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Radio

B.J. Jansen is Featured for an Entire Month in a North Jersey Weekly

Source: JM Creative
December 10, 2008

Without any prior Radio Hosting experience, Jazz Baritone Sax Artist B.J Jansen began hosting his own Jazz Radio Show on WPSC 88.7 FM this September of 2008. After only a month on air, B.J. was FEATURED FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF NOVEMBER IN VALLEY TODAY, a weekly newspaper in NORTH JERSEY. B.J. created his show, “The Jazz Life", to bring audiences to the Next Generation of Jazz Artists, who generally would receive ...

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Video / DVD

Flutist, Bill McBirnie, with James Brown!

Source: All About Jazz
December 10, 2008

The subject line may appear to be incredible. Nonetheless, Bill has uploaded an interesting video on YouTube playing with a classic James Brown track, “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose". Of course, those of you familiar with Bill's flute work will recognize that he also likes to swing. So, in addition, he has uploaded a video of him playing with a classic Oscar Peterson track, “C Jam Blues". This clip is also about 4 minutes in length and it ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz session launches 'Bricktop, Queen of the Night'

Source: All About Jazz
December 10, 2008

An invitation-only, closed-door jazz session officially launches the Broadway musical “Bricktop, Queen of the Night," (original music and lyrics by Ron Abel and Chuck Steffan) based on the life of Ada “Bricktop" Smith. The musical is being produced by Paul Lambert, Jonas Neilson and Whoopi Goldberg. Today's new generation of jazz royalty including Wallace Roney and his Quintet along with Mickey Bass, Don McKenzie, Katie Bull, Iqua Colson, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Winard Harper, the Dom Minasi Trio, Maurice chestnut, the ...

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Performance / Tour

Birmingham, UK: Let Live Jazz Interrupt Your Christmas

Source: All About Jazz
December 10, 2008

While everyone else is getting on with their Christmas shopping, those of us who feel the spontaneous improvisatory spirit of jazz is a suitable philosophy for life in general will have decided that we can do all that materialistic stuff later – on Christmas eve, even. In the meantime, there is the music to follow, and this week the place to start is the Symphony Hall foyer bar on Friday evening. It might start at 6pm or 7pm, depending on ...

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Music Industry

Biography: Iranian-American Jazz Singer Rana Farhan

Source: All About Jazz
December 10, 2008

Jazz siren Rana Farhan proclaims on her web site: “Jazz is peace." She's not just borrowing 60s flower child rhetoric. She knows firsthand. Born in Iran, Rana grew up listening to any albums she could get her hands on, fostering a love for American blues artists like Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly, and Johnny Winter; while rockin' to Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Soon she was begging her older brother to teach her guitar and singing through a microphone she had plugged ...

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Event

Urgent Call for Universal Human Rights

Source: All About Jazz
December 9, 2008

New York, NY - A young woman, scaling the Himalayas on foot, flees the Chinese work camp where she was born, her tiny son in tow. A boy, forced to fight in Sudan's bloody civil war at age six, winds up in a refugee camp where he regains his dignity, but not his childhood. An outspoken singer is compelled to leave Zimbabwe in the wake of police intimidation at her concerts and a pervasive atmosphere of political and economic repression. ...

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Recording

Broadway Personality Devin Richard's Debut CD "My Own Voice" Available Now!

Source: Lampkin Publicity Service
December 9, 2008

LMGJAZZ is proud to announce the CD release of Broadway personality Devin Richards - My Own Voice Live at Metropolitan Room Devin has recently appeared in his tenth Broadway, Tale of Two Cities, while also be featured in the October issue of the well known magazine Ebony, and is the voice of the character, Dwayne Forge in the biggest selling video game in history Grand Theft Auto IV. Devin has also appeared in the workshops of Pamela's First Musical, Shriek ...

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Event

Jobim, Piazzolla, Pixinguinha, Other Jazz-Oriented Composers Celebrated at Juilliard on January 14

Source: Reva Cooper
December 9, 2008

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS), whose recent program, “Fugitives," was acclaimed as Profoundly moving, (New York Times) and Extraordinary what we want all concerts to be, (Howard Kissel, New York Daily News) presents its fourth annual program with The Juilliard School on January 14, 2009 at 8 PM, NYFOS@Juilliard: Latin Lovers. This collaboration between NYFOS and The Juilliard School celebrates the creative energy and superlative vocal talent of tomorrows brightest stars, building on NYFOSs distinctive programming and performing style. ...

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