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Event

Kansas City Metro City Starts Concert Series

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
October 15, 2010

Jazz at the Hollywood Theater is a concert series that was developed to present performances in the community by world class talent that is based in the Kansas City metro area. These concerts are recorded for broadcast by Kansas Public Radio. JAZZ AT THE HOLLYWOOD THEATER The first event will be held on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m., features the Sons of Brasil and the Roger Wilder Quartet and proceeds will go to benefit the City Parks and Recreation Department. ...

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Performance / Tour

Joshua Panda Compared to the Grateful Dead, the Band, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 14, 2010

Comparisons to The Grateful Dead, The Band, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline, Kris Kristofferson for 25-Year Old Phenom Joshua Panda's Americana/Soul/Country/Zydeco/Folk Album is a Career-Shaping Winner “Panda's versatility and depth as a performer is matched by raw musical talent" 25-year old phenom Joshua Panda finds himself earning growing acclaim for his eponymous Americana/Soul/Country/Folk CD, with critics comparing his sound to such seminal artists as The Grateful Dead, The Band, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline and Kris Kristofferson, among others. Listen to samples ...

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Performance / Tour

Mike Clark Plays Iridium with Payton, McBride, Harrison, Dixon, Farao from October 28-31

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 15, 2010

Legendary Mike Clark to Re-Imagine One of Downbeat's 'Best Recordings of the Decade' in-Concert, with “Crackerjack" Line-Up Featuring Nicholas Payton, Donald Harrison, Christian McBride, Antonio Farao and Rob Dixon NY's Iridium Jazz Club, October 28th to 31st Legendary drummer Mike Clark will re-imagine his acclaimed CD Blueprints of Jazz—one of Downbeat's BEST RECORDINGS OF THE DECADE—in a special series of concerts at New York's Iridium Jazz Club, from October 28th through October 31st. Mike Clark's Indigo Blue will feature many ...

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Performance / Tour

Matt Herskowitz Pays Tribute to Dave Brubeck With Special Retrospective "From Bach To Brubeck"

Source: Julia C. Reinhart
October 15, 2010

Pianist extraordinaire Matt Herskowitz, currently Artist and Composer-in-Residence at the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York continues his exploration of the special relationship between chamber music and jazz with a special tribute program to Dave Brubeck, accompanied by his jazz trio and the Sweet Plantain String Quartet. From Bach To Brubeck showcases the influence the seminal German composer had on jazz performers and how Brubeck's work lives on in today's generation of performers. The evening will present three arrangements ...

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Event

UCC Concert Series presents Matana Roberts, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders

Source: Han-earl Park
October 15, 2010

Get ready for a truly international musical exploration of technique, craft and tradition by three extraordinary improvisers. Chicago-born, New York-based saxophonist Matana Roberts, leading Birmingham-based drummer Mark Sanders, and Cork-based Korean-American guitarist Han-earl Park perform as part of the University College Cork Concert Series on Thursday, 25 November 2010 at 8:00 pm in the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sundays Well, Cork. Tickets are $10 ($5 concessions) and available from Music, School of Music and Theatre, UCC. The event ...

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Recording

"In The Sky" by Rick Britto & Matt Richard released on TrineArc Music label

Source: Rick Britto
October 15, 2010

New CD on the TrineArc Music label released in September 2010! “In The Sky" by Rick Britto and Matt Richard. Featuring Rick Britto on tenor sax and Matt Richard on piano Recording at Wheaton College on August 16, 2010 NOTES FROM RICK BRITTO: Recorded in only a three hour session, this recent collaboration with Matt has been a labor of love. Matt and I have played in numerous ensembles for years from big band ...

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Interview

Lifetime Achievement Award Doesn't Stop Philippine Jazz Icon, Boy Katindig

Source: Boy Katindig
October 14, 2010

By Ging Candelaria Boy K, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award This year, by unanimous decision of the Philippine Association of the Recording Industry (PARI) board, Boy Katindig had been chosen to be one of the artists to receive the Dangal Ng Musikang Pilipino Award (Lifetime Achievement Award) in the 23rd Annual Awit Awards. He was recognized for his exemplary and outstanding achievement as one of the pioneering artists in the propagation of original Filipino music and as an award-winning songwriter ...

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Radio

Marty Grosz: 80 Years of Rhythm & Swing

Source: Don Mopsick
October 14, 2010

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents Marty Grosz in concert, in honor of his 80th birthday this year.This giant of jazz rhythm guitar has had a celebrated career of over 60 years. If you ask him who's influenced his playing, he's sure to mention the 1920s guitar icon Eddie Lang. Equal parts showman, jazz scholar and raconteur, Marty is a virtuoso in a playing style that's both timeless and so far off the radar it's all but lost in today's jazz ...

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