Jazz News

Jan Leder Trio every Friday and Saturday night at La Prima Donna in New York City

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2005

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9th Darmstadt Jazzforum — September 29th to October 2nd 2005

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2005

Treason !!! ... or Chance?

Jazz and its ambivalent relationship(s) with popular music

Jazz always resisted being pigeonholed: Some thought it to be the popular music of the 1930s and basis for many later styles in popular music, for others it was art music and as thus an alternative to the commercial aspects of popular music. Jazz musicians always had to live with this split identity of their music, they had to reflect it, but they also could make use ...

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Organissimo Releases Highly Anticipated Second Album - This Is The Place

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2005

Lansing, MI – Hot on the heels of their award-winning debut CD (Waiting For The Boogaloo Sisters… PKO Records 020) organissimo is proud to announce the release of their second full length studio album, This Is The Place on Big O Records.

This Is The Place continues organissimo’s development of original ensemble material and further refinement of their signature sound. It features eight brand new original songs as well as a lilting latin re-interpretation of the standard “Tenderly” and Frank ...

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Arts & Events Calendar for University of Nevada, Reno

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

ARTS365 — THE ARTS AND EVENTS CALENDAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO — AVAILABLE FOR FALL 2005

The School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno has published its new Fall 2005 edition of the popular events calendar, arts365, featuring world-class offerings from guest artists and performers, faculty and students within the school’s departments of dance, music, theatre and visual arts, as well as gallery exhibits and season openers of Argenta, the Performing Arts Series and Nevada ...

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Two Jazz Giants Open 2005 - '06 Season Series at University of Nevada, Reno

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

2005-06 PERFORMING ARTS SERIES SEASON OPENS WITH TWO JAZZ GIANTS — NEA JAZZ MASTER JIM HALL AND SCOTT COLLEY, TOGETHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

An evening of unparalleled jazz virtuosity is the inevitable result when you combine two award-winning artists, legendary guitarist and NEA Jazz Master Jim Hall and acclaimed bassist Scott Colley. Opening the University of Nevada, Reno's 2005-06 Performing Arts Series in Nightingale Concert Hall, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005, at 7:30 p.m., Hall’s harmonically advanced, cool-toned ...

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Marcia Miget Plays a Double Header

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

Marcia Miget at la Pena this weekend, San Jose Jazz Fest Next Talk about working overtime, Saturday August 6th finds ‘triple threat’, saxophonist/pianist/flutist, Marcia Migét performing with the Montclair Women’s Big Band at La Peña Cultural Center 8:30 pm and the following Saturday August 13, 2005 with Wayne Wallace’s Rhythm and Rhyme 4 pm at San Jose Jazz Festival. A ‘Maestra’ of many elements, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia Migét’s this year’s performances-to-date include San Rafael’s Italian Street Painting ...

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Coffee & Jazz: the new album of pianist Michiel Borstlap

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

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DeeAnne Gorman NYC dates

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

SATURDAY 8/13/05 9pm-midnight DeeAnne Gorman Jazz Quartet (D.Gorman, vocals; Eldad Zvulun, piano; Max Vater, bass & Adam Jackson, drums) 2257 1st Ave. (@ E. 116th St.) – East Harlem, NYC subway: 6 to 116 St. / M116 bus 1 (212) 348-7818 / www.orbiteastharlem.com - no cover / rockin' fun historic pub with fabulous food, drink & atmosphere / reservations recommended -

FRIDAY 8/19/05 & SATURDAY 8/27/05 ...

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