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Performance / Tour

Jambalaya Brass band Returns to Dinosour Bar-B-Que (NYC) on February 17

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
January 25, 2012

New York, NY—Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing in celebration of their hit CD release It's a Jungle Out There on Friday, February 17, 2012 from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM at Harlem's world-renowned Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in NYC. At Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, along with tunes from their successful CD It's a Jungle Out There, Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing other original and traditional favorites. The band's foundation will be provided by Ron Caswell on Tuba, Washington Duke on Snare Drum, ...

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Event

CBS-FM Sets 'Legends of Disco Live' at Hammerstein Ballroom 3/31

Source: Seth Cohen PR
January 25, 2012

CBS-FM welcomes Legends of Disco “Live" at the Ballroom; Recreating a Studio 54-Style Dance Party at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC, Saturday, March 31, 2012—Featuring: Chic with Nile Rodgers, Tavares, France Joli, the Trammps featuring Earl Young and Harold Melvin's Blue Notes CBS-FM and Legends Entertainment Group build 'the ultimate time machine': a one night dancing experience recreating the disco phenomenon that swept a generation to their feet! Take a giant step back in time to the glory days of ...

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Recording

National Recording Artist and Saxophonist Brandon Primus New CD Release

Source: Janet M Walters
January 25, 2012

Brandon Primus a former Showtime at the Apollo winning jazz saxophonist and instrumentalist has released his first music CD. Primus is a big name who has earned countless prestigious awards over his career and is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music Boston, MA. Known as the Soulful Strut Saxophonist for his signature moves on stage, he is emerging on the scene as one of the most gifted and up and coming, jazz artist in contemporary and urban jazz. ...

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Festival

The Center City Jazz Festival: A Jazz Project In Philadelphia By Ernest Stuart

Source: Michael Ricci
January 25, 2012

Help Fund Philadelphia's Center City Jazz Festival at Kickstarter.com The Idea: On April 28, the Center City Jazz Festival is set to showcase great new jazz in an exciting, youthful, energetic environment, and introduce a new crop of the Philadelphia area's best up-and-coming artists to both jazz aficionados and the jazz curious. We're going to take jazz out of concert halls and put it into a number of Center City's best restaurants/bars and music venues clustered around Broad Street, all ...

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Recording

Emotive Explosions in Blastin' Sounds! Harry Bates Releases Incendiary, Intuitive and Eclectic Tracks

Source: Creativity in Music
January 25, 2012

CINCINNATI, OHIO — The Supreme Sounds From Blastin' Sounds is the upcoming release from Cincinnati native Harry Bates. It is due out early in 2012. Also known as Blastin Sounds, Harry is releasing several tracks early — with good reason he explains, “I want to enlighten as many people as I can to the fact that they have the ability to change the world." His tracks are filled with emotive explosions in Blastin' Sounds. As both a songwriter and performer, ...

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Recording

Germany's Acclaimed Triosence Joins Forces with Vocalist Sara Gazarek on "Where Time Stands Still"

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
January 25, 2012

While the instrumental group Triosence has already built a strong following over the past decade in Germany, their latest outing promises to attract Stateside attention for the first time. For Where Time Stands Still, the group reached out to Seattle-born singer Sara Gazarek, a rising star on the contemporary jazz scene in the States. The resulting collaboration is a match made in heaven, with Gazarek's crystalline vocals and evocative lyrics supplying an even more personal touch to Triosence's appealing sound. ...

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Recording

Hristo Vitchev / Weber Lago Highly Anticipated New Album "Heartmony" Is Now Available

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 25, 2012

Heartmony is modern jazz guitarist Hristo Vitchev's fourth album as a leader. After his critically acclaimed quartet's debut record Song for Messabria and his first duo session with pianist Weber Lago The Secrets of An Angel, Hristo recorded The Perperikon Suite with his quintet (a large scale jazz suite specifically written for the 53rd edition of the Monterey Jazz Festival). This year he releases his second outing with Latin Grammy Nominee Weber Lago. Heartmony is a truly intimate and colorful ...

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Performance / Tour

Wynton Marsalis Performs The Ballad of the American Arts in Philadelphia Honoring Jazz Appreciation Month, April 3

Source: Michael Ricci
January 24, 2012

Tickets on Sale Now! The Kimmel Center kicks off Jazz Appreciation Month with a special program, The Ballad of the American Arts, featuring Wynton Marsalis with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Verizon Hall on April 3, 2012 at 7:30pm. Jazz master Marsalis honors America's premier indigenous art form with a moving lecture and live performance. The lecture will examine the role of the arts in creating an American cultural identity, and includes performances featuring members of ...

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