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Growing Jazz Getaway Offers A Divine Taste Of Napa
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Brian Culbertson assembles an array of jazz & funk stars for the 2014 Napa Valley Jazz Getaway. Los Angeles, Calif. (7 October 2013): While in the midst of the vineyards last June to shoot a promotional clip for the third annual Napa Valley Jazz Getaway, the flourishing jazz and wine festival’s Founder and Artistic Director Brian Culbertson looked into the camera and vowed “More artists, more music, more food and of course, more wine.” The hit-making contemporary jazz and R&B ...
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Jarasum International Jazz Festival Celebrates 10 Years!
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All About Jazz
The Jarasum International Jazz Festival, one of the world’s best attended jazz festivals celebrates its 10th edition from October 3rd to 6th in Gapeyong, South Korea. JIJF has come a long way since the very first edition in 2004. That year 30,000 people turned up to watched 15 local bands and 12 international acts that included the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Fast forward to 2012 when more than 230,000 fans pitched up to see 72 South Korean bands and 28 international ...
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Hong Kong International Jazz Festival Attracts Top Names
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All About Jazz
The Hong Kong International Jazz Festival is back with a host of great jazz from the 29th September to the 2nd October. Now in its sixth edition, this most iconic of Asian cities provides a spectacular backdrop to a truly exciting series of concerts featuring top international names including the Asaf Sirkis Trio, the Lars Danielsson LIBERETTO Trio and Brazilian guitar virtuoso Diego Figureido. The wonderful open-air setting of The Hong Kong Cultural Centre (Piazza C) will get the HKIJF ...
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Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, Brubeck Brothers To Perform Tributes To Dave Brubeck At Monterey Jazz Festival
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Keith Michaud
There is everything hip about a pair of horned-rimmed glasses. University of the Pacific alumnus and jazz great Dave Brubeck ’42, namesake to the Brubeck Institute, made that clear throughout his storied career. Brubeck’s long and rich musical association with the hugely influential Monterey Jazz Festival continues this weekend with a discussion of that very hipness. It will be the core topic when a panel considers “Dave Brubeck: Hip as a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses” at 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. ...
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Jazz This Week: Fareed Haque's Mathgames, Jeff Coffin, Johnny Boyd, Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival, the Wee Trio, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
If you've checked out the first three parts of StLJN's fall 2013 jazz preview, you already may have realized that we're heading into what could be the busiest three weeks of the season, with a wide assortment of touring musicians and special events coming up. Here's a look at the highlights of the next few days... Tonight, guitarist Fareed Haque brings his fusion band Mathgames to The Gramophone; saxophonist Chad Evans leads a quartet in a free concert for the ...
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Christine Tobin Trio For Limerick Jazz Festival 2013
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All About Jazz
Jazz retakes the city of Limerick for four days as the Limerick Jazz Festival returns for its second edition from the 26th – 29th September at various venues around town. Legendary Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart kicks off the festival on Thursday, in an intimate duo performance with pianist Jim Doherty. Winner of the special jury prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968, Stewart is described by Cormac Larkin of The Irish Times as “one of the finest, most ...
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International Music At Manly Jazz Festival
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Peter Rappolt
The Manly Jazz Festival is a major community and tourism event on the Australian annual jazz calendar and takes place in the heart of Manly along the Manly Corso and the picturesque Manly Beachfront this year on the 5th, 6th and 7th October. Up to 45,000 jazz enthusiasts from Sydney and NSW, interstate and overseas come to Manly to experience this landmark music Festival. One of the acts performing at the festival for the three days, is Viva the band ...
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Jazz This Week: Roseanna Vitro, U City Jazz Festival, a Tribute to Cannonball Adderley, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
While the music news in St. Louis this weekend may be dominated by the annual LouFest in Forest Park, and the tribute to the late singer-songwriter Bob Reuter on Sunday at the Casa Loma Ballroom, there's will be plenty for local fans of jazz and creative music to do over the next few days, too. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, trumpeter and singer Dawn Weber plays at Herbie's Vintage 72; fusion band The Freedom performs at the Rustic Goat; ...
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