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Event

Celebration of Fred Smith's Birthday with Travel Through the History of Jazz: Part 2-- The Jazz Age: Swing is the Thing

Source: Premik Russell Tubbs
October 21, 2010

Fred Smith is an icon of our times. He has amassed an incredible wealth of experience as a performing musician and jazz historian. To celebrate Fred's birthday is a celebration of Fred's life. To experience Fred Smith is but a gift! Jazz historian Clarence Irving, multi-instrumentalist Premik Russell Tubbs and many others will be on board to help make this celebration one that is fitting for Fred's 76th birthday...guaranteed to be a night you will remember for years to come. ...

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Performance / Tour

The Future of Jazz Comes to the Michener Art Museum

Source: Michael Ricci
October 20, 2010

DOYLESTOWN, PA—Jazz Nights at the James A. Michener Art Museum will offer a taste of the future with the Nazir Ebo Jazz Group November 20. Ten-year-old Nazir Ebo started playing his brother's drums when he was 5. Last year, filmmaker Ken Burns selected the fifth-grader for a jazz program. Since then he has performed at the Philadelphia Clef Club, fundraising parties for WHYY, Philadelphia' West Oak Lane Jazz Festival, Chris' Jazz Café, Friends Select School in Germantown, the Firehouse Café ...

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Performance / Tour

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews Joined by Lenny Kravitz

Source: conqueroo
October 20, 2010

Red Hot + New Orleans Announces Trombone Shorty as Musical Director LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In the midst of his second European tour in the last six months Trombone Shorty (Troy Andrews) was joined by his mentor and former bandleader Lenny Kravitz, who surprised Troy's fans onstage in Paris on October 13th to sit in on drums. This was followed by a late-night session in the studio, where Andrews added some touches to Mr. Kravitz' upcoming CD, which already includes horn parts ...

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Education

Jazz Arts Group Welcomes Wycliffe Gordon for in-School Residency and Premiere of "East High Pride"

Source: Michael Ricci
October 20, 2010

This week, the Jazz Arts Group's Jazz in Schools program welcomes acclaimed trombonist and composer Wycliffe Gordon back to Columbus for a two-day in-school residency, punctuated by an on-field appearance with the East High School Mighty Marching Tiger Band to premiere “East High Pride" on Friday, October 22. Mr. Gordon will be joining the band on East High's Senior Night as they present their legacy piece, written by Gordon, for the community of the King-Lincoln District. He will also conduct ...

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Radio

Riverwalk Jazz Presents "Clarinet Marmalade" this week on public radio

Source: Don Mopsick
October 20, 2010

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a survey of the great pre-war voices of the jazz clarinet. For many Americans, their only experience with the clarinet has been through high school marching and concert bands that often use clarinet sections of up to ten players. Yet in the early half of the 20th Century, the clarinet was an essential ingredient in jazz and popular music. Faded tintypes of Buddy Bolden's historic band taken in 1895 show two clarinetists in his line ...

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Education

Savannah Music Festival Launches Free Jazz Education Website

Source: Michael Ricci
October 20, 2010

SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL LAUNCHES FREE WEB-BASED LEARNING CENTER FOR ASPIRING JAZZ MUSICIANS AT SWINGCENTRALJAZZ.ORG Savannah, Georgia—Recently praised as the “Pro Bowl of high school jazz band competitions" by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, SWING CENTRAL JAZZ (SCJ) has become a year-round jazz education program with the launch of its multimedia web-based learning center at swingcentraljazz.org. The new site includes video lessons from SCJ's esteemed clinicians focused on elements of practice, rehearsal, performance and inspiration, and also serves as a companion ...

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Recording

Six days and counting until release of "The Glory of Love" Rob Keiter (Sketchin' Records, October 26, 2010)

Source: Rob Keiter
October 20, 2010

Education

Jazz Arts Group Awarded $10,000 from Coldwell Banker King Thompson for American Jazz Experience

Source: Michael Ricci
October 20, 2010

The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has been awarded $10,000 by Coldwell Banker King Thompson to help subsidize the presentation and promotion of jazz through the Jazz Academy's American Jazz Experience in-school assembly program. Developed and presented by Columbus Jazz Orchestra trombonist Jim Masters, the American Jazz Experience quintet features some of Columbus' finest jazz artists in an interactive program featuring several styles of jazz; including spirituals, ragtime, blues and bebop. Students learn each styles importance and place in ...

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