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Radio host and All About Jazz Contributor Ed Blanco celebrates 13 years of Jazz Café on WDNA 88.9FM
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All About Jazz
Jazz radio host and All About Jazz contributor Ed Blanco, in May 2020 celebrates 13 years as producer and host of Jazz Café, an early Sunday morning jazz show on WDNA, 88.9FM in Miami, Florida. Beginning on Mother’s Day of 2007, Ed has been playing and promoting some of the best in straight ahead jazz presenting be bop, hard bop, vocals, big bands as well as different genres from Brazilian, fusion to the standards. Reviewing new music on “AAJ" helped ...
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CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Rescheduled For Oct 2-10, 2020
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Dalmath Associates Inc.
Marc Iacona and John Nugent, producers of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, provided an update today on the status of planning for a rescheduled festival, which is proceeding as previously announced. In a message of hope, Nugent and Iacona said, “Rather than giving up during this time of uncertainty, we are continuing to take a hopeful course and are forging ahead to the best of our ability to reschedule our 19th Edition festival for October 2 to 10, 2020.” ...
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Whit Dickey 2-CD 'Morph' with Matthew Shipp and Nate Wooley on ESP-DISK. Pre-Order Now.
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All About Jazz
Whit Dickey has been a quiet but brilliant presence on the New York avant-jazz scene since his discographical debut in 1991 on the legendary Matthew Shipp Trio album Circular Temple. In concert and on recordings in groups led by Shipp, David S. Ware, Ivo Perelman, Joe Morris, and Rob Brown, he built a reputation for distinctively space-filled, subtle rhythmic support, even as he was perfectly capable of muscling up when the music called for it. For some of the people ...
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Tune in at All About Jazz for an intimate virtual home concert with Yilian Canizares & Raudol Palacios on April 26th
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Michael Ricci
Live from Baton Rouge via New York, please join us for a very special presentation of world-renounced violinist Yilian Canizares and cellist Raudol Palacios on Sunday, April 26th at 3:30pm ET from All About Jazz, Jazz Near You and Crowdcast. About Yilian Canizares Before she picks up her violin and walks onstage, Yilian Cañizares pays homage to her ancestors. Candles are lit. Prayers are said, and offerings made. Then as the houselights dim and her group of crack musicians file ...
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Artist Relief - Coronavirus - Americans For The Arts
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States. Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing informational resource; and co-launch the COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers, designed by Americans for the Arts, to better identify and address the needs of artists. ...
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Jazz And Blues Vocalist Mercedes Nicole Debuts Her Self-Released New Blues Project ‘Constellation' Set For June 2020!
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All About Jazz
Ms. Nicole weaves an intimately contagious web of love and passion. She returns this time with award winning multi-instrumentalist Jay Thomas, Evan Flory-Barnes, and D’Vonne Lewis for the incantation of romance that truly sets the tone to escape the chilling reality of today’s landscape. “Thomas, Barnes, Lewis evoke emotions of surrender that cannot be denied” —Mercedes Nicole Chanteuse Mercedes Nicole as her fans and other noted reviewers dub her, literally ushers in a timeless and relentlessly evocative new project that ...
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The Bebop Channel Issues Stock Grants To Official Selections Amid Worldwide Festival Cancellations
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Gregory Charles Royal
Many up-and-coming filmmakers' dreams for success have been crushed indefinitely due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. As pointed out in Shirley Li's piece in The Atlantic entitled The Pandemic Is Hitting One Part of Hollywood Especially Hard, film festivals around the world—arguably the most important life-line for new filmmakers—have been cancelled. One festival has given over 750 of these young and up-and-coming filmmakers from over 85 countries something positive in the face of the crisis. In a move that is ...
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Grammy Winning Trumpeter, Composer, Producer, Arranger, Multi-Instrumentalist, Songwriter Michael Leonhart Spins Classic & Rare Blue Note Albums On April 21st At 7:30pm ET
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All About Jazz
Live from Leonhart's Lounge! Grab your favorite beverage, sit back and tune in as Michael Leonhart (of Michael Leonhart Orchestra and Steely Dan) “drops the needle" on some classic and rare Blue Note albums on April 21, 2020 at 7:30m ET. A virtual listening party As part of their ongoing monthly residency at Jazz Standard, the Michael Leonhart Orchestra was scheduled to present the “Blue Note Suite / Birthday Show" on April 21st (also Michael's birthday). In place of the ...
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