Jazz News

Brad Shepik's February 9 Show at the 55 Bar To Coincide With Release of "Across The Way"

Source: GoMedia PR
January 17, 2011

New Songlines CD Introduces Guitarist's First Jazz Quartet Guitarist Brad Shepik, whose 2009 Songlines release, Human Activity Suite, was lauded as “absorbingly eclectic" by the New York Times, and ..."as beautiful and architecturally impressive as the continental movements..." by Jazz Times, will celebrate the release of a new CD, Across the Way, with a show at the 55 Bar on February 9. Across the Way is the guitarist's sixth release for Songlines and, for the first time, features Shepik performing ...

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David Patrone’s $10,000 5th Annual Swing Dance Competition 2011

Source: Gigolo Joe
January 17, 2011

David Patrone Productions, 2toGroove Dance and Viejas Casino are proud to bring you the BIGGEST single “top cash prize" swing dance competition in the WORLD. FREE Registration begins every week on Sunday at 4:00-6:00 PM Free Swing Dance Lesson with Margie Adams & Jim Cruzen: 5:00-6:00p Live Music Swing Dance: 6-9pm (Competition Takes Place During the Band Breaks) So please come early to register or take the FREE swing dance lesson! COMPETITION & LIVE ...

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Calling All DJs & Record Pools: Join Liberation Music - MGM's Preferred DJ List!

Source: Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
January 17, 2011

CLUB, RADIO, MOBILE DEEJAYS & Record Pools Liberation Music—MGM is looking to make you part of our Taste-makers crew. Get pre-released, exclusive, and limited edition digital copies of our releases by joining our Preferred DJ List! Simply send an e-mail to: Info[at]LiberationMusic-MGM[dot]com with the following information: SUBJECT: “Make Me A Preferred DJ" BODY & Attachments:

Your NameCity & StatePreferred E-mail ContactVenue/ Station/ Record PoolStyle(s) of Music PlayedRecent Play-list If Applicable/ AvailableIf Record Pool, Number of SubscribersOnce We have This Info, ...

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Valentines Day 2011 Gift Idea - Create a Piano Song for Your Loved One!

Source: Edward Weiss
January 17, 2011

Another year has flown by, and it's hard to believe Valentine's Day is rapidly approaching. Instead of giving chocolates or flowers, why not do something different for a change? Learn how to compose and play your very own piano music for your special love— even if you never touched a keyboard in your life! Learn more at Piano Lessons by Quiescence Music.. Sound far fetched? Not at all according to maestro Edward Weiss, teacher, author and composer of piano music ...

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Jazz Radio Returns: Lydia Liebman's Reeds & Deeds II is back for a second season!

Source: Lydia Liebman
January 17, 2011

REEDS & DEEDS II RETURNS FOR A SECOND SEASON ON WECB After an outstanding debut, Lydia Liebman's “Reeds & Deeds II" is returning for a second season on January 23rd, 2011. “Reeds & Deeds II" is broadcast on WECB Online Radio from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Bringing jazz beyond the college campus, Liebman's weekly Sunday evening broadcasts include a mix of tunes from new releases, rare recordings, book readings, current tour updates and exclusive interviews with current jazz musicians. ...

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New Song / Video Within the Multimedia Project Panphonia Istriana/Istrian Polysounds

Source: Michael Ricci
January 17, 2011

Within the culturological multimedia project aimed at the revitalization of the dialectal and musical heritage of Istria, PANPHONIA ISTRIANA/ISTRIAN POLYSOUNDS, Tamara and transhistria ensemble put to music the poem “Se me ra morta privari," on Vlaski/Zejanski dialect, by Silvana Brkaric Krculic. The 2nd DVD dedicated to this dialect will be released soon! The visual identity of the project is in the hands of Matija Debeljuh, director and visual artist, creator and art director is Tamara Obrovac. ...listen the sound of ...

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Mr Ho's Orchestrotica's Brian O'Neill Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
January 18, 2011

Led by pianist and multi-percussionist Brian O'Neill, Mr Ho's Orchestrotica plays the kind of music you can listen to with your mother. She'll love the '50s atmosphere of The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel (Exotica For Modern Living, 2010)—while you'll pick up all the left-of-center global hints—and she won't even know it's good for her! It's good, indeed, wrought as it is from original charts from lounge/exotica avatar Juan Garcia Esquivel, transcribed from actual recordings by ear. For baby boomers, it ...

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Avant-Jazzers Conference Call Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
January 17, 2011

Conference Call can be as balanced and beautiful as an intricate organism, but just as soon rage with holy fire. The quartet—consisting of saxophonist Gebhard Ullman, bassist Joe Fonda, drummer George Schuller and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens—perpetually weaves in all three dimensions, as well as in time—its own, and music history's. Together since the late '90s, the group is going strong, burning away but losing no energy, relating jazz past and political past to hard and fast present moments—and spiriting ...

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