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SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Win Numerous Awards; Upcoming Auditions & Performances
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Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast, today announced the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars received three major awards including DownBeat Magazines’ Student Music Awards, the coveted Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival Award for Best Conglomerate Big Band Performance, and Best Big Band and Best Combo at the 5th Annual Charles Mingus High School Festival and Competition in February in New York. At the Mingus Awards, flutist Elena Pinderhughes and bassists Logan Kane and Kanoa Mendenhall, who played ...
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Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet Named Tops -- Twice
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Keith Michaud
University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet this week garnered top honors—twice—from a national jazz magazine. DownBeat magazine in its 36th annual Student Music Awards poll named two separate Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintets the best in the category that covers undergraduate college jazz groups. It is the first time two different Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintets have won the honor in the same year, and the sixth and seventh times overall in the Brubeck Institute’s 12-year history that the magazine ...
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Usdan Center, with expanded Jazz Program, Holds 5/19 Final Open House For 2013 Season
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned Long Island summer arts day camp, will hold its final, free Open House for its 46th, 2013 season on Sunday May 19 from 11 AM to 2 PM. Families may obtain information on the Center’s programs and tour the 200-acre woodland campus, at 185 Colonial Springs Road in Wheatley Heights (Huntington). For Open House information, contact the Center at (631) 643-7900, or (212) 772-6060, visit usdan.com http://www.usdan.com , or ...
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New York Jazz Workshop Set For Annual Summer Sessions
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Marco Chelo
NEW YORK, NY: More than beach and barbeques, for jazz musicians around the world summer is the time to take their playing to the next level in the world capital of jazz, as the New York Jazz Workshop School of Music (NYJW) will again offer focused four-day workshops, July 25 through August 18, with sessions for all ages. Expertly led by leading jazz educators and performers, the Summer Summit Series for adults includes workshops on improvisation, jazz guitar, singing, rhythm, ...
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Jazz Arts Group Announces 2013 Pbj & Jazz Summer Concert Series
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH - The PBJ & Jazz summer series is pleased to return to the Topiary Park downtown for its fifth season of free outdoor concerts. PBJ & Jazz at the Topiary Park: Jazz for Kids and Families is a collaborative effort between the Jazz Arts Group, Friends of the Topiary Park, Friends of the Library, and the Columbus Museum of Art. The summer series kicks off on Saturday, June 8 with the Dan White Sextet. Other series highlights include ...
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Philadelphia Jazz Project - Remember How It Started?
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Homer Jackson
Greetings folks, As a musician, someone introduced you to the music... to your instrument. Remember that moment? Remember that person? Remember how you felt? Now, suppose that it never happened! That's the kind of environment that increasing numbers of young people face living in within our communities. Schools are not really making that connection between musician and child possible anymore. Many communities aren't really making that connection happen either. Philadelphia Jazz Project in partnership with other organizations, including Philadelphia Parks ...
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Jazz Swing & Blues Great Ernie Fields' Collection Donated to OKPOP Museum
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Chris M. Slawecki
Ernie Fields Jr., the music contractor for American Idol, The Voice, and X Factor; and his sister Carmen Fields, an acclaimed journalist in the Boston area, have donated items from their famous father Ernie Fields Sr., and some of their own work, to the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture (OKPOP). The gift consists of artifacts, recordings, photographs, posters and documents related to Tulsa musician Ernie Fields Sr. The elder Fields began his career in music in the 1920s in Tulsa ...
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Usdan Center, W/expanded Jazz Program, Holds 4/21 Open House
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts day camp on Long Island whose Jazz Dept. was created more in 1986 by Dr. Billy Taylor, announces an Open House on Sunday April 21 from 11 AM to 2 PM. The Center's Jazz Dept. has now expanded to have Ensembles for Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced groups (formerly there was only Advanced). Jazz stars who have performed at the Center and taught Master Classes include Usdan alumna ...
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