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Berkshire Gateway To Feature Phil Woods, Freddie Bryant, Greg Caputo Big Band
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Ed Bride Associates
Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced the second annual Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend, bringing marquee performers and local jazz musicians to downtown Lee, Massachusetts, July 25-28. In collaboration with Berkshire Gateway Preservation, Inc., Berkshires Jazz presents the {Greg Caputo Big Band, Phil Woods, and the Freddie Bryant Quartet in the striking performance space at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, and other venues. In addition to the headline performances on July 26 and 27, the weekend will include “jazz about town,” ...
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Newport And The Jazz Festival: A Symbiotic Relationship
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
2013 Festival Set for August 2-4 at International Tennis Hall of Fame and Fort Adams State Park NEWPORT, RI – For one weekend every August, the idyllic setting of Newport combusts with the passion of jazz to produce the Newport Jazz Festival. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Since its beginning in 1954, the festival has delivered line-ups that both have showcased jazz history and predicted it, while the city of Newport has lent the festival an unparalleled home steeped in history ...
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Blue Note Jazz Fest 2013: Roy Haynes, Andy Bey, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and more
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Blue Note Jazz Festival PRODUCED BY JILL NEWMAN PRODUCTIONS Blue Note Jazz Festival PAUL MOONEY BB King Blues Club & Grill Produced By Jill Newman Productions in Assoc. with PM7 Entertainment June 16, 2013 237 W 42nd St. NY, NY 10036 Show 8pm - Doors 6pm Tickets $35.00 in advance, $40.00 day of show Mr. Paul Mooney was born in Louisiana and grew up in Oakland, California. As ...
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Roberto Fonseca, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Daniel Humair, Michel Portal & Vincent Peirani perform at Souillac Jazz Festival this July
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Erica Meltzer
The new jazz generation converges with its Afro-American roots this year at the Souillac Jazz Festival in southwest France, to be held from 15 to 21 July. SIX EVENING CONCERTS 16 July The Trio d'en bas will stage an entertaining and unusual spectacle in the Grottes de Lacave. 18 July The drummer Daniel Humair will lead his “Sweet & Sour” Quartet (double-bassist Jérôme Regard, saxophonist Emile Parisien [winner of the Jazz Academy’s 2012 Django Reinhardt prize] and accordionist Vincent Peirani ...
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Valby Summer Jazz Festival Reinvents Jazz In Copenhagen This July
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Benjamin Koppel
In 2012, many stars such as Randy Brecker, Jim Hall and Lee Konitz gave lustre to Valby Summer Jazz. This year the festival once again strives to reinvent and introduce jazz music to new audiences in meetings between great jazz masters and some of the best classical acts, DJ’s, pop vocalists and crooners. Benjamin Koppel presents his independent sub-festival to the mother festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival from July 5‐14. In 2012 the leading online jazz magazine All About Jazz praised ...
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Motown Celebrates Its Musical Legends In The 2013 Detroit Jazz Fest
Source:
Steve Bryant
On April 23, 2013, the Producers of the world-renowned Detroit Jazz Festival announced what promises to be another outstanding lineup of nationally and internationally renowned artists in addition to the generations of Detroit players who put the city on the map as one of the historically significant centers for the music. Artistic Director Chris Collins showed that his first smash year at the helm was no fluke as he revealed the list of stars who will be appearing in Downtown ...
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Phil Perry Performs Despite Pacemaker Operation
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Dee Dee McNeil
Phil Perry performed Saturday, May 25th at the San Diego Jazz Festival with the Kim Waters band. It's questionable if anyone in the crowd had the faintest idea that Phil Perry had gone into the hospital just three days prior to the festival and had his heart Pacemaker replaced and a new one installed along with a Defibulator. Perry sang with the same exuberance and high tenor musicality that his fans expected. Later, in his hotel room, he shyly displayed ...
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Local And Student Discount Tickets Offered For 2013 Newport Jazz Festival
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEWPORT, RI: Special discount tickets for the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management are available for a limited time only at the Newport Visitors Center, 23 Americas Cup Avenue. Newport Festivals Foundation is offering General Admission two-day passes for the discount price of $110.00 and single-day Adult General Admission tickets for $60.00. The discount tickets are only available for concerts at Fort Adams State Park in person at the Newport Visitors Center. Visit gonewport.com for office ...
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