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Book / Magazine

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases his first children's book

Source: Romeo Corsi
January 26, 2012

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases his first children's book. The NBA's all time leading scorer champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in a fascinating new children's book. What Color is my World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors Did you know that James West's technology is in the microphone of your cell phone? Or that Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? That Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing pain for countless people? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators ...

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Recording

Ruthie Foster's CD 'Let It Burn' Shipping Tuesday, January 31; Takes to the Road

Source: conqueroo
January 26, 2012

2012 U.S. tour under way, with Grammy Museum webcast on street date and SXSW appearance. LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Ruthie Foster celebrates the release of her new album, Let It Burn, on Tuesday, January 31 with an appearance that night at Los Angeles' Grammy Museum. The performance and interview there will be available to fans throughout the world on a web simulcast . The event kicks off a tour that continues into late spring with stops in all major cities ...

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Music Industry

Former Monterey Jazz Festival Marketing Director Launches New Partnership Marketing Package

Source: Paul S. Fingerote
January 26, 2012

Veteran Adman Creates Targeted Marketing Campaign to Secure and Retain Partnerships for Festivals and Events Includes Partnership Marketing Plan, Calendar, Targeted Prospect Lists, Action Steps, Benchmarks and Follow-Up Revives, Refreshes, Reinvigorates, Repackages Partnership Offerings to Increase Partnership Revenues Longtime Monterey Jazz Festival Marketing and Sponsorship Director, Paul S. Fingerote, has launched a new Partnership Marketing Package to significantly increase partnership revenues for festivals and events. The package is designed to help revive, refresh, reinvigorate and repackage partnership offerings, resulting in ...

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Event

Carmen Lundy Returns With All-new Nine Song Collection, "Changes"

Source: Dorothy Riley
January 26, 2012

Composer & Jazz Vocalist Teams With Legendary Engineer Don Murray and an All-Star Band to Create an Album of Unprecedented Warmth and Depth Carmen Lundy—Changes Street Date: February 7, 2012 Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY: Encountering the work of Carmen Lundy can, admittedly, be a bit surprising for the first time listener. In an age of prepackaged, mass-produced beats and slavishly retro stylings, Lundy offers something that's become increasingly rare: utter authenticity. A unique and adventurous singer, often ...

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Performance / Tour

Three Views of a Trio Featuring The Wee Trio, the Joel Frahm Trio & the Danny Fox Trio @ Le Poisson Rouge!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 25, 2012

Le Poisson Rouge—February 28, 2012 CD Release Celebration for The Wee Trio Ashes To Ashes—A David Bowie INTRAspective Also featuring the trios of Joel Frahm and Danny Fox. Tues, February 28, 10 PM, $15 Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker St. New York, NY 212 505 FISH The Ashes to Ashes Tour: Stephenville, TX, Jan 18: Tarelton State University Denton, TX, Jan 19: University of North Texas ...

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Recording

New Live CD by Chris Brubeck's Triple Play Due for Release Feb. 7 on Blue Forest Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 25, 2012

Over the past decade, Chris Brubeck (on bass, trombone, and piano), guitarist Joel Brown, and multi-instrumentalist Peter Madcat Ruth have honed a vast and vivid repertoire encompassing Delta blues, Tin Pan Alley standards, New Orleans grooves, jazz gems, and incisive originals. With all three contributing vocals, Triple Play delivers an epic sojourn through American music unlike any other band on the scene. Their new CD, Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center, features two Triple Play patriarchs as special guests: piano ...

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Performance / Tour

Grammy Award Winning Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Wilmington

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 25, 2012

Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform at World Cafe Live at The Queen in Wilmington on Monday, February 27, 2012. Their latest release (and Alligator Records debut) is the Grammy Award-winning CD, Lay Your Burden Down. This is Buckwheat Zydeco's first Grammy win (the band had five previous Grammy nominations). Louisiana vocalist, accordion and organ master Dural recorded Lay Your Burden ...

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Performance / Tour

Bobby McFerrin at Bronx's Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on February 4

Source: Joe Alterman
January 25, 2012

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 31st season with an EXCLUSIVE New York City appearance by a true genius of vocal improvisation, ten-time GRAMMY® Award winner BOBBY McFERRIN on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 8pm. Since the 1980s, McFerrin has amazed audiences around the world with his four-octave range and his capacity for improvisation on par with the greatest jazz instrumentalists. At the same time, the sophistication and soulfulness of his singing put him in a class all ...

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