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Avery Sharpe: Jazz Trio Reaches out to Community
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All About Jazz
The Avery Sharpe Trio, in conjunction with the Community Music School of Springfield, is offering Springfield-area children a unique chance to experience jazz music. The trio, consisting of Sharpe on bass, Winard Harper on drums and Onaje Allan Gumbs on piano, is in residence at the music school for a month. Sharpe is a Springfield native and accomplished musician who now conducts workshops and residencies around the world. He attended the University of Massachusetts, where he began working with many ...
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The ASCAP Foundation Presents JAZZCAP
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All About Jazz
The ASCAP Foundation will present the third edition of JAZZCAP at The Cutting Room (19 W.24 Street, between Broadway and 6th Ave.) in Manhattan on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. The series is designed to showcase the work of young jazz creators whose vision and daring inspire the future.
Noted bassist and songwriter Jay Leonhart will host the event, featuring three recipients of the 2008 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards: alto saxophonist/composer Patrick Cornelius, pianist/composer Roy Assaf, ...
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Women in Music Film Music Panel, October 25
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All About Jazz
LOS ANGELES WOMEN IN MUSIC PRESENTS: A Film Music Panel Presenting and Discussing the Acquisition and Use of Independent Music for Film & TV with emphasis on Indie Films
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008 Time: 1:00 pm - 4 pm Location: (Former MGM Studio) now the Yahoo! Center Community Room at 2500 Broadway Ave.(at Colorado) in Santa Monica. Plenty of street parking plus in building with our validation. Parking is on P-1, P2 and P3 of ...
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The Movie Music of Spike Lee & Terence Blanchard @ NJPAC
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All About Jazz
THE MOVIE MUSIC OF SPIKE LEE AND TERENCE BLANCHARD SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 AT NJPAC
Featuring The Terence Blanchard Quintet and The Terence Blanchard Orchestra with vocalists Patti Austin, Bilal and Raul Midn
Newark, NJ One of Hollywoods most important and influential filmmakers, Spike Lee, will introduce an evening dedicated to Terence Blanchards acclaimed jazz scores and R&B-tinged songs from Jungle Fever, Bamboozled, Malcolm X, Clockers, Inside Man, 25th Hour, Mo Better Blues, When the Levees Broke, and Miracle at St. ...
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Daniel Ray - "Big Black" Comes Back: Jazz Giant Teaches Drumming Classes
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All About Jazz
Drummer Daniel Ray left Beaufort at age 16 to pursue his dream of playing music, and in many ways he has returned as a man on a mission. “I came back after 54 years, and the same thing that I left is still here," said Ray, who goes by the nickname Big Black, adding sadly that three girls in his neighborhood, one of them only 12, have had babies. “I see a lot of the things happening then still happening ...
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USC Adds Pop Music Program
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Michael Ricci
CLASS IN SESSION: The Thornton School of Music bucks ivory tower convention with a program for rock, R & B and more.
USC's Thornton School of Music will make room starting next year for singers and instrumentalists who play pop music, breaking a long-standing tradition in higher education that requires students to dedicate themselves either to classical music or jazz.
Today the school is announcing its new bachelor of music degree in pop music performance, said to be the first ...
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Economy Has You Stressed Out? Try Music Therapy!
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All About Jazz
Its a daily assault of panic, crisis and upheavals being thrown at us practically 24/7. Listen to the radio, and its gloom and doom. Turn on the TV, and every talking head has another scenario of calamity. Pick up the newspaper, and the headlines are practically screaming disaster. Its enough to make you wish for some hermitage in the Himalayas. But musician Edward Weiss has a better idea: Play some New Age Music and beat the stress. As Edward says: ...
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