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Bill Mays Presents "Ten Decades Of Jazz Piano" In Feb. 21 Program
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Ed Bride Associates
Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Participating in Pittsfield’s Annual 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival with One-time Performance PITTSFIELD, MA: Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced that the legendary NY-based pianist Bill Mays will perform in a special headline concert on Feb. 21 at Baba Louie’s Backroom. Part of the Pittsfield 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival, the master pianist surveys jazz' progression from raggedy honky-tonk sounds to its speakeasy era, to its heyday in the mid-20th century, to bebop, and now, to “America's Classical Music." To ...
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Ernie Watts, Chuck Rainey, Liane Carroll, Impossible Gentlemen For Sligo Jazz Project 2015
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Sligo Jazz Project
Sligo Jazz Project is now taking bookings for its 10th Anniversary summer school and festival event, 21-26 July 2015. Its stellar 2015 15-tutor faculty, which includes Grammy winning US saxophone legend Ernie Watts, award winning UK vocalist Liane Carroll, Band-in-Residence The Impossible Gentlemen and recording legend Chuck Rainey (Steely Dan/ Aretha Franklin, etc.), will preside over an intense but inspiring week of workshops, masterclasses, concerts and jam sessions. All tutors will perform concerts at Sligo's unique jazz festival. The faculty ...
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Do You Love Live Jazz? Then You Must Experience The Sensation Jazz Cruise In London
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Toni Warner
Early Bird Tickets Go On Sale For Sensation Jazz Cruise on the Thames Londoners are getting ready to groove with the announcement that tickets for the Sensation Jazz Cruises - The Ultimate Floating Jazz Party on May 31st 2015 are now on sale. Held on-board the fabulous Dixie Queen, the all-inclusive three hour luxury river boat cruise is the ultimate floating jazz extravaganza. Attendees are invited to wrap their ears around some seriously smooth live jazz fusions from some of ...
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The New Music Seminar Returns To New York City June 21-23
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HypeBot
The 23rd Annual New Music Seminar (NMS) will be held June 21-23 at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel. The conference brings together. The distinguised music convention and festival limits its registration to 1,500 esteemed delegates and ensures that all sectors of the music industries are represented. This year's convention boasts over 180 influential speakers, thought provoking discussions, and live performances from the NMS 'Artists on the Verge'. “The NMS projections for the music industry continue to become reality, but too many ...
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New Yorkers Come To Jeff Golub's Aid One Final Time
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
January 21 all-star concert planned to memorialize the guitarist and benefit his family sells out. New York, NY: When the newly blind guitarist Jeff Golub stumbled and fell onto New York City subway tracks where he was clipped and dragged by a train in 2012, New Yorkers came to his aid. When word spread throughout the New York City music community last month that Golub was on his death bed, New Yorkers bought concert tickets to the January 21 all-star ...
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Charlie Haden Memorial And Celebration Of His Life Tuesday, January 13, 2015 @ 7pm @ The Town Hall NYC
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Michael Ricci
Family and friends, including many jazz greats, will come together to celebrate the life of CHARLIE HADEN (1937-2014), one of the most innovative and influential bassists in the history of jazz. A three-time Grammy winner, Haden has received many awards and accolades throughout his five-decade career including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the NEA Jazz Master Award, and was most recently bestowed the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Just as importantly, ...
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Charlie Haden Memorial On Tuesday
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
A memorial service for Charlie Haden, who died last July, is set for this week in New York City. Here is the poster. For a reminder of what keeps Haden in the memories of all those distinguished musicians, here is “First Song” performed with his Quartet West: Haden, bass; Alan Broadbent, piano; Gary Foster, tenor saxophone; Larance Marable, drums. Complete details about the memorial service are at the Town Hall website. For the Rifftides announcement of his death, see this ...
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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present More Than 50 Free Performances For Spring 2015 Season
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Plus Residencies with World-Renowned Performers January 26 — May 19, 2015 Highlights include: The Music of Ken Schaphorst and John Medeski; Jason Moran in The Music of Fats Waller; Order of the Virtues, a re-interpretation of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum; Masterclasses with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, John Medeski, Jason Moran, Dave Holland & Fred Hersch. In the Mix – 36 one-hour concerts by exceptional student ensembles New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation Departments announce more than 50 ...
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