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Career

National Jazz Museum In Harlem Announces New Leadership Team

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
February 1, 2012

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem ("NJMH") is pleased to announce its new leadership team, effective immediately. Christopher L. Perry has joined NJMH as its new Executive Director, and Loren Schoenberg, who formerly served as the organization's Executive Director for 10 years, will continue with NJMH in his new role as Artistic Director. According to NJMH's Board Chairman Arthur H. Barnes, “After ten years of sequential growth, we have reached the point where our operational and development efforts were in ...

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Performance / Tour

The Green Return For A Massive Mainland Tour

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 1, 2012

2011 was another breakthrough year for the Hawaiian reggae band The Green. Their sophomore album Ways & Means (released on Easy Star Records) impressively stayed at #1 on the Billboard Reggae chart for 4 weeks in a row, while receiving high profile press exposure in Billboard, NPR, National Geographic, Huffington Post, and more. They were also awarded “Artist of the Year" by The DubSide and their album was nominated for “Album of the Year" at The Pier. The band relentlessly ...

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Performance / Tour

Alligator Artist Michael "Iron Man" Burks to Perform in New Castle

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 1, 2012

Arkansas-based blues guitarist/vocalist Michael “Iron Man" Burks will headline the 15th Annual House Rockin' Party at JB McGinnes Pub and Grille in New Castle on Saturday, March 3, 2012. Burks will perform songs from his latest Alligator release, Iron Man. Boasting remarkable natural talent and deep-rooted soulfulness, Burks' music is driven by an intense, blue collar work ethic that has earned him well-deserved national recognition, making him one of the blues world's fastest-rising stars. Burks' powerful presence, inventive and riveting ...

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Recording

Jazz at Lincoln Center to Release "WeBop"

Source: Buzzword PR
February 1, 2012

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) will release WeBop: A Family Jazz Party, a CD featuring kid-tested and approved music on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. The recording brings the very best of JALC's WeBop classes in NYC home to families worldwide. Critically-acclaimed drummer and music director Matt Wilson leads an intergenerational band of celebrated jazz musicians, including trumpeter Marcus Printup and trombonist Vincent Gardner of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, guitarist Doug Wamble and 90-year-old percussion legend ...

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Performance / Tour

Charlie Kohlhase Launches an Outpost 186 Exploration for February

Source: Chris Rich
February 1, 2012

After a dismal 2011, in which the Explorers Club only performed once, Boston's beloved cranky yankee polishes his battery of saxophones and follows the groundhog out of midwinter torpor. Over the course of the unrolling spring, saxophonist/composer Charlie Kohlhase will oversee mid month explorations in Inman Squares favorite back yard gallery, Outpost 186. Starting on Thursday, February 16th, a new line up will grace the bay windows of the aulde dump. Original stalwarts, saxophonist Matt Langley, trombonist Jeff Galindo, guitarist ...

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Interview

All About Jazz Launches New Column With Pianist Ahmad Jamal!

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2012

Since its inception, All About Jazz has delivered exhaustive coverage with some of the most extensive, in-depth interviews anywhere. AAJ will continue to provide the same degree of feature-rich coverage (e.g. Jack DeJohnette Week), but for those artists who have already received the “in-depth" treatment, our new Catching Up With column will allow us to revisit them while focusing primarily on recent topics. AAJ Senior Editor Chris May kicks off the new column with Catching Up With Ahmad Jamal, where ...

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Recording

Brad Mehldau Trio Returns with "Ode," March 13

Source: Michael Ricci
January 31, 2012

Nonesuch album features first recordings of 11 original compositions by Mehldau “The pianist Brad Mehldau has led this iteration of his pace-setting trio—with the bassist Larry Grenadier and the drummer Jeff Ballard—since 2005, and it has evolved into a graceful powerhouse, equally savvy about groove and harmony." —New York Times Nonesuch releases an album of original songs from the Brad Mehldau Trio—Ode—on March 13, 2012. The record, which is the first from the trio since 2008's live Village Vanguard disc ...

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Event

Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates Iconic Artists and Composers in Weekly Jazz and Classical Music Series

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
January 31, 2012

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Audiences are invited to experience music and art together at Woodmere Art Museum in historic Chestnut Hill. Woodmere's popular Friday Night Jazz and Classic Sundays series return every weekend for two months beginning February 10. Performed in the Museum's grand Kuch Gallery, visitors can tour FORCE OF NATURE—Elaine Kurtz: A Retrospective and Elemental: Nature as Language in the Works of Philadelphia Artists—two new exhibitions inspired by the natural world—while enjoying music and light refreshments. The celebrated works of ...

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