Jazz News

The ASCAP Foundation Presents JAZZCAP

Source: All About Jazz
October 23, 2008

The ASCAP Foundation will present the third edition of JAZZCAP at The Cutting Room (19 W.24 Street, between Broadway and 6th Ave.) in Manhattan on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. The series is designed to showcase the work of young jazz creators whose vision and daring inspire the future.

Noted bassist and songwriter Jay Leonhart will host the event, featuring three recipients of the 2008 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards: alto saxophonist/composer Patrick Cornelius, pianist/composer Roy Assaf, ...

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Miraflores’ Miget to Tour with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra

Source: imajinnWEST
October 23, 2008

North Bay Saxophonist performing with AAO at University of Illinois On Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra as part of the Marquee Jazz Series at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana’s Foellinger Great Hall. A mutual admiration society Ms. Miget has been a consistent presence performing and recording with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra since 2004, last year playing reeds on the AAO’s ...

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Marsalis Brasilianos at Lehman Center Saturday November 11th

Source: Leah Grammatica Public Relations
October 23, 2008

LEHMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents MARSALIS BRASILIANOS – EXCLUSIVE NYC ENGAGEMENT! FILARMONIA BRASILEIRA with SAXOPHONE SOLOIST BRANFORD MARSALIS In Celebration of Lehman College’s 40th Anniversary Lehman Center for the Performing Arts proudly presents the exclusive New York City engagement of MARSALIS BRASILIANOS, with the award-winning FILARMONIA BRASILEIRA, conducted by the orchestra’s founder GIL JARDIM, and GRAMMY® Award-winning saxophonist BRANFORD MARSALIS as the featured soloist, on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 8pm as ...

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Susanna Lindeborg's Mwendo Dawa "A Taste of Four Free Minds" LJCD5248

Source: All About Jazz
October 23, 2008

Experience Mwendo Dawa! Jazz - free-form - fusion - avant garde - electro acoustic music or just Mwendo Dawa! The group from the start led and developed by Susanna Lindeborg and Ove Johansson is not only fronting these two musicians but also consists of four very strong personalities and four utterly skillful musicians and improvisers. SUSANNA LINDEBORG'S MWENDO DAWA is a Swedish quartet formed by Susanna Lindeborg, piano and keyboard together with Ove Johansson, tenorsax and EWI. The name MWENDO ...

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Miraflores' Miget to Tour with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra

Source: imajinnWEST
October 23, 2008

North Bay Saxophonist performing with AAO at University of Illinois On Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra as part of the Marquee Jazz Series at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana’s Foellinger Great Hall. A mutual admiration society Ms. Miget has been a consistent presence performing and recording with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra since 2004, last year playing reeds on the AAO’s ...

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Krakow Hosts Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

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Drummer/Vocalist Grady Tate Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Grady Tate, 76, is best known as one of the most beloved, consistently dependable session drummers since the 1960s. He's the steady pulse on the famous version of Benny Golson's “Killer Joe," from Quincy Jones' Walking in Space (Verve, 1969), where his hi-hat groove and snare drum rim shots on the four, in tandem with bassist Ray Brown's big-toned walking, formed the backdrop for the head and solos by Hubert Laws and Freddie Hubbard.

He was the house drummer for ...

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Women in Music Film Music Panel, October 25

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

LOS ANGELES WOMEN IN MUSIC PRESENTS: A Film Music Panel Presenting and Discussing the Acquisition and Use of Independent Music for Film & TV with emphasis on Indie Films

Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008 Time: 1:00 pm - 4 pm Location: (Former MGM Studio) now the Yahoo! Center Community Room at 2500 Broadway Ave.(at Colorado) in Santa Monica. Plenty of street parking plus in building with our validation. Parking is on P-1, P2 and P3 of ...

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