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Performance / Tour

Stephanie Jordan serves as "Artist-in-Residence" for the 9th Annual Yazzy Youth Celebrating Jazz Concert in Shreveport

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
April 4, 2011

NEW ORLEANS—Jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan joins the students and faculty of Theatre of the Performing Arts of Shreveport's Yazzy program as “Artist-in-residence" for the 9th Annual Yazzy Youth Celebrating Jazz concert on Friday, April 15, 2011, 7:00 pm, at The Strand Theatre in downtown Shreveport. The culminating concert will conclude a week-long series of workshops in which Jordan will provide students with professional skill development in the areas of voice, dance, and stage presence. Stephanie Jordan will also introduce students ...

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Contest

Announcing the Winners of the "Mike DiRubbo - Chronos" Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2011

Performance / Tour

University of the Streets' Curated Concert Series

Source: Chris Rich
April 3, 2011

Curated Concert Series Calendar For April 2011 All Concerts are performed in the Muhammad Salahuddeen Memorial Jazz Theatre, 2nd Floor APRIL CURATOR—CHRIS STOVER. Transplanted to NYC from Seattle, Chris Stover is a trombonist and composer and Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. He has performed recently with Eddie Palmieri, Pablo Menendez, Charlie Hunter, Slavic Soul Party, Bobby Sanabria, Richard Boukas, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Tom Varner, Jovino Santos Neto, and ...

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Performance / Tour

Berklee's Jazz Revelation Records (JRR) Presents ONLY AN OCTAVE AWAY: A Sneak Preview of JRR's 8th CD April 20 at the Berklee Performance Center

Source: Chris Rich
April 3, 2011

Boston, MA—Berklee's student-run label Jazz Revelation Records (JRR) offers a preview of its upcoming CD, Octave, with a concert Wednesday, April 20, at the Berklee Performance Center. The concert features top performers Dayramir & Habana enTRANCE, Lee Dynes and The Jazz Tellers, Concetta Donato, Zac Zinger Group, and The Felix Peikli Quartet. Called Octave because it is the label's eighth release, the CD is chock-full of great music, including fresh new talent and a returning artist, showcasing some of Berklee's ...

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Event

Improvisation and Phantasmal Media - D. Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conversation with Alondra Nelson, Columbia University

Source: Yulanda Denoon
April 3, 2011

According to D. Fox Harrell, who coined the term, the notion of phantasmal media is about “artful uses of computational systems. Phantasmal media works both create mental imagery and challenge and provoke users' idealized cognitive models by enabling active participation imbued with culture and critical awareness...computing to enable new imaginative possibilities and attempting to understand the cognitive origins of these possibilities are the central concerns." D. Fox Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media, joint in the Program in Writing ...

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Event

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Presents: The Creative Music Studio: A Symposium with Karl Berger, moderator

Source: Yulanda Denoon
April 3, 2011

The Creative Music Studio: A Symposium with Karl Berger, moderator During the 1970s and 1980s, the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio was widely considered as the premier center for the study of contemporary creative music. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, CMS brought together leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities. Unprecedented in its range and diversity, CMS was an acknowledged phenomenon in the international music world, providing participants with the rare opportunity to ...

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Recording

James Carter's "Caribbean Rhapsody" Due from Emarcy Records May 17

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 2, 2011

The extraordinary decade-long collaboration of jazz virtuoso James Carter and classical composer Roberto Sierra comes to a thrilling culmination with the release on May 17 of their first recording, Caribbean Rhapsody. Sierra's Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra, composed for Carter and premiered in Detroit in 2002, is the centerpiece of the new Emarcy CD; a new Sierra composition, “Caribbean Rhapsody," which features Carter, his musical cousin Regina Carter on violin, and string quintet, is a gorgeous companion piece. Two solo ...

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Jazz/Pop Artist Halie Loren Releases "In Time (Hope for Healing)" as Single Download to Benefit Japan Relief Fund

Source: Halie Loren
April 2, 2011

In many countries, the name Halie Loren is not well known. However, in Japan, the talented Jazz/Pop singer's name is as well known and her CDs and concert tickets sell as well as Norah Jones and other popular singers in similar genres. The events in Japan over the last few weeks have affected everyone around the world, including Loren. She has turned energies and her talent and popularity in Japan to raise money with an original song called In Time ...

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