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Event

Stephanie Jordan Sings "Home" From The Wiz At Katrina 10 Commemorative At Smoothie King Center

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
August 29, 2015

New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is honored to have been requested by Mayor Mitch Landrieu to sing a big band with strings version of the classic tune “Home" from the Broadway musical The Wiz during Saturday's August 29th Katrina 10 Commemoration: The Power of Community at the Smoothie King Center. President Bill Clinton, New Orleans residents, faith leaders, and advocates who over the last ten years helped the City recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, will take part ...

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Event

Chicago Jazz Fest Full Lineup For September 3-6, 2015 Program

Source: Fully Altered Media
August 29, 2015

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is pleased to announce the 37th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival. The festival will take place in Millennium Park and at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington Street), September 3-6, showcasing the very best of jazz music from noon to 9:30pm daily. Additionally, the festival is partnering once again with Pianoforte Foundation for a three-concert series to kick off Festival Week. The five–concert Neighborhood Nights series line-up will be announced ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Deutsch Gramophone Decca Artist Daniel Smith Launches Kickstarter Campaign For New Independent Project - Jazz Suite For Bassoon!

Source: Nu Jazz Publicity
August 29, 2015

Daniel Smith has had an illustrious career over the years showcasing the potential of the Bassoon in classical, jazz and crossover. With his many recordings and live performances, he has taken the Bassoon into uncharted territory with ground breaking and award winning albums. Along with recording fifty concertos with orchestra, his albums featuring crossover, ragtime, bebop, swing, Latin, and now this unique Jazz Suite for Bassoon, have demonstrated just how versatile a bassoon can be, and performed at the highest ...

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Source: All About Jazz
August 29, 2015

Crowdfunding Campaign

Bass Icon Jeff Berlin To Launch Pledge Music Campaign For New Tribute Album To Legendary Jack Bruce

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
August 28, 2015

Bass icon Jeff Berlin has launched a Pledge Music Campaign for a new tribute album to legendary Jack Bruce titled Jeff Berlin Plays Jack Bruce: Songs For A Wailer! Jack Bruce, best known for his work with classic rock legends Cream, as well as his critically acclaimed solo work, sadly passed away in 2014. Jeff Berlin, who has been called “the greatest bassist in the world”, was a personal friend of Jack's and felt the time was right for a ...

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Festival

4th Edition South Florida Dominican Jazz Fest - Tributes "El Comandante" Mario Rivera Set for October 17

Source: Fernando Rodriguez De Mondesert
August 28, 2015

In October 2012, Landestoy Enterprises presented a completely new and exiting concept from the Dominican Republic: The South Florida Dominican Jazz Fest. A multicultural event that brought to Florida the best Jazz currently being made by musicians in the Dominican Republic as well as Dominicans living in the United States. October of this year is just around the corner and Miami is preparing itself for the 4th versión of this event. The level of success of the presentations have been ...

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Recording

Henry Kuntz: "Double Vision" (Humming Bird, 13) -- Free Download!

Source: Henry Kuntz
August 28, 2015

Double Vision is the third Humming Bird release that actively attempts to extend the formal parameters of free jazz improvisation. The first recordings were Envision New Music and Envision Ensemble Live At Berkeley Arts Festival. The surface of this music will not feel unfamiliar, but the thinking behind it is different; the assumptions underlying it different. Taking off from the idea of “festival form”, the music embodies a kind of meta-archetype. It is less a confluence of interests, musical or ...

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Recording

Bassist And Composer Michael Janisch To Release Solo Double Disc "Paradigm Shift" October 2 (October 16 USA) + Launch Tour + New Website

Source: Emma Perry Publicity
August 27, 2015

Some four years in gestation, the ambitious new double-disc project Paradigm Shift from London-based US bassist, composer and producer Michael Janisch sees the Whirlwind Recordings founder enter the spotlight with his multi-level approach to composition and performance. Increasingly growing in stature as a creative artist, with this expansive new album he strengthens his already budding reputation as one of the preeminent bassist/bandleaders of his generation working in contemporary, improvised music. On Paradigm Shift Janisch has taken as its basis a ...

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