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Eli Degibri Preps You For The Red Sea Jazz Festival

Source: Eli Degibri
August 29, 2016

My first memory of the jazz festival in Eilat was when I was around 15 years old, about a year before I was allowed to head down south by myself. I had to imagine what it would really be like there while listening to live broadcasts religiously on Kol Israel Radio. To this day I still have the cassettes with recordings of those magical performances in Eilat. One of those, for example, was from a concert featuring Joe Henderson with ...

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Jazz this week: Big Sam's Funky Nation, Louis Armstrong Festival, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 11, 2016

This weekend's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis has a bit of a New Orleans flavor, with two of that city's favorite working bands playing gigs here, plus two nights of a locally produced tribute to one of the essential New Orleans musicians, Louis Armstrong. Let's go to the highlights... Thursday, August 11 Big Sam's Funky Nation (pictured) returns to St. Louis to perform at the Broadway Oyster Bar. Led by trombonist and singer “Big Sam" Williams, ...

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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Presents The 10th Annual BJU Festival @ Smalls & Shapeshifter Lab!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
August 10, 2016

BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND Presents The 10th Annual Brooklyn Jazz Underground Festival @ Smalls & Shapeshifter on August 17 & 18! The Brooklyn Jazz Underground is an association of independent artists with a shared commitment to creativity and community. Through cooperative efforts, the BJU aims to build a greater awareness of original music emerging from Brooklyn, NY. January, 2007 saw the birth of The Brooklyn Jazz Underground, a collective conceived in the spirit of an entrepreneurial, do-it- ...

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Third Annual Charlie Parker Celebration - August 18 through August 27 - in Kansas City

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2016

The Celebration of “Bird" in Kansas City Continues KC Jazz Clubs, American Jazz Museum, 18th & Vine Jazz District, Lincoln Cemetery (Parker gravesite) and other historical KC locations. The 3rd Annual Kansas City Charlie Parker Celebration (CPC) will again explore and recognize the legacy of one the most influential saxophonists and jazz icons to ever perform. The Celebration, a comprehensive Charlie Parker tribute, continues to grow locally and gain recognition through the U.S. Parker was born in 1920 in Kansas ...

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Jazz this week: St. Louis Cabaret Festival, Houston Person & Montez Coleman, New Orleans Jazz Vipers, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 21, 2016

As your humble StLJN editor this week has been both swamped with paying-gig-type work and plagued by various equipment malfunctions, and this post is already late, this intro will be both mercifully brief and without embellishment. Here are some of the more noteworthy jazz and creative music performances happening in and around St. Louis over the next few days: Wednesday, July 20 Saxophonist and East St. Louis native Andre Delano, now based on the West Coast, is back in town ...

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92Y Jazz In July Festival 2016 Season: July 19-28

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2016

Bill Charlap, Artistic Director. Featuring: Harry Allen, Gene Bertoncini, Anat Cohen, Freddy Cole, Jimmy Greene, Jon Gordon, Dick Hyman, Jon-Erik Kellso, Jeremy Pelt, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Renee Rosnes, Carol Sloane, Rossano Sportiello, Warren Vaché, Steve Wilson and More Single Tickets from $52 / Age 35 and Under- $25 212.415.5500 92Y’s 32nd annual Jazz in July festival, with artistic director Bill Charlap at the helm, runs from Tuesday, July 19 through Thursday, July 28, bringing together some of ...

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Acclaimed Lori Bell Quartet To Showcase At 23rd Annual Jazz In The Pines Festival

Source: 1888 Media
July 6, 2016

Presented by Idyllwild Arts Foundation, 2-Day Festival Takes Place in Idyllwild, CA, Located in the San Jacinto Mountains Lori Bell Quartet Includes Virtuoso Flutist Lori Bell, Pianist Bill Cunliffe, Bassist Katie Thiroux & Drummer Matt Witek Scheduled for 90-minute Main Stage Performance on Sunday August 21 (2:30-4:00pm) Other Fest Performers Include Diane Schuur, Ernie Watts, Graham Dechter, Casey Abrams & Haley Reinhart Recognized at the 2016 Global Music Awards for 'Outstanding Achievement' in arrangement, composition and improvisation, virtuoso flutist Lori ...

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"Oh Canada" Series To Debut At Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival--Concerts Featuring Nine Canadian Jazz Groups Being Filmed For National Broadcast On PBS Stations In U.S. -- Nine-Day Festival Is June 24 - July 2

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
June 18, 2016

The 15th Anniversary edition of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) will feature a new and third international series at this year's nine-day festival, held June 24-July 2. The inaugural “Oh Canada" Series, presented by The Canada Council For The Arts, will feature nine leading jazz artists and groups from Canada including Quinn Bachand's Brishen, Kent Sangster's Obsessions Octet, Jon Ballantyne Trio, Elizabeth Shepherd, Mike Murley Trio, Marianne Trudel Trio + Special Guest Ingrid Jensen, Jeff Johnston & Friends, ...

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