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Recording

Pianist Ben Stolorow Releases New Trio Album, "Almost There"

Source: Ben Stolorow
September 8, 2011

Susan Muscarella (Founder/Director of the Jazzschool in Berkeley, CA) has called Ben Stolorow's first album, I'll Be Over Here (2008), a “beautiful, introspective body of work reminiscent of some of the greatest piano trios." Ben's latest album, Almost There (2011), brings the sensitivity and lyricism of the first album as well a new fire and emotional intensity, reflecting his search to find freedom, release, and renewal through music. Joining Ben on this album are two beautiful Bay Area musicians, Dan ...

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Festival

Manly International Jazz Festival and Viva the band 2011

Source: Peter Rappolt
September 8, 2011

Manly Council on the Northern Beaches of Sydney will be conducting their 34th Manly International Jazz Festival over the October long weekend on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd of October 2011. With a vibrant family atmosphere and a breathtaking ocean beachfront backdrop, the festival location is considered to be the best for a Jazz Festival in Australia and is reputed as Sydney's premier Jazz event. The usual patronage for this festival is in excess of 45,000 visitors per day and there ...

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Award / Grant

Sonny Rollins to Receive 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 7, 2011

Sonny Rollins is one of five individuals who have been selected to receive the Kennedy Center Honors of 2011, it was announced today by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. These individuals' “collective artistry has contributed significantly to the cultural life of our nation and the world." Along with fellow recipients Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, and Meryl Streep, Rollins will be honored at the 34th annual national celebration of the arts on December 4. “I ...

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Festival

2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival to be held July 23-28 in Columbia, MO

Source: Dean Minderman
September 7, 2011

Columbia, MO: The Mizzou New Music Initiative will present the third annual Mizzou New Music Summer Festival from Monday, July 23, 2012 through Sunday, July 28 on the campus of the University of Missouri. The 2012 Festival will include a series of public concerts featuring music from contemporary composers, as well as workshops, master classes and other events. The Festival's guest composers for 2012 will be Steven Stucky, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for composition and professor at Cornell ...

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Video / DVD

"Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend" wins two EMPixx Awards

Source: Graham Carter
September 7, 2011

The EMPixx Awards has honored Jazzed Media with two 2011 EMPixx Awards for the documentary film Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend. The film has received a Platinum Award in the Documentary Category and an additional Platinum Award in the Use of Music Category. The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated producer and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs and documentary films. Previously the Kenton ...

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Career

Simon Rowe Named Director of Brubeck Institute

Source: Patrick Giblin
September 7, 2011

Today, University of the Pacific President Pamela A. Eibeck announced the appointment of Simon B. Rowe, DMA, as the next director of the Brubeck Institute. An established jazz pianist, Rowe is currently associate professor of music at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he leads the Music Industry Program, teaches on the jazz studies faculty, and leads the Simon Rowe Trio. He will begin at the Brubeck Institute on September 20. “Dr. Rowe is the ideal person to continue the Brubeck ...

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Recording

Bill Wyman's Post-Rollings Stones Work Collected on Five-CD Set, out October 25

Source: conqueroo
September 7, 2011

LONDON, U.K.—Back in the 1990s, Bill Wyman did the unthinkable and left the Rolling Stones—the consensus greatest rock 'n' roll band of all time—and went on to form a group of his own that equaled his previous band in terms of chops, while actually surpassing the Stones in sheer versatility. What's more, Wyman has managed to keep Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings going strong for a decade and a half and counting, with an ever- shifting lineup of fellow all-star players ...

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Performance / Tour

John Beasley Sept-Oct Gig Calendar

Source: John Beasley
September 7, 2011

WHAT'S ON with JOHN BEASLEY—September-October 2011 SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC! September 12 (Monday) Washington, DC Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz 25th Anniversary Gala Concert @ Kennedy Center John Beasley—Music Director All-Star Gala Concert will honor Aretha Franklin with the Founder's Award. Performers include: Herbie Hancock, Ellis Marsalis, Jason Moran, Danilo Perez, Marcus Roberts, Jacky Terrasson, Ron Carter, Christian McBride, John Patitucci, Carl Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, TS Monk, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Wayne Shorter, Ambrose ...

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