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George Wein Announces 2013 Dates For Newport Folk And Jazz Festivals
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEWPORT, RI: George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce the dates of the 2013 Folk and Jazz festivals in Newport, RI. The 2013 Newport Folk Festival® will be held July 27-28 and the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management is set for August 2-4. Additional information will be announced in the coming months. “Following this year’s Folk Festival that sold out three months in advance and one of the best Jazz ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jazz Film Festival 2012
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As we did last year around this time, this week we're taking a break from the usual routine of previewing upcoming shows and showcasing St. Louis musicians for a sort of summer vacation post, featuring a half-dozen full-length jazz films for your late summer viewing and listening pleasure. Our first film up top is The Miles Davis Story, a British documentary from 2001 that uses interviews and rare footage to recount Davis' life, ...
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9th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival in Kingston, NY
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Peggy Stern
Labor Day weekend, August 31-September 1, Uptown Kingston, presenting this year's festival opens on Friday, August 31, at 8:00 p.m. with “The Art of the Duo." Held at BackStage Productions, a renovated nineteenth-century vaudeville house on Wall Street, this unique format will present four renowned jazz artists performing in various duo combinations. And at just $15 it has to be one of the top music bargains of this, or any, year. Known for her stellar work with composer-arranger Maria Schneider's ...
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The Fabulous Cohen Brothers ... Plus Sister
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RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
Early this year in a conversation with Anat Cohen, she expressed the joy she feels when she performs with her two equally talented siblings, brothers Yuval (older) and Avishai (younger) on sax and trumpet, respectively. She said she had been watching Albert and Jimmy Heath and marveled at the vibe between them. (As also existed when Percy heath was still alive). “That's how I want to be," she said. “I want to be in our 80s and go with Yuval ...
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Jazz This Week: The Great Barrier Reefs, St. Louis Cabaret Festival, Don Schroeder's Happy-Go-Lucky Jazz Band, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's jazz and creative music calendar in St. Louis features some Caribbean-flavored jazz-fusion, three nights of cabaret, and some traditional prewar jazz, plus much more. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, the aforementioned Caribbean flavor manifests itself in the form of the Nashville-based funk/fusion band The Great Barrier Reefs (pictured), who are playing at Pop's Blue Moon. The island vibe of the five-member Reefs comes in large part from steel pan player and keyboardist Tony Hartman, but the rest ...
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The 24th Edition Of The Earshot Jazz Festival – "Seattle’s Most Important Annual Jazz Event” – Runs October 12 To November 4, 2012
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Earshot Jazz
Seattle’s annual Earshot Jazz Festival returns October 12 and continues through November 4 with more than 50 distinctive concert events in venues all around the city. Known for “adventurous, spot-on programming” (JazzTimes) and praised as “one of the best festivals in America” (Seattle Times), the Earshot Jazz Festival brings jazz greats from around the world into creative collaboration with area artists and audiences. Earshot also celebrates Seattle’s place in the world of jazz, with concerts by our award-winning high-school jazz ...
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Greg Osby And Cohort Of Rising Stars Present 4-Night International Jazz Festival In New York
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Evan Weiss
“Our artists endeavor towards producing works which will reveal the best that fearless and idealistic thinkers can achieve in art music.” —Greg Osby NEW YORK, New York: On September 12-14 and 16, Greg Osby’s independent record label, Inner Circle Music, will present eleven of its daring and forward-thinking artists in live performance in the form of a dynamic and highly varied music festival. Greg Osby himself will appear with his own band, along with a slew of established and up-and-coming ...
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Sixth Annual Waukesha BluesFest This Weekend
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Chris M. Slawecki
The entertainment line-up for Waukesha BluesFest, August 10 & 11 at Naga-Waukee Park in Delafield, Wisconsin, features 14 national, regional and local blues acts, an art show and an exceptional dining experience from local restaurants. “The Waukesha Rotary Club is thrilled with the music line-ups we have put together for the sixth annual Waukesha BluesFest,” said Bob Mittnacht, who manages the entertainment for Waukesha BluesFest. “We have a number of exciting nationally acclaimed musicians performing this year, topped off by ...
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