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3-Peat For HighNote/Savant Whose CDs Receive Most Jazz Radio Airplay In The US For 3rd Consecutive Year

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
December 21, 2006

NYC-Based Record Company Ends 2006 With 14 Titles On JazzWeek's Year- End Top-100 Jazz Radio Chart & 10 In Top-50 (For the third consecutive year HighNote/Savant Records was the most listened-to jazz label in the US, finishing 2006 with 14 titles on JazzWeek's Top-100 Chart, 10 in the Top-50. JazzWeek's year-end chart appears in the December 25, 2006 issue of the nation's leading jazz broadcasting trade publication.

Each year since 2004 HighNote/Savant, a Manhattan-based jazz record company founded and run ...

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Barbara Morrison to Perform New Year's Eve in Inglewood, California

Source: MarketPlan
December 21, 2006

Barbara Morrison Headlines New Year's Eve Jazz Concert

Are you wondering what to do on New Year's Eve? Are you looking for a sophisticated night filled with great music and food? Well search no more! Celebrate with jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison, along with Ernie Andrews, Houston Person and special guests Al Williams, Lynette White and the Bu-Crew. With this lineup, you can take pleasure in a chic, refined evening of outstanding music to usher in 2007.

The celebration will be ...

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Jan Leder Trio plays Rudy's Beau Rivage Sunday Brunch '07

Source: All About Jazz
December 21, 2006

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14th Annual Barbados Jazz Festival: January 8 - 14, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
December 21, 2006

ANITA BAKER, TERENCE BLANCHARD, STANLEY CLARKE, ROBERT GLASPER, ARTURO SANDOVAL AND MORE ARE SET TO PERFORM AT THE 14th ANNUAL BARBADOS JAZZ FESTIVAL, JANUARY 8-14, 2007

The New Year will see Barbados in an island-wide musical ferment when locals and visitors get together for the 14th annual Barbados Jazz Festival, from January 8 - 14, 2007.

Barbados strives to creatively blend internationally known R&B and jazz artists along with top local musicians. Participating in next year's event are R&B songstress ...

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Seven Free MP3 Downloads from Summit and Chicken Coup Records

Source: All About Jazz
December 20, 2006

Download any seven of these fine tracks from the AAJ Download Center. Courtesy of Summit and Chicken Coup Records.

Brian Trainor Song For Island Girl Willie Pooch In My Lonely Room Scott Neumann Mud Art Lillard's Heavenly Band Swingin' The Blues Away Matthias Lupri ...

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Cape May, NJ Nonprofit Launches Mostly-Jazz Radio Station: WCFA-LP 101.5 FM

Source: All About Jazz
December 20, 2006

RIBBON CUTTING FOR WCFA-LP 101.5 FM CAPE MAY, NJ--Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano and Cape May Mayor Jerry Inderwies joined Center for Community Arts Board Chairperson Shirley “Becki" Wilson, Executive Director Steve Bacher, Radio Station Project Manager Drew Butkocy and many supporters for a festive ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, November 28 for WCFA-LP 101.5 FM, the new radio station of the Center for Community Arts. The station is temporarily located at the Center's office in Cape May until the Franklin ...

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Dekel Bor Trio featuring Billy Hart TONIGHT at Smalls

Source: All About Jazz
December 20, 2006

This past few weeks have been a great success for The Dekel Bor Trio-between recording with multi-Grammy-winning producer Robert Sadin and shooting a DVD, the band gigged all over to sold out shows, performed on BET Jazz and gave multiple interviews-with the smalls concerts being the icing on a really great cake.

This Wednesday, Dec. 20th the band will be playing their last NYC gig until a long US tour in April, with the pleasure of having one of the ...

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Up and Coming Songwriter Scores Big In Time For Holiday Season

Source: All About Jazz
December 20, 2006

Up & Coming Songwriter Scores Big In Time For Holiday Season Vancouver, BC - December 11, 2006 - Local Vancouver singer/songwriter Janyse Jaud recently received the honor of being named Finalist (one of the top 4 rated songwriters) by the Song of the Year (http://www.songoftheyear.com/ ) songwriting contest. Song of the Year is an international songwriting contest supporting VH-1's Save the Music Foundation. The Song of the Year judges are some of the biggest names in ...

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