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Harp Festival X

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2005

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Kusangala(Tyrone Brown, Gloria Galante, Odean Pope) performs benefit concert for strings for schools Sept 30, 2005 8 pm

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2005

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BBC To Honor Charlie Parker During Kansas City Visit

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

Kansas City USA -- The BBC is filming a special on Charlie Parker. Last week, they filmed most of the week in New York. Over the past weekend, they filmed at the Brecon Jazz Fest in the UK which featured a tribute to Bird. One stop they plan to make during their Kansas City visit, is to film the Parker grave site at Lincoln Cemetery. The BBC producer, wrote the following about the Brecon Fest: “. . . spoke with ...

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Abraham Laboriel, Patrice Rushen, and Steve Gadd to Welcome Entering Class, Accept Honorary Degrees at Berklee College of Music Fall Convocation 2005

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

BOSTON, August 19, 2005 — Abraham Laboriel, Patrice Rushen, and Steve Gadd will receive honorary doctor of music degrees for their outstanding contributions to music and culture at the Berklee College of Music 2005 Entering Student Convocation, Friday, September 19, at the Berklee Performance Center (this event is not open to the public). The honorees, Berklee President Roger A. Brown, and Vice President for Student Affairs Lawrence E. Bethune, will welcome the Berklee entering class of 2009, with approximately 815 ...

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The Jazz Gallery In New York City Opens 10th Anniversary Season Sept. 6th with Los Musicos En Cuba: International Images From A Musical Island

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

The photo exhibit Los Musicos en Cuba, the initial visual arts component of The Jazz Gallery's 10th Anniversary Season, opens on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, with a reception from 6:00 -8:00 PM. The show brings together the work of three dedicated photographers - two Cuban and one American - who, in recent years, have focused their talents on portraying musicians in Cuba. The biographical notes below briefly trace the individual journeys that led to their photos being displayed in The ...

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Soweto Kinch Kicks Off 1st US Tour As Leader With Performances In NYC At Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (8/27) & The Jazz Gallery (8/28)

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

Award Winning Alto-Saxophonist / Rapper Also To Appear At Clef Club For Jazz in Philadelphia (8/31), Montreux Jazz Festival in Atlanta (9/2) & AfricanFest in Chicago (9/3) The “blazing young alto player" (NY Times) and rapper Soweto Kinch, hailed in Downbeat, JazzTimes, Time Out New York, Billboard and other publications as the “bridge" and “missing link" between the worlds of jazz and rap music, will conduct his first North American tour as a leader with appearances at the 13th Annual ...

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Jazz Vocalist Sarah Lynch at 169 Bar Monday with Greg Skaff, Phil Palombi & Mark Ferber

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

New York City-based vocalist Sarah Lynch appears Monday, August 22nd at 169 Bar with Greg Skaff on guitar, Phil Palombi on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums.

Greg Skaff's latest CD, “Ellington Boulevard", is on the Zoho record label and has garnered critical praise. In addition to leading his own trio, he also works regularly with Bobby Watson, David “Fathead" Newman, and Gloria Lynne.

Bassist Phil Palombi, who plays both internationally and in New York, performs and records with such ...

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Deborah Weisz Quintet's Grace Coming September 27th

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

NEW YORK, NY -- On September 27th, the Deborah Weisz Quintet will release its second CD, Grace (Va Wah 002), featuring special guest, chromatic harmonica player/composer Olivier Ker Ourio. Led by veteran trombonist/composer Deborah Weisz, this longstanding New York-based ensemble includes tenor saxophonist/flautist Andrew Sterman, guitarist Sheryl Bailey, bassist Nicki Parrott and drummer Eric Halvorson. Grace, the long-awaited follow-up to 1997's Breaking Up, Breaking Out (Va Wah 001), is dedicated to Ms. Weisz's late brother Will, and features her original ...

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