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Performance / Tour

Mingus Festival + Competition at Jazz Standard in February

Source: AMT Public Relations
January 31, 2012

2012 marks the 90th Birthday Anniversary Year of Charles Mingus (DOB: April 22, 1922). To celebrate, Jazz Standard welcomes back the Mingus Big Band for its annual Mingus High School Competition + Festival. The club's acclaimed “Mingus Mondays" residency continues throughout February (2/6, 2/13, 2/20 + 2/27) including a full weekend of performances by the Grammy Award—winning Mingus Big Band (2/17-2/19) as part of the 2012 Mingus High School Competition & Festival—one of the year's most important events in jazz ...

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Recording

Wonderful Times - CD 2012 -Dewey Records/Kazhargan

Source: Cheryl Pyle
January 31, 2012

Dewey Records (Germany) Announces the release of Wonderful Times from the international jazz group Kazhargan World A nice warm sound that is earthy along with some interesting post modern riffs bordering on accessible free jazz only to discover the musicians involved in the project were never actually present in the same room at the time of the recording. Enter Kazhargan World. An international jazz collective from Russia, Germany and various areas within the United States of America. Artists in all ...

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Radio

Great Jazz Vocalist Performs Worldwide On WLRN's South Fla. Arts Beat

Source: Ed Bell
January 31, 2012

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Featuring Wendy Pedersen One of South Florida's treasured musicians, Wendy Pedersen is a mainstay of the local music scene. A graduate of The University of Miami's Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program, she has won numerous awards over her years of singing. Among them the Southern Bell/P.A.C.E. Jazz Artist of the Year and Best Vocalist from Miami New Times, which ...

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Award / Grant

Healdsburg Jazz Festival Receives NEA Jazz Masters Live Grant

Source: Michael Ricci
January 30, 2012

$10,000 grant will help support an NEA Jazz Masters concert with Sheila Jordan and Roy Haynes Healdsburg, CA.—The Healdsburg Jazz Festival has received an NEA Jazz Masters Live grant of $10,000 to help support a concert on June 10th, 2012 honoring jazz masters Sheila Jordan and Roy Haynes. The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is one of 12 not-for-profit organizations to receive a grant to support performance and educational activities featuring NEA Jazz Masters, recipients of the nation's highest honor in jazz. ...

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Interview

Trumpeter Terell Stafford Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2012

Terell Stafford is as likely to credit his influences as he is to impress his listeners. Coming to jazz comparatively later than many players, and even with his busy schedule as a sideman, leader and educator, he remains devoted to exploring the music's roots, while expressing a relentless desire to learn more. Stafford's latest release, This Side of Strayhorn (MAXJAZZ, 2011), began with a commission for an educational project from the Cityfolk arts outreach group, with Stafford and his quintet ...

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Website

Place the Jazz Near You Calendar Plug-In on Your Website or Blog

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2012

With Jazz Near You's calendar plug-in, anyone with a website can place a local calendar, a venue calendar, or a musician's calendar on their website. Simply generate the code from Jazz Near You's calendar plug-in page, then copy, paste, save and voilà... instant calendar on your website! “This is a great way for website publishers and bloggers to promote jazz concerts in their area. Jazz Near You is aggregating jazz calendar information and we plan to distribute it to other ...

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Recording

Piano and Bass duo Opalińska & Whates release "Lumière," March 21 2012

Source: Douglas Whates
January 30, 2012

Lumière—an engaging new album from Mira Opalińska and Douglas Whates. With a lightness of touch and a darkness of sound, the piano and bass duo improvise on their unique arrangements of works by classic film and world cinema composers. Whether reinventing the familiar or unearthing unexpected gems, the duo explore these moving and expressive scores to create inspired, extraordinary music of brooding intensity. For those who can't wait until the official release, stream the entire album at soundcloud.com About Mira ...

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Recording

Tina Richerson Trio explores groundbreaking textures on new album

Source: Lauren Rogers
January 30, 2012

The outer limits of jazz is where saxophonist Tina Richerson resides, a world in which experimentalism becomes the unifying thread. On the latest album from the Tina Richerson Trio, Up Against the Rail!, traditional jazz is given a slap, flirting with dissonant or uneasy textures. In other words, it actually tosses jazz back into the groundbreaking sonic landscapes that once enabled it to light the world on fire. Up Against the Rail! is a visionary work, one that finds order ...

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