Jazz News

'Traveling with The Duke: Scenes from a Legendary Life' on Riverwalk This Week

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2005

A childhood friend nicknamed him “Duke," and Edward Kennedy Ellington lived up to that royal title. His personal air of grace and refinement comes across in his music. The sheer volume of Duke Ellington's lifetime musical output is remarkable. Of his 2,000 compositions, he wrote hundreds of pop songs, jazz tunes, musical comedy scores for theater, and film scores for hit movies like Anatomy of a Murder. He composed three concerts of sacred music and several large-scale orchestral suites like ...

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Dekel Bor trio with Greg Hutchinson

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2005

The Dekel Bor Trio Live at Lerner Hall at Colombia University room C-555 Thursday , Feb. 3rd 10pm-1am Dekel Bor - Guitar Dave Ruffels - Bass with special guest Greg Hutchinson - Drums For tour info : www.dekelbor.com “Dekel Bor and his band are the future of jazz" (Yossi Harsonsky,Maariv) “Dekel Bor and his trio make some of the finest jazz that I have ever heard" ( Neil Feldman, publisher- NOB Magazine ) The Dekel Bor trio is a New ...

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Wynton Marsalis And Dave Douglas Featured in All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! Concert

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2005

All That Jazz: Now That's Hip! Concert Featuring the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Dave Douglas Quintet And Dianne Reeves At Rose Theater, March 9

New York, NY (February 3, 2005) Two trumpet virtuosos and one of today's most distinct jazz vocalists will headline the All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! concert sponsored by HIP Health Plan of New York on March 9, 2005 at 8pm in Rose Theater. This special evening of jazz will feature the Wynton Marsalis Septet and Dave ...

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Steve Giordano Spacetet, Sellersville Theater, Feb.11

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2005

Philadelphia jazz guitarist Steve Giordano and his group Spacetet will perform at the Sellersville Theater on Friday, Feb.11 at 8:00pm. The goup features Steve Giordano-guitars, Bob Meashey-trumpet/flugelhorn, Peter Cobb-alto sax, Brian Howell-double bass, John Mosemann-drums/percussion. Tickets are $15.00 and can be reserved on the Sellersville Theater website www.st94.com or by calling the box office at 215-257-5808. Tickets will also be available at the door the night of the concert. The group will be performing some of Steve's most recent compositions ...

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Cornelia Street Artists Salon this Thursday at 6pm

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2005

February 2, 2005

To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]

Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014

Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com

“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 CORNELIA STREET ARTISTS SALON THIS THURSDAY AT 6PM As many of you know, on the first Thursday of every month artists of all shapes and sizes foregather downstairs at Cornelia Street to schmooze, hoist a ...

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Gary Lucas and Jozef Van Wissem at Bowery Poetry Club 2/25

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2005

February 2, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: NOT JUST JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] GARY LUCAS AND JOZEF VAN WISSEM FANTASIAS FOR GUITAR AND LUTE BOWERY POETRY CLUB FRIDAY FEB. 25TH, 8pm, $12 308 Bowery (corner of Bowery and Bleecker), NYC Gary Lucas, hailed by England's Folk Roots as “without question, the most interesting and challenging guitarist playing today", joins forces with the Dutch lute master Jozef Van Wissem to play music from their acclaimed new album “The ...

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Auditions For The New Music Program At UMass Dartmouth

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2005

The Music Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces the following dates for auditions of prospective students of all instruments and voice: Thursday, February 3, 2005, 5 PM, Friday, Feburay 4, 5 PM, Saturday February 6, 10 am, Saturday, February 26, 10 am, Saturday, March 5, 10 am. In special cases, additional appointments will be made available. The auditions will be held at the UMass Dartmouth campus, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, Building Group VI. Applications ...

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Scofield & Mehldau Trios at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2005

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