Jazz News

NEC Celebrates Protean Gunther Schuller on 80th Birthday

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

“I Hear America”: New England Conservatory Celebrates Gunther Schuller’s 80th Birthday, November 14—22, 2005

Bruce Brubaker Directs Festival that Features New New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Schuller Chamber Music, Jazz

Celebrations Include Collaborative Events with Boston Symphony Orchestra and Office for the Arts at Harvard University

“Renowned as a composer, conductor, historian, publisher, hornist, and educator, Gunther Schuller is a key witness to American musical culture. In his pioneering study Early Jazz, his rediscovery of ragtime, his championing of the ...

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Galt MacDermot and His New Pulse Jazz Band Premier "The City Suite" and Perform Excerpts from "The Tinderbox"

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

New York, New York – October 17, 2005 – Grammy and Tony Award-winning composer of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Galt MacDermot will be performing with his New Pulse Jazz Band and Broadway singers at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening, November 18th at 8:00 PM.

MacDermot will premiere The City Suite, to be released on Kilmarnock Records in the spring, and excerpts from a new composition, The Tinderbox, an adaptation of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy ...

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Blue Note To Release 'Higher Ground' Benefit CD

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

Highlights from Jazz At Lincoln Center's Landmark Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert The CD's performers include Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis, Bette Midler, Art & Aaron Neville, Dianne Reeves, James Taylor, Cassandra Wilson & Buckwheat Zydeco On November 22, 2005, Blue Note Records will release Higher Ground, a CD that documents Jazz at Lincoln Center's Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, a landmark evening of musical offering that was mounted by Jazz at Lincoln Center's Artistic Director, Blue ...

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Music Industry Partners to Release 'Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now'

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

MUSIC INDUSTRY HELPS BRIDGE THE GULF WITH HURRICANE RELIEF: COME TOGETHER NOW Multi-artist benefit record to aid storm victims will be released mid-November All-star collection includes new recordings from Coldplay, Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Clint Black, R. Kelly, Bonnie Raitt, Harry Connick, Jr. among many others plus classic cuts by Louis Armstrong, Dr. John and Fats Domino. Los Angeles - EMI Group, SONYBMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Concord Music Group along with the Recording Industry ...

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November 2005 at Cecil's Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

November at Cecil’s Jazz Club 364 Valley Road West Orange, NJ 07052 (973) 736-4800 www.cecilsjazzclub.com Tuesday 1st Jam Session led by Bruce Williams 9:00PM No Cover Wednesday 2nd TBA Thursday 3rd Latin Jazz & Salsa Dancing 9:00PM $5 Cover Friday 4th T. K. Blue Ensemble 9:00PM $10 Saturday 5th Grasela Oliphant Band 5:00PM-8:00PM No Cover T. K. Blue Ensemble 9:00PM $10 Sunday 6th Pam Purvis & Bob Ackerman 5:00PM-8:00PM No Cover Matt Chertkoff Organ Grooves 9:00PM No Cover Monday 7th ...

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Y'all of New York presents James Jabbo Ware & the Me We & Them Orchestra with George Coleman, special guest

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

Y'All of New York presents it's Second Annual Fundraiser & CD release concert for “Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington" featuring the original works of composer/conductor, James Jabbo Ware and the Me We & Them Orchestra -- Special Guest, George Coleman. Rob Crocker, of WBGO radio, will serve as guest host. Katherine Cox will be honored. The concert will take place on Friday, October 21, 2005 at 8:30pm at St. Peter's Church (619 Lexington Ave., at 54th St., NYC) in ...

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Rob Scheps performs with Jimmy Owens & Mike Longo in New York Oct. 18

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

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Wallace Roney Upcoming Appearances

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

Wallace Roney Upcoming Appearances

October 18 Jazz Bakery - Culver City, CA

October 25, 2005 Wallace Roney Group SOhO, Santa Barbara CA

October 27, 2005 Wallace Roney Group The Triple Door, Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle

November 16 - Sculler's, Boston November 17, 18 - Hartford Jazz Festival November 23 - Dec 2 - Athens, Greece

DECEMBER Dec 3-4 Montgomery Community College, PA w/Geri Allen ...

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