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Jeremy Monteiro Heads Jazz Organ Summit At Singapore's Esplanade, 23-24 October
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All About Jazz
Three for the price of one seems like a damned good deal, especially when we’re talking about three of jazz’s finest exponents of the organ, the KeyB organ to be precise. Jeremy Monteiro (Singapore), Alberto Marsico Italy and Tony Monaco (USA) are getting together for this Jazz Organ Summit –at the Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore, the culmination of a whirlwind Asian tour that will also take them to Bangkok and Hong Kong, courtesy of sponsors EFG Bank. Monteiro has returned ...
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New England Conservatory Hosts Legendary Songwriter Elvis Costello Friday, October 25 In Public Talk At Jordan Hall
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Costello to Receive Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from NEC New England Conservatory welcomes legendary songwriter Elvis Costello to campus on Friday, October 25, 2013. After a morning of working in the classroom with songwriters enrolled in NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation program, Costello talks about his genre-spanning career in a public forum, moderated by Boston Globe pop music critic Sarah Rodman, at 2 p.m. in Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. The talk is free and open to the public. ...
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Sex Mob Descends On Dublin!
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All About Jazz
Sex Mob is a band out of time: a smartly old-fashioned quartet of world-class musicians with a satchel full of charts. Sex Mob is a band of the now: post-modern waltzes mutating into dub-echoed free jazz. Sex Mob is social music: a rollicking midnight set with clatter and drinks and a band. Sex Mob is a happy contradiction: an experimental jazz outfit whose music has slid readily into the mainstream via Saturday Night Live, MTV, and National Public Radio. Sex ...
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New Voices, New Sounds - A New Venue For Jazz In NYC
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Susheel Kurien
Following a successful season of First Sunday Jazz Salon at the RIVAA Gallery, the Roosevelt Island Visual Art's Association is pleased to announce NEW VOICES, NEW SOUNDS @ RIVAA NEW VOICES, NEW SOUNDS is an innovative and artistically curated music series that showcases fresh talent that is destined to make their mark on the New York jazz scene. With progressive and contemporary sounds that are rooted in the jazz tradition, these new voices bring fresh perspective and an innovative interpretation ...
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TD James Moody Democracy Of Jazz Festival Sarah Vaughan Competition Winners
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Five Finalists and a “Rising Star” Chosen For Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition Al Jarreau, Janis Siegel, Gretchen Parlato, WBGO’s Gary Walker and Larry Rosen to Choose Winner of the SASSY Award Newark, NJ: In 1942, a teenage Sarah Vaughan won the Apollo Theater’s amateur singing competition in a performance that was a launching pad for a career that transformed one of America’s original art forms and elevated the craft of jazz vocal music. Last year, Cyrille Aimee focused ...
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Jazz Walk In Fairmount Park on Sunday, October 13th, Noon-4pm
Source:
Michael Ricci
Philadelphia Jazz Project presents JAZZ WALK Take a stroll with the PJP in beautiful Fairmount Park around the
East Park Reservoir starting at 33rd & Diamond Streets or 33rd & Oxford Streets. JAZZ WALK is a FREE event, featuring Jazz Performances, free snacks & water. Wear comfortable shoes or sneakers for walking and if you need to, bring a lightweight, portable chair. We'll celebrate the lives and work of... • John Coltrane • Dizzy Gillespie • ...
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3 Generations Of Freddie Hubbard Alumni at Blue Whale on October 11-12
Source:
John Beasley
A spontaneous Hub reunion of Freddie Hubbard’s band members. From the 70s, Henry Franklin on bass. Carrying the rhythm section in the 80s and 90s, Carl Allen on drums with John Beasley on keyboards, and standing out front on sax was Bob Sheppard. Joining the band in the 90s was Ralph Moore on sax. On the reunion stage, Ambrose Akinmusire join this alumni band. 2 nights, 4 sets in the spirit of Freddie! “I was changing the style of the ...
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The Specter of Fritz Weiss
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All About Jazz
By Scott Krane The last time I wrote about the Israeli old-fashioned jazz musician Shai Brenner, he was entertaining kibbutz members in a bomb shell while Israel was fighting a war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. This time, Shai is reviving the ghost of a jazz musician murdered by Nazis in an extermination camp. On September 28, Shai performed a tribute to Fritz Weiss. Weiss was a bandleader and composer born on the aforementioned date in 1919 in the ...
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