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Recording

The E Family To Release Their Highly Anticipate Album "Now & Forever" Today

Source: Andie D'Avino
September 20, 2011

The Musical Family Dynasty Pete Escovedo, Sheila E., Juan Escovedo and Peter Michael Escovedo Will Celebrate This Album of a Lifetime With A Star-Studded Affair At The World-Renowned Conga Room in Los Angeles tonight. After years of playing on each other's projects, The E Family came together to produce this ultimate, long overdue and highly anticipated labor of love, Now & Forever. Available in stores on September 20, 2011 on Sheila E's Stiletto Flats Music through Waterfront Entertainment (Fontana / ...

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Performance / Tour

SFJAZZ Presents Pamela Rose's Multimedia "Wild Women of Song," Sat. Nov. 12

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 20, 2011

In the two years since Pamela Rose released her CD Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era, the jazz and blues vocalist has been gratified to observe her music and the research behind it taking on an exuberant life of its own. Just last weekend she brought Wild Women to the Monterey Jazz Festival. Now Rose's internationally acclaimed and ever-expanding multimedia Wild Women show, which celebrates the lives, times, and music of the unheralded women songwriters ...

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Award / Grant

MacArthur 'genius' grants go to cellist, architect, jazz musician

Source: Michael Ricci
September 20, 2011

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced new MacArthur fellows for 2011. The arts honorees include architect Jeanne Gang of Chicago, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, jazz musician Dafnis Prieto and choral conductor and composer Francisco Nunez, all of New York. Each of the so-called “genius" fellows receives $500,000 in “no-strings-attached support over the next five years," according to the foundation. The money comes “without stipulations or reporting requirements," and is intended to give the fellows a wide ...

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Festival

URB ALT Festival celebrates 6 Years in a night of experimental and hip hop fusion featuring MuthaWit with special guest Jneiro Jarel and other artists

Source: 4961 Polemics
September 20, 2011

NEW YORK, NY: URB ALT Festival, the music/visual arts/film event dedicated to presenting the cutting edge in alternative lifestyles rolls out for the sixth year in New York City. URB ALT has programmed highly eclectic bills in the past with artists such as Parliament/Funkadelic, Twin Shadow, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, Kaki King and writer/activist Farai Chideya. 2011 is no different. The main performance bill at Rebel NYC on September 30 features the rock/soul/jazz mutants of MuthaWit collaborating ...

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Career

Danny Melnick Joins Team of Newport Festivals Foundation Producers

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
September 20, 2011

NEWPORT, RI: George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. and Producer of the Newport Jazz Festival, today announced the addition of Danny Melnick to the Foundation's team of veteran concert and event producers. Melnick, who worked for Wein's Festival Productions, Inc. (FPI) from 1990 and again from 1998, returns to the Festival family as Associate Producer of the Newport Jazz Festival. Melnick will continue to produce concerts and events around the world for his own company, Absolutely Live ...

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Performance / Tour

Kelley Suttenfield: Mondays With The Masters Concert Series - 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10

Source: Kelley Suttenfield
September 20, 2011

On four consecutive Mondays this Fall, jazz vocalist Kelley Suttenfield will take to the stage of the Metropolitan Room in a series called “Mondays with the Masters." Suttenfield, New York based with Southern roots, is known internationally as an offbeat, jazz storyteller with an unusual spin on American music, and a diverse repertoire ranging from the Beatles, to Brazilian standards and beyond. She expanded her fan base recently to London, where she debuted at Ronnie Scott's in January 2011. She ...

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Recording

Real Gone Music Bows with Grateful Dead, ? & the Mysterians

Source: conqueroo
September 20, 2011

New Razor & Tie-distributed label will debut in November with Grateful Dead “Dick's Picks" albums, ? and the Mysterians 180-gram vinyl, David Rose, Ed Ames, Connie Stevens, Joanie Sommers, Shelby Flint, Cameo Parkway Holiday Hits and The Girls from Petticoat Junction LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The newly formed Real Gone Music re-issue label boasts a diverse release schedule for 2011 and 2012 drawing from both major label licensing arms and independents, featuring such artists as the Grateful Dead, Connie Stevens, Rick Nelson ...

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Technology

DRUM! Magazine Founders Roll Out Industry-Specific Enter Music Network With Leading Percussive Partner Sites

Source: JCM Media
September 20, 2011

San Jose, CA: Over the last 20 years, Phil Hood and Andy Doerschuk, the founders of Enter Music Publishing have published one of the most well-respected innovative music magazines in the industry, DRUM!. Now, the duo, demonstrating their creativity once again, has launched The Enter Music Network (EMN) entermusicnetwork.com, an industry specific ad network comprised of the top sites for drummers and percussionists. EMN's Reach The EMN is a group of nine web sites that together offer advertisers the ability ...

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