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Performance / Tour

Josephine Baker Honored at American Jazz Museum in Kansas City

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2006

Josephine Baker sashayed onto a Paris stage during the 1920s with a comic, yet sensual appeal that took Europe by storm. Famous for barely-there dresses and no-holds-barred dance routines, her exotic beauty, magical stage presence and energetic performances charmed audiences for over 50 years. From her early years as a Paris celebrity, to her participation in the French resistance during World War II, to her involvement in the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s, she helped define ...

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Performance / Tour

Sayuri Goto Upcoming Appearances

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 2, 2006

Performance / Tour

Zeitgeist : mi3 + Kohlhase/Langley, 9 Dec.

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2006

s u b c o n s c i o u s c a f @ ZEITGEIST / SPACE 186 186 Hampshire St. Inman Sq. Cambridge, Mass. 02139 617.876.6060 ~ ALL AGES ~ www. zeitgeist-gallery.org Saturday, 9 December 2006 / 8:00-11:ish pm / $12 or b/o rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music presents “the mi3" Pandelis Karayorgis - fender rhodes Curt Newton - drums Nate ...

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Event

Michael Borstlap Tours US

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2006

Performance / Tour

Tony Malaby Tuba Trio (Fri) Ryan Scott And Sean Wood (Sat) Victor Prieto Trio (Sun) Amram & Co (Mon) At Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 2, 2006

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York212-989-9319 http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com 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 Sat Dec 02 9:00PM & 10:30PM - RYAN SCOTT AND SEAN WOOD (Ryan Scott, Vocals and Guitar;Christopher Hoffman, Cello;Matt Klimer, Percussion;Sean Wood, Vocals, Guitar and Piano;Patrick Hay, Guitar;Dave ...

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Festival

StringsDanceVoiceDrums - Vision Festival Dance Music Series - December 12-17

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2006

New York, NY- Arts for Art is proud to present the first of four weeks to be devoted to Vision Dance Music Collaborations. The week of performances in December is titled StringsDanceVoiceDrums. Each month from December through March, Arts for Art will present six days of unique collaborative performances of cutting-edge dancers and choreographers with some of downtown's most explosive avantJazz improvisers. These types of collaborations have been frequent since the loft era of the 1970s. The first week features ...

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Website

Happy Holidays from All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2006

Award / Grant

Legendary Record Producer George Avakian To Receive The Django d'Or Award The Most Prestigious Jazz Honor In Europe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 1, 2006

The ceremony takes place Thursday, Nov. 30th, at 7 PM at the Pavillon Baltard, 12 Avenue Victor Hugo Paris, France. Apart from the usual reasons that everyone repeats (produced first jazz album, first annotated reissue album program, etc. etc.) they have cited what I consider an even bigger contribution to the music business, which was the creation in the 1950s at Columbia of the widest-ranging and most successful popular album catalog the industry had ever seen. It soon resulted in ...

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