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Performance / Tour

Stanford Lively Arts Kicks Off Jazz Series with Josh Roseman Sextet, November 12 At Campbell Recital Hall

Source: Robert Cable
October 27, 2011

Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, and all-around musical mad-scientist Josh Roseman celebrates his Jamaican heritage with a musical tribute to the founding fathers of dub and ska, presented by Stanford Lively Arts on Saturday, November 12 at 8:00 p.m. in Campbell Recital Hall. A onetime Skatalite himself and a DownBeat “#1 Rising Star" trombonist, Roseman will be joined in his Lively Arts performance by Curtis Hasselbring (trombone and guitar), Myron Walden (alto saxophone), Barney McAll (piano, keyboards, sound design), Peter Apfelbaum (organ ...

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Event

Grammy and Tony Award-winning Jazz Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater appears at United Nations World Food Day

Source: Muse Media
October 27, 2011

GRAMMY AND TONY AWARD-WINNING JAZZ VOCALIST DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER APPEARS AT UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD DAY EVENT OCTOBER 27TH IN NEW YORK CITY As a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Bridgewater continues to appeal for international solidarity to finance global grass-roots projects in the fight against world hunger. New York, New York. In observation of the 31st United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's World Food Day and coinciding with the 66th anniversary of the ...

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Festival

XRIJF 2012 Club Pass On Sale Friday October 28! Access 200+ Shows at 12 Venues

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
October 27, 2011

Rochester, NY: Club Passes for the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival's (XRIJF) 11th Edition, June 22-30, 2012, go on sale Friday October 28 at 10 a.m. at the special holiday price of $155 plus $4 service charge, a $30 savings off the regular price. More than half of all Club Passes available last year were sold before the end of December, and the Club Pass sold out in March before our lineup was announced. The full festival lineup will be ...

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Education

Student Songwriters Collaborate Online Through Berklee PULSE Partnership with Kompoz

Source: Berklee Public Relations
October 27, 2011

Berklee PULSE, Berklee City Music Network's web-based music education program, has formed a partnership with Kompoz, a platform for crowd-sourcing music creation, that connects students at 32 City Music Network sites across the U.S. For Berklee PULSE, Kompoz offers a creative outlet to young musicians who might not have access to other musicians in-person, and gives them an opportunity to collaborate with students across the City Music Network. Projects are currently underway involving collaborations between students at three City Music ...

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Event

Jerry Tachoir Group to perform at 2012 JEN (Jazz Educators Network)

Source: Jerry Tachoir
October 27, 2011

Video / DVD

Jazz Great Allan Harris Releases First Video From New CD

Source: Allan Harris
October 27, 2011

New York, NY: Award-winning jazz vocalist Allan Harris releases the first video from his new CD Open Up Your Mind (released 9/13/11 Love Productions Records). The video's song entitled “Can't Live My Life Without You" is written by Harris and is the first track on his new CD. The video was shot in black and white in two of New York City's hottest nightclubs—Smoke Jazz and BB King Blues Club, and also on the streets of NYC. Michael Chow, the producer ...

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Contest

Enter the "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Rocket Science" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2011

Performance / Tour

Itzhak Perlman Performs with North Carolina Symphony, May 15, 2012; Tickets Available Now as Part of Four-Concert Passport Series

Source: Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
October 26, 2011

RALEIGH, N.C.—The North Carolina Symphony announced today that incomparable violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman will return to the orchestra to perform Tchaikovsky's scintillating Violin Concerto, capping off a program of Italian-flavored masterworks. The special event concert, led by Symphony Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, takes place at Meymandi Concert Hall, in downtown Raleigh's Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, on Tuesday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m. Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. In recent years, he took ...

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