Music Industry News

New Director of Concert Division at Kaufman Center/Merkin Concert Hall

Source: All About Jazz
July 25, 2006

Kaufman Center Announces Gregory D. Evans New Director of the Concert Division

New York, NY--Kaufman Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Gregory D. Evans to the position of Director of the Concert Division.

Mr. Evans has enjoyed a broad range of activities in his professional career, ranging from chamber musician to arts administrator to university professor. As an active performing musician, Gregory has produced, performed and recorded numerous concerts and programs for entities such ...

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Important Announcement About Richard M. Sudhalter

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2006

I am passing this info received today from Albert Haim Professor Emeritus State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Important Announcement About Richard M. Sudhalter

I am certain that you all know about the crucial role that Richard Sudhalter has played in the fields of Jazzology and Bixology. Richard is a multi-talented individual: author, musician, historian, researcher, teacher, critic, etc. Richard's achievements are too numerous to list here; he has composed scholarly articles in magazines and newspapers, chapters in books, ...

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Jazz Made Plants Grow the Fastest

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2006

No battery for the clock? Try fruit DID you know that lime can be used to generate electricity -- and that jazz, of all music, helps plants grow the fastest? These fascinating results were what secondary school students discovered while participating in Republic Polytechnic's (RP) Scientific Thinking Programme (STP). The programme had teams of three to five students and one teacher take part in six months' worth of workshops and clinics, with advisers from RP helping them with their experiments. ...

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Jazz for Peace: A Convenient Truth

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2006

By Debra R. Cerritelli What is Jazz for Peace? This is a question I have answered thousands of times in the past three years. Jazz for Peace is an organization founded by Rick DellaRatta and its purpose is to reach out to individuals and organizations on both sides of conflicting issues, believing that if we as a species embrace qualities such as creativity, artistry, intellectuality, humanity, individuality, etc. we will all have a better chance of avoiding the behavior that ...

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Slought Foundation Announces Jeff Baumeister as New Music Curator

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2006

Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3513 Ph: 215.222.9050 Since 2002, Slought Foundation has presented a series of time-based performance practices featuring artists at the forefront of new music, language arts, film, and new media. According to pianist Jeff Baumeister, “First on the agenda is to highlight the rich diversity of improvised music and jazz found right here in our own backyard. With the goal ...

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Watters Brothers to Record Live CD

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2006

Trumpet & trombone playing brothers Ken & Harry Watters will record a live CD in the next few months (exact dates to be announced).

The new CD will feature the Watters Brothers with lots of special guests, including Kevin Bales (piano), Neal Starkey and Robert Dig" Dickson (acoustic bass), Justin Varnes and Jay Frederick (drums), and Tom Wolfe (guitar). Recording will take place in the fall of 2006 at a venue TBA in the Atlanta area.

Ken & Harry Watters ...

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Firehouse 12 and Improvised Communications Announce Fall 2006 Collaboration

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

NEW HAVEN, CT -- Firehouse 12 is pleased to announce the Boston-based communication and promotion organization Improvised Communications will promote its forthcoming Fall 2006 concert season. The venue's fourth season of performances, which will include weekly Friday night performances beginning September 22nd, will be announced on August 1st.

An award-winning full-service bar, state-of-the-art recording studio and unusually intimate performance space, Firehouse 12 is located in New Haven's historic Ninth Square District. Painstakingly renovated over the course of four years by ...

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Compositions and arrangements by the legendary one-and-only... Sammy Nestico!

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2006

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