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1st International Jarek Smietana Jazz Guitar Competition - Closing Date For Applications 15 April
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All About Jazz
My Polish Heart Foundation is proud to announce the inaugural International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition, which will be held in Cracow from 1-4 July, 2015. The International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition is in honor of Jarek Śmietana, one of the most significant figures in Polish jazz for over four decades, who passed away on 2 September 2013 after a long fight with a brain tumor. The competition is open to guitarists form any country up to the age ...
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The Outsiders Improvised & Creative Music Pop-Up Festival
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma
The Outsiders Improvised & Creative Music Pop-Up Festival – April 24, 2015 A celebration of creative, progressive music in honor of Philadelphia Jazz Appreciation Month, curated by Jamaaladeen Tacuma and presented in collaboration with The Producer’s Guild. Philadelphia, PA – Internationally renowned bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and The Producer’s Guild of Philadelphia are pleased to present The Outsiders Improvised & Creative Music Pop-Up Festival, a celebration of creative, progressive jazz music. The concert takes place Friday, April 24, 2015 at 8pm ...
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Legendary Multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan Pays Homage To Former Bandmate And Trumpet Great Red Rodney
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Decibel
New York, NY – Legendary multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan will make a rare appearance next month (April 22-23) at New York’s Zinc Bar (82 West 3rd Street) to celebrate the life of the late jazz trumpet great Red Rodney. Sullivan, who turns 84 in May, was a longtime colleague of Red's since the early 50s and co-led the Red Rodney/Ira Sullivan Quintet during the 80s recording a handful of critically acclaimed records while touring extensively throughout the US and abroad. Beside ...
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The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors Perform At The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater On April 24
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music presents the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, in a program featuring the members’ original compositions, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on April 24. The quintet is composed of students attending the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI). The concert is part of the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project, a showcase for outstanding students from America’s finest music colleges and conservatories. The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors’ free performance takes place Friday, April ...
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The Bad Plus Performs The Ornette Coleman Masterpiece Science Fiction, National Concert Hall, Dublin, 12 April
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All About Jazz
As part of the extraordinary weekend of music that is April Jazz, The Bad Plus with very special guests will perform Ornette Coleman’s classic album Science Fiction (Columbia, 1972) in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Sunday, 12 April, 8pm. Ornette Coleman’s 1972 album Science Fiction, “a stunningly inventive and appropriately alien-sounding blast of manic energy...it's overflowing with brilliance” (Allmusic), is widely considered a landmark recording and especially so for pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King of ...
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Kate Davis Announces Residency At Bemelmans Bar In The Carlyle
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Matt Gross
THE CARLYLE, A ROSEWOOD HOTEL WELCOMES KATE DAVIS TO BEMELMANS BAR FOR SUNDAY NIGHT RESIDENCY IN MAY Performances Will Take Place May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, is pleased to welcome revered multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kate Davis to Bemelmans Bar for a Sunday night residency. A Silver Winner of the National YoungArts Foundation, Kate became a New York transplant in 2009 when she enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music. Recently, Kate has shared ...
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Kaylene Peoples & Bunny Brunel Dual CD Release, Featuring Patrice Rushen, Benefiting Bella Composers
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First Take PR & Consulting
An exciting lineup of musicians will play for a worthy cause April 8, 2015 at Catalina Bar & Grill at 8:30pm. Famed fusion, Grammy nominated bassist Bunny Brunel and award-winner producer, singer and flutist Kaylene Peoples are celebrating the release of their respective CDs (Invent Your Future and My Man) to raise money for the exciting new charity Bella Composers. This benefit concert promises to be a night to remember. Star Trek actor Chase Masterson will be hosting the evening; ...
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Keyboardist Steve McQuarry Presents A Tribute To Carla Bley At SFJAZZ Center, June 5
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Oakland-based keyboardist-composer Steve McQuarry and his musician friends had long been enamored of the cutting-edge music of Oakland-born keyboardist-composer Carla Bley. In a conversation a year and a half ago with Bley’s daughter, keyboardist Karen Mantler, he mentioned that he would love to perform some of her mother’s compositions. Mantler talked it over with Bley, and within a few months, a large box filled with Bley’s scores for octet and big band, some of them in their original hand-penciled form, ...
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