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Festival

Discount Tix for Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Nov 26, 27 & 28

Source: Lwm
November 23, 2010

Up to 60% Off Admission to the Jazzwerkstatt Festival at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene From November 26-28. Choose From Two Options. Click here (12 discount hours left!) What: 3 day mini-festival/Jazzwerkstatt Berlin-New York When: November 26, 27, 28 (various times 8pm/4pm) Where: Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY (2/3/4/5/ to Atlantic, C train to Lafayette Info: irondale.org Brooklyn, NY: Jazzwerkstatt, a wide-ranging European record label, will present an eclectic, exciting 3 day ...

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Education

NEW on JazzPianoOnline.com: Artist Voicings: Taylor Eigsti

Source: Bill Rinehart
November 23, 2010

Three voicing techniques from the beautiful solo piano introduction to Taylor Eigsti's tune “Midnight After Noon" from his 2010 Concord Records release, Daylight at Midnight, are examined in this lesson: a dramatic voicing without a third, an ascending major chord line cliche and rich drop 2 voicings. Learn how he uses them, the theory that makes them work and strategies for incorporating these devices into your own playing. JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, digital library of streaming video jazz piano lessons. ...

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Performance / Tour

Ruth Aguilar Live at Sushi Lounge (Morristown, NJ) on December 19

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
November 23, 2010

New York, NY—Ruth Aguilar will be performing live on Sunday, December 19, 2010 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at the Sushi Lounge in Morristown, NJ. She will be performing with guitarist Adam Lomeo. Ms. Aguilar is an accomplished singer with classic Jazz sensibilities and a refreshingly unique vocal sound who delivers soulful interpretations with poignant and imaginative phrasing. Her tasteful and agile improvisational skill and natural sense of rhythm and timing captivate her audience at every live performance and these ...

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Award / Grant

Matt Shipp Appointed 2011 Master Artists-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts

Source: Michael Ricci
November 23, 2010

Recording

The Trio featuring Toni Gates on Christmas album "Comfort & Joy"

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
November 23, 2010

Kansas City Musicians release Contemporary Jazz Christmas CD Comfort & Joy by The Trio: Toni Gates (vocals), Tom Ransom (guitar) and Clarence Smith (percussion) Comfort & Joy offers fresh new versions of your favorite Christmas songs! Arranged and produced by Thomas Ransom (guitarist), sung by noted vocalist, Toni Gates and rounded out with the skillful playing of percussionist, Clarence Smith, these delightful contemporary jazz versions will become your favorites of the holiday season! Preview “Mary Did You Know," “Drummer," “Faithful" ...

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Performance / Tour

This Week @ The Cornelia Street Cafe - Novermber 23-29, 2010

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
November 23, 2010

This Week @ The CORNELIA STREET CAFE—NOVEMBER 23-29, 2010 Showtimes: Weeknights: 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM, Weekends: 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM (doors open @ 5:45 PM-early shows, & @ 8:30 PM-late shows) Admission: Cover charge varies, when known, indicated below What makes The Cornelia Street Café a true New York City landmark, an epicurean destination, an artist's café that cultivates and inspires, and one of the few remaining Greenwich Village bastions for creative music, spoken word, ...

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Recording

Jacob Wise Trio Release Self Titled CD

Source: Michael Ricci
November 23, 2010

JAZZ GUITARIST RELEASES DEBUT CD OF ALL—ORIGINAL MUSIC Jacob Wise, a jazz guitarist from Austin, Texas, has released his self titled debut album. With nine original compositions, the album is a strong artistic statement. But it's not simply a traditional jazz CD. Although the warm sound of Wise's Gibson 335 comes from squarely within the modern mainstream style, the music features strong melodies and a wide range of influences, from the up-tempo samba of “I-35," to the Neil Young-style rock ...

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Education

Rethink Music Conference Announces Competition and Call for Papers, Prizes include $50,000

Source: Berklee Public Relations
November 22, 2010

Berklee College of Music and Harvard Business School are hosting a Music Industry Business Model competition, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (in collaboration with Harvard Law School's Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law) is running a Call for Papers, both associated with the conference “Rethink Music: Creativity, Commerce and Policy in the 21st Century." The conference—to be held in Boston and Cambridge, MA, April 25-27, 2011—is designed to provide a forum for high-level deliberation ...

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