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Recording

NYC Jazz Vocalist Molly Ryan Releases New Album On Turtle Bay Records

NYC Jazz Vocalist Molly Ryan Releases New Album On Turtle Bay Records

Source: EMPKT PR

New York City jazz vocalist Molly Ryan knows how to swing with the best of ‘em. Hailed as a “critic’s favorite” by author and Wall Street Journal music writer, Will Friedwald, Ryan announces the release of her fifth solo album, Sweepin’ the Blues Away, on Turtle Bay Records, which features 11 jazz classic songs from the swingin’ ‘30s. Since arriving in 2003 from Roseville, CA, Ryan has established quite a career on the NYC jazz scene. She has performed at ...

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Performance / Tour

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Continues Free Monthly Jazz Jams At Clement’s Place

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Continues Free Monthly Jazz Jams At Clement’s Place

Source: AMT Public Relations

Co-presented by NJPAC’s Jazz Advisory Committee and Rutgers RU_N’s Institute for Jazz Studies, Jazz Jams at Clement’s Place is a monthly Jazz Jams Session concert series (September 2022-June 2023) featuring top-flight New Jersey musicians directed by pianist and bandleader, James Austin, Jr. T. Audience members immerse themselves in the relaxing sounds of jazz music that stimulate the player’s and listeners’ minds. All novice and seasoned jazz musicians and singers are welcomed to jam and improv with the professional band throughout ...

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Festival

New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Program Presents November Events Celebrating 50th Anniversary

New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Program Presents November Events Celebrating 50th Anniversary

Source: Ann Braithwaite

New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts (CMA) program marks five decades of crossing boundaries, pushing limits, and training creative contemporary musicians and artists with a CMA Festival from Saturday, November 12–Thursday, November 17 and a concert honoring Gunther Schuller’s legacy on Tuesday, November 22. The festival, part of a year-long celebration featuring faculty, students and alumni in cutting-edge musical events, showcases bluegrass, African, Irish, classical, Americana, Middle Eastern music, klezmer, folk, jazz, electronic, rock, film noir and beyond, just some ...

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Performance / Tour

Black Olive Jazz: Myth And Mystery A Musical Journey Of Ancient And Modern Myths Debuts In New York City On November 22

Black Olive Jazz: Myth And Mystery A Musical Journey Of Ancient And Modern Myths  Debuts In New York City On November 22

Source: Cyber PR

Renowned Black Olive Jazz and San Francisco vocalist, Kay Kostopoulos, will be performing in New York City this November to kick off Thanksgiving week at Pangea in the East Village. Her new show: Myth, Music and Magic: A journey of biblical, historical and mythical proportions, explores heroines like Salome, Delilah, Cleopatra, and Persephone. Seductresses? Destroyers? How much of these stories were true? What’s the other story? The show features originals and jazz standards with an exotic twist, finger cymbals, and ...

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Performance / Tour

World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Ends The Year With The Annual Coltrane Festival 'Countdown 2023,' And More

World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Ends The Year With The Annual Coltrane Festival 'Countdown 2023,' And More

Source: AMT Public Relations

Holiday Shows: Allan Harris (Dec 7-8) Orrin Evans All-Star Quintet (Dec 9-11) Goldings/Bernstein/Stewart Trio (Dec 15-18) Coltrane Festival: George Coleman, Eric Alexander, Melissa Aldana, Eric Reed, Vincent Herring, Billy Harper, Billy Hart, and More (Dec 20-Jan 8) and more... One of New York City's premier live music venues, Smoke Jazz Club, presents a stellar line-up of some of music's greatest artists during the month of December. For 16 nights, SMOKE presents its 10th Annual Coltrane Festival, “Countdown 2023," ...

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TV / Film

A New Documentary From Filmmaker Michele Brangwen Follows The Musicians Of The NDR Bigband On A Weeklong Creative Journey With Grammy-Nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans

A New Documentary From Filmmaker Michele Brangwen Follows The Musicians Of The NDR Bigband On A Weeklong Creative Journey With Grammy-Nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans

Source: Lydia Liebman Promotions

The NDR Bigband rehearses and performs “A Conversation," a suite by Hagans, who also conducts and solos. Performers discuss their connection to the music and to each other. The hour-long documentary premieres November 6 on Facebook and November 7 on YouTube. Watch a preview of “A Week in Hamburg: Rehearsing and Performing Tim Hagans’ A Conversation” here. A Week In Hamburg: Rehearsing and Performing Tim Hagans’ “A Conversation” is a new documentary from filmmaker Michele Brangwen that follows GRAMMY- nominated ...

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Event

An Empty Room - An Episodic / Live Stream & Podcast Series Continues With Tyrone Jackson Watch Party On November 6, 2022

An Empty Room - An Episodic / Live Stream & Podcast Series Continues With Tyrone Jackson Watch Party On November 6, 2022

Source: Cyber PR

An Empty Room, the six part original series that explores the connective tissue between six uniquely influential artists from the Atlanta music scene, which debuted on Volume.com continues with composer, performer, and educator Tyrone Jackson on Sunday November 6. Being born in the New Orleans, he embodies the spirit of the Crescent City. His boundless creativity coupled with harmonic mastery, he utilizes the piano as a blank canvas. The blends of jazz, funk and Afro-Caribbean melodies are ever present in ...

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Book / Magazine

Willard Jenkins Presents A Collection Of Reflections About Jazz, Journalism, And Race With 'Ain't But A Few Of Us,' To Be Published Dec. 2 By Duke University Press

Willard Jenkins Presents A Collection Of Reflections About Jazz, Journalism, And Race With 'Ain't But A Few Of Us,' To Be Published Dec. 2 By Duke University Press

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Washington, DC-based jazz journalist, broadcaster, presenter, and advocate Willard Jenkins presents a literary panorama of the lives and works of African American jazz writers with his edited volume Ain’t But A Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story (Duke University Press). As the title suggests, Jenkins gathers the relative handful of Black scribes who focus on jazz music—from A.B. Spellman and Greg Tate to Anthony Dean-Harris and Angelika Beener—and gives them space to relate their perspectives in their ...

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