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Performance / Tour

Jazz at Lincoln Center's "Monday Nights with WBGO" Series Presents the Berklee Global Jazz Institute Octet at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, November 1

Source: Berklee Public Relations
October 18, 2010

Renowned ensemble features Berklee students from Japan, Israel, Ireland, Korea, Spain, Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn Boston, MA—Jazz at Lincoln Center's “Monday Nights with WBGO" series, which showcases talent from top U.S. college jazz programs, will feature the Berklee Global Jazz Institute Octet, Monday, November 1, at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola. The Octet is comprised of students from Japan, Israel, Ireland, Korea, Spain, Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn. The performance will be hosted by WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton. The Berklee Global Jazz Institute ...

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Video / DVD

Dani Gurgel Releases "Viadutos" on DVD

Source: Emilie Bloch
October 28, 2010

Coming Soon! “Viadutos" DVD by Dani Gurgel! Singer/songwriter Dani Gurgel, one of the revelations of Brazilian music, releases her first DVD Viadutos. It includes songs that Dani has been performing on tour this past year, which demonstrates her ability to create a sound that combines Brazilian music, pop, and jazz. The album was produced and recorded live on the top of the building 'Edificio Viadutos,' a landmark of the city's architecture, in downtown Sao Paulo. The DVD will be released ...

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Education

Piano Lessons for Christmas?

Source: Edward Weiss
October 16, 2010

Another year has flown by, and it's hard to believe Christmas is rapidly approaching. Instead of giving the regular gifts, why not do something different for a change? Learn how to compose and play your very own piano music—even if you never touched a keyboard in your life! Sound far fetched? Not at all according to maestro Edward Weiss, teacher, author and composer of piano music for over 15 years. Listed among Steinway & Sons compilation of professional teachers, and ...

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Performance / Tour

Soulfege Live at Joe's Pub in NYC

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
October 18, 2010

New York, NY—Soulfège will be performing live on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 11:30 PM at the legendary Joe's Pub in New York City. “Here are musicians, poised with a positive vibe and with lyrics so uplifting that you actually believe, if only for one night, that slowly, out of a species-wide weariness for discord and conflict, a new world mood may emerge from the street and the Net, somehow defying the odds—a spirit of promise and hope and harmony, ...

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Radio

Jazz Now! Seattle Podcast Previews Week 1 of Earshot Jazz Festival

Source: Jason Parker
October 18, 2010

Episode 3 of Jazz Now! Seattle is the first installment of our four-week preview of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Now in its 22nd year, the Earshot Fest is one of the most diverse and well respected jazz festivals in the nation. There are over 50 concerts and events during its three-week run that touch on just about every corner of the jazz world. This year there seems to be even more Seattle artists included than in previous years, which is ...

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Event

Kinky Friedman Plans a Monstrous Halloween

Source: conqueroo
October 18, 2010

Kinky Friedman To Host Gala First Annual Monsters Ball of Salado With Pauline Reese SALADO, Texas —Yes, something wickedly fun and funny is coming to the Salado Springs Music Hall in downtown Salado, Texas on Friday, October 29. It's the First Annual Monsters Ball of Salado, and none other than Kinky Friedman, Texas' best-known author, songster, humorist and wicked political gadfly, will host. Joining Kinky on stage will be Texas Music Awards' Entertainer of the Year, Pauline Reese. Festivities, including ...

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Performance / Tour

Marsalis' Lincoln Center Orchestra in Cuba: More Politics Than Music?

Source: Greg Thomas
October 18, 2010

By Greg Thomas The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's (JLCO) residency in Cuba last week at the invitation of the Cuban Institute of Music was significant for reasons historical, cultural and political. This was JLCO's first time in that country since forming in 1992. But Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) and music director of the orchestra, has long engaged the big band in confronting and embracing the Afro-Cuban, as both its own cultural dynamic and ...

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Recording

Keyboard Legend Don Preston Releases New Download Only Album On Norway's Zonic Entertainment

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
October 18, 2010

Norway—Considered the greatest synthesizer practitioner in the world by many, original Mothers of Invention and keyboard music legend Don Preston, has released a modern masterpiece in electronic music. Now available as a download-only album from Norway's Zonic Entertainment, Don Preston's 'Colliding Galaxys' is an epic electronic tone poem, for the most part, created on classic analogue Moog synthesizers. “The new CD is about the time when the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies will collide in about 50 million years ...

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