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Tuesdays on the Terrace: Fred Anderson Trio
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All About Jazz
Tuesdays on the Terrace presents another inspiring season of free evening jazz concerts on the MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden. Hosted by local radio personalities, visitors are invited to enjoy cocktails and lawn boxes with cheese, crackers, and fruit or full dinner while listening to Chicago's finest jazz musicians. Dinner reservations at Pucks are recommended, call 312.397.4034. In case of rain, the event takes place in Puck's. Tuesdays on the Terrace: Fred Anderson Trio Tuesday, June 19
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Phantom Ear Music Series 4
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All About Jazz
PHANTOM EAR MUSIC SERIES #4 UNION POOL. 484 UNION AVE (at Meeker Ave) Williamsburg, Brooklyn. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6TH, 2007: 8PM: Jeremy Wilms' AND THEIR HORSES Jeremy Wilms - Guitar / Yusuke Yamamoto - vibraphone / Greg Gonzales - drums / Adam Roberts - bass 9PM: T.H.E. HOLY EXPERIMENT (Brooke Gillespie) 10PM: 2X2" Andrew Barker -drums / Harris Eisenstadt - drums Daniel Carter - saxophones, trumpet, clarinet / Charles Waters - saxophones, clarinet plus DJs Casey and Jeff. just music" eastvillageradio.com ...
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Deanna Witkowski Solo Performance at the Fazioli Salon, 8 June at 8 PM
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All About Jazz
Pianist Deanna Witkowski will perform a solo concert at the Fazioli Salon at Klavierhaus at 211 West 58th Street in New York City, on Friday, 8 June at 8 pm. Tickets are available online at pianoculture.com or by calling Klavierhaus at 212.245.4535. Winner of the 2002 Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a past guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, Deanna Witkowski looks to diverse musical worlds in her fusions of jazz, brazilian, afro-cuban, classical, and sacred music. An acclaimed ...
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YMCA Recording Project Building Steam
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All About Jazz
(Rome, NY) Nearly a year ago, the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley, Inc. engaged in an Artist Concert and Educational Series, as part of its YMCA Center For the Creative Arts Department, modeled after the famed New Orleans Center For the Creative Arts (NOCCA). Due in part to a grant from the New York State Music Fund, the YMCA was able to secure funding for a recording project which would expose the Y program nationally and raise funds for scholarships ...
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Traps Magazine Swings to Success, Resulting in 57% Newsstand Sales and Expanded Distribution with Borders
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All About Jazz
San Jose, CA - Enter Music Publishing, publishers of diverse drum/percussion magazines worldwide, has experienced tremendous success with Traps Magazine (www.trapsmagazine.com). Referred to as the magazine that covers The Art of Drumming" TRAPS premiere issue sold at a highly efficient rate of 57% on newsstands in the United States and abroad. As a result of this response from a readership of pro drummers and baby boomer bangers returning to the instrument, TRAPS has upped U.S. distribution with an agreement to ...
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Bern Nix's Low Barometer Heats Up
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All About Jazz
Maverick guitarist Bern Nix, who famously collaborated with Ornette Coleman as a member of Prime Time, has released his first new album in ten years and his only solo acoustic guitar recording, the eMusic-only Low Barometer. The album has received recent nods in Time Out NYC and Downbeat. A limited CD-R version of the album, sold exclusively by Downtown Music Gallery in NYC, sold out within hours on DMG's site and will not be re-pressed. Downtown Music Gallery's Bruce Lee ...
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Pink Martini "Hey Eugene!" Storms Billboard Charts
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Allegro Media
Follow up to the Allegro / Nail Distributed 700,000 + unit sold debut Sympathique" and sophomore release Hang On Little Tomato" Portland, OR: Two days after Pink Martini's long-awaited third album HEY EUGENE!" hits streets, the record drops in at an impressive #1 on Amazon.com. Additionally, Hey Eugene!" is sweeping the charts, currently being reported at #30 on the Billboard 200 chart, #2 on the Top Independent Albums chart, #7 on the Tastemakers chart, #2 on the Top Jazz Albums ...
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