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All About Jazz Improvements: January 2012

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2012

We got out of the gate fast in 2012 releasing a calendar widget and making several enhancements to our website. WHAT'S NEW Calendar Widget For Website Publishers or Bloggers With All About Jazz's calendar widget, website publishers and bloggers can place either a local calendar or a musician's calendar on their pages. Simply create the code from AAJ's calendar widget form, then copy, paste, save and voilà, instant calendar on your website! Learn more...

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Calvin Keys Celebrates His 70th Birthday

Source: Tompkins Square
February 4, 2012

Guitarist Calvin Keys will celebrate his 70th birthday on February 6th, 2012. To mark the occasion, Calvin will play a special birthday show Feb 6th, 7-11pm, at 57th St. Gallery, 5701 Telegraph Ave., Oakland CA. Tickets are $20 at the door. Keys' very first album,'Shawn-Neeq, originally released in 1971 on Black Jazz, has just been reissued on 180g vinyl by SF-based label Tompkins Square. It's a stone classic waiting to be re-discovered. The funky, deep grooves and Calvin's singular guitar ...

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Enter the "Tito Carrillo - Opening Statement" CD Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2012

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Terell Stafford Quintet Pays Tribute to Lee Morgan in the Kimmel Center’s Jazz Up Close Series, Feb. 25

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2012

Terell Stafford Quintet continues the Kimmel Center's 2011/12 Jazz Up Close Series, which honors Philadelphia jazz legends, with a tribute to Philly born hard-bop trumpeter, Lee Morgan, on February 25, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Perelman Theater. The quintet will perform a bebop-infused program of select works from the legendary composer, arranger and musician's catalogue of music, as well as works from Terell Stafford's latest 2011 release, This Side of Strayhorn. Trumpeter Terell Stafford will be joined on stage by ...

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Jammin’ at the Gem Concert Series Showcases Vibraphonist Roy Ayers with Spoken Word and Jazz Poetry Innovators

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
February 3, 2012

The second installment in the American Jazz Museum's noted 2011/2012 “Jammin' at the Gem" concert series season headlines another musical master of world renown, the vibraphonist/composer, Roy Ayers. Mr. Ayers will be joined by two pioneers of jazz poetry and spoken word, Jessica Care Moore and Louis Reyes Rivera. Of poets, Moore and Reyes Rivera, AJM Poet-In-Residence, Glenn North states, “Jessica Care Moore was the first poet who appeared on “Showtime at the Apollo" to win 5 times in a ...

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Denise King at Society Hill Playhouse on February 16th

Source: Jim Miller
February 3, 2012

Appearing at Jazz at the Playhouse will be singer Denise King and her band featuring pianist Aaron Graves, bassist Lee Smith and drummer Khary Shaheed at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street in Philadelphia on February 16th. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. Admission: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. For info: 215-517-8337 or 856-858-8914. Parking is right across the street, and public transportation is very convenient as well! Jazz Bridge, a 501C3 nonprofit that assists our local jazz and ...

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Karen Rodriguez' Latin Jazz in Media, PA on February 15th

Source: Jim Miller
February 3, 2012

Appearing at Jazz in Media! at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on February 15th will be singer Karen Rodriguez and her Latin Jazz Ensemble. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. $10/$5 students. No advance sales. For info: call 610-745-3011. Free refreshments and free on-site parking. (Please check out the complete lineup for Third Wednesdays each month at the Jazz in Media! series through May.) About Karen Rodriguez Ms. Rodriguez is the ...

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Pianist Jason Yeager Presents New Music With NYC Trio at Regattabar on March 7

Source: Jason Yeager
February 2, 2012

"Jason Yeager is a monster pianist and composer....[who] surprises you like a thunderbolt." —Ran Blake, pianist/composer and MacArthur Fellow “Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano with great touch." —Grego Edwards, All About Jazz Cambridge, MA—Framingham native and NYC-based jazz pianist/composer Jason Yeager returns to the Regattabar with his trio on March 7 at 7:30 PM. Having released his acclaimed debut CD, Ruminations, on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music label last March at the Regattabar, Yeager returns ...

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