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Performance / Tour

Algonquin Hotel adds Sandy Jordan and Friends Jazz Shows Sunday Nights

Source: Sandy Jordan
August 10, 2010

SANDY JORDAN AND FRIENDS SHOW THE ALGONQUIN HOTEL LOBBY EVERY SUNDAY 7PM & 10:30 PM The Sandy Jordan and Friends Show is presented every Sunday in the elegant Edwardian oak paneled lobby of the Algonquin Hotel on 44th St between 5th and 6th avenues in the heart of the theater district. Sandy's Sunday shows feature some of New York's top Broadway, Cabaret, Jazz and classical entertainers. Sandy, a jazz singer herself, lines up 15 or more singer friends ...

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Recording

New Origin CD by Saxophonist/Composer Geof Bradfield, "African Flowers," Set for Release September 21

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 10, 2010

African Flowers is a big, bold, inspired suite of original music by saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield that draws on his experiences traveling and performing in Africa in early 2008. During the course of a month-long tour of Rwanda, Congo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe as a member of pianist Ryan Cohan's quartet, Bradfield absorbed, reflected, and synthesized. The powerful fruits of his creative journey may be heard on African Flowers, his second CD for the Origin label and third overall as a leader. ...

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Performance / Tour

Singer Shepley Metcalf Brings New Jazz Songbook to Chicago on August 27

Source: Shepley Metcalf
August 9, 2010

New tunes by lyricist of “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" get Chicago debut at Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret Boston-based chanteuse Shepley Metcalf brings her tantalizing interpretations of a new songbook by legendary jazz scribe Fran Landesman to Davenport's Piano Bar and Cabaret on August 27. Metcalf will perform with her musical partner and pianist Ron Roy. Landesman's 1955 standard “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" sealed her fame as poet laureate of lovers and ...

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Event

Mardi Gras in Cape May in September

Source: Bob Ashman
August 9, 2010

Cape May Traditional Jazz Society, Washington Street Mall Merchants, Community Food Bank of NJ, WCFA & Center For Community Arts sponsor Mardi Gras in September in Cape May “Bourbon Street comes to Beach Ave." Friday September 17, 2010 Starting at 7 pm Cabana's 429 Beach Ave Cape May, NJ 609-884-4800 Herb Roselle's “Atlantic City Jazz Band" 7-10 pm Carney's 401 Beach Ave Cape May, NJ 609-884-4424 “Al Harrison Dixieland Band" 9-11 ...

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Recording

Bobby Watson Set To Release Seven-Part, "The Gates BBQ Suite," on Lafiya Music - September 14

Source: DL Media
August 9, 2010

Self-Produced Album Celebrates Kansas City's Music, Most Famous Food—And a Watson Family Tradition “Kansas City is the Napa Valley of barbeque. Gates Barbeque stands alone as king of the valley!"—Bobby Watson Bobby Watson, famed Kansas City-area native, William and Mary Grant/Missouri Endowed Professor of Jazz and esteemed director of Jazz Studies at University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, and among the world's premier and most well-respected alto saxophonists, is set to release his long-awaited extended large ensemble ...

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Performance / Tour

Cuneiform Artists on Tour - August, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
August 9, 2010

AHLEUCHATISTAS September 9 Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave Chattanooga, TN 37404 (423) 624-5347 9:00 pm Septemper 10 Lemp Neighborhood Art Center 3301 Lemp Ave St. Louis, MO 63118 8:00 pm September 11 Adventures in Modern Music festival (sponsored with The Wire) Empty Bottle 1035 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60601 (773) 276-3600 RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/MORGAN AGREN/BILL LASWELL September 19 Downtown Music Gallery's 20th anniversary celebration! Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleecker & Houston Sts.) New York, NY (212) 614-0505 ...

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Recording

Kermit Ruffins's "Happy Talk" Due Out October 26, 2010 on Basin Street Records

Source: Michael Ricci
August 9, 2010

Tremé Star and New Orleans Icon Announces First Album of Big Band Music “An unabashed entertainer who plays trumpet with a bright, silvery tone." —The New York Times ..."the trumpeter who as been a leading light on the NOLA music scene for years now." —Relix There's a point in the first season of HBO's “Tremé" where Steve Zahn's character remarks “America needs it some Kermit." This fall, America will get it some Kermit Ruffins with the release of his latest ...

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Obituary

Muppet Show's Jack Parnell die

Source: Michael Ricci
August 9, 2010

British bandleader, drummer and composer Jack Parnell, who led The Muppet Show's music for its five-year run, died on Sunday at age 87 after a year-long battle with cancer. London-born Parnell's musical career stretched almost seven decades. The son of a showbiz family—his father was a music hall performer and his uncle ran a chain of theatres—he studied piano as a child, but found his niche on the drums, making his professional debut as a teenager in the English seaside ...

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