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Performance / Tour

2012 Lakeshore Jazz Series at Tempe Center for the Arts

Source: Michael Ricci
January 11, 2012

Tempe Center for the Arts 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway Tempe, AZ 85281 Box Office: 480-350-2822 2012 Concert Series Gretchen Parlato Friday, January 27, 2012 | 7:30 P.M. An alumni of the Thelonious Monk Institute, Parlato has been turning heads ever since she won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Institute International Vocal Competition with which she displayed a musical individuality loaded with paradoxical powers. Her sultry, intriguing voice and unique, rhythmically agile phrasing came with ...

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Recording

Novalima's "Karimba" Out January 31 on ESL

Source: Press Junkie PR
January 11, 2012

ESL Music announced it would release the 3rd full-length album of Novalima, titled Karimba, on January 31, 2012. This collective based out of Lima Peru brings together Afro-Peruvian roots music with modern electronic, dub, and afro-beat. The founders of Novalima, Ramon Perez-Prieto, Grimaldo Del Solar, Rafael Morales, and Carlos Li Carrillo, became friends while in high school in Lima. Since that time they have created a recipe to take Peruvian roots music into the future. Karimba takes the listener on ...

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Recording

Joe Louis Walker's "Hellfire" Set for January 31 Release

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 11, 2012

On January 31, Alligator Records will release Joe Louis Walker's Hellfire. Hellfire was produced by songwriter/drummer Tom Hambridge (producer of Buddy Guy's two most recent Grammy-winning CDs, Skin Deep and Living Proof, as well as albums for Susan Tedeschi, George Thorogood and others), From the psychedelic overtones of the title track (a harrowing and personal tale of the struggle of good versus evil) to the slow, simmering and pleading “What's It Worth" to the Stones-y rocker “Ride All Night," Hellfire ...

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Recording

Spain's Progressive Rock Legends Kotebel To Release Highly Anticipated New CD 'Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble'

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 11, 2012

Madrid, Spain—With five albums released since 2000, including the highly acclaimed 'Omphalos' (nominated for 'Best Foreign Record' by ProgAwards in 2006) and 'Ouroboros' (Winner—'Best Foreign Record' by ProgAwards in 2009), Kotebel is one of the main progressive rock acts to emerge from Spain and Latin America. And now, much to the anticipation of prog fans across the globe, Kotebel is preparing to release their 6th album 'Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble.' “The main body of the album is formed ...

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Event

Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry

Source: Just Roots PR
January 11, 2012

Before the 1930s and the advent of what has come to be called the “talkies," opulently decorated vaudeville and movie theaters were built. Predating the earliest sound systems they were created to be acoustically perfect. Every small town had one. Michigan at one time had many from its south western most border to Detroit and points north. Today many of these theaters still stand, painstakingly restored and faithfully tended. Now as a musician you can play many of these theaters ...

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Music Industry

Jazz Chanteuse Janis Mann Signs with SRI Jazz

Source: Shelly Liebowitz
January 11, 2012

SRI Jazz has just added an exciting and vibrant voice to the label with the addition of Jazz Chanteuse Janis Mann. A truly gifted performer in the vein of such greats as Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, Mann's ability to use her vocal instrument with great ease, along with her natural sense of how to interpret a lyric, makes her one of the stand-out jazz singers of our time. Described as “Always a solid swinger and one who makes every ...

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Career

APAP JazzConnect Session: Building Jazz Culture--Taking Action @ Rose Theater: January 10

Source: Michael Ricci
January 10, 2012

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters features jazz—its leaders, masters and music—at annual performing arts industry conference in New York City. Topic Building Jazz Culture—Taking Action Where Jazz at Lincoln Center Frederick P. Rose Hall, Rehearsal Room, 5th Floor New York, NY 212-258-9800 When Tue, January 10, 2012 2 PM-4 PM Admission Free About the event So where do we go from here? This ...

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Advocacy

Fat Joe Joins the Fight Against Childhood Obesity with a Concert for Let's Move! Newark: Our Power

Source: Susan Blond, Inc.
January 10, 2012

New York, N— On January 23rd, hip-hop legend and weight loss advocate, Fat Joe, will perform at an event celebrating the winners from Let's Move! Newark: Our Power (LM!NOP), a program created by Behavioral Health & Fitness Expert, Jeff Halevy, to fight childhood obesity. After improving his lifestyle, Fat Joe has recently lost over 100 pounds and has chosen to be a part of Let's Move! Newark Our Power to encourage our youth to follow his success. Jeff Halevy was ...

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