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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend Announces Final Lineup, Tix On Sale Now
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Ed Bride Associates
LEE, Mass. — The summer jazz season opens in the Berkshires June 5-8, when the third annual Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend brings marquee performers and local jazz musicians to downtown Lee. Sponsored by Berkshire Gateway Preservation, Inc., in collaboration with Berkshires Jazz, Inc., the weekend event will be highlighted by the appearances of Sonny & Perley; The Sounds of Shearing; and the New Black Eagles Jazz Band. Festivities also include a jazz brunch, an outdoor art show, and “jazz about ...
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Jazz This Week: Jane Monheit, Miles Davis Jazz Festival with Russell Gunn, New Music Circle Showcase, Tammy McCann, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's menu of jazz and creative music offerings in St. Louis includes a number of special events, most notably the annual Miles Davis Jazz Festival in Alton, plus the long-awaited return of one of the more popular female vocalists in jazz. That would be singer Jane Monheit, who's back in St. Louis to perform in a four-night engagement beginning this evening and continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. It's Monheit's first visit here since 2010 and this ...
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The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection To Host OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival
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Michael Ricci
The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection To Host OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival Featuring Performances by Andy Bey, Bill Stewart, Fred Hersch and Patricia Barber, Among Others Thursday, September 18 - Sunday, September 21, 2014 at Various Venues Throughout Philadelphia The William Way LGBT Community Center, with generous support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, is proud to announce OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival, set to take place on the final days of summer ...
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Programme Gent Jazz Festival (Belgium) Now Complete
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Philip Bossuyt
From 10 to 19 July at the Bijloke site, Ghent-Belgium Gent Jazz Festival's programme is complete, including Agnes Obel, Michael Kiwanuka, Gabriel Rios and TaxiWars project with Tom Barman and Robin Verheyen. Agnes Obel, Michael Kiwanuka, Gabriel Rios, BadBadNotGood and Dez Mona were today added to the Gent Jazz Festival 2014 programme. On 11 July, TaxiWars presents the culmination of a rebellious and intensive collaboration between dEUS front man Tom Barman and Belgian saxophonist Robin Verheyen. Bolstered by Jon Batiste ...
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Jazzmobile, Inc. Celebrates 2014 Harlem Shrines Jazz Festival
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Jazzmobile, Inc. Celebrates 2014 Harlem Shrines Jazz Festival with a Series of Concerts Saluting Minton’s Playhouse, Savoy Ballroom and the King of the Lindy Hop, Frankie Manning Jazzmobile Continues Annual Partnership with Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Columbia University to Bring Emerging and Established Artists to Venues All Over Harlem Harlem, NY – Jazzmobile, the oldest, not-for-profit jazz arts and education organization famous for its iconic New Orleans-inspired bandstand/floats which bring live jazz to generations of people throughout New York ...
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Bray Jazz Back With A Bang Over May Bank Holiday Weekend
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All About Jazz
Bray Jazz, one of Ireland’s leading music festivals, returns for its 15th edition over the May Bank Holiday weekend with a line-up that would be the envy of much larger festivals. The picturesque seaside town of Bray, the oldest, continuously inhabited coastal town in Ireland, will resound to the sounds of jazz, world music and contemporary fusion over four music-packed days. Headlining Bray Jazz 2014 is the legendary Brazilian guitarist/percussionist Vinicius Cantuária and his quartet, who open the festival at ...
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Summer Programme Jazz Middelheim Is Complete
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Philip Bossuyt
Jazz Middelheim, from 14 to 17 August in Antwerp's Den Brandt Park, announces complete programme The event is already living up to its international reputation as an innovative jazz festival with, among others, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter in duo, Ahmad Jamal, Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani, Dave Douglas Quintet and, as previously announced, bassist Avishai Cohen with his Trio with Strings and Stacey Kent. Jef Neve ’10-year trio’ is to be the Jef Neve Trio celebratory anniversary concert. The ...
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Grammy U Teams With Terence Blanchard For New Orleans Jazz Fest May 4
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Michael Ricci
GRAMMY U Students From Mancini Institute To Perform With The Legendary Jazz Musician SANTA MONICA, Calif. — GRAMMY U— a Recording Academy program created to prepare college students interested in pursuing a career in the music industry — announced today their partnership with GRAMMY-winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard during the famed New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest on May 3–4. GRAMMY U students chosen from the Henry Mancini Institute at the Frost School of Music at the University ...
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