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Recording

Cinzia Spata releases “Into the Moment,” joins Scott Foster Management

Source: Scott Foster
July 8, 2011

Jazz vocalist CINZIA SPATA, already a major name in the rich legacy of jazz in Italy, is bursting onto the jazz scene in the United States and worldwide with the release of her new CD, “Into the Moment" (Koiné / Dodicilune Records.) Now based in New York City, Cinzia is regarded as one of the finest jazz vocalists in the world, as well as an innovative composer and lyricist. Along with the new CD and her move to the U.S., ...

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Interview

Nestor Zurita Saxophonist and Teacher by James Cubby on July 05, 2011

Source: Nestor Zurita
July 7, 2011

Saxophonist Nestor Zurita shares his talents when he performs onstage but it's a special person who can teach another to play a musical instrument. While Nestor taught himself to play the saxophone, most aren't as quick to pick up an instrument and teach themselves to play-not like Nestor Zurita anyway. Miami locals are familiar with Nestor Zurita who has played at venues like the Van Dyke Café, Arts at St. Johns, Alliance Francaise and has concerts at the Gusman Hall ...

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Performance / Tour

WD-41 to tour Italy this July

Source: Willie Oteri
July 8, 2011

The Austin Texas based Beyond Jazz duo of Dave Laczko and Willie Oteri aka WD-41 will be doing a short tour of Italy from July 15 to August 1st with house concerts, recording sessions and festival dates including the Y2KX+1 International Florence Live Looping Festival July 17 and the Portello River Festival in Padua Italy July 21, a three week long music festival which follows the River Film Festival in Padua. After being invited to perform at the Portello River ...

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Music Industry

Music Company RS Berkeley Donates A Full Orchestra Of Musical Instruments To Cuban Music Students

Source: Jennifer Kramer
July 7, 2011

New York, NY—In a major announcement last week, Les Silver, President and CEO of RS Berkeley Musical Instruments, pledged that the company will donate all the brand-new, acoustic instruments needed to completely outfit a student orchestra at the Amadeo Roldán Academy of Music in Havana, Cuba's premier academy of music. The New Jersey company will contribute 28 brass, woodwind, stringed and percussion instruments—saxes, trumpets, trombones, violins and basses, even a tuba—to the New York organization, Horns to Havana, which intends ...

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Radio

Louis Armstrong's Memories and Reflections This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
July 7, 2011

As befits a legend, Louis Armstrong had two birthdays. He always said with a smile that he was born on the 4th of July, 1900. His baptismal birth certificate gave another, less romantic date—August 4, 1901. Honoring “the man who taught the world to swing," this week we hear from people who knew and worked with him, listen to historic recordings and performances by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Among those we hear are record producer George Avakian, Metropolitan Opera ...

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Contest

Announcing the Winners of the "Colin Vallon - Rruga" Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2011

Recording

Slaid Cleaves Readies 2-CD "Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge"

Source: conqueroo
July 7, 2011

Career retrospective is full of stories, conversation, audiences singing and, most importantly, the clinking of glasses. AUSTIN, Texas—When Slaid Cleaves moved from Portland, Maine, to Austin, Texas, at the tail end of 1991, he landed on South Lamar Boulevard, a few blocks from the legendarily seedy Horseshoe Lounge. But as he points out on his new live album, “It was many years of drivin' by before I worked up the courage to come in through the door." Maybe his New ...

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