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Under Your Skin Interviews: DJ Vadim, Dave Abbruzzese & Henry Rollins

Source: All About Jazz
January 22, 2010

Under Your Skin is an exploration on the cultural diversity of music and artists from around the globe - from Popular Music to Jazz, Hip Hop, Reggae, Avantgarde, Experimental, Afrobeat, Drum & Bass, Metal, Electronic, DJ-ing/Turntablism, Folk, Classical and more. DJ Vadim interview 1 DJ Vadim interview 2 Dave Abbruzzese interview

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Aruan Ortiz Trio: Free Concert at Mason Gross Performing Arts Center

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ -- Acclaimed pianist Aruan Ortiz brings his hypnotic blend of avant-garde jazz and world music to Nicholas Music Center on Thursday, February 11. The Aruan Ortiz Trio features the Grammy Award-nominated Ignacio Berroa on drums and Ed Howard on bass. Their appearance inaugurates Rutgers University's Common Purposes Concert Series.

“You know there's all this musical depth (with Ortiz), but in performance he's able to build dynamically something from start to end," says Carlos Fernandez, an ethnomusicologist and ...

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February Jazz Feast in North Carolina

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

By Larry Reni Thomas CHAPEL HILL, NC--Triangle North Carolina, which includes Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, is bracing itself for the upcoming month of February's musical avalanche and extravaganza of good jazz and African music. Fans are smiling, ecstatic and extremely happy that such first-class, all-star acts are headed this way that they can hardly contain themselves. This will be the first time in a long time that such a variety of jazz and African acts will be in ...

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WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Presents Big Band Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

Please join our audience for another musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 Featuring The Bobby Rodriguez Orchestra Formed in 1981, The Bobby Rodriguez Orchestra, a 19-piece big band, has performed for numerous corporate clients, municipalities and charitable organizations around the country. Made up of an all-star line-up, its members have performed with The Miami Sound Machine, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman and Count Basie Orchestras. Bobby conducts the orchestra and is featured as lead ...

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Announcing the Winners of the Cam Jazz "Enrico Pieranunzi" Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
January 21, 2010

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Rising New York Jazz Vocal Star Pauline Jean Makes First Visit to UK

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

Pauline Jean announces UK concert dates to coincide with the release of her debut CD A Musical Offering on CD Baby and I-Tunes (also available on gigs).

“Pauline's voice is going to capture you from the first note" --Jazz & Bossa Review

“This phenomenal vocalist With a voice and stage presence made for jazz, Pauline indeed is a force to look out for" --HaitianBeatz.com

Pauline Jean presents Remembering Nina Simone at the following UK venues in March:

Monday 1 March ...

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Three Nights of Darius Jones @ Roulette!

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

PointofDeparture.org's Ed Hazell writes, “alto saxophonist Darius Jones delivers one of the most impressive debuts in recent memory, displaying a remarkably well-developed concept and individual sound. Jones has a big, fleshy, lived-in tone, with a vibrato that owes as much to Johnny Hodges as it does to Albert Ayler. It's defiant, vulnerable, proud, and weary; there is laughter and sobbing in it." JAN 25 Darius Jones Trio: Adam Lane, Jason Nazary, Drums Darius Jones JAN 26 ...

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Karl Denson's Tiny Universe Brings Their Southern California Grooves to Carnivail, Vail's Annual Mardi Gras Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

KARL DENSON'S TINY UNIVERSE BRINGS THEIR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GROOVES TO CARNIVAIL, VAIL'S ANNUAL MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL Karl Denson's Tiny Universe Will Perform a Free Concert at Checkpoint Charlie in Vail, Colo. on Fri., Feb. 19, 2010 VAIL, Colo. -- Vail Mountain in partnership with Highline Sports & Entertainment announced today that eclectic funk band Karl Denson's Tiny Universe will perform a free, outdoor concert on Fri., Feb. 19 as a part of Vail Mountain's annual Mardi Gras celebration, CarniVail. Known ...

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