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Inaugural Jazz Philadelphia Summit Announced
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All About Jazz
During the inaugural Jazz Philadelphia Summit on Nov. 2 and 3, 2018, regional and national jazz luminaries will gather in Center City Philadelphia to honor the city’s deep jazz roots and discuss its future. Musicians, jazz enthusiasts, advocates, funders, and the arts and culture community are gathering at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and the University of the Arts for both high-level discussions and hands-on workshops about the art and business of jazz. Sessions will be held from ...
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Award-Winning Blues-Rock Guitarist Jim Allchin Releases Burnin' Hot - Prime Blues!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Jim Allchin Announces Prime Blues Critically Acclaimed Blues-Rock Guitarist, Songwriter and Vocalist His Newest LP, Released September 21, 2018 Produced by Grammy and Blues Music Award Winner Tom Hambridge and featuring a team of veteran studio and touring professionals including special guests Bobby Rush and Mike Zito Jim Allchin, the American blues-rock guitarist, philanthropist, and a former software executive, is releasing his fourth widely distributed contemporary blues album: Prime Blues, produced by Producer and Grammy, ASCAP and Blues Music Award ...
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Jazz On A Summer's Day 60th Anniversary Edition - 1958 Newport Jazz Festival
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Jazz on a Summer's Day is one of the greatest concert movies ever made, a timeless record of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, with some of the most stunning images of live music ever brought to the cinema screen. Conceived by stills photographer Bert Stern (Vogue magazine, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn) and brilliantly filmed over three days in August 1958, Jazz on a Summer's Day provided the template for future concert documentaries such as Monterey and Woodstock. Interspersing footage of ...
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Attention Jazz Lovers... tune In To KKFI 90.1 FM on Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 1pm-3pm CST
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Paul Collins Artist Management International
Tune in to KKFI 90.1 FM Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 1pm-3pm CST. Host KC will be joined by jazz impresario Paul Collins along with JMood Records International recording artist and jazz pianist Roberto Magris as they play music from Magris' latest release World Gardens. This session will prove to be a lot of fun, entertaining and engaging while covering a range of jazz topics, jazz music, jazz artists, and jazz stories. Listeners are encouraged to call in to donate, ...
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Global Association For Interconnective Arts Will Explore, Define, And Implement New Ways Of Educating Music Students
Source:
Allen Bush
Five prestigious music programs have formed a new international organization to prepare young musicians to become jazz ambassadors in and beyond their communities. The Global Association for Interconnective Arts (GAIA)—comprising the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the New School, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and Siena Jazz Academy—will explore, define, and implement new ways of educating music students. Led by Danilo Pérez, ...
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Tony Adamo: Was Out Jazz Zone Mad reviewed By Jazz Weekly
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Tony Adamo
One of the great things about Tony Adamo is that you just can’t peg him down. He’s part vocalist, poet, street preacher, hip uncle, but above all, a jazzer with a grooving heart. On this album, he lays down the jazz laws of life’s observations with the highly funkified team that includes legendary drummer Mike Clark along with Jack Wilkins, Mike LeDonne, Donald Harrison, Tim Ouimette and various other cats who sit in for some snapping beats. Adamo’s voice is ...
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Francois Houle's, Alexander Hawkins' And Harris Eisenstadt's Collective Trio Will Release You Have Options On November 9 On Songlines
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GoMedia PR
This collective trio was born when the late (and greatly missed) Ken Pickering, co-founder and artistic director of Vancouver’s jazz festival, recommended Alexander Hawkins for the piano chair in a new Houle project for the 2014 festival. Houle already had Brooklyn-based fellow Canadian Harris Eisenstadt in mind—Harris had recently toured and recorded in his 5+1 project (Genera, Songlines 2012). And Eisenstadt and Hawkins had played together for years in the collective Convergence Quartet. The Oxford-based Hawkins however was unknown to ...
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Jazz At Princeton University Announces Dynamic 2018-2019 Season November 14, 2018 – May 11, 2019
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Jazz at Princeton University, helmed by acclaimed saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa, presents a dynamic and compelling 2018-2019 Season, November 14, 2018 – May 11, 2019. Highlights include performances by student groups joined by guest artists including Blue Note Records trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, legendary vocalist Nnenna Freelon, and Grammy winner and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. In April, Jazz at Princeton will present Princeton University’s first-ever outdoor Jazz Festival. “This year’s Jazz at Princeton program is going to be extraordinary,” says Mahanthappa. “With ...
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