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Bass Icon Jeff Berlin To Launch Pledge Music Campaign For New Tribute Album To Legendary Jack Bruce
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Bass icon Jeff Berlin has launched a Pledge Music Campaign for a new tribute album to legendary Jack Bruce titled Jeff Berlin Plays Jack Bruce: Songs For A Wailer! Jack Bruce, best known for his work with classic rock legends Cream, as well as his critically acclaimed solo work, sadly passed away in 2014. Jeff Berlin, who has been called “the greatest bassist in the world”, was a personal friend of Jack's and felt the time was right for a ...
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Spanish Jazz Guitar Master Biel Ballester Puts His Balls On The Line! Have A Song Composed Just For You!
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Maroto Lounge
All About Jazz has previously reported Le QuecumBar's crowd-funding plight, and here’s an update with some exciting news but support is still needed—time limited for responses. The (sweet and) lowdown of our crowdfunding efforts: Already we’ve raised over £11,000! Great support has been received from All About Jazz readers but we’ve got two weeks to raise a further £24,000... For as little as a tenner you can become an indelible part of Le Q; EVERY pledge earns you a place ...
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Award-Winning Triple Threat Entertainer Elijah Rock Shifts Focus To Music With Unique Contemporary Indiegogo-Funded Ep Salute “Gershwin For The Soul”
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Inque Public Relations
Traditional Jazz Pop Project To Be Recorded In September With Band Headed By Musical Director/Pianist Kevin Toney Long-dedicated to upholding and aligning himself with the first class carriage and aesthetic of timeless entertainers from the past, singer/actor/dancer Elijah Rock is in the final stages of preparation to bring a contemporary and decidedly African American twist to the music of George & Ira Gershwin with his forthcoming recording project, Gershwin for the Soul. Cleveland-born NAACP Theater Award-winning triple threat Rock is ...
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Overwhelmed With Support From All About Jazz Readers
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Maroto Lounge
London’s premier Hot Club, Le QuecumBar, famed world over for being the Mecca of Gypsy Jazz launched its Kickstarter crowd-funding at the beginning of this week. The projects “dashboard" shows where links have been referred from, and Le QuecumBar has been overwhelmed with support from All About Jazz readers. The crowdfunding project was established because of huge rental increases. In an earlier press release, Steve Tennison, manager at Le Que said, “The increase in rent is a blow to a ...
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London Gypsy Jazz Venue Needs Your Support
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Maroto Lounge
London’s home of Gypsy swing, Le QuecumBar: The Hot of Club of London, has in the face of adversity come up with ambitious plans to take the top spot of becoming the UK’s favourite live music venue and jazz club. Le QuecumBar was established from a dream and a glass of wine on the banks of the Seine in France, and since then, for 13 years it’s been showcasing the music of the maestro, Django Reinhardt and other musicians from ...
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Photographer Richard Corman Plans Roadtrip To Benefit Jazz Foundation Of America
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Dashiell Feiler
Wendy Oxenhorn, Executive Director of Jazz Foundation of America, has launched an Indiegogo campaign. Oxenhorn plans to send photographer Richard Corman, whose photo work spans Bill Clinton to Madonna, and videographer Alan Gastelum across the United States to meet with and profile 50 jazz and blues greats. “I cannot keep watching such great individuals pass with so few traces of their existence and their work,' said Wendy Oxenhorn, “This project will ensure that we record the many-sided history of this ...
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Throw Away Your Real Book: Tonic Wants You To Lose The Baggage And Improvise Like A Child Again
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Scott Hughes
"Tonic", a card game that helps all musicians learn to improvise without theory or advanced training, is now available on Kickstarter. Designed to teach students and seasoned players how to relax and improvise freely and naturally, Tonic is an unconventional approach rooted in the free jazz and modern classical movements. It takes the form of a card and dice game that requires no theory or prior experience to play. Instead, each card has a prompt that challenges players to create ...
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Mad Genius Radio Meets Kickstarter Goal Well Ahead Of Deadline
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HypeBot
The subscription-based internet radio service, Mad Genius Radio, launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of raising enough funds to take the service public. Not only did they reach their goal, they've exceeded it with weeks left in the campaign. Mad Genius Radio has purposefully set itself apart as a listener driven, deeply customizable internet radio service. The platform, representative of soundboard, offers users adjustable preference controls allowing them to mix genres, set playlists, add requests, and create five custom built ...
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