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Book / Magazine

Countdown To Raise Funds for Revolutionary Publishing Technology Featuring Sheila Jordan

Source: Sound Visions Media
February 15, 2012

NEA Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan, never imagined her biography would be an innovative digital media book. For more than five years, author and vocalist Ellen Johnson has been researching and writing Jordan's fascinating life story about the vocal jazz legend. “Jazz Child: The Sheila Jordan Story," a Kickstarter crowd-funding project, will be created with the latest Digital Publishing System (DPS) from Adobe that is revolutionizing the world of rich media delivery on portable devices like the iPad, Samsung Galaxy and ...

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Festival

Tallinn Jazz Festival Jazzkaar Offers Travel Packages To Estonia

Source: Rein Kutsar
February 15, 2012

Jazzkaar, Tallinn, Spring! Festival Jazzkaar invites you to celebrate jazz, spring and the city of Tallinn during the last week of April 20th to 29th of April, 2012. The festival runs over a period of 9 days including two weekends, which makes up two opportunities for a perfect spring city break! More often than ever Tallinn is being pointed out for its excellent tourist facilities and a welcoming atmosphere. Being the biggest jazz festival of the Baltics with its 15,000 ...

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Performance / Tour

Sten Hostfalt Solo Performance at ABC No Rio NYC

Source: Sten Hostfalt
February 15, 2012

Award-winning New York City composer and virtuoso guitarist Sten Hostfalt is known for over two decades of documented innovative contribution to the international creative music scene, and for he past decade mainly for his critically acclaimed work as a leader using original groundbreaking instrumental techniques for interpreting former mentor Joe Maneri's ET 72 note system to the traditional 6 string / 12 fret guitar. This year, with his 7th album as a leader due out on the Sonus Rex NYC ...

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Festival

Anzic Recording Artist, Saxophonist Eli Degibri Appointed Artistic Director Of the Red Sea Jazz Festival

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
February 15, 2012

Anzic Recording Artist, Saxophonist Eli Degibri Appointed Artistic Director Of the Red Sea Jazz Festival, Israel's Premier Jazz Festival For 25 Years The Red Sea Jazz Festival is proud to announce the appointment of saxophonist, composer and Anzic Records recording artist, Eli Degibri, as joint Artistic Director (with Mr. Dubi Lenz). Established in 1987 as a four-day international jazz festival, the Red Sea Jazz Festival now enters its 26th year under the direction, and in the capable hands of Degibri ...

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Interview

Catch Up With Singer/Lyricist Lorraine Feather at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
February 14, 2012

Like her contemporary Kurt Elling, Lorraine Feather is that rare jazz vocalist and lyricist who reinvents herself with every project. With the February 2012 release of Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media) comes a new self so different that casual fans may not recognize her at first. Some might feel challenged or mystified at first by these ambitious lyrical statements, but the seductive orchestral textures are certain to lure them into the eerie world where Feather embraces life's most entertainingly ...

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Performance / Tour

Patrick Lamb, Tyrone Hendrix, Nate Watts & Friends to Perform Tribute to Stevie Wonder, February 17

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 14, 2012

Portland¹s very own Patrick Lamb and Stevie Wonder band drummer Tyrone Hendrix are co-producing a Stevie Wonder tribute concert, Livin' for the City, with two shows (7:30 pm and 10:00 pm) on Friday, February 17, 2012 at Jimmy Mak¹s (221 NW 10th Avenue; Portland, OR). Sponsors include The Benson Hotel, Joe Kassab Jewelers and Melvin Broadous RE/Max Equity Group. More information can be found at www.patricklamb.com; tickets and reservations are available at www.ticketsoregon.com or call (503) 295-6542 Stevie Wonder, one ...

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Contest

The Black Seeds Announce New Album & North American Tour

Source: Press Junkie PR
February 14, 2012

New Zealand reggae-funk heavyweights The Black Seeds announce their return to North America in April to support the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, Dust And Dirt, out in April on Easy Star Records. Renowned globally for their legendary live shows, the band has spent the past 18 months holed up in their Wellington, NZ studio finishing what is being tipped as their finest album yet. With multi-platinum selling albums down under, The Black Seeds have built up ...

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Interview

Drummer Matt Wilson Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2012

Drummer Matt Wilson must surely be in the running for the title of hardest-working man in jazz. Wilson is a composer, bandleader, producer and teacher. As a leader, his projects include the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, Christmas Tree-O and the Carl Sandburg Project. He has been in bands with luminaries such as Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Charlie Haden, Lee Konitz, Ted Nash and many, many others. As for legends, he's played with Herbie Hancock, Dewey Redman, Andrew Hill, ...

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