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270+ New Additions to Upcoming Jazz Release Calendar

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2008

Performance / Tour

Sten Hostfalt's K-Mod Live at Freddy's NYC Jan 27 @ 8 PM

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2008

Sten Hostfalt - guitar, compositions Ole Mathisen - tenor saxophone Tim Luntzel - bass Marko Djordevic - drums Directions: 485 Dean Street, Brooklyn NY any train to Atlantic/Pacific st or 6 to Bergen St. “Takes You On A Journey Where Anything Is Possible" - ALL ABOUT JAZZ “Impressive, Intense" - TIME OUT NY “Inimitable, There Are Few Musicians Like Sten Hostfalt" - PAPER MAGAZINE ...

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New Orleans 2008 Jazzfest the Best Yet

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2008

By Vincent Sylvain / The New Orleans Agenda NEW ORLEANS -- Times-Picayune music writer Keith Spera writes, “They didn't intend for it to be this big. Thanks to good will, good fortune and a goodly investment of cash, producers of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell have unveiled perhaps the deepest talent pool in the festival's 39-year history. Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, Keyshia Cole, Robert Plant with Alison Krauss, and the previously announced Tim ...

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Vince Ector Quartet @ The Michener Museum on January 26, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2008

Vincent Ector hails from the musical city of Philadelphia, where he attended the University of Pennsylvania. His training in music began at age nine through GAMP, a music magnet school in Philadelphia that also enabled him to study at Temple University while still a junior high school student. He studied with drummers Mickey Roker, Ralph Peterson Jr., and Armand Santarelli, as well as performing for six years as a percussionist with the United States Army Band. As a performer, he ...

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Air Jamaica Jazz Fest 2008 Streaming Live Now

Source: CaribPR.com
January 25, 2008

CARIBPR, NEW YORK, NY: Fans can log on right now to Cbeanmedia.tv to see the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues festival live. Cbean will be streaming the Art Of Music Jamaica segment from the festival's main stage on the web at www.cbeanmedia.tv. Fans will be able to get a front seat to performances from all Caribbean artists as well as those entertainers on the Art Of Music stage, without leaving their computer. Additionally, the live stream, will offer a ...

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Julie Hardy Performs at an Die Musik Live! In Baltimore

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2008

World Culture Music Recording Artist Jazz Vocalist and Composer JULIE HARDY To perform in Baltimore at An Die Musik Live! “On her new album, The Wish, Ms. Hardy burnishes her growing reputation as a musically astute and thoughtfully modern jazz singer." - Nate Chinen, New York Times “[Hardy's] is a serious art, based in songs of longing and reflection with arrangements that challenge anyone's notions of what constitutes forward-thinking music." - Ken Micallef, Downbeat ...

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Source: All About Jazz
January 24, 2008

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2008 University of Michigan Jazz Festival Featuring the John Clayton Quintet

Source: JazzStage Productions
January 24, 2008

Ann Arbor, MI - The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents the 2008 Jazz Festival Feature Concert in honor of Ray Brown Day, with guest artist The John Clayton Quintet on Saturday, February 9, 2008 at the Power Center in Ann Arbor at 8:00 p.m. The concert will also feature the University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Ellen Rowe. Highlights of the concert will include John Clayton conducting the Jazz Ensemble in his ...

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