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SFJAZZ Launches New Online Venue
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Michael Ricci
Are You Listening? A place for the conversation of jazz in today's culture. San Francisco: Today SFJAZZ is launching Are You Listening, for the jazz community to engage with one another and to contribute their thoughts, perspectives and financial support for the music. “With Are You Listening, we want to create an online space for the types of conversations that are going to take place in the SFJAZZ Center itself," said Kevin Causey, SFJAZZ Director of Development. The SFJAZZ Center ...
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UNESCO and Herbie Hancock Announce The First Annual International Jazz Day
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Muse Media
UNESCO AND HERBIE HANCOCK ANNOUNCE THE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY ON APRIL 30 FEATURING ALL-STAR CONCERTS IN PARIS, NEW ORLEANS AND NEW YORK UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock will collaborate with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz to celebrate and recognize jazz music as a universal language of freedom UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock are pleased to announce International Jazz Day to be held April 30 of every year. ...
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UNESCO Declares April 30th As International Jazz Day - Santo Domingo Celebrates Jazz
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Michael Ricci
UNESCO declares April 30th as International Jazz Day The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—UNESCO— proclaimed at the 36th session of its General Conference, that April 30th of each year be known as International Jazz Day. At the 36th meeting of its General Conference, UNESCO Member States agreed to proclaim the International Jazz Day. The designation of April 30th of each year as International Jazz Day will bring closer together communities, schools and other groups around the world in ...
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Dallas Jazz Appreciation Month is Official
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Kymberly Helton
APRIL IS D'JAM-DALLAS JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH Area Destinations to Showcase Texas Jazz Legends and Contemporary Artists Dallas-Fort Worth, TX: It's official. To celebrate the annual Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), the whole month of April has been declared “Dallas Jazz Appreciation Month" (D'JAM), as proclaimed by Dallas Mayor Michael Rawlings as an official designation. Participating entertainment, cultural and educational institutions venues throughout North Texas are hosting a series of more than two dozen exciting live ...
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Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation Launches Its Website Version 2.0
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Chris Rich
New York, NY: At 2pm on March 1st, Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation launched the new and improved version of the organization's website. Members of the press are invited to set-up press accounts to explore the site; because of the relaunch those that had accounts on the old website will need to set up new ones, contact TCF for details. Active since March 2011, tricentricfoundation.org has been recognized as one of the most comprehensive websites for any living American composer. New ...
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Jazz Musicians to Protest at Six Top NYC Jazz Clubs Tonight!
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All About Jazz
“Justice for Jazz Artists" asks profitable jazz clubs to contribute to musician pensions; Launches new ad campaign, social media program and website: justiceforjazzartists.org NEW YORK, NY: The top jazz artists in the world live and work in New York City—yet many older jazz musicians are forced to retire in poverty. Even those musicians who play in the most prestigious and profitable jazz clubs are denied basic benefits and pensions. While musicians who play on Broadway and in symphony orchestras are ...
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WBAI Broadcast Underlies Need for Pension Benefits for Jazz Artists: J4JA! Takes to the Airwaves
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All About Jazz
On Monday, December 26th, jazz vocalist Keisha St. Joan and Local 802 Recording Vice President John O'Connor appeared on the NYC radio program Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report, produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash over WBAI,99.5FM. In the segment, St. Joan, as always, is particularly eloquent regarding the injustices suffered by musicians at the hands of club owners, and O'Connor fully explains the current J4JA! campaign in detail. The segment runs about 25 minutes—and ...
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Celebrate Jazz Day On April 13th and Expand the Cultural and Economic Impact in Your Community!
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All About Jazz
The US Conference of Mayors designated the first ever Jazz Day on April 9, 2010 as a focused day to celebrate during Jazz Appreciation Month (April). Since then, concerts, educational outreach events and jazz advocacy activities in communities all across the Nation have been inspired by Jazz Day. April 13, 2012 is this year's designated Jazz Day. To further ensure the successful outreach of this one day celebration, Jazz Forward Coalition has taken on the role as facilitator to supply ...
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