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Registration Now Open - Jazz For Teens Program Continues For 28th Year In Newark, New Jersey
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AMT Public Relations
Fall Semester: September 27 to December 13, 2025; Spring Semester: January 24 to May 16, 2026, 10:00am-5:00pm EST (schedules vary). Arts High School 550 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Newark, NJ, 07102 Student musicians ages 13-18. Register: $700 per semester. $1,200 for full year. Registration is required. Scholarships and/or financial aid are available. For more information, visit NJPAC.org or call 973.353.7058. The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the state’s anchor cultural institution, celebrates 28 years of ...
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Yifei Xue: Shaping Sound At Power Station And Beyond
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Frank Gazerro
Yifei Xue, an internationally-recognized audio engineer, sound designer, and composer, has established himself as a leading figure in contemporary music and audio production, acclaimed for his innovative work at the historic recording studio The Power Station and across global music and art platforms. Since 2022, Xue has served as a Lead Audio Engineer and Producer at Power Station, which is part of BerkleeNYC and one of the world's premier recording studios where legends of the music industry have recorded, including ...
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Last Chance To Enter the 14th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition
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AMT Public Relations
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) continues to accept applicants for the 14th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The search is on for the next great jazz singer! Solo vocalists from around the world are encouraged to submit their entries before September 2, 2025, by visiting SarahVaughanCompetition.com. In the Fall, the Top Five Finalists will be announced followed by a final competition and performance on the iconic NJPAC stage in Newark, New Jersey. The Sarah Vaughan International ...
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Bassist/Producer Frank Swart's 'Mischief In The Musitorium' Features Vernon Reid, Lenny White, Donald Harrison And More!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
A new record bringing together some of the most fearless voices in modern music: Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Nduduzo Makhathini, Jason Marsalis, Lenny White (Miles Davis and Return to Forever), G Calvin Weston (Ornette Coleman), Donald Harrison and Bill Summers (The Headhunters). This album is a collision of alt-jazz, progressive blues, and improvisational fusion- equal parts groove, chaos & cosmos. It doesn’t sit neatly in any category, and that’s the point! Think Ornette meets King Crimson in a NOLA warehouse. ...
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Deep Energy Orchestra Unveils Expansive New Album The Science Of Sound On 7D Media Featuring Members Of Snarky Puppy, Kansas, King Crimson, The 4th Dimension, Shakti & Others
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Deep Energy Orchestra will release its third studio album, The Science of Sound, on October 24, 2025, through 7D Media. Conceived and led by composer, producer, and bassist Jason Everett (aka Mister E), the album represents a culmination of global collaboration, complex composition, and genre-defying instrumentation. Following the ensemble’s critically acclaimed albums Playing With Fire (2018) and The Return (2020), this new release builds on the orchestra’s distinctive fusion of Indian classical rhythms, progressive rock, jazz, funk, and orchestral textures. ...
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Barbara Brighton: A Quarter Century Of Blazing Trails For Female Jazz Producers
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Mouthpiece Music
Reflecting upon her extraordinary 25-year career as one of Los Angeles’ premiere and most respected jazz producers, Barbara Brighton connects powerfully with—and continues to wholeheartedly embody—an insightful quote from four-time Grammy winner Orrin Keepnews, a transcendent figure in 20th century jazz who set standards as as producer, label owner and journalist/liner notes writer. “One of the most important things you can be as a producer,” Keepnews once said, “is being a psychologist.” Working with the legendary likes of Bill Evans, ...
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Seiki Yukimoto Soulbleed East Meets West—Exciting, Euphonious And Beyond Jazz
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Maria Corsaro
For music that stretches the borders of jazz, don't miss internationally acclaimed trumpeter and composer Seiki Yukimoto with his band Soulbleed East Meets West performing as part of the Nublu Jazz Festival on September 19th. Well known for his passionate and exciting shows in Japan, full of improvised riffs and unique sounds, Mr Yukimoto brings his trumpet to New York for one night only. Playing with Mr Yukimoto will be his unique band composed of veteran jazz musicians who have ...
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Burnin' Hot New Release - The Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra - Live At Dizzy's
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
For nearly 15 years the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra (SOLJO) has been one of the most precious hidden treasures of the Bronx, NYC’s majority Hispanic borough. SOLJO was founded by trumpeter-educator Oquendo, who has performed alongside Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, Eddie Palmieri, Cuco Peña, Wynton Marsalis, & many others. It started as a rehearsal band comprised of a diverse assortment of some of NYC’s most talented musicians that soon found itself with a weekly residency in the Throgs Neck ...
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