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Career

APAP 2012 JazzConnect Session: Building Jazz Culture--Local to Global @ Hilton New York: January 6

Source: Michael Ricci
January 5, 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—Local to Global Where Hilton New York Sutton South New York, NY 212-586-7000 When Fri, January 6, 2012 9 AM-Noon Admission Free About the event How do you build and support a thriving cultural community? What are the possibilities using ...

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Recording

Bassist/Composer Josh Ginsburg Celebrates Debut CD, "Zembla Variations"

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 5, 2012

January 12 @ The Jazz Gallery, NYC, CD Release Party! Sets at 9 & 10:30 PM $15/10 members (1st set), $10/5 members (2nd set) Featuring Josh Ginsburg—bass/compositions, Eli Degibri—saxophones, Danny Grissett—piano and Rudy Royston—drums January 14 @ An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD, CD Release Party! Sets at 8 & 9:30 PM $20, $10 students Featuring Josh Ginsburg—bass/compositions, Eli Degibri—saxophones, Danny Grissett—piano and Rudy Royston—drums Brooklyn-based bassist and composer Josh Ginsburg is one ...

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Radio

The Jim Cullum Jazz Band Celebrates 50 Years

Source: Don Mopsick
January 5, 2012

Riverwalk Jazz this week celebrates the 50th Anniversary of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a concert recorded live in San Antonio. Bandleader and cornetist Jim Cullum Jr. traces the history of the band through five decades of performances at home and on the road, from Carnegie Hall—to a bull ring in Mexico—and concert halls in Siberia. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk ...

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Recording

Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill Are the Hobart Brothers and Lil Sis Hobart

Source: conqueroo
January 5, 2012

Itinerant singer-songwriters unite to record album, At Least We Have Each Other, due for late February 28 release AUSTIN, Texas—Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil' Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital download formats, with a street date of February 28, 2012. A limited tour is planned for spring. The ten-song LP/CD/download release comprises seven songs ...

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Performance / Tour

Blues Rocker Tinsley Ellis to Perform in Sellersville

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 5, 2012

Blues-rocking guitarist/vocalist Tinsley Ellis will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Ellis will be performing songs from his latest Alligator release, Speak No Evil. Over the course of 11 albums and literally thousands of live performances, Ellis is one of today's most electrifying guitarists and vocalists. Rolling Stone says he plays “feral blues guitar...non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor's edge...his eloquence dazzles...he achieves pyrotechnics that rival early Jeff Beck and Eric ...

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Performance / Tour

The Cornelia Street Cafe presents The Alternate Takes Festival

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 5, 2012

Alternate Takes Festival this Saturday, January 7 at The Cornelia Street Cafe The Cornelia Street Cafe presents the Alternate Takes Festival APAP Event (FREE for all APAP attendees!) 8:00 PM—CLAUDIA QUINTET John Hollenbeck—drums Drew Gress—bass Matt Moran—vibes Red Wierenga—accordion Chris Speed—clarinet, tenor saxophone 9:30 PM—RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA'S GAMAK Rudresh Mahanthappa—alto saxophone David “Fuze" Fiuczynski—guitars François Moutin—bass Dan Weiss—drums 11:00 PM—BEN ALLISON BAND

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Recording

Karrin Allyson is USA Today #1 CD of Year; Grammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album

Source: Seth Cohen PR
January 5, 2012

GRAMMY NOMINATED FOR BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM USA TODAY's Elysa Gardner has chosen Karrin Allyson's 'Round Midnight as her #1 Album of 2011, in a Year-End Poll of USA TODAY's top critics. It's the latest accolade in a year of extraordinary acclaim for Allyson's stunning CD. 'Round Midnight has been nominated for a 2012 GRAMMY AWARD for Best Jazz Vocal Album, marking Allyson's fourth consecutive nomination in this major category. The Grammys take place on February 12, 2012, and Allyson ...

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Recording

RareBit Readies "Daizo" LP on Non Projects + Premieres "Emergence"

Source: Leeor Brown
January 5, 2012

With the release of The Destroyer EP in 2011, musician / composer and visual artist Justin Hopkins, aka RareBit quickly established himself as an artist who knows his craft. Whereas The Destroyer, a collection of Justin's earlier work, dealt in dizzying cut and paste compositional techniques and songs with short run-times, Daizo, his full-length debut, takes us on an excursion of much greater distance. The same acute attention to sonic detail remains, however Daizo, tracks take advantage of the long ...

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