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New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Program Presents November Events Celebrating 50th Anniversary
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Ann Braithwaite
New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts (CMA) program marks five decades of crossing boundaries, pushing limits, and training creative contemporary musicians and artists with a CMA Festival from Saturday, November 12–Thursday, November 17 and a concert honoring Gunther Schuller’s legacy on Tuesday, November 22. The festival, part of a year-long celebration featuring faculty, students and alumni in cutting-edge musical events, showcases bluegrass, African, Irish, classical, Americana, Middle Eastern music, klezmer, folk, jazz, electronic, rock, film noir and beyond, just some ...
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Black Olive Jazz: Myth And Mystery A Musical Journey Of Ancient And Modern Myths Debuts In New York City On November 22
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Cyber PR
Renowned Black Olive Jazz and San Francisco vocalist, Kay Kostopoulos, will be performing in New York City this November to kick off Thanksgiving week at Pangea in the East Village. Her new show: Myth, Music and Magic: A journey of biblical, historical and mythical proportions, explores heroines like Salome, Delilah, Cleopatra, and Persephone. Seductresses? Destroyers? How much of these stories were true? What’s the other story? The show features originals and jazz standards with an exotic twist, finger cymbals, and ...
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World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Ends The Year With The Annual Coltrane Festival 'Countdown 2023,' And More
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AMT Public Relations
Holiday Shows: Allan Harris (Dec 7-8) Orrin Evans All-Star Quintet (Dec 9-11) Goldings/Bernstein/Stewart Trio (Dec 15-18) Coltrane Festival: George Coleman, Eric Alexander, Melissa Aldana, Eric Reed, Vincent Herring, Billy Harper, Billy Hart, and More (Dec 20-Jan 8) and more... One of New York City's premier live music venues, Smoke Jazz Club, presents a stellar line-up of some of music's greatest artists during the month of December. For 16 nights, SMOKE presents its 10th Annual Coltrane Festival, “Countdown 2023," ...
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A New Documentary From Filmmaker Michele Brangwen Follows The Musicians Of The NDR Bigband On A Weeklong Creative Journey With Grammy-Nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
The NDR Bigband rehearses and performs “A Conversation," a suite by Hagans, who also conducts and solos. Performers discuss their connection to the music and to each other. The hour-long documentary premieres November 6 on Facebook and November 7 on YouTube. Watch a preview of “A Week in Hamburg: Rehearsing and Performing Tim Hagans’ A Conversation” here. A Week In Hamburg: Rehearsing and Performing Tim Hagans’ “A Conversation” is a new documentary from filmmaker Michele Brangwen that follows GRAMMY- nominated ...
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An Empty Room - An Episodic / Live Stream & Podcast Series Continues With Tyrone Jackson Watch Party On November 6, 2022
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Cyber PR
An Empty Room, the six part original series that explores the connective tissue between six uniquely influential artists from the Atlanta music scene, which debuted on Volume.com continues with composer, performer, and educator Tyrone Jackson on Sunday November 6. Being born in the New Orleans, he embodies the spirit of the Crescent City. His boundless creativity coupled with harmonic mastery, he utilizes the piano as a blank canvas. The blends of jazz, funk and Afro-Caribbean melodies are ever present in ...
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Willard Jenkins Presents A Collection Of Reflections About Jazz, Journalism, And Race With 'Ain't But A Few Of Us,' To Be Published Dec. 2 By Duke University Press
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Washington, DC-based jazz journalist, broadcaster, presenter, and advocate Willard Jenkins presents a literary panorama of the lives and works of African American jazz writers with his edited volume Ain’t But A Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story (Duke University Press). As the title suggests, Jenkins gathers the relative handful of Black scribes who focus on jazz music—from A.B. Spellman and Greg Tate to Anthony Dean-Harris and Angelika Beener—and gives them space to relate their perspectives in their ...
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Soaring Music Is Excited To Pursue Its Song's Christmas Canon Destiny
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Greg Nathan
New Christmas Song Released A cherished '50s Christmas song that only a few have heard. “In 2020, preceding the first pandemic holidays, SMP released the original 2004 production of Charles's 'I Want a Doll' to help make the season bright, intending to put smiles on faces in a world that needed a good reason to smile." Donna Courtell playfully sings “I Want a Doll," according to Greg Nathan, owner/president of Soaring Music Publications, the label for “I Want a Doll." ...
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Acclaimed Vocalist Michael Mayo Returns To New England Conservatory For Performance With Students On November 10
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Ann Braithwaite
New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies Department presents acclaimed vocalist and alum Michael Mayo in concert with jazz students on Thursday, November 10, 2022. The concert features Mayo sharing his unique approach to solo performance using live vocal looping, along with NEC vocalists and instrumentalists. It’s part of a four-day residency which also includes master classes and rehearsals with students. The 8 p.m. concert takes place in Brown Hall and is free and open to the public. Tickets required; ...
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