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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: June 2018
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in June, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration hereEditor's Picks Grime Scene Tucker Antell From: Grime Scene 8:44 Ali's Second Line Solon McDade From: Murals ...
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Elio Villafranca - 2018 Downbeat 2018 Critics Poll Winner "Rising Star - Keyboard" And 4.5-star Review For "Cinque"!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Cinque features Wynton Marsalis, Lewis Nash, Vincent Herring, Steve Turre, Greg Tardy & Freddie Hendrix. Elio Villafranca has just been announced as DownBeat Critics Poll Winner- “Rising Star- Keyboard" and also received a 4.5-star review for Cinque! He was recently interviewed on Univision 41 and is featured on Loren Chuno's Doing Jazz Podcast. Cinque is a five movement suite inspired by the story of Joseph Cinque, who in 1839 led a successful revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, days ...
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Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Duncan Heining from Equinox Publishing
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All About Jazz
Mosaics is the first biography of bassist, band-leader, composer, educator and author Graham Collier. Duncan Heining draws extensively on Collier’s personal archive, as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music. It locates Collier and his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred during his life and, particularly, in relation to developments in British and European jazz of the 1960s and '70s. Collier’s work as a composer-bandleader represented an attempt ...
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A New Chapter In Jazz from The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
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Michael S. Clark
The history of jazz is littered with tales of unsung heroes and overlooked genius. It could be argued that the trumpeter and composer, the late Kenny Wheeler, was one such musician. He moved almost invisibly through the mainstream milieu, yet, he was universally admired by his peers for his important contributions to jazz composition. Many such personalities are dedicated to illuminating the deeper corners of the soul through emotive creativity, often revealing something autobiographical in their music. The SNJO is, ...
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Marshall University And The Nu Jazz Agency Announce The Winners Of The 2018 Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition In Huntington, West Virginia
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Nu Jazz Publicity
Marshall University, a leading institution of higher education in West Virginia, and the Nu Jazz Agency, have announced the winners of the inaugural 2018 Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition held on June 22- 23, 2018 in Huntington, WV (U.S.A.). Ben Paterson (Philadelphia, PA) wonFirst Place; Rina Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan) won Second Place & The Nu Jazz Agency’s Chico & Lupe O’Farrill Award for the Best Original Composition; Isaiah Thompson (West Orange, NJ) won Third Place & the award for ...
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Great Tastes Meet Good Taste At Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City Jazz Brunch Every Sunday
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Promoting both individual and communal expression, Jazz is a particularly American art form. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, in association with Jazz producer Joe Donofrio, have prepared a full-spectrum Jazz brunch experience; where contemporary and classic Jazz will mingle with the sounds of culinary satisfaction at the hotel’s brand new Hard Rock Cafe for the Jazz brunch series serving from 11:00AM until 3:00PM every Sunday. The Hard Rock jazz brunch will combine delectable dining with world-class musicianship, delivering ...
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Jazz Near You Platform Improvements / Expansion 2018
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All About Jazz
The Jazz Near You platform continually improves resulting in an evergrowing list of concerts and venues while boosting event attendance and ticket sales worldwide. What's New We launched a personal calendar feature (read announcement) which allows members to track and set up alerts for shows they plan to attend. Jazz Near You also archives attended events and will soon allow members to document those events in the form of photos, words and a star rating. We encourage our members to ...
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Dale Head And The MindWinder Orchestra "Swing On The Rocks" Release Date July 13!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Hard Rockin' Big Band! Release Date: July 13, 2018 Dale Head releases his latest album, Swing on the Rocks (MindWinder Records) on July 13, 2018, and expands the Great American Songbook with 14 classic rock songs re-imagined in an innovative big band format. Swing on the Rocks explores “soundscapes" in a nod back to the progressive rock of the 1970s. Headphone icons on the album notes indicate where these features enhance the listener's experience. Dale's background is in rock music, ...
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