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Performance / Tour

Today is the Last Day to Vote for a Jazz Band to Play an Indie Rock Festival. Help Spread Jazz!!

Source: Jason Parker
October 4, 2010

The Jason Parker Quartet is one of the few jazz bands featured in this year's Seattle Weekly REVERB Fest. The weekly is holding a contest in conjunction with Seattle radio station KEXP to send one of the bands playing the festival to Iceland to play at the Iceland Airwaves Festival a well. Most of the bands featured in both festivals are indie rock bands. Rather than send another one to represent Seattle, wouldn't it be great if the band chosen ...

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Performance / Tour

Open Gate Theatre @ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Daren Burns' Onibaba Oct. 17, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
October 4, 2010

Open Gate Theatre @ (626) 795-4989 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Daren Burns' ONIBABA Onibaba performs post Jazz/Rock explorations featuring: Vinny Golia—Woodwinds Daren Burns—Fretless Bass George McMullen—Trombone Scott Collins—Guitar Craig Bunch—Drumset Kio Griffith—Live Video INFO: Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bassist, composer, and improviser has been playing and composing music for over twenty years. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how ...

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Performance / Tour

Kelley Suttenfield Brings Offbeat Jazz Storytelling to Framingham, MA Oct. 29

Source: Betsyann Faiella
October 4, 2010

Vocalist Kelley Suttenfield will bring her unique interpretive style and adventurous repertoire to Amazing Things Art Center in Framingham, Massachusetts on October 29th at 8pm. New York based with Southern roots, Jazzmobile finalist Suttenfield has been building a steady following in the U.S. and Europe since she came on the scene just a few years ago. Her recent debut CD— Where is Love?—has received glowing reviews. Her recording includes Stanley Turrentine's “Sugar," “Ode To Billy Joe," and “Twilight Time" among ...

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Performance / Tour

Great American Taxi Guests Join Fall Harvest Tour

Source: conqueroo
October 4, 2010

Revered as one of the most energetic country-, rock- and bluegrass-influenced Americana bands in the land, Great American Taxi announces tour dates that will feature some of the most innovative and acclaimed players currently on the jamband/newgrass and Americana scenes. Leftover Salmon, Todd Snider, David Nelson Band, Drew Emmitt, and Billy Nershi will play dates on Taxi's Fall Harvest Tour. Two dates on Great American Taxi's Fall Harvest Tour will showcase the exceptional storytelling and versatile vocal abilities of Drew ...

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Music Industry

Music Lovers Can Vote For More Smooth Jazz In Southern New Jersey

Source: Smooth Jazz 4 South Jersey
October 3, 2010

The “Smooth Jazz 4 South Jersey" project has been accepted into the running for a “Pepsi Refresh" grant, and Smooth Jazz aficionados are being asked to vote on-line at refresheverything.com starting on November 1st, 2010 and ending on November 30th. SJ4SJ Founder and President Dorian Gilmer explains, “Sometimes we have to do what needs to be done ourselves, and that's why I am asking music lovers who want to see and hear more Smooth Jazz in South Jersey to vote ...

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Recording

Kidd Karrim's "PASAJE" - Explodes WorldWide!

Source: Kidd Karrim
October 4, 2010

New York, NY (Top40 Latin Charts/ PASAJE C.U.B.A.)—Can you say “ nuevo-latin, jazz, funk and fusion in the same sentence. Apparently so! A multi-talented musician-performance artist-videographer-designer, KIDD KARRIM describes her new “PASAJE—From There To Here" 12 track super dynamic CD as: Tjader meets Jobim meets Tito. If you love the music of the young, nuevo latin movement in Cuba like Charango Habanera, Klimax, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Chucho Valdez, or Astrid Gilberto and Sade, or Motown's Marvin Gaye, you're at ...

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Technology

iGBMobile: Fake Book Search and Browse App for iPhone and iPod Touch

Source: Michael Ricci
October 3, 2010

The ultimate pocket sized song reference for Musicians, Music Students and Educators. iGBMobile provides indices for over 30 different fake books giving you the ability to quickly search for songs by title or composer. It allows musicians to load, using iTunes, PDF versions of popular fake books on to your iPhone or iPod Touch for quick and easy reference. Using the extensize song index and search capability a musician can find out which book a song is in, which page ...

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