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World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Announces Line-Up For April Jazz Appreciation Month
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AMT Public Relations
Described as “the most genuine, congenial and best-run jazz club in the city (Huffington Post),” New York’s Smoke Jazz Club presents a stellar line-up of some of jazz’s greatest artists during April aka Jazz Appreciation Month. The month’s cornerstones are two album release concerts celebrating recordings on the club’s house label, Smoke Sessions: Buster Williams’s Unalome (Apr 13-16) and Wayne Escoffery’s Like Minds (Apr 20-23). Other highlights include octogenarian Eddie Henderson leading his quintet (Apr 6-9), and two stellar pianists: ...
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Jazz Host Celebrates 40 Years On the Air
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Michael Ricci
Joining Blue Lake Public Radio’s staff in the spring of 1983, Lazaro Vega has provided listeners with four decades of exceptional Jazz programming, interviews, reviews, and unwavering advocacy of this uniquely American art form. As Jazz Director at BLPR, he is encyclopedic in his knowledge of the medium and well known in the Jazz community both here in west Michigan and nationally. Lazaro continues to bring a unique perspective to his listeners through his musings, storytelling, and interpretations, helping to ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: February 2023
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the tracks featured in February, these ten represent our reader's favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! I Wanna Fly Tobin Mueller From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Volume 1: JAZZ Originals (remastered) 2:26 Mardi Gras Day George Porter Jr. From: Mardi Gras ...
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Elysium Furnace Works Kicks Off 2023 Season With Elliott Sharp & Donald Sturge Anthony McKenzie—Saturday, March 25 In Poughkeepsie, NY
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James Keepnews
"One of the godfathers of the Downtown New York music scene, guitarist-composer Elliott Sharp has been conceiving experimental works for a variety of small and large ensembles over the past 40 years... he remains as restlessly creative as ever, continuing to churn out provocative new projects with remarkable regularity." —Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes “Don McKenzie is a powerhouse and a master of deep-pocket hip hop, funk, jazz and rock” —Vernon Reid, Guitarist Elysium Furnace Works is excited to announce the initial ...
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Saxophonist/Composer Mark Lewis Cements A New Creative Collaboration On 'Sunlight Shines In,' To Be Released March 24 On Audio Daddio Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Veteran alto saxophonist/flutist Mark Lewis convenes a West Coast jazz summit on Sunlight Shines In, set for a March 24 release on the Audio Daddio label. Recorded in 2019, the album teams Seattle-area-based Lewis with the superb Southern California pianist Ron Kobayashi and his trio (bassist Baba Elefante and drummer Steve Dixon) on a set of Lewis’s original compositions, with ace trumpeter (and the album’s recording engineer) Nolan Shaheed joining in on two tracks. Born and raised in Washington State, ...
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Aberdeen Creates Unique Wall of Sound with Album 'Held Together'
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All About Jazz
With its massive, one-of-a-kind sound, Aberdeen is proud to announce the release of its second album Held Together. It’s Aberdeen’s brand of jazz with pop inflections that contributed to their selection in the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad program—in this case a tour to Central Asia—where Aberdeen performed. Held Together includes folk songs from around the world, featuring collaborators the band met while traveling, including Mongolian throat-singer and beatboxer Beatbox Ray and the children's ensemble Ayalguu, featuring traditional Mongolian ...
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Emmy-Award Winning, Julliard-Trained Musician, Singer, Songwriter Braxton Cook Releases His Highly Anticipated Full-Length Album
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Michael Ricci
Emmy Award-Winning, Julliard-trained jazz-R&B artist Braxton Cook released his highly anticipated fifth full-length album Who Are You When No One Is Watching? via Nettwerk. The 17-song odyssey is an exploration into what’s possible within the future of jazz, R&B, soul, and hip-hop. The title incites themes of perception and Braxton addresses viewpoints on race injustice, love in the media, marriage, fatherhood, and what it means to succeed in our world. “I feel a lot," says Braxton. “I'm a deeply emotional ...
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2023 NEA Jazz Masters Honored At Free Events
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Silky Sullivan
In honor of the 2023 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters—Regina Carter, Kenny Garrett, Louis Hayes, and Sue Mingus—the NEA is collaborating with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a series of free events March 30-April 1 that will give audiences opportunities to experience the honorees’ music, stories, and knowledge. These events mark the culmination of the 40th anniversary of the NEA Jazz Masters, which since 1982 has awarded more than 160 fellowships to ...
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