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Red Carpet Productions and All About Jazz Media Partner on 2027 Artist Residency Grant Program
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All About Jazz
Red Carpet Productions, S.L., a residential recording studio and cultural center for music creation in Mallorca, Spain, and All About Jazz Media, a new initiative of All About Jazz, the global jazz platform connecting musicians, audiences, and the wider jazz community, today announced a collaboration to launch an artist residency grant program for musicians. The program is designed to award four competitive, merit-based grants each year through application, one in each quarter. Each quarter is dedicated to a different career-stage ...
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Harvard’s Ming Mei Residency Concert Features Trumpeter/Vocalist/Composer Amir Elsaffar And Percussionist/Composer Susie Ibarra On Thursday, October 1
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
The evening of contemporary music highlights ElSaffar’s New Quartet and Ibarra’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sky Islands” Two of the most inventive figures in contemporary music share a single evening of groundbreaking work on Thursday, October 1 at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge. Trumpeter, vocalist and composer Amir ElSaffar and his New Quartet with Terri Lyne Carrington on drums, Tania Giannouli on microtonally tuned piano and Ole Mathisen on tenor saxophone perform, as well as percussionist and composer Susie ...
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Nigerian-Born Vocalist, Composer & Bandleader Douyé Announces 'Stay With Me,' Featuring George Cables
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DL Media
Original Songs. Featuring the Legendary Pianist George Cables, Her Sixth Album Interweaves Three New Songs With Cable-Arranged Standards from the Great American Songbook. Available Today via Groove Note Records Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist and songwriter Douyé announces Stay With Me, her forthcoming sixth album and the first of her jazz albums to include original songs. Arriving June 26, 2026, the 13-track album places three new songs by Douyé and Rufus Bordal among 10 Great American Songbook standards arranged and ...
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Where To Find Jun Hee Park This Year
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Frank Gazerro
The Korean jazz pianist Jun Hee Park is bringing her brand of jazz to New York and is booked to star in concerts at some of the city's most-recognized jazz rooms, including the Django Jazz Club, where she will be performing as the lead pianist of Marty Scott's quintet. A few nights a week, at a different venue entirely, Park is somewhere else. She is part of a weekly residency at the historic Stonewall Inn as lead pianist for trombonist ...
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Jazz Pianist Jun Hee Park Is Shaking Up The New York Jazz Scene
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Frank Gazerro
Jun Hee Park, the acclaimed jazz pianist who built her career headlining major festivals and clubs in South Korea is now making her mark on the jazz scene in New York. Park was still in her twenties when she co-founded Jazz Deo in 2016, a Daejeon quartet built around her piano and arrangements. Within a year, the band was the go-to act at Yellow Taxi, the biggest jazz club in the city. The band's calendar filled up fast after that. ...
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Palestinian Nay Virtuoso, Faris Ishaq Weaves Cultural Memory With Contemporary Expression On Jasad جَسَد (arabic For “body”)
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Angie Lemon PR
Bethlehem-born, Palestinian nay virtuoso and percussionist, Faris Ishaq is an extraordinary musician. As a frequent musical collaborator, releasing ‘Supplication’ with multi–Grammy Award-winning bassist John Patitucci and contributing as a recording artist to the BAFTA-nominated ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’ soundtrack, Faris is always seeking performance and recording avenues for the nay. And find them he did. The result is his new solo album, JASAD جَسَد (Arabic for “Body”), an album that takes the nay to wondrous new heights. JASAD جَسَد (Arabic for ...
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David Ling And The New Pulse Of Boston Jazz
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Frank Gazerro
Boston’s jazz scene is defined by profound resilience. For decades, the city thrived as a northern sanctuary for the genre. This is the city where George Wein opened Storyville in 1950, handing the microphone to Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. It is the city where Miles Davis famously tore the roof off the Jazz Workshop. But the late 2010s and early 2020s threatened that momentum. The beloved Beantown Jazz Festival collapsed in 2018, stripping the city of its “biggest block ...
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Blue Fire: Aayushi Karnik And The New Indian Guitar Crossing
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Frank Gazerro
Aayushi Karnik, 32, plays the guitar with breathtaking authority. Widely acclaimed as the leading Indian female blues guitarist of her generation, the Juilliard-trained, Fender-endorsed virtuoso has built a career that completely defies the traditional borders of American roots music. What listeners hear first is her touch. Karnik knows exactly how to make a bent note sting, how to let an acoustic phrase bloom around open strings, and how to snap a rhythm figure into place before widening the harmony underneath ...
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