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Jazz Journalists Association's Jazz Matters Wednesday May 18th at New School 6-8pm
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All About Jazz
May 11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES The last Jazz Journalists Association's Jazz Matters of the season: Wednesday May 18 6-8pm New School 55 West 13th St 5th Floor Free and open to the public “Cool Spots for the Hot Summer" - a discussion and preview of Jazz Festivals. We'll be discussing audience reach: dependency on tourists and local audience, advertising, promotion, publicity, profit and non-profit, how one decides on the schedule, how to cover a festival as ...
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JazzAscona, "The Cannes of classic jazz" - June 24 to July 3, 2005
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All About Jazz
"The Cannes of classic jazz", “The most important swing & mainstream event in Europe". Vastly updated last year by its new 33-year-old Artistic Director Nicolas Gilliet, Jazz Ascona New Orleans and Classics 2005 (Ascona, Lago Maggiore, Switzerland) will start right off with a bang. Gilliet's 2004 innovations made a hit: more 'black music'; opening up the program to big name USA 'mainstream' players, and a wider billboard reflecting a wise balance between respect-for and reform-of the great jazz tradition. As ...
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Highlights In Jazz Presents "Keepers of the Flame" Thursday, May 12, 2005 8PM Tribeca Performing Arts Center
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All About Jazz
May 11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] “HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ" PRESENTS Thursday, May 12, 2005 8PM Keepers of the Flame Dick Hyman Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks Marcus Belgrave Salute To Doc Cheatham With Randy Sandke, Theodore Cheatham Croker, Chuck Folds and others Special Guest Peter Cincotti April 19, 2005 Jack Kleinsinger's “Highlights in Jazz," New York's longest running jazz series is pleased to present Keepers of the Flame featuring Dick Hyman, Vince ...
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Barbara Sfraga & CSQ @ SATALLA, Wednesday, May 11th, 7 pm show
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All About Jazz
May 11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Barbara Sfraga with Center Search Quest's Bass Artisan Christopher Dean Sullivan and Soundrhythium Michael T.A. Thompson with Pianist/Keyboardist/Vocalist Mala Waldron and Saxophonist Allen Won @SATALLA www.satalla.com 37 W. 26th St. (6th/B'way) Reservations: 212.576.1155 Wednesday, May 11th, 7:00 pm show $15. cover New music each time we play! ***** Sfraga's bright, thrilling voice bursts each lyric, informing it with velvet intelligence. -- DOWNBEAT (Best CDs of 2003) ...
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Ray Vega and the Latin Jazz Quintet at Flushing Town Hall June 3rd 8PM
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All About Jazz
May 11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] FLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS PRESENTS “LATIN JAZZ" WITH RAY VEGA AND THE LATIN JAZZ QUINTET at Flushing Town Hall When: Friday, June 3, 2005 at 8 p.m. Where: Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11354 (one block east of Main Street in Downtown Flushing, at the corner of Linden Pl.) Free parking available Subway: 7-train to Main Street/Flushing Tickets: $30 general/$24 ...
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Bradley Leighton – Just Doin' Our Thang Street Date: May 10, 2005
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All About Jazz
Bradley Leighton Just Doin' Our Thang Pacific Coast Jazz 260001-4 Street Date: May 10, 2005 Bradley Leighton – Just Doin’ Our Thang On his second solo release, Just Doin’ Our Thang, Bradley Leighton lays down his usual flute to perform exclusively on the alto flute. The instrument’s deeper, warm and mellow sonority blends perfectly with the smooth, classic Hammond B3 group sound with which the flutist has chosen to surround himself on his followup to his 2003 Pacific Coast Jazz ...
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Kit Walker: Musical Guide in the San Francisco Bay Area
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One of Kit Walker’s most recent projects is the Acoustic Jazz Quartet with Gary Brown (bass), Evan Francis (Alto Sax, Flute), Eric Kurtzrock (drums) and Kit Walker (piano, Hammond B3). Now if you check the credentials of these musicians, you’ll find that the musical circles they travel in one way or another touch the eclectic roots we love in Mizar5. Evan Francis, for example, played with Mike Keneally’s “Beer For Dolphins” and his involvement with AAJ contributor Andrew Durkin's “Industrial ...
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Online Guitar Courses Now Available at Berkleemusic
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All About Jazz
Boston, MA. – May 10, 2005 – Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music, has added five new online guitar courses and five new college-credit guitar certificate programs to their online curriculum. Courses include Guitar Scales 101; Amps, Effects, and Getting Your Guitar Sound; Guitar Chords 101; Blues Guitar Workshop; and Recording and Producing for Guitarists. The online extension school has enrolled 3,000 students in more than 75 countries around the globe since it opened its online ...
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