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Nu Jazz Entertainment Announces Jazz, Classical, And World Music Panel At DMW Digital Music Conference In New York City
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Nu Jazz Entertainment
New York, NY: Nu Jazz Entertainment has just announced that founder & CEO Jerald Miller will be leading and moderating a digital media panel entitled: Developing Non-Popular Music & Catalog Content For The 21st Century on February 20, 2013 for the Digital Media Wire (DMW) Music Conference to be held in New York City at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, as part of the two day Digital Music Conference held by Digital Media Wire. The panel, the among the firsts ...
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Jazz Bridge Presents Dizzy Gillespie Play "Last Call at the Downbeat" on April 5-6 and 12-13
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Jim Miller
Last Call at the Downbeat, an original show about Jazz pioneer Dizzy Gillespie’s famous stint at Philadelphia’s Downbeat nightclub in November of 1942, will open in the Red Room of the Society Hill Playhouse—507 South 8th Street in Philadelphia—on Friday April 5th and run through the first two weekends in April (International Jazz Month) ending on April 13th as part of PIFA, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. Tickets for the show are $25, and show time is 8 ...
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Jazz Arts Group Of Columbus & MojoFlo Join Forces For "Motor City Soul Revue," March 2 At Lincoln
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group's Inside Track series continues its 2012-13 season at the historic Lincoln Theatre with a tribute to the famed “Hitsville U.S.A." label and the artists and songs that exemplified “The Motown Sound." On Saturday, March 2, Columbus' favorite neo-funk band MojoFlo joins forces with members of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra and a cast of local music all-stars to present the “Motor City Soul Revue," an evening of classic hits from Motown's golden era! Jazz ...
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Jazz Duets Featuring Carmen Lundy & Harpist Carol Robbins
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Dorothy Riley
Experience world-class jazz at the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum during Black History Month! Jazz @ the Clayton presents Jazz Duets, an incredible series of four (4) unique jazz concerts. The series begins on Thursday, February 7, 2013 and ends on Feb. 28, 2013 with the final concert featuring celebrated Jazz composer and vocalist Carmen Lundy and Harpist Carol Robbins. Please note that each concert may be recorded live during the performance. The Jazz Duets Concert Series is produced ...
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Columbus Jazz Orchestra Takes On Broadway With Tony Award Winner Debbie Gravitte, March 14-17
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) returns to the historic Southern Theatre in a night of Broadway magic as the Columbus Jazz Orchestra puts a jazzy twist on your favorite classic show tunes. Tony Award-winning vocalist Debbie Gravitte joins the CJO on this trip down the great white way, March 14 – 17, in “Big Band on Broadway." Debbie Gravitte has had a varied career that has taken her from Broadway to Symphony Hall stages and ...
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FELA! comes to Chicago
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Chris May
The award-winning Broadway musical FELA! – which is bringing the life and music of Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to the world stage - will play Chicago’s Arie Crown Theater February 19 – 23. An all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza in the best Broadway tradition, in other respects FELA! transcends musical theater convention. Escapism is replaced by gritty realism, compromise by authenticity. Kuti’s revolutionary politics are sympathetically presented, and his heroic story – marked by decades of brutal repression by ...
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SF Music Tech Announces New Event Details and Last Chance Registration Opportunities
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HypeBot
The SF MusicTech Summit takes place February 19 in San Francisco featuring a full day of speakers, presentations and opportunities for informal meetings with the cream of the crop in music tech from developers to artists to entrepreneurs. Taking place in what is arguably the center for music tech experimentation and entrepreneurship, the SF MusicTech Summit is a must attend gathering with parties to match. The 12th SF MusicTech Summit is being held at San Francisco's Hotel Kabuki. Scheduled events ...
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Carmen Lundy + Luckman Jazz Orchestra: Tribute To Heath on February 9
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Dorothy Riley
Celebrated jazz vocalist and composer Carmen Lundy joins the Luckman Jazz Orchestra in a one-evening-only tribute performance to the incomparable Jimmy Heath. During his five decade career, Heath has performed with jazz greats including Howard McGhee, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. Heath performed on more than 100 albums and wrote more than 125 compositions. Carmen Lundy is hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having a voice of agility and seductive allure. February 9, 2013 8:00 ...
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