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Issue 4 of Bill Shoemaker's Point of Departure Launches March 1st

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

March 1, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Issue 4 of Bill Shoemaker's Point of Departure Launches March 1st www.pointofdeparture.org Since launching September 2005, Bill Shoemaker's Point of Departure: an online music journal has been acclaimed by media outlets in the US and Europe for its strong content and informed opinions about jazz and other forms of uncompromising music. “An excellent online resource." - Peter Stubley, European Free Improvisation Pages Issue 4 of Point of Departure launches March1st. Issue ...

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American Jazz Museum Dan White Exhibit: Displaying the Fine Art of Kansas City Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

American Jazz Museum Exhibit Featuring the Photographs of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Dan White Opens March 10 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Feb. 27, 2006) -- Beginning March 10, the American Jazz Museum is pleased to host the first-ever gallery showing of Pulitzer Prize-winner Dan White's jazz photography in its Changing Gallery at 1616 E. 18th St. in Kansas City, Mo. For more than two decades, White has documented the Kansas City jazz scene and many ...

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Free Seminar For Musicians - Web Publicity Essentials Tuesday, March 7, from 1-3 pm

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

March 1, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Free Seminar For Musicians - Web Publicity Essentials Chamber Music America is presenting a special seminar for musicians, “Web Publicity Essentials," Tuesday, March 7, from 1-3 pm at 305 Seventh Avenue in New York. Hosted by Bret Primack, the Jazz Web Guru who produces sites for Sonny Rollins, Billy Taylor and Joe Lovano, the seminar is designed to help musicians learn to drive traffic to their ...

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Cocoa Beach Jazz Fest 2006 April 21-23, 2006 at the Doubletree Ocean Front Hotel in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

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AllAboutJazz-New York March 2006

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

In our brief but illustrious history, we have had only three issues where our trio of major articles featured the same instrument. April 2004 and January 2005 were saxophones and September 2005 was the drums.

For our March edition, though we don't plan these things this way, we present the piano. On The Cover we have that most eminent of composers Andrew Hill, appearing this month at Birdland in support of his new album and return to Blue Note Records. ...

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Scott DuBois Quartet Switzerland Tour Dates

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

The Scott DuBois Quartet: Scott DuBois - Guitar Jason Rigby - Tenor and Soprano Sax Thomas Morgan - Bass Gerald Cleaver - Drums

will be touring Switzerland from March 2 - March 11, 2006

Here are concert dates:

Thursday March 2nd - Kulak (Villa Boveri) - Baden - 8:15PM Friday March 3rd - Chorus - Lausanne - 9PM Saturday March 4th - La Spirale - Fribourg - 9PM ...

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Ben Bowen Trio Back at the Freeway

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

On Friday March 3rd, the Ben Bowen Trio returns to the Freeway Cafe on King St E in Hamilton (www.frwy.ca). Please join us for an evening of laid-back jazz standards, jazzified pop tunes, and melodic originals in this intimate community-minded “third space," while enjoying a cup of fair-trade coffee or tea, or perhaps something to nibble on.

Show time is 9pm, and cover's $5.

Opening Act: The Lake Vernon Drowning (eerie indie acoustic folk)

Ben Bowen Project buttons still available ...

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Harlem in the Himalayas: Rubin Museum of Art and Jazz Museum in Harlem Collaborate On A New Music Series

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

February 21, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E.126th Street New York, N.Y. 10035 212.348.8300 http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/ Harlem in the Himalayas Harlem in the Himalayas: Hot Jazz for a Cold Climate Rubin Museum of Art and Jazz Museum in Harlem Collaborate On A New Music Series New York, NY- The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in Chelsea and the Jazz Museum in Harlem are presenting a series of five ...

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