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Performance / Tour

Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti 50th Birthday Celebrations

Source: AMT Public Relations
February 26, 2015

Special Performances, Recordings, and Events to Celebrate the 50th Birthday of Innovative Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti New York City, NY — Composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti today announced a robust 2015 season in anticipation of his 50th birthday (6.13.15). A champion of intercultural music and arguably one of the world’s most ingenious composers, Lukas is celebrating with world premieres at Roulette, two album releases, live performances with his jazz hybrid trio Hypercolor, a weeklong Stone residency, and more. See below for a complete ...

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Festival

Newport Jazz Festival Flex Tickets No Longer Available After March 1

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
February 26, 2015

Going, Going, Almost Gone... Newport Jazz Festival Flexible Discount Tickets To Be Discontinued on March 1 NEWPORT, RI – The countdown is on for purchasing flexible discount tickets for the Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management. Priced at just $55, Flex Tickets can be used for adult general admission for concerts at Fort Adams State Park July 31-August 2, 2015.* But, hurry, beginning on Monday, March 2, tickets will be available for the regular price of $74.00. ...

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Recording

Jazz Collective "Sasha’s Bloc" Sets "Heart On Fire" CD For March 2015

Source: Michael Ricci
February 25, 2015

Jazz Collective Sasha's Bloc, Featuring Guest Vocalist Jane Monheit and Conceived by Bassist Alex Gershman, Sets Heart on Fire CD for March 2015. A Big Jazz Band Sound, Featuring Original Music That Hearkens Back to the 1920s, 30s and 40s; An Upbeat, Modern Embrace of an Era That Gave Us the Music and Stage Presence of Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Count Basie and More With the March, 2015 release of Heart on Fire, jazz collective Sasha's Bloc aims ...

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Obituary

Cephas Bowles, 62, Public Radio Advocate And Innovator, Dies

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
February 25, 2015

Dover, NJ: Cephas Bowles, a staunch advocate for public radio and jazz for more than four decades and recently-retired CEO/President of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, died on Saturday, February 21, in Hackensack. His death, at Hackensack University Medical Center Hospital, followed complications from a stem cell transplant, said his wife, Linda. He was 62. A native of Newark and a resident of Dover, NJ, Bowles served as senior executive of WBGO-FM from 1993 to 2014, when he retired following a ...

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Event

The World’s Greatest Drummer Concert 2015 Featuring Steve Gadd

Source: A & R Marketing
February 25, 2015

The World's Greatest Drummer Concert returns on Tuesday 26th May 2015 at the Derngate Theatre, Northampton. Since the very first World’s Greatest Drummer Concert in 2007, the event has featured some of the finest drummers alive today. However it has always been organisers Ian Palmer's ambition to showcase the drumming of the legendary Eric Clapton's longtime sticksman Steve Gadd who is now confirmed to play the show. This will be Steve Gadd’s first drumming show in the UK for more ...

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Recording

Vocalist Thana Alexa Immortalizes Personal and Musical Influences on Path to Self-Discovery with Debut Album, "Ode To Heroes"

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2015

Available March 10 via Jazz Village Album Features Collaborations with Antonio Sanchez, Donny McCaslin, and Scott Colley “Ode To Heroes is an impressive collection of ambitious music beautifully pulled together by the powerful vocals of Thana Alexa that gives it all continuity. Alexa's music is challenging, but her use of the musicians and her voice makes everything sound natural and easy." —Pat Metheny “Thana Alexa is a great new talent...has a beautiful voice and is a great composer and bandleader... ...

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Recording

Critically-Acclaimed Classical Pianist And Steinway & Sons Recording Artist Lara Downes Provides A Different Take On The Music Of Billie Holiday

Source: Muse Media
February 24, 2015

When classical pianist Lara Downes was 8 years old, she wrote in her diary that her favorite song was Billie Holiday’s “I Cover the Waterfront." Ever since, says Downes, she has been enthralled with “the distinctive qualities of mood and phrasing, line and color” heard in Holiday’s singing. Now, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth, Lara Downes offers A Billie Holiday Songbook, a deeply personal tribute to an icon of American music (Steinway & Sons Records) ...

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Recording

Varèse Sarabande Releases "Keep On Keepin'" On Soundtrack

Source: Krakower Poling PR Corp
February 23, 2015

Co-Produced by Quincy Jones, The Album Features Performances By Clark Terry (With Duke Ellington, The Count Basie Orchestra, Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars) and Justin Kauflin With Original Score by Justin Kauflin and Dave Grusin Varèse Sarabande will release the Keep On Keepin’ On—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, digitally and on CD February 24, 2015. The film features performances by Jazz legend Clark Terry and his protégé Justin Kauflin, with original score by Justin Kauflin and Dave Grusin (HOPE FLOATS, ON ...

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