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Interview

Interview: Saxophonist/Composer Tivon Pennicott

Source: Eric Taylor
February 11, 2015

Having played on two Grammy-winning albums, it was just a matter of time for saxophonist/composer Tivon Pennicott to explore his own artistry. With his band Sound Quartet, Pennicott has just released Lover of Nature, an album of sleek, sprightly jazz compositions that boldly showcases a brilliant new talent. In this interview, Pennicott discusses his musical origins and creative passions. Q: When did you learn to play the saxophone? A: I started playing saxophone at the age of 12. My dad ...

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Job Posting

Institute of Jazz Studies Executive Director Job Opening

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2015

Quick: where is the largest, most comprehensive jazz archive and research center in the world? New Orleans? St. Louis? Kansas City? Try another river city farther east. Would you believe Newark, New Jersey? It's true. On a hill above the prosaic Passaic River, where it has been housed at Rutgers University—Newark (RU-N) for nearly 50 years, the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) is revered among scholars all over the world and other members of the jazz cognoscenti, like Ken Burns, ...

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Event

50 Years of the AACM - February 26, March 19, April 28 & 29 at Roulette and The Bohemian National Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
February 10, 2015

Interpretations and the SEM Ensemble celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding in Chicago of the legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), with a series of concerts presenting AACM composers and improvisers. Each evening will feature works by many of the AACM's most renown figures, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Thurman Barker, Leroy Jenkins, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, Wadada Leo Smith, and Henry Threadgill. Events are co-sponsored by Interpretations, SEM Ensemble, Roulette Intermedia, the Czech ...

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Recording

Grammy Award Winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra Releases New Single And Video Pacific Mambo Dance Worldwide On March 3rd, 2015

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 10, 2015

San Francisco, CA - This is Pacific Mambo Orchestra’s first international video and single release since the San Francisco Bay Area sensation nabbed the 2013 Grammy Award® for Best Tropical Latin Album. Pacific Mambo Dance is an infectious, get-off-your- feet group dance anthem that’s destined to become a new club classic and will be available digitally worldwide on March 3rd, 2015. The video is a lush Latin dream that opens with joyously teasing instrumentals (among them, co-leaders Christian Tumalan on ...

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Event

Stephanie Jordan Big Band Tribute To Lena Horne At Baton Rouge Community College Black History Month Concert

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
February 10, 2015

NEW ORLEANS, LA: New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan will perform a tribute concert in honor of the legendary Lena Horne at the Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) Magnolia Performing Arts Theater, 201 Community College Drive (Florida Blvd.), Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Thursday, February 26, 2015, at 6:00 pm. Sponsored by the BRCC Student Government Association (SGA), the concert is free and open to the public. For additional information, please call (225) 216-8679. The Stephanie Jordan Big Band will engage ...

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Award / Grant

Grammy Celebration Continues For George Wein & Festival Artists

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
February 10, 2015

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. Celebrates GRAMMY Awards for Festival Impresario George Wein and Several Newport Jazz Festival Artists NEWPORT, RI – The Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. continues the celebration of its Chairman, George Wein, who received the Trustees Award at the 57th Annual GRAMMY ceremonies in Los Angeles on February 7 and 8. The Special Merit Award recognizes Wein’s outstanding contributions in areas other than performance, including the founding and production of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival and ...

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Grammy Winners 2015 - Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2015

31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo The Eye Of The Hurricane Kenny Barron, soloist Track from: Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio) Label: Whaling City Sound Fingerprints Chick Corea, soloist Track from: Trilogy (Chick Corea Trio) Label: Concord Jazz You & The Night & The Music Fred Hersch, soloist Track from: Floating (Fred Hersch Trio) Label: Palmetto Records Recorda ...

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Recording

NYC Prog Trio Consider The Source To Release 23-Minute Opus

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 9, 2015

Much to the anticipation of Prog fans worldwide, NYC trio Consider the Source are releasing their first studio material in four years; A 3-disc collection titled World War Trio which has launched with the debut of a 23-minute opus “World War Trio EP (Part 1)”. Consider The Source defies easy description. If intergalactic beings of pure energy, after initiation into an order of whirling dervishes, built some kind of pan-dimensional booty-shaking engine, powered by psychedelics and abstract math, it'd probably ...

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