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Jazzspace and the Pittsburgh Legacy
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
As reported in these pages, I had the pleasure recently of returning to my birthplace of Pittsburgh, PA to moderate panel discussions and participate in a very rewarding commemorative weekend honoring the rich legacy of that city’s African American Musicians’ Union local. The city is rife with jazz history and has produced an incredible number of jazz masters. My experience that weekend suggested that Pittsburgh’s jazz legacy continues apace, at least as far as producing young musicians. One of the ...
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Creating A Future For Our Past
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Ron Kaplan
CREATING A FUTURE FOR OUR PAST...New web presence bodes well for American music preservation Aptos, CA — Visitors to greatamericansongbook.org will notice a fresh look these days, full of facts about composers, lyricists and singers who contributed to this original, precious and uniquely American treasure trove of music. The American Songbook Preservation Society is debuting a fresh new website as part of their ongoing campaign to preserve our cultural treasure known as the Great American Songbook. The Great American Songbook ...
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Brooklyn Conservatory Of Music To Experiment With Engaging Jazz Audiences More Effectively
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Michael Schwab
Brooklyn, NY: The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music has been chosen as one of six organizations across the U.S. to implement data from the Jazz Audiences Initiative (JAI) study in their everyday practices of presenting and producing jazz. Theory-to-practice experiments will begin in the fall of 2012. The Jazz Arts Group (JAG) in Columbus, Ohio commissioned the Jazz Audiences Initiative Study in November 2009 and released the results in late 2011. JAG received a $120,000 Continuing Innovation Stage II grant from ...
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Jazz Music/World Music
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RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
International Jazz Day concert at the United Nations Provides Uplifting Moments The first—of many we trust—International Jazz Day shined brightly with a concert at the United Nations in New York City. There were other concerts the world over. But in New York, a star-studded event also included poignant and uplifting words about the music from Quincy Jones, T.S. Monk, Herbie Hancock and others. In the United Nations building, it did in a couple hours what the organization was supposed to ...
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The Herb Alpert Foundaiton Funds The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards 2012
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Bobbi Marcus
New York, NY: Paul Williams, President of The ASCAP Foundation, announces that The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Awards (an annual program for jazz composers) has received a major, multi-year financial commitment from The Herb Alpert Foundation. To honor that commitment, the program, established in 2002, has been renamed the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. Selection of the winning scores is made by a panel of leading ASCAP jazz composer members. The winners receive cash awards. Original compositions are ...
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15 Step Guide to Starting a Local Music Festival
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HypeBot
The organizers of the JP Music Festival in Jamaica Plains, a Boston neighborhood, released a guide to how they pulled off a successful new music festival on a local level despite financial challenges. The 15 step guide reveals the approach taken by festival organizers who were recently interviewed by The Future of Music Coalition. They share additional down-to-earth insights in the interview into how they made it work. The first JP Music Festival took place in August 2011 and did ...
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Philly Jazz Lovers Seek To Repair Coltrane House
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Michael Ricci
Music enthusiasts in the City of Brotherly Love are looking to rekindle a love supreme for the deteriorating John Coltrane House, a preservation effort that mirrors a broader mission to reclaim and promote Philadelphia’s rich jazz heritage. Cultural officials gathered more than 100 local jazz musicians on Friday for a group photo in front of the rowhouse where Coltrane, a renowned saxophonist, lived from 1952 to 1958. It became a national historic landmark in 1999. “We are serious about our ...
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Put Some Swing In Your Spring! Celebrate Jazz Day Philly Style!
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Michael Ricci
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and Philadelphia is ready to celebrate! Philadelphia has an extraordinary jazz heritage, beginning with Ethel Waters and extending to John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Stan Getz, the Heath Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Grover Washington Jr. and other music luminaries, all of whom set the stage for the vibrant jazz scene the City still enjoys today. The goal of Jazz Appreciation Month is to further stimulate the current jazz scene ...
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