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Performance / Tour

Nu Civilisation Orchestra - Firebird: A Stravinsky-Parker Sound Clash

Source: Adam Sieff
January 19, 2012

Saturday 3 March: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London Saturday 28 April: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton Firebird is an engaging programme of new work exploring musical paths that converge at the crossroads of jazz and classical music. It's an exciting place where two musical revolutionaries—Igor Stravinsky and Charlie Parker—meet and cross swords utilising their distinctive armouries of rhythmic ingenuity and harmonic invention. Firebird features a remodelled version of Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto (originally commissioned by jazz clarinetist, Woody Herman in 1946); ...

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Recording

Loga Ramin Torkian's "Mehraab" Out January 31

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 19, 2012

Iranian born composer and multi-instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian is internationally recognized for his ground-breaking work with world music groups Niyaz and Axiom Of Choice, both of which he co-founded. Currently based in Montreal, Canada, Loga is now releasing his first solo album Mehraab, which brings his exceptional musicianship along with his highly innovative and complex sensibility for composition to the forefront of a project. The album features the astounding voice of Persian classical singer Khosro Ansari and draws a great ...

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Performance / Tour

Pianist / Vocalist Marcia Ball to Perform in Wilmington

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 19, 2012

Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball, touring in support of her Grammy-nominated Alligator Records CD, Roadside Attractions, will perform live on Friday, February 17, 2012 at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington. Ball's groove-laden New Orleans R&B, heart-wrenching ballads and driving Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite of music fans everywhere. Her music mixes equal parts simmering soul fervor and rollicking Crescent City piano. Over the course of her career, Ball's infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional songs have ...

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Event

Heart 'n Soul of Jazz

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 19, 2012

February will again bring some of the worlds' most renowned Jazz artists to Pinehurst for the 27th Annual Heart 'n Soul of Jazz. Presented by Pinehurst Resort and the Arts Council of Moore County, the benefit will feature harmonica player and guitarist Pat Bergeson & his Quartet featuring vocalist Annie Sellick performing on Friday, February 10, and trumpeter and vocalist Brian Newman and his Quartet on Saturday, February 11. The weekend of classic jazz will take place in the Cardinal ...

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Performance / Tour

Chicago Jazz Great Makes Big Apple Debut at NYC's Metropolitan Room

Source: Elaine Dame
January 19, 2012

Elaine Dame Live at The Metropolitan Room Saturday, Feb. 4th, at 7 pm Cover charge: $22, with a two-drink minimum. For reservations, call the club at 212-206-0440 or purchase tickets at metropolitanroom.com. MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabaret) members receive a $5 discount. CHICAGO, IL- 1/18/12—"Dame has quietly risen to the top rank of Chicago jazz singers, with a light and cheerful timbre and musicality that allows her to improvise things most singers shouldn't even try" —Neil Tesser, Author, Playboy Guide ...

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Technology

SFJAZZ Launches New Online Venue - Are You Listening? A place for the conversation of jazz in today’s culture.

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
January 18, 2012

Today SFJAZZ is launching Are You Listening, for the jazz community to engage with one another and to contribute their thoughts, perspectives and financial support for the music. “With Are You Listening, we want to create an online space for the types of conversations that are going to take place in the SFJAZZ Center itself," said Kevin Causey, SFJAZZ Director of Development. The SFJAZZ Center will officially open its doors during the week of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in ...

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Advocacy

Six U.S. Lawmakers Abandon Anti-Piracy Bills as Google Protests

Source: Michael Ricci
January 18, 2012

Six U.S. lawmakers dropped their support for Hollywood-backed anti-piracy legislation as Google Inc., Wikipedia and other websites protest the measures. Co-sponsors who say they can no longer support their own legislation include Senators Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, and Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat. Republican Representatives Ben Quayle of Arizona, Lee Terry of Nebraska, and Dennis Ross of Florida also said they would withdraw their backing of the House bill. The Senate bill and the ...

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Recording

Percussion Virtuoso River Guerguerian To Release Highly Anticipated New Solo CD "Grooves for Odd Times"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 18, 2012

Asheville, NC—The percussion community is buzzing with excitement about the highly anticipated forthcoming solo CD by virtuosic Multi-Percussionist/Composer/Educator River Guerguerian titled 'Grooves for Odd Times.' River has been inspiring audiences with his ecstatic and versatile percussion for over 30 years, and has performed and recorded with such groups as the BBC Concert Orchestra, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Tan Dun, Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble, Paul Winter Consort, Chuck Berry, Sophie B. Hawkins, The Billy Sea and Ziggy Marley/Gipsy Kings. He also co-founded ...

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