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WBGO's Upcoming JazzSet - Hugh Masekela at Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and Grammy Nominee Charles Tolliver at Detroit Int'l Jazz Festival
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All About Jazz
For two weeks in February, NPR's weekly radio series JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater broadcasts recent performances by jazz trumpeters Hugh Masekela and Charles Tolliver, and shares their individual stories. Masekela, onstage at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, airs the week beginning February 14. The Charles Tolliver Big Band at the Detroit International Jazz Festival airs the week beginning February 21. Masekela, born in 1939 in South Africa, spent the 1960s in the United States. In 1968 his Afro-jazz-pop single “Grazin ...
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Stryker / Slagle Band with Joe Lovano This Weekend at Dizzy's Sets at 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 PM
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Fri Feb. 8 - Sun Feb 10, 2008 The Stryker / Slagle Band with special guest Joe Lovano Dave Stryker - guitar Steve Slagle - sax Joe Lovano - sax Jay Anderson - bass Victor Lewis - drums 7:30 / 9:30 / 11:30 (Fri/Sat only) Dizzy's Club Coca Cola Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway ...
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Lucain Ban's Elevation (Fri) Open Loose (Sat) Tom Dempsey/Tim Ferguson CD Release This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe Fri Feb 08, 9:00PM & 10:30PM LUCAIN BAN'S ELEVATION Abraham Burton, tenor saxophone; Lucian Ban, piano; Sean Conly, bass; Pheeroan AkLaff, drums Sat Feb 09, 9:00PM & 10:30PM ...
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Mike Mainieri & Steps Ahead "Special Edition" This Weekend at the Iridium Jazz Club Sets at 8:30 & 10:30PM
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Fab Trio Joe Fonda, Barry Altschul, & Billy Bang Sweet Rhythm Fri. & Sat. Feb 8 & 9 Sets @ 8PM 10PM & 12PM
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
F A B Trio Joe Fonda, bass Barry Altschul, drums Billy Bang, violin at Sweet Rhythm 88 Seventh Avenue South (at Bleecker St) New York, NY 10014 (212) 255-3626 Fri. & Sat. Feb 8 & 9 Sets @ 8pm 10pm & Midnight Manhattan-based bassist Joe Fonda assembled this unconventional trio on an uncanny hunch that the combination of sonorities and ...
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Denny Zeitlin at the Athenaeum Saturday, February 9th (la Jolla, CA) 7:30 PM + March 22nd Florence Gould Theatre (San Francisco)
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Feb. 26 Houston Person, Wycliffe Gordon, Joe Ascione, John Cocuzzi in Sacramento, CA
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All About Jazz
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008 at 7 pm in Sacramento, CA NEW ORLEANS JAZZ with EAST COAST CLASS at a concert fundraiser for the annual Trad. Jazz Youth Band Festival (TJYBF). The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society and Nelmar Construction present Ed Polcer's East Coast All-Stars at a fundraiser for the annual Trad. Jazz Youth Band Festival. The “Long Live JAZZ" concert features nationally-known musicians Wycliffe Gordon (of the Lincoln Center Orch.) and saxophonist Houston Person as part of a sextet performing ...
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Brad Turner Receives Three Nominations at the 2008 National Jazz Awards
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All About Jazz
Brad Turner receives three nominations at the 2008 National Jazz Awards! Thursday, February 8, 2008 (Vancouver, BC) - The National Jazz awards have released its list of nominees and we are proud to announce that our very own Brad Turner has received nominations in the following three categories; Trumpeter of The Year, Instrumentalist of The Year (all instruments) and Producer of the Year. Juno award winning Brad Turner is one of Canada's most prominent, prolific and in-demand jazz artists and ...
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