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Discover The Musical Innovators Of Tomorrow With CI Salon Nights A Free Series Of Concerts At New England Conservatory, April 5 – 19

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
March 19, 2016

Discover the best improvisers of tomorrow with CI Salon Nights, ten one-hour concerts, Tuesday, April 5, Monday, April 11 and Monday-Tuesday April 18-19, 2016 at New England Conservatory in Boston. These concerts, featuring students from NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation department, take place at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Each ensemble meets weekly and is coached by a member of NEC's renowned faculty including Mal Barsamian, Linda Chase, Anthony Coleman, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Amir Milstein, ...

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Festival

Sun Ra Arkestra Headlines 2nd Annual Beacon Jazz Festival -- June 25, Riverfront Park, Beacon, NY

Source: James Keepnews
March 18, 2016

The legendary cosmic jazz of Sun Ra Arkestra—under the direction of their longtime, nonagenarian alto saxophonist, Marshall Allen—headlines the second annual Beacon Jazz Festival. Sponsored by Birches Associates and once more celebrating this quintessential American music, alongside the distilleries, craft vendors, culture and natural splendor of the Hudson Valley, the second Beacon Jazz Festival will take place on Saturday, June 25 from 2-7 PM at Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park in Beacon, NY. In addition to presenting Sun Ra ...

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Recording

Blue Engine Records Releases "The Abyssinian Mass" Double Album + Bonus Documentary DVD From The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis Featuring Damien Sneed And Chorale Le Chateau

Source: 'stache Media
March 18, 2016

Landmark collaboration of jazz, gospel, instrumentation and vocals marks Marsalis’s first original recorded composition in six years Raise your voices and lift your hearts as Blue Engine Records releases The Abyssinian Mass by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis featuring Damien Sneed, Chorale Le Chateau and Special Guest Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III on March 18, 2016. The Abyssinian Mass—a landmark collaboration of jazz, gospel, instrumentation and vocals—marks Marsalis’s first original recorded composition in six years. ...

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Christopher Davis-Shannon releases video and free download of "Lulu's Back In Town"

Source: Christopher Davis-Shannon
March 17, 2016

Christopher Davis-Shannon: “LuLu’s Back in Town” Live Video. Philly Songwriter Continues Year-Long Jazz Covers Project. Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Davis-Shannon has released a video and free download for his interpretation of the Fats Waller classic “LuLu’s Back in Town”. The song, popularized in 1935, continues the Philadelphia native’s year-long mission to bring some lighthearted awareness to the concise pop sensibility of traditional jazz songs. His performances, typically shot and edited from the comfort of his own home, have paid ...

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Festival

Jazzahead! 2016 in Bremen, Germany Set For April 21-24

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
March 17, 2016

Trade Fair and Festival Since 2006 Set for April 21-24 2016 For the past 11 years, jazzahead! has emerged as the crucial meeting point of the international jazz industry. More than 3,000 professionals in the genre, festival directors, club programmers, publishers, label owners, musicians, agents, producers and journalists gather every April in the provincial town of Bremen, Germany. This city might be better known for its harbor Bremerhaven that for decades served as a gateway for hundreds of ...

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Discover The Jazz Innovators Of Tomorrow With 'in The Mix' A Free Series Of 27 Concerts Showcasing New England Conservatory's Exceptional Jazz Ensembles Monday, April 11 – Wednesday, May 4

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
March 17, 2016

Discover the jazz innovators of tomorrow with In the Mix, 26 free 1-hour concerts, Monday, April 11 – Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at New England Conservatory in Boston. These concerts, featuring NEC’s jazz ensembles, take place at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. each evening and are free and open to the public. Go to necmusic.edu or call 617-585-1122 for more details. Each ensemble meets weekly and is coached by a member of NEC's renowned faculty including Jason Moran, John Lockwood, ...

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Recording

Drummer Daniel Freedman Leads An All-Star Quintet On Imagine That, With Rhythmically Infectious Originals, A Radiohead Cover And Guest Vocal On "Baby Aya" By World Music Star Angélique Kidjo

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
March 16, 2016

Drummer Daniel Freedman Leads an All-Star Quintet on Imagine That, with Rhythmically Infectious Originals, a Radiohead Cover and Guest Vocal on “Baby Aya" by World Music Star Angélique Kidjo The album—to be released in the U.S. by Anzic Records on April 15, 2016—finds Freedman in league with a group of kindred spirits: guitarist Lionel Loueke, keyboardist Jason Lindner, bassist Omer Avital and percussionist Gilmar Gomes. “His restless global spirit has informed the music of renowned artists such as Anat Cohen ...

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Festival

9th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival To Be Held Across Two Sundays In Brooklyn's Urban Meadow, June 12 & 19 From 1-6pm

Source: James Keepnews
March 16, 2016

“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York Times “The lineup seems to get better every year at the Red Hook Jazz Festival, held on two successive Sundays at the Urban Meadow. ...

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