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Performance / Tour

Jazz at Lincoln Center 2005-06 Season Annoucement

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2005

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES 2005-06 SEASON THEMED “JAZZ FROM COAST TO COAST” IN FREDERICK P. ROSE HALL New Season Celebrates the Jazz Cities of America and Their Legendary Musicians Visit www.jalc.org For Full Season Schedule Highlights include: · The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs in festivals and concert series celebrating Detroit, Los Angeles, Kansas City, New Orleans and Pittsburgh jazz · Series of Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill collaborations with Ballet Hispanico, Israel “Cachao” Lopez, ...

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Event

Nouveau African Soul/Jazz Vocalist SOMI - Live at Joe's Pub!! (with Strings)

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2005

The beauty of spring has brought SOMI back to Joe's Pub for another amazing show! Monday, March 28th, 2005 she will return to the one of downtown's premier venues to exhale a belly full of stories on life, love, and liberation. Originally from Uganda and Rwanda, SOMI's music gives voice to the post-colonial African experience in the Diaspora with an authentic blend of the contemporary and the traditional. SOMI is currently finishing her highly-anticipated sophomore release entitled “Red Soil In ...

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Festival

Cape May Jazz Honors Ray Charles With David Fathead Newman Tribute April 15-17, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2005

March 15, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Contact: Lelah Eppenbach Executive Director Cape May Jazz Festival Next Festival April 15-17, 2005 www.capemayjazz.org (609) 884-7200 For Immediate Release: CAPE MAY JAZZ HONORS RAY CHARLES WITH DAVID FATHEAD NEWMAN TRIBUTE The 23rd Cape May Jazz Festival kicks off Friday, April 15, 2005 with a tribute to the late legend, Ray Charles. David “Fathead" Newman, a tenor sax man who met Ray when the two were teens on the touring circuit ...

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Performance / Tour

Dafnis Prieto @ the Zinc Bar Tues. Mar. 15, Wed. Mar. 16 & Thurs. Mar. 17

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2005

March 15, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Hello my friends here is our next gig in NYC... Dafnis Prieto Quintet @ the Zinc Bar March /Tuesday 15th/ Wednesday 16th. Dafnis Prieto - Drums Peter Apfelbaum - Sax, Chekere Yosvany Terry - Sax , Percussion Osmany Paredes - Piano Hans Glawishnig - Bass Also on Thursday 17th @ the Zinc Bar Xiomara Laugart - Vocal Octavio Cotan - Guitar Yosvany Terry - Sax Ruben ...

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Music Industry

Health And Pension benefits Seminar forJazz and otherFreelance Musicians

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2005

HEALTH AND PENSION BENEFITS SEMINAR for Jazz and other Freelance Musicians March 28, 2005 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Local 802 AFM Headquarters 322 West 48th Street, New York We invite you to attend this important seminar to learn how you can access the health insurance and pension benefits available to musicians. 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Health Insurance for Musicians - What are your options? Panelists: Gloria McCormick, Administrator, Local 802 Health Benefit Fund James Brown, Actors Fund of ...

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Performance / Tour

Marcus Strickland Quartet @ the 55 Bar Thurs., March 24

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2005

March 15, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] I would like to thank the many people that came to our March 12 performance - we had a lot of fun!! We're going to do it again at the 55 Bar on Thurs., March 24, so bring some friends along. “Marcus Strickland has started to turn heads in the most thriving but most competitive jazz scene on the planet...His improvisations come like a series of ...

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Performance / Tour