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Passing Strange Original Cast Album: Live Recording by Ghostlight
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Seth Cohen PR
Ghostlight Records is proud to announce that it will record the Original Cast Album of the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical PASSING STRANGE in front of a LIVE audience in a recording session on stage at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street) on Monday, April 14 from 2pm to 5pm. Release date for the recording is expected for June 2008. Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records President Kurt Deutsch and Bill Rosenfield will serve as Executive Producers for the original cast recording, with ...
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Stephanie Jordan and Jason Marsalis with Lionel Hampton Big Band at Official Centennial Birthday Celebration
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All About Jazz
NEW ORLEANS, April 9, 2008 - New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan and vibraphonist Jason Marsalis are scheduled to perform with the Lionel Hampton Big Band on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans. On the same day, the museum will also debut an exhibition focusing on Lionel Hampton to coincide with the centennial anniversary of Hampton's birth on April 20, 1908. His birthday will also mark the publication by State Street Press ...
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Stephanie Jordan Named Jazz All-Stars 2008 by New Orleans Magazine
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All About Jazz
NEW ORLEANS, April 8, 2008 - On the heals of a stunning rendition of the national anthem performed during the 57th NBA All-Star Game with Grammy Award-winning jazz and classical saxophonist Branford Marsalis and internationally acclaimed guitarist Jonathan Dubose , jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan has been selected for recognition to New Orleans Magazine Jazz All-Stars for 2008. One critic proclaimed “Jordan set the anthem on a slow burn Sunday night, delivering the most smoldering rendition of the song since Marvin ...
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Gypsy Guitar Master Bireli Lagrene to Make a Rare US Appearance in May
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All About Jazz
GLOBALLY CELEBRATED GUITAR VIRTUOSO BIRELI LAGRENE TO MAKE A RARE US APPEARANCE (May 2 & 3) IN LINCOLN CENTER CONCERT CELEBRATING TWO JAZZ GUITAR HEROES: DJANGO REINHARDT AND CHARLIE CHRISTIAN. LAGRENE - VIEWED BY MANY AS THE GREATEST LIVING INTERPRETER OF DJANGO REINHARDT - WILL MAKE HIS FIRST US APPERANCE IN THREE YEARS CO-STARRING WITH THREE AMERICAN JAZZ GUITAR MASTERS RUSSELL MALONE, BOBBY BROOM AND FRANK VIGNOLA POWERED BY THE LEWIS NASH QUARTET FEATURING MULGREW MILLER New York, NY-- Critically ...
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Vinnie Zummo Trio at the Daniels Pavilion at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts Naples Florida April 18th & 19th
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All About Jazz
TWO NIGHTS OF JAZZ PLUS ALL KINDS OF MUSICAL SURPRISES WITH FORMER JOE JACKSON GUITARIST VINNIE ZUMMO! Straight from a smash engagement at New York City's famed Blue Note Club... The Vinnie Zummo TRIO in concert at the Daniels Pavilion at the Philharmonic Center for The Arts Naples Florida April 18th. & 19th Two shows per night: 6 and 8:30 The Vinnie Zummo Trio with Chip Jackson: Bass Ray Marchica: Drums
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Lola Danza Sings with Bob Moses, Matt Langley & Wes Brown on April 17 at Ryles Jazz Club
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All About Jazz
The enchanting and innovative vocalist, Lola Danza celebrates with an evening of experimental jazz music at Ryles Jazz Club (212 Hampshire St. Cambridge MA) Thursday April 17, 2008 at 8:30pm. Ms. Danza will be joined by special guests: Matt Langley- Saxophone, Bob Moses - Drums, Wes Brown- Bass, Leo Genovese- Piano and Nat Mugavero - Drums. Ms. Danza combines Jazz, Avant-garde, World, Classical, Post Modern Pop and Americana music. Danza's created a new idiom in Jazz. Lola's original compositions evoke ...
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