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Festival

Jazz Week 2011 Marks Fifth Anniversary with Salutes to Eric Jackson, Hundreds of Events in Greater Boston

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2011

With the theme “This Is Jazz," from April 29 to May 8 Greater Boston's Jazz Week '11 celebrates a music that defies definition and recognizes no boundaries. For the fifth straight year, Jazz Week is being coordinated and promoted by the nonprofit JazzBoston, which also marks its fifth anniversary in 2011. More than 200 events at nearly 80 venues will take place during the 10 days of Jazz Week. For details, check the Jazz Week Schedule of Events on the ...

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Performance / Tour

The Plaza Hotel (NYC) Features Live Jazz with Lapis Luna Every Thursday Evening

Source: Shawn Aileen Clark
April 11, 2011

Lapis Luna continues their residency at the famed Plaza Hotel on Thursday nights in the Rose Club. Featuring vocalist Shawn Aileen Clark, the band plays standards, obscure swing-era songs, a retro inspired latin music in a gorgeous and relaxed lounge setting. SET TIMES: 8:30-9:45 and 10:15 to 11:30 No Cover Charge The Rose Club is located at 59th Street at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South in the Plaza Hotel, NYC F to 57th Street, N, ...

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Festival

David Sylvian Announced as Artist in Residence for Punkt 2011

Source: John Kelman
April 11, 2011

David Sylvian has been confirmed as Artist in Residence for the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway (September 1-3). Sylvian will be creating an audiovisual installation entitled “Uncommon Deities," and will curate an evening of concerts, including the debut live performance of his 1988 release Plight and Premonition. In addition to Sylvian, this concert will feature John Tilbury, Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset and Philip Jeck. Thursday, Sepember 1, Sørlandeartmusuem, 18:00-22:00: David Sylvian: Uncommon Deities Opening evening of David Sylvian's ...

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Interview

New band Circuit makes its mark on London

Source: Jerzy Bielski
April 10, 2011

London-based modern jazz contemporary classical and rock group Circuit, featuring nine members from Poland, Italy, Denmark, and the UK are set to quite literally “explode" (a term written in their music) onto the scene in 2011. With their next set of gigs they'll prime their audience for the release of their debut album in September (with a guest appearance of renowned British multi-instrumentalist Stuart Hall, playing violin, banjo and guitar on it). Featuring such instruments as cello, harp and live ...

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Video / DVD

"Nasty Jazz" DVD Release Scored by Chicago Jazz Composer Greg Spero

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2011

Chicago jazz composer Greg Spero and Artist/Technologist Doug Siefken combine forces on new Long Glance Media release: Nasty Jazz—a technologically innovative, genre-defining Single Panel Fluid Stills Digital Art and Music DVD designed for flat screen TVs Chicago IL, USA—Move over the Bluesand move on down the road, Rock n Roll! Nasty Chicago Jazz is now behind the wheel as score to represent the Windy City in a gorgeous Chicago Skyscape art and music DVD release by technology innovators TransLumen Technologies ...

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Performance / Tour

Berklee's Scratch Ambassadors Mix Turntables with Acoustic Music on April 21st

Source: Berklee Public Relations
April 21, 2011

Stephen Webber, a Music Production and Engineering professor, is bringing turntables into the spotlight with the college's first Scratch Ambassadors! concert. Following success abroad, the first Scratch Ambassadors! program on American soil will be held at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., on April 21 at 8:15 p.m. The program—a series of performances by small ensembles—will highlight Berklee's turntable students as they perform with acoustic musicians. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com. The groups will present ...

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Performance / Tour

Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Sellersville (PA) & Bordentown (NJ)

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 10, 2011

"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances."—The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco is on tour to promote their Grammy Award-winning release (and Alligator Records debut), Lay Your Burden Down, and will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville ...

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Interview

Alex Skolnick Incorporates Thrash-Metal Origins Into His Jazz Work

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
April 10, 2011

People have their own path to becoming a jazz musician. Sometimes a parent or other family member who plays. Sometimes a musician starts off in one direction and then goes in another. Alex Skolnick has to be one of the most unique examples of the latter. The guitarist joined the thrash-metal band Testament when his was 16, immediately putting him on tours with arena acts like Judas Priest, Megadeath, White Zombie and Slayer. Within a few years he began to ...

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