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TV / Film

Chico & Rita (Soundtrack) Featuring Songs Written and Performed by Bebo Valdés

Source: Kelly Krueger
February 28, 2012

Chico & Rita is an animated film directed by Spanish Oscar-winner Fernando Trueba, along with Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando. An exquisitely drawn story of love inspired by the life of Cuban maestro Bebo Valdés , Chico & Rita takes audiences from the famous Tropicana club in Havana to the Pleyel club in Paris, to Radio City Music Hall in New York to Village Vanguard and Palladium. The film was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award in the category of ...

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Recording

Magna Carta Records Releases Points North's "Road Less Traveled" on March 13

Source: All the Things... New York Jazz and More
February 28, 2012

With the release of their Magna Carta Records debut record, Road Less Traveled, the Bay Area-based instrumental trio, Points North, taps into our dreams and answers these burning questions by turning our sonic fantasies into realities. Spearheaded by guitarist Eric Barnett (a finalist in Guitar Player magazine's Guitar Superstar competition), drummer Kevin Aiello and newest member, bassist Uriah Duffy (Whitesnake, Christina Aguilera), Points North stands on the shoulders of iconic artists The Police, Rush and Dixie Dregs, but, as the ...

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Performance / Tour

Alan Broadbent Trio: Two-time Grammy Award winning jazz pianist -- Debut Tour in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and England

Source: Jan Matthies Music Management
February 28, 2012

Alan Broadbent, two-time Grammy Award winning Jazz Pianist, Arranger, Conductor and Composer, born 1947 in New Zealand, has long been a major force behind the scenes in jazz, whether it was accompanying Irene Kral on some of the most exquisite vocal albums ever recorded, contributing arrangements to Sir Paul McCartney, Natalie Cole, Diana Krall or Jane Monheit, or playing piano with Charlie Haden's Quartet West. 13 CD's released under his own name are proof though that he is not only ...

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Performance / Tour

Kansas Jazz Collective with Chris Greco at Benedictine College on March 24, 2012

Source: Chris Greco
February 28, 2012

Kansas Jazz Collective March 24, 2012 7:30 pm Benedictine College O'Malley-McAllister Auditorium Atchison, KS The Kansas Jazz Collective will present its second concert in a series on the campus of Benedictine College. The KJC is directed by music faculty performer/composer Chris Greco and each concert with the KJC “presents a different view of jazz." In addition to presenting the stylistic diversity inherent in jazz, each KJC concert has an “out ...

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Interview

Saxophonist Joe Lovano Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2012

Penned as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history," saxophonist Joe Lovano has successfully created a unique voice within the jazz tradition and has contributed significantly to the continuance and development of the idiom. In just over a quarter of a century he has created an expansive body of work that has covered a broad spectrum of styles. This includes swing, bebop, hard-bop, post-bop, the avant-garde and interpretations of the music of Frank Sinatra and Enrico Caruso. He has ...

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Education

Jazz Arts Group PBJ & Jazz Season Finale with Michael Cox - March 10

Source: Michael Ricci
February 28, 2012

Columbus, OH The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) and Bob Evans Farms present the PBJ & Jazz season finale featuring Columbus Jazz Orchestra saxophonist Michael Cox at the Lincoln Theatre ballroom on March 10, 2012. Due to popular demand, this year's season has been expanded to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Michael Cox joined the Columbus Jazz Orchestra in 1991 after moving to Columbus to teach full time as Professor of ...

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Recording

Van der Graaf Generator Legend Judge Smith Creates A Movie For Your Ears

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 28, 2012

London, UK—Independent composer and recording artist Judge Smith, who in 1967 co- founded with Peter Hammill the influential underground band 'Van der Graaf Generator,' has created a movie for your ears—a new concept CD titled 'Orfeas'; a retelling of the ancient myth of Orpheus, the magical musican who travels to the Land of the Dead in search of the lost Eurydice. Since his Van der Graaf Generator days, Judge Smith has been responsible for a wide variety of music projects, ...

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Performance / Tour

Mika Yoshida and Richard Stoltzman Premiere Brand New Works By Chick Corea, Mike Mainieri and more at Weill Recital Hal on April 4

Source: Kim Smith Public Relations
February 28, 2012

World premiere works by Chick Corea “Marika Groove," Marcos Valle, Tamar Muskal, Mike Mainieri, Michiru Oshima & William Thomas McKinley “High-wire jazz marimbist, Mika Yoshida....an amazing, energetic performer ready for major exposure." —LA Times MIKA YOSHIDA, marimba + RICHARD STOLTZMAN, clarinet NEW GENRE! + Special Guests: Eddie Gomez, bass Mike Mainieri, vibraphone Steve Gadd, drums At Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, April 4, 2012, 8pm New York, NY: World ...

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