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All About Jazz was built to champion jazz music and support the careers of jazz musicians worldwide. Our 25 year commitment to the music and its practitioners hasn't gone unnoticed as we've collected over 3,300 musician quotes and now feature three randomly on the All About Jazz home page (just above the JazzWeek Radio Chart section). We also present them on our Musicians Dig All About Jazz page. If you are a musician and appreciate the work we've done on ...
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Jazz Near You Expands Streamed Concert Distribution and Promotional Reach
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You continually improves the distribution and promotion of streamed events and our latest round of enhancements further raises the awareness of streamed events by including them in our 300 city calendars. Each city calendar includes its local events as well as all streamed events regardless of regional location. Streamed events also appear in the Jazz Near You section of our weekly newsletter mailing list. In addition to more deeply integrating streamed events into our general calendar, we also ...
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DDCF Launches Jazz Media Lab with Five Leaders in Jazz Radio
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All About Jazz
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced the launch of the Jazz Media Lab, through which some of the country’s most dynamic and forward-thinking nonprofit jazz radio stations will receive more than $1.3 million to participate in a program aimed at bolstering their individual strength and collective resilience as essential players in the jazz ecosystem. KMHD (Oregon Public Broadcasting) in Portland, Ore., KNKX (Pacific Public Media) in Tacoma/Seattle, Wash., KUVO (Rocky Mountain Public Media) in Denver, Colo., WBGO (Newark ...
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'Unreleased Art Pepper Volume Eleven: Atlanta' To Be Released Feb. 19 On Widow's Taste Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
On a 1980 tour that he undertook with his working quartet, Art Pepper spent the evening of May 17 electrifying the audience at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta. The tour was a quickie affair—his wife and manager, Laurie, barely even noted it on her calendar. She did roll tape, however, and for her efforts, posterity can enjoy his thrilling performance with the band on the double-disc Unreleased Art Pepper Volume Eleven: Atlanta, set for a February 19 release on ...
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Assistant Professor Position Opening In The Music Department At UC Irvine
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Kojiro Umezaki
POSITION IN MUSIC: COMPOSER-IMPROVISER Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) Start Date: July 1, 2021 We seek an established composer-improviser who will diversify the creative practices explored in the department's PhD program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT), and who will deepen the department's engagement with African American musics and whose presence (research, creative activity) will foster greater awareness of social justice and/or gender equity issues. This person will teach graduate courses for the ICIT program and supervise ...
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A Welcome Guest: On 'Just Passing Thru' Miles Donahue Makes Himself Comfortable
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Mixed Media Promotion
Miles Donahue’s latest album, coming on the heels of The Bug (Whaling City Sound, 2017), Just Passing Thru is large in scope and beautiful in execution. The absurdly talented player, vibrant on both tenor and soprano saxophones, trumpet and keyboard, shows just how broad his musical wingspan is. It certainly helps that he has an amazing crew behind him. Joe Santerre provides power grooves on electric bass as does Larry Finn on drums. They are joined by percussionist Ricardo Monzon, ...
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Roman Miroshnichenko Nominated In The Hollywood Music Awards And Wins Global Music Award
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All About Jazz
Multi-Award winning guitar virtuoso Roman Miroshnichenko's composition “Bodhrán's Magic" was nominated in the Instrumental category at The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA). Previous HMMA nominees and laureates including soundtracks for the films Joker, Parasites, The Addams Family, Ford V Ferrari, The Green Book, composers and songwriters Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri, Earth, Wind & Fire, Annie Lennox, Sam Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Christopher Young and many others. “Bodhrán's Magic," featuring virtuoso violinist Charlie Bisharat is a track of the ...
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World-Renowned Voice Teacher Jeannie Gagné Launches A New Subscription Series To Empower Singers And Transform Their Singing And Performing
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Darcie Nicole
Whether you know her as the impactful voice guru “The Vocal Genie,” as an acclaimed performing artist and bandleader, or as Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music, you know that Jeannie Gagné is a go-to source for getting students to sing their very best. Praised by her students for her honesty, compassionate approach, and uncanny skill for taking students to the next level, Jeannie translates complex musical and technical concepts into language people can understand, and infuses mind-body-spirit ...
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