of unparalleled jazz virtuosity is the inevitable result when you combine two award-winning artists, legendary guitarist and NEA Jazz Master Jim Hall and acclaimed bassist Scott Colley. Opening the University of Nevada, Reno's 2005-06 Performing Arts Series in Nightingale Concert Hall, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005, at 7:30 p.m., Hall’s harmonically advanced, cool-toned ...

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