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New Jersey Performing Arts Center Presents Free 2022 Bethany Vespers Concert Series
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AMT Public Relations
Saturday, February 5 | 6:00PMStefon Harris This event turned virtual. Watch “His music needs no labels like ‘postmodern’ or ‘cutting edge’. It is Stefon Harris music, as Charles Mingus, he insisted, was Mingus music.” —Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times Magazine Educator. Vibraphonist and Composer, Stefon Harris has been heralded as “one of the most important young artists in jazz” by The Los Angeles Times. A four-time GRAMMY nominee, he is a seven-time Best Mallet player by the Jazz Journalist Association, the ...
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Pianist-Composer Armen Donelian Debuts New Trio, With Jay Anderson & Dennis Mackrel, On 'Fresh Start,' Due April 1 From Sunnyside Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Pianist-composer Armen Donelian reemerges from the COVID-inspired shutdowns with a newly refined conception on both instrument and pen on Fresh Start, to be released April 1 on Sunnyside Records. The album is the recorded premiere of Donelian’s new trio featuring bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Dennis Mackrel. Sidelined like all musicians by the worldwide pandemic, Donelian was further removed from performing when a shoulder injury left him temporarily unable to play the piano. Ever resourceful, the 71-year-old simply wrote new ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Songs: January 2022
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the tracks featured in January, these ten represent our reader's favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! Top Tracks A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Fifth Element From: Fifth Element 4:07 December 1: Trill to Begin Jacqueline Kerrod From: 17 Days in ...
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The Django Announces March Schedule Including Women's History Month Celebration, Slide Hampton Octet, And More
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AMT Public Relations
The Django downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, commemorates Women’s History Month by hosting more than 20 leading female jazz artists on its stage during March from Lezlie Harrison (3/19) and Roxy Coss (3/25) to emerging artists Marianne Solivan (3/5) and Endea Owens (3/11), to name a few. A special tribute concert for trombonist Slide Hampton (1932-2021) is slated for March 8th featuring an Octet performing Hampton’s own orchestrations. The Django’s weekly Mingus residency continues every Monday with two sets: Mingus ...
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Pianist Extraordinaire Harold O'Neal Releases 'The Adventures Of Mr. Grey' On April 15th
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Pianist, composer, and storyteller Harold O'Neal debuts a new and exciting project. The Adventures of Mr. Grey is a music and NFT collaboration with renowned illustrator and cartoonist, Thomas Deisboeck. Release date: April 15th. Label: Piano Cinema Music. Deisboeck’s eight illustrations have a 1920s art noir feel, which O’Neal first encountered in the music studio while the tape was rolling. “I didn't know what to expect," he says. “I wanted to experience the full potential of each illustration. And stay ...
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Harlem School Of The Arts Welcomes Pianist Adegoke Steve Colson Recipient Of South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant
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SM Communication Solutions
The 58-year-old Harlem School of the Arts (HSA), located in New York City's historic community, is proud to welcome Grammy Award nominee and composer/pianist, Adegoke Steve Colson, recipient of the South Arts, 2021 Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Through funding made possible by this grant, Mr. Colson will lead Afternoon Jazz @ HSA master classes involving students across HSA’s interdisciplinary curriculum and the organization’s Jazz Program, and featuring some of the ...
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The 7 Virtual Jazz Club Announces The Finalists Of The 2021 Edition
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Valerio Pappi
The Web Community Prize (direct access to the final) has been awarded to the Russian guitarist Leonid Morozov for the Under 25’s Category which presented the song “Will You Still Be Mine" and to the Ecuadorean drums player Juan Posso for the Pros & Amateurs’ Category which presented the song “Cambio de lugar”. Finalists selected by the judge in alphabetical order Amateurs & Pros’ Category Ariel Bart (Israel) Evgeny Lebedev (Russia) Jazz Station Big Band featuring G. Maret ...
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Dara Tucker to perform at New Jersey Jazz Society January Social on January 29th
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All About Jazz
Other jazz musicians appearing on the album, in addition to Chestnut, include pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Dezron Douglas, drummer Johnathan Blake, saxophonist John Ellis, and trumpeter Giveton Gelin. Among additional song selections on Dreams of Waking are James Taylor's “Secret O' Life," Donny Hathaway's “Someday We'll All Be Free," and Wonder's “You Haven't Done Nothin.'" As a composer, Tucker collaborated in 2019 with Keb Mo' to write the title track for his Concord Jazz album, Oklahoma, which won a Grammy ...
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