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It’s The Last Call for Le QuecumBar’s crowdfunding campaign! We need Your Support!
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Maroto Lounge
A month ago, Le QuecumBar, the home and temple of Gypsy swing, London, started a crowdfunding campaign in response to rising rents. Like many jazz clubs and live music venues, Le Que has been subjected to rising rental and lease costs but fought back to remain in situ. To date, their crowdfunding campaign has raised £17,000 of the required £35,000. The rules of Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website, state that all funds must be raised for pledges to be received. Here’s ...
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Dave Douglas Quintet Returns With "Brazen Heart"
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Fully Altered Media
Trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas, one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians of our time, has created “a body of work [that] reflects an inveterate engagement with the world, taking inspiration from literature, politics, dance and film, as well as jazz and new-music traditions,” writes Nate Chinen of The New York Times. But Douglas also draws from deep personal experience to inform his art. In 2012 he honored his late mother, Emily, with the album Be Still, debuting ...
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Saxophonist Scott Jeppesen Takes Inspiration From Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World On Second Album, "Wonders" On Oct 23rd
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Album Features top Los Angeles players Larry Koonse (guitar), Josh Nelson (piano/keyboard), Dave Robaire (bass), Dan Schnelle (drums) Straight-ahead jazz’s fixation on the past can often lead to stagnation. But on his dazzling new album, Wonders, Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Scott Jeppesen attacks the problem in an unlikely way: he reaches way further back. So far back, in fact, that there’s no room for imitation. The album draws its inspiration from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—and without photos ...
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Motema Music Proudly Releases "Untold Stories" From Pianist/Composer Shai Maestro
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
CD RELEASE CELEBRATIONS: SEPTEMBER 29 @ THE JAZZ STANDARD, NYC NOVEMBER 7 @ EXIT 0 JAZZ FESTIVAL, CAPE MAY, NJ “He's developed on the piano a fluidity and hot intensity normally found in molten lava, with rapid improvisatory ideas spewing as if shot out of a volcano. Maestro's third album as a leader, features his current trio of bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Ziv Ravitz. The band is a welcome and entry into the hallowed hall of ...
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Jazz Near You App v2.0 is now available at the Kindle Store!
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Michael Ricci
Attention Kindle users! That Jazz Near You app is now available for download at the Kindle Store. About the app Never miss another jazz show again! Jazz Near You is a simple yet powerful way for fans to discover who is playing where and when. View local jazz events by date, by venue or by musician; map to venues, share events on Facebook and Twitter, and get detailed information about musicians. Jazz Near You is your complete guide to jazz ...
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NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis Marsalis Announces Crowdfunding Campaign For His Latest New Orleans Tribute Project Entitled "Heirs"
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Nu Jazz Publicity
NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis, the youngest recipient of the highest U.S. Jazz honor, has launched a new crowd funding campaign for his latest project Heirs of the Crescent City. Heirs of the Crescent City is a soundtrack recording to an accompanying documentary. directed by Sascha, entitled Heirs. The film is about the various traditions that are passed on through families in New Orleans. The music on this album reflects those traditions as elements of Traditional Jazz, Mardi Gras, and ...
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Chicago Drummer/Composer/Impresario Mike Reed Releases "A New Kind Of Dance" (482 Music) – The 6th Album By His Acclaimed Quartet People, Places, And Things - Out Sept 25th
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A New Kind of Dance Features Reed's Original Compositons, Alongside Covers of Ellington/Strayhorn, Mos Def & A Traditional Bulgarian Folk Dance Also Features Luminary Matthew Shipp & Thelonious Monk Competition Winner Marquis Hill When drummer, composer and bandleader Mike Reed isn’t playing music he spends much of his time watching others making it. But he also observes audiences. As a concert and festival organizer he’s informally noted the interaction between performer and audience for years, and while his rapidly expanding ...
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Bringing Latin To Britten – FlipSide at Snape Maltings, October 2-4, 2015
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Michael Ricci
A Latin American arts festival in sleepy Suffolk? It sounds “bonkers," as FlipSide executive director Genevieve Christie puts it. However, the festival is now marking its third year at Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast. FlipSide 2015 presents its most intriguing bill of fare yet with writers like Louis de Bernières, Fernanda Torres, Esther Freud, Chloe Aridjis and David Hare. There are art exhibitions, workshops for children, dance classes in samba and tango, great South American food and ...
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