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Performance / Tour

Bill Mays and the Inventions Trio Live at the Rubin Museum - NYC - March 28th, 2008

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 16, 2008

The Inventions Trio is: Bill Mays - piano Marvin Stamm - trumpet Alisa Horn - cello Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street New York, NY 10011 For Info Call: 212-620-5000 March 28th, 2008- Showtime- 7:00 PM Tickets $18/$20 Bill Mays Bio: Pianist, composer and arranger William Allen Mays (Bill Mays), born February 5, 1944, came from a musical family. In his northern California home, ...

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Recording

Ted Kooshian Releases Standard Orbit Quartet on Summit Records

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 16, 2008

Pianist/Composer Ted Kooshian releases new CD, “Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet" On Summit Records ...plenty of surprises in store, while keeping the listener hooked with imaginative arrangements...Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet is out of this world! -All Music Guide “Serious musicianship with a tongue in cheek approach - Great Music!" - Christopher Lams - Jazz Improv Magazine Ted Kooshian's new release Standard Orbit Quartet is a brilliant and witty approach to the jazz genre while giving high praise to older ...

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Music Industry

Two for the Show Media Celebrates Another Year!

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 16, 2008

Publicity & Media firm Two for the Show Media is proud announce another year in the books servicing the top names in the jazz industry. This past year, Two for the Show Media has been privileged to work with such jazz labels & greats as: John Abercrombie, Peter Erskine, Jeff “Tain" Watts, Wycliffe Gordon, Cindy Blackman, Marc Copland, ECM Records, Wayne Escoffery, Carolyn Leonhart, Donny McCaslin, Arturo O Farrill, Edward Simon, Bobby Sanabria (whose CD Big Band Urban Folktales was ...

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Performance / Tour

Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, Bill Stewart Trio @ Birdland NYC - March 19-22nd, 2008

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 16, 2008

Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, & Bill Stewart Trio Gary Peacock- bass Marc Copland- piano Bill Stewart - drums Birdland Jazz Club 315 West 44th Street Broadway New York, NY March 19th-22nd 2008 Set Times are 8:30 PM & 11:00 PM $30 general admission; $40 orchestra For information call 212.591-3080 “Transcendent...makes one realize how ordinary, how formulaic, so much of the rest of today's music ...

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Book / Magazine

Drum! Interactive Struts New Orleans with Stanton Moore

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2008

San Jose, Calif., -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of diverse, hip drum/percussion magazine worldwide, has made available its January 2008 Issue of DRUM! In its interactive edition at drumdigital.com. The January Issue features the second-line strut of New Orleans drummer, Stanton Moore, hot licks of Mitch Mitchell and four emerging Cowboy drummers, Myron Howell of Jake Owen's band; Tommy Bales of Flynnville Train, Steve Sinatra of Halfway to Hazard, and Jared Pope of Whiskey Falls. Stanton Moore could be, as ...

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Music Industry

Christian McBride: Not Just All That Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2008

Bassist and booker Christian McBride is a rare jazzman with an approving ear for hip-hop. Christian McBride, the wunderkind bassist, is finally having a middle-aged thought. The leading jazz bassist of his generation wishes he weren't on the road so much. Speaking by phone the other day after a snowstorm in Santa Fe, N.M., McBride said he's keen to spend more time at home in Montclair, N.J., even when the plumbing breaks. “We had one of the pipes in the ...

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Performance / Tour

Vibist, Jerry Tachoir Clinic/Concert Tour

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2008

Performance / Tour

Joe Chambers & His "Outlaw Band" at the Lenox Lounge

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2008

The Lenox Lounge, the Uptown haven for Jazz located @ 288 Lenox Avenue (124th & 125th St.) is proud to present a World renowned Composer, Arranger, Educator, a 'Percussionists Percussionist', who is one of the most recorded Drummers ever, on the “Blue Note" Record Label. The recordings he made, with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and McCoy Tyner, make him one of the most sought after Percussionists on the New York Jazz Scene, besides which, each of these ...

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