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Recording

Singer Songwriter Paul Kelly Readies February 28th North American Release Of His 8-Disc Box Set, The A To Z Recordings

Source: 1888 Media
February 13, 2012

Australian Artist Kicks Off U.S. Tour February 28 in Austin, TX MELBOURNE, Australia—Paul Kelly's 8-disc (105 song), live box set The A to Z Recordings will be officially available in North America exclusively via Amazon on February 28. It will also available as a deluxe box-set version that bundles it with his critically acclaimed “mongrel memoir" How To Make Gravy (Penguin Int'l), available by itself and as a 9-disc audio edition (the 9th disc features guest readers that include: Russell ...

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Book / Magazine

Beatty's "Jazz: The Tiki Room" in Free Online Magazine

Source: Scott Beatty
February 13, 2012

Xeric winner Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: The Tiki Room fiction is featured in the free online magazine MuskegonOnline.NET this month only. The story, in a modernist retro style, follows jazz pianist Dean Fontessa as he pulls together—then splits apart—a five piece combo for a club recently decorated in that happening, new style called tiki. Spin a Miles vinyl and enjoy, dig? Find the story at the bottom left under the “Fiction" heading at http://muskegononline.net Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: Cool Birth, ...

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Performance / Tour

The American Jazz Museum Brings NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson to The Blue Room for An Evening of Two Intimate Shows

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
February 13, 2012

The American Jazz Museum Brings NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson to Kansas City for An Evening of Two Intimate Shows into the award winning working jazz club exhibit, The Blue Room. His official website states that Benny Golson is the only living jazz artist to have written 8 standards for jazz repertoire. These jazz standards have found their way into countless recordings internationally over the years and are still being recorded. Further, his profile cites he has recorded over 30 ...

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Education

Jazz Arts Group's PBJ & Jazz Presents New Basics Brass Band

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2012

Columbus, OH: The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) will enlist the infectious horns of the New Basics Brass Band to heat up the Lincoln Theatre ballroom on February 18, 2012 for the next PBJ & Jazz concert presented by Bob Evans Farms. Due to popular demand, this years season has been expanded to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Originally launched in 1995, the sousaphone-driven New Basics Brass Band layers jazz, R&B, ...

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Recording

Jazz vocalist Janelle Donovan pays homage to Valentine's Day with new EP

Source: Graham Taylor
February 13, 2012

Love is in full bloom on jazz vocalist Janelle Donovan's latest EP, Valentine Special. True to its title, the two tracks on this release celebrate romance in its purest form, reflecting the unrestrained, sweetly-scented confessions of affection that are associated with the 14th of February. But Donovan delivers more than just carve straight-shooting arrows for Cupid's bow; these are love songs that can be savored at any time of the year, with or without a bouquet of roses and a ...

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Award / Grant

Bela Fleck & The Flecktone Win Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2012

Port Washington, NY: eOne Music is happy to announce that Béla Fleck and Howard Levy, of the group Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, have won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for their “Life In Eleven," from the band's #1 Billboard Jazz Chart album Rocket Science. For the new album Rocket Science, pianist/ harmonica player Howard Levy returned to the fold alongside bassist Victor Wooten, percussionist/Drumitarist Roy “Futureman" Wooten and banjoist bandleader Fleck for the first time since 1991 to ...

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Radio

Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Profiles the Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo and Their New Release "Afropean Affair"

Source: Rockwired Media LLC
February 13, 2012

The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features an exclusive interview with Oscar Perez of the Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo regarding the brand new release Afropean Affair. In the opening segment, Perez discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new project, working with a stellar combo comprised of saxophonist Stacy Dillard, trumpeter Greg Glassman, percussionist Emiliano Valerio, drummer Jerome Jennings, and bassist ...

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Performance / Tour

Art Garfunkel On Stage with North Carolina Symphony, March 2-3; A Symphonic Celebration of 50 Years in Music

Source: Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
February 13, 2012

Pop music legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Art Garfunkel joins Maestro William Henry Curry and the North Carolina Symphony next month for a concert tribute to the very best from his 50-year career in music. The concerts take place at Meymandi Concert Hall, in the downtown Raleigh's Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, on Friday and Saturday, March 2-3 at 8:00 p.m. Although it has been 35 years since “Bridge Over Troubled Water" was recorded, ...

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