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Recording

Legacy Recordings Celebrates Billie Holiday's 100th Birthday

Source: Michael Ricci
April 7, 2015

Legacy Recordings Celebrates Billie Holiday's 100th Birthday with Release of The Centennial Collection, 20 Essential Lady Day Recordings, on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Newly Curated Anthology Brings Together 20 Career-Defining Performances, Originally Released from 1935-1945 New York, NY – Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings is celebrating the 100th birthday of Billie Holiday with the release of The Centennial Collection—a newly curated single disc anthology showcasing 20 of the incomparable American blues and jazz singer/composer's finest recordings. Billie Holiday: The Centennial Collection will ...

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Music Industry

Philadelphia Music Alliance To Celebrate Billie Holiday Centennial As 1st 2015 Inductee On Philadelphia Music Walk Of Fame

Source: Randy Alexander
April 7, 2015

PHILADELPHIA, PA: As a special birthday gift to the woman widely considered to be one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century, The Philadelphia Music Alliance Walk of Fame is proud to welcome Billie Holiday as its newest inductee today on the 100th anniversary of her birth in the City of Brotherly Love. Billie Holiday, aka “Lady Day,” is only the first of this year’s inductees to be announced. The Philadelphia Music Alliance (PMA) will hold a press reception ...

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Event

The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors Perform At The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater On April 24

Source: Berklee Media Relations
April 7, 2015

Berklee College of Music presents the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, in a program featuring the members’ original compositions, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on April 24. The quintet is composed of students attending the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI). The concert is part of the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project, a showcase for outstanding students from America’s finest music colleges and conservatories. The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors’ free performance takes place Friday, April ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz Pianist/Vocalist Marc Hoffman To Join Wavy Train For Six Performances

Source: Marble Arch PR
April 7, 2015

North Carolina musician, Marc Hoffman will play Southeast dates with band SALISBURY, NC: Composer, jazz pianist, and vocalist, Marc Hoffman will perform with NC based jam band, Wavy Train for six dates in the Southeast during the band's spring/summer Southeastern 2015 Tour. The first performance will be Friday, April 10th at Second & Green Tavern in Winston-Salem. NC. Other stops include Asheville and Boone in NC, and Greenville and Charleston in SC. Formed in 1995 in Charlotte, NC by Cal ...

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Performance / Tour

Ryan Keberle & Catharsis To Tour The Pacific Northwest April 7th-13th

Source: Ryan Keberle
April 5, 2015

Beginning this Tuesday, the critically acclaimed jazz outfit, Ryan Keberle & Catharsis, will hit the road traversing the Pacific Northwest and Northern California bringing their music, what the LA Times recently described as “a potent blend of cinematic sweep and lush, ear-grabbing melodies" to both rural and urban centers. Ryan Keberle & Catharsis is: Ryan Keberle - Trombone, Melodica Mike Rodriguez - Trumpet Jorge Roeder - Bass Eric Doob - Drums Camila ...

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Event

The Bad Plus Performs The Ornette Coleman Masterpiece Science Fiction, National Concert Hall, Dublin, 12 April

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2015

As part of the extraordinary weekend of music that is April Jazz, The Bad Plus with very special guests will perform Ornette Coleman’s classic album Science Fiction (Columbia, 1972) in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Sunday, 12 April, 8pm. Ornette Coleman’s 1972 album Science Fiction, “a stunningly inventive and appropriately alien-sounding blast of manic energy...it's overflowing with brilliance” (Allmusic), is widely considered a landmark recording and especially so for pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King of ...

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Event

Kate Davis Announces Residency At Bemelmans Bar In The Carlyle

Source: Matt Gross
April 4, 2015

THE CARLYLE, A ROSEWOOD HOTEL WELCOMES KATE DAVIS TO BEMELMANS BAR FOR SUNDAY NIGHT RESIDENCY IN MAY Performances Will Take Place May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, is pleased to welcome revered multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kate Davis to Bemelmans Bar for a Sunday night residency. A Silver Winner of the National YoungArts Foundation, Kate became a New York transplant in 2009 when she enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music. Recently, Kate has shared ...

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Event

Kaylene Peoples & Bunny Brunel Dual CD Release, Featuring Patrice Rushen, Benefiting Bella Composers

Source: First Take PR & Consulting
April 4, 2015

An exciting lineup of musicians will play for a worthy cause April 8, 2015 at Catalina Bar & Grill at 8:30pm. Famed fusion, Grammy nominated bassist Bunny Brunel and award-winner producer, singer and flutist Kaylene Peoples are celebrating the release of their respective CDs (Invent Your Future and My Man) to raise money for the exciting new charity Bella Composers. This benefit concert promises to be a night to remember. Star Trek actor Chase Masterson will be hosting the evening; ...

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