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Event

Award Winning Jazz Artist Michelle Cruz to join "George Wein and Friends" event on August 3rd

Source: Michelle Cruz
July 30, 2011

A Newport Bridge Fest SPECIAL EVENT: Join founder of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals, impresario George Wein, for a discussion with Newport Jazz Festival performer Anat Cohen and Newport Daily News' Jim Gillis at 5pm. Join us at 7pm on the 41 North dock for a post discussion reception with award winning jazz artist Michelle Cruz with Aaron Cote (drums), Matt Passeroni (bass) and Nick Sanfilppo (piano). This is a FREE EVENT! This event is proudly sponsored by the ...

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Recording

Terry Wollman’s inspiring new single "Mandela"

Source: Terry Wollman
July 30, 2011

LOS ANGELE'S—Guitarist and producer Terry Wollman brings forth his new album “Buddha's Ear." The first single, “Mandela," featuring Mindi Abair and Keb' Mo' is the #1 Most Added on Billboard's Smooth Jazz chart. Terry Wollman returns to the Jazz music airwaves with “Mandela," an inspiring new single from the album “Buddha's Ear." It is already getting major attention from Jazz radio formats as being the #1 Most Added on Billboard's Smooth Jazz chart, Groove Jazz and SmoothJazz.com airplay charts. Terry ...

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Performance / Tour

Top 10 Billboard Jazz Veteran Alfonzo Blackwell Supports the UNCF

Source: One Creative Publicist & Management
July 30, 2011

Recently, Jazz Saxophonist/Composer/Producer Alfonzo Blackwell has joined forces with the New Jersey chapter of the UNCF and the Princeton Committee of the UNCF in which a benefit concert is scheduled at the Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ on Saturday, September 17th to support the historical college fund. The UNCF's Program Director, Anthony Caldwell is producing the event along with the team members of the committee and Utopia Records. Enjoy an evening of Soulful and Sophisticated Jazz starring Top 10 ...

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Radio

Jimmy McPartland This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
July 28, 2011

This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to the Chicago jazz cornetist Jimmy McPartland, husband of public radio's Marian McPartland. The couple met in Britain while Jimmy was serving in the armed forces during WWII. 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 Jazz website. Jimmy McPartland played alongside Bix Beiderbecke and Benny Goodman, and is credited as one of the architects of “Chicago Jazz." ...

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Recording

Concord Music Group's Stax Remasters Series Continues on September 13 with Reissues from Rufus Thomas, the Dramatics, and Shirley Brown

Source: conqueroo
July 28, 2011

Rufus Thomas's Do the Funky Chicken, Shirley Brown's Woman to Woman, and the Dramatics' Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get are fortified with bonus tracks LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In 1968, on the heels of the label's severance from Atlantic Records, Stax Records president Al Bell decided to initiate a massive 28-LP release program that would auger the label's return to the top. The initiative fostered a new generation of Stax hitmakers including the Dramatics and Shirley Brown. And, it proved an artistically ...

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Performance / Tour

Brubeck Institute's Summer Jazz Colony to Offer Two Free Concerts This Year

Source: Patrick Giblin
July 28, 2011

Some of the best and brightest high-school-aged jazz musicians will be on the Stockton Campus of University of the Pacific to hone their skills and get advice from some of the best professional musicians in the world of jazz. But that advice no longer has to be kept between the students and professionals. For the first time in the history of the Brubeck Institute's Summer Jazz Colony, members of the public are invited to observe the evening jam session workshops ...

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Performance / Tour

Acclaimed Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore Returns to Feinstein's in "Some Like It Hot: the Music of Marilyn Monroe"

Source: Miller Wright & Associates
July 28, 2011

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York" by New York Magazine and “an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Summer 2011 season with the return of jazz vocalist REBECCA KILGORE in her new show “Some Like It Hot—The Music of Marilyn Monroe." She will be joined by The Harry Allen Quartet which features Allen on the tenor saxophone, Rossano Sportiello on piano, Joel Forbes on bass, and Chuck Riggs on ...

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Performance / Tour

Joe Chambers' "Moving Pictures" Orchestra, September 13-18 at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
July 28, 2011

Joe Chambers' “Moving Pictures" Orchestra, September, 13-18, 2011 Featuring: Conrad Herwig Craig Handy, Xavier Davis, Dwayne Burno, Steve Berrios Where: Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Broadway at 60th St. New York, NY Phone: 212-258-9595 The Centerpiece for the orchestra is the commissioned composition “Moving Pictures." a four movement suite composed and premiered for the Lincoln Center Orchestra in March of 2003. This suite was conceived as a kind of Concerto for Drums (percussion) and Orchestra, Synthesizing polyrhythms, “straight ahead" swing , ...

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