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Performance / Tour

Tamir Hendelman Set To Perform At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola On Monday, October 18

Source: DL Media
September 28, 2010

Pianist Tamir Hendelman is set to perform at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in New York City on Monday, October 18. Hendelman—touring in support of his new Resonance Records release, Destinations—bassist Marco Panascia and drummer Lewis Nash. Additionally, The performances, which are part of the Monday Nights with WBGO series, will be hosted by Rhonda Hamilton of WBGO's “Mid-day Jazz." A symbiotic serenade that artfully combines jazz, Latin and classical sonorities, Hendelman's Destinations artfully merges past and present, crafting an album that ...

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Recording

Have You Met Oscar Hamilton?

Source: ISL Public Relations
September 28, 2010

Have you met Oscar Hamilton? He has a foul attitude, is always dressed for formal occasions, and is amassing an army of followers from the animal kingdom. “Animal kingdom," you ask? Yes. Though Oscar Hamilton sounds like a name that belongs to a movie star, social elite, or a dignified statesman, quite the opposite is true. Oscar is a penguin... an ANGRY penguin. Sick of being fed rotten fish and put on public display for the amusement of humans, he ...

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Recording

NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston To Release A New CD With His African Rhythms Sextet, "The Storyteller: Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola"

Source: DL Media
September 28, 2010

For over five decades, pianist, composer, bandleader and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston has enjoyed a distinguished career in music. With over 46 CDs as a leader, Weston has continued to perform his Africa-inspired jazz throughout the world and has been the recipient of many international awards and honors. This fall, Weston is set to release a new live album with his African Rhythms sextet, The Storyteller: Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, his debut for Motéma Music (available November 9). ...

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Recording

Lost Journal Inspires New Album; Singer/Songwriter Geoffrey Armes Releases “Inside A Wall”

Source: ISL Public Relations
September 28, 2010

Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter GEOFFREY ARMES' next album, “Inside a Wall," is slated to be released on October 28th, 2010. Now a resident of NYC, the British musician spent the majority of his adult life globe trotting, picking up a wide array of musical and cultural influences, evident in his music. ARMES' work has been described as an enticing fusion of jazz, ambient, electro-acoustic, and world music. “Multi-colored strands of sound weave a beautiful space; a cathedral of sound a flow ...

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Event

Y'all Of NY's Seventh Annual Friend Of The Family Awards Concert

Source: Nioka Workman
September 28, 2010

Performance / Tour

Jerome Sabbagh/Laurent Coq Quartet - Miles Café - New York

Source: Jerome Sabbagh
September 28, 2010

Jerome Sabbagh/Laurent Coq Quartet—Miles Café Saturday, October 2nd @ 9:30 PM Jerome Sabbagh: saxophone and compositions; Laurent Coq: piano and compositions; Hans Glawischnig: bass; Reggie Quinerly: drums; Miles Cafe 212 E. 52nd St. 3Fl. (b/2nd & 3rd Ave.) E/V train to 53rd St. Lexington, 6 train to 51st St. I will be playing with a longtime friend and musical associate of mine, pianist Laurent Coq, this Saturday. A ...

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Video / DVD

Watch Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey rearrange Beethoven w/ a 50 piece orchestra

Source:
September 28, 2010

After years of labor, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's reinterpretations of Beethoven's 3rd & 6th Symphonies premiered in June as a project entitled “Ludwig." The project, which rearranged Beethoven's 3rd & 6th symphonies, was premiered alongside a 50 piece orchestra on June 12th as a headline performance at the OK Mozart Festival. Downbeat is calling 'Ludwig' “a tour de force of jazz melded with classical." Now you can catch a glimpse of the premier by watching the LUDWIG promotional short (below). ...

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Interview

Violinist Christian Howes Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2010

It's not difficult to think of great blues artists—there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists—and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarist sand vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once such an important part of the blues group, has all but disappeared. Christian Howes—a classically trained violinist who has turned his hand to all ...

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