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Jazz Saxophonist/Composer David Rubel Announces Tour And Live Recording

Source: LMC Media
February 23, 2015

Talented Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Recording Artist David Rubel announces his 2015 SPRING TOUR and 'LIVE' RECORDING February 27th - March 7th Ottawa, Montreal, Richmond Hill, and Toronto Special Guest: Noted London, UK Vibraphonist Nat Steele 'LIVE' Recording will take place on MARCH 5th, 6th & 7th at Toronto's Premiere Jazz Performance Space Jazz Bistro “David has such a great sound! He knows the history of jazz, and he can really swing. I know that he'll become one ...

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Bria Skonberg Quartet On SF Bay Area Stages

Source: Bill Johnson
February 23, 2015

Bria Skonberg Hot NYC Jazz Trumpeter on SF Bay Area Stages OAKLAND/MILL VALLEY, CA: Chanteuse Bria Skonberg has been called the beautiful jazz singer with a golden horn and that’s certainly apropos. “If Louis Armstrong and Doris Day could somehow be the same person, they'd be Bria Skonberg. With her outstandingly ‘Satchelmouthed’ trumpet solos, charismatic singing and sunshine personality, the 30-year-old continues to shine a light on the New Hot Jazz movement, in her own bands, in the Armstrong Eternity ...

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Obituary

Jazz Musician Clark Terry Dies at 94

Source: Michael Ricci
February 22, 2015

Longtime jazz musician and educator Clark Terry has died. He was 94. Al Hicks, director of the documentary about Clark's life, Keep on Keepin' On, told The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday. He had been in failing health for several years due to advanced diabetes and entered hospice earlier this month, Billboard reported. On Feb. 11, Terry's Facebook page informed followers of his declining health and transition into hospice care. “It is with a heavy heart we share that our beloved ...

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Obituary

Trumpet maestro Clark Terry dies at 94

Source: Michael Ricci
February 22, 2015

Dynamic jazz big band leader, composer and arranger's career spanned more than 75 years Clark Terry, a Grammy award-winning trumpet player and composer who recorded with greats such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Quincy Jones, has died aged 94, his wife said on Sunday. Terry, who had gone into hospice care after suffering from diabetes, “has joined the big band in heaven where he'll be singing and playing with the angels", Gwen Terry said on the musician's Facebook page. ...

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Jazz Contest For Women Composers!

Source: Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
February 21, 2015

SEATTLE WOMEN’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA (SWOJO) announces the Third Annual Jazz Ensemble Composition Contest for Women Composers. The winning composition will be performed and recorded live by the Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra with award-winning guitarist Mimi Fox in Seattle. The winner of the contest will receive a $400 honorarium, an audio recording of their piece performed live, and the winning composition will be published by SWOJO or their designated publisher. Submission deadline is June 30, 2015. Visit swojo.org for complete details ...

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Recording

Debut CD By Pianist, Composer & Bandleader Levon Mikaelian’s World Jazz Fusion Band United Shades Of Artistry Set For Release April 07, 2015

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
February 21, 2015

Baltimore and Washington, D.C. are not cities that immediately come to mind when imagining fertile grounds for the birth of World Jazz bands. Yet these metropolitan areas boast as diverse a multi-cultural population as any region of the U.S. and generations of musicians have been nurtured at both jam sessions within the Capitol Beltway as well as up I-95 within the hallowed halls of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. United Shades Of Artistry, the self-titled debut recording of ...

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Tenor Saxophonist, Composer & Bandleader Dahi Divine To Release Debut Recording “the Element” April 07, 2015

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
February 21, 2015

The list of notable jazz artists who where born, raised or have resided in Philadelphia is extensive and includes such legendary masters as Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Sonny Fortune, Archie Shep, McCoy Tyner and Sun Ra as well as today’s keepers of the flame like Christian McBride, Jaleel Shaw, Terrell Stafford, Tim Warfield and Orrin Evans. One can add to this illustrious lineage a young man at the forefront of the latest generation of ...

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2015 Is Year Of John Coltrane: 50th Anniversary Of" A Love Supreme," A New Documentary, And Grammy Win For Offering

Source: Michael Ricci
February 20, 2015

MUSIC HISTORIAN ASHLEY KAHN WINS BEST ALBUM NOTES GRAMMY FOR HIS ESSAY ON OFFERING: LIVE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (RESONANCE/IMPULSE!) Exactly fifty years after John Coltrane’s most successful year of his career—when in 1965 he achieved a best-selling album with A Love Supreme, earned two Grammy nominations and was inducted into Down Beat magazine’s prestigious Hall of Fame—the saxophone legend stands to reach another peak of popularity and awareness. In 2015, Coltrane will be the subject of a new documentary produced ...

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