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Poncho Sanchez And His Latin Jazz Band In San Diego on May 31st
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Joe Horger
Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band will appear live on Friday, May 31st at the Bob Guess Theater for Performing Arts. This is a one night only performance brouht to you by the Grossmont Union High School District Band Directors and the Parent Music Advocacy Group. The theater is located on the West Hills High School campus at 8756 Mast Blvd, Santee, CA. Tickets are $20/general admission/all ages and are available at www.pmagsd.org. Profit from the event will go ...
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Jeremy Pelt Added To Trumpet Fanfare For New York City International Jazz Day Event Tomorrow April 30
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Claudia Artzer
At 2PM on Tuesday, April 30—International Jazz Day—the Jazz Journalists Association of New York City will showcase a fanfare by New York City trumpet stars including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt who was just added. Trumpeter/composer/performance artist Stephanie Richards has composed an original fanfare dedicated to Armstrong and International Jazz Day, which she will perform at the event with fellow trumpeters Pelt, David Weiss and Igmar Thomas. Also featured at the free-to-the-public International Jazz Day party co-hosted by the Louis Armstrong House ...
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The Columbus Jazz Orchestra Goes Wild In Eighth Season Of JazZoo!
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH – This summer, the Jazz Arts Group will take jazz to a wilder place as the Columbus Jazz Orchestra takes center stage at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for the eighth season of JazZoo! The four-concert series returns to the Water's Edge Events Park at the Columbus Zoo providing a beautiful waterfront setting along the O'Shaughnessy Reservoir. Gates open at 6:30 PM with concerts beginning at 8 PM. July 12, 8 PM: “Soul Classics" featuring Chris Pierce Special ...
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Royal Hartigan Honors Ancestors In Free Concert, May 5 In Pittsfield
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Ed Bride Associates
Percussionist, author, activist, and Pittsfield (Mass.) native Royal Hartigan brings the Blood Drum Spirit ensemble to his home town, to honor his (and our) ancestors on Sunday, May 5, at 3 pm. The concert will take place at the Zion Lutheran Church at 74 First Street, Pittsfield. A free will offering is suggested and all proceeds from offerings will be donated to the Pittsfield Area Council of Congregations Emergency Fuel Fund and to Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Hartigan will be joined ...
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Williams College Jazz Combo To Appear In Free Concert May 3 In Pittsfield
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Ed Bride Associates
Berkshires Jazz continues its First Friday offerings with a free performance on May 3 by the Williams College Jazz Group, an ensemble comprising talented students and headed by Andy Jaffe. The 7:30pm concert will take place at Baba Louie’s Backroom (new location), beginning as the First Friday Artswalk concludes. The student members come from around the country and around the world: Max Dietrich, baritone sax (Newton, Mass.); Nina Kumar, drums (Larchmont,N.Y.); Thobo Mogojwe, vocals (Botswana); Chris Janson, bass (Darien,Conn); Jack ...
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Prime Example Jazz Club And WWOZ Present Stephanie Jordan After Jazz Fest
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Sylvain Music Notes
NEW ORLEANS, LA: WWOZ and Prime Example Jazz Club present the Stephanie Jordan Jazz Ensemble for two dinner shows on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 9:00 and 11:00 PM in one of New Orleans’ most intimate lounge settings. Prime Example Jazz Club is located at 1909 North Broad Street, New Orleans, LA 70119. Songstress Stephanie Jordan will fill the air with her signature sound of great jazz standards. In reviewing her debut CD, The New York City Jazz Record proclaimed ...
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Nicole Mitchell, Jason Hwang And Kamala Sankaram Premiere New Music With Tri-Centric Orchestra
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Nicole Mitchell
TRI-CENTRIC ORCHESTRA TO PREMIERE COMMISSIONS BY NICOLE MITCHELL, JASON KAO HWANG, AND KAMALA SANKARAM 8pm, April 21, 2013 at Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY Brooklyn, NY - On April 21st at Roulette, the Tri-Centric Orchestra, the resident ensemble of Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation (TCF), will premiere three compositions for a 16- piece ensemble by composers Nicole Mitchell, Jason Kao Hwang, and Kamala Sankaram. The concert initiates TCF’s commissioning series, designed to offer the next generation of creative ...
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Vicki Burns Quartet Performs A Tribute To Anita O'Day At The Metropolitan Room On April 23rd At 7:00pm!
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Vicki-Lyn Burns
Vicki Burns will bring her stellar quartet to The Metropolitan Room in New York City on April 23rd, 2013 at 7:00pm. They will perform a Tribute to jazz singer Anita O'Day and feature ingenious arrangements by guitarist Ed MacEachen who is also performing with the Quartet. Also featured are Leonard Thompson on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass and Phil Stewart on drums. Vicki Burns will sing songs from O'Day's extensive repertoire focusing on the time period from the late 1950's ...
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