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Performance / Tour

Carlos Henriquez Sextet at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola - Jan. 23-25

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
January 15, 2015

World Premiere of New CD! January 23-25, 7:30pm & 9:30pm Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Reservations: 212-258-9595 Carlos Henriquez, longtime bassist for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, steps out on his own with exciting new music featuring a blend of Latin and jazz grooves. This gig will feature music from his yet-to-be released CD. The Band Carlos Henriquez - bass/leader Sean Jones - trumpet Felipe Lamoglia - tenor sax Robert Rodriguez ...

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Recording

Maria Schneider’s Thompson Fields Project Nears Completion

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
January 16, 2015

Three-time Grammy Award-winning composer Maria Schneider is nearing the finish line for her newest ArtistShare project, The Thompson Fields. As the projects comes closer and closer to completion, ArtistShare participants can listen to short clips of the project, giving them a glimpse of the Maria Schneider Orchestra’s first studio album in seven years. The record exemplifies Maria's compositional approach, with pieces descriptive of her home in Minnesota, to being inspired by first time she heard Samba in Rio. There is ...

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Performance / Tour

Guitarist Matt Panayides - "Conduits" CD Release Concert - Feb. 19 - Spectrum (NYC)

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
January 16, 2015

Date: February 19 at 7pm Place: Spectrum 121 Ludlow St. New York, NYC Admission: $15 / $10 students Phone: 212-528-1656 Conduits is guitarist Matt Panayides' second album as a leader. The album (on the Pacific Coast Jazz label) was recorded live at Bunker Studios in June of 2013 with saxophonist Rich Perry, bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Mark Ferber. The album was funded through the successful completion of a Kickstarter campaign. The ...

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Event

Do You Love Live Jazz? Then You Must Experience The Sensation Jazz Cruise In London

Source: Toni Warner
January 16, 2015

Early Bird Tickets Go On Sale For Sensation Jazz Cruise on the Thames Londoners are getting ready to groove with the announcement that tickets for the Sensation Jazz Cruises - The Ultimate Floating Jazz Party on May 31st 2015 are now on sale. Held on-board the fabulous Dixie Queen, the all-inclusive three hour luxury river boat cruise is the ultimate floating jazz extravaganza. Attendees are invited to wrap their ears around some seriously smooth live jazz fusions from some of ...

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Website

New Advertising Option at All About Jazz Leverages Amazon Store Widget

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2015

All About Jazz has repurposed its Amazon store widget (see right) as an advertising vehicle to help musicians and record labels sell their music. “The Amazon store widget is nearly twice as tall as the 300x250 medium rectangle banner and includes the added benefit of promoting and selling multiple album titles in an interface designed to facilitate sales," said All About Jazz Founder, Michael Ricci. “In many ways it's superior to the banner: it's fixed location, it's persistent, and it ...

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Education

Miguel Zenón On Teaching At New England Conservatory

Source: Ann Braithwaite
January 15, 2015

Miguel Zenón, the alto saxophonist and composer who has blended jazz and the music of his native Puerto Rico into one of the most passionate and coherent forms of contemporary expression, exemplifies the new possibilities that jazz envisions in the 21st century. His triumphs of the past decade, at the head of his own quartet and as a founding and ongoing member of the SFJazz Collective, have inspired Zenón to continue pushing creative boundaries. Identities are Changeable is the most ...

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Education

Berklee Names Jane Mendillo, Former President And CEO Of Harvard Management Company, To Board Of Trustees

Source: Berklee Media Relations
January 15, 2015

Berklee College of Music has named Jane Mendillo to its board of trustees. Mendillo is the former president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages Harvard University’s endowment and related financial assets. Mendillo had worked at HMC for 15 years earlier in her career and returned after serving six years as chief investment officer at Wellesley College, where she built the college’s first investment office and restructured its portfolio. Upon rejoining HMC in 2008, she reoriented and grew ...

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Event

New Yorkers Come To Jeff Golub's Aid One Final Time

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
January 14, 2015

January 21 all-star concert planned to memorialize the guitarist and benefit his family sells out. New York, NY: When the newly blind guitarist Jeff Golub stumbled and fell onto New York City subway tracks where he was clipped and dragged by a train in 2012, New Yorkers came to his aid. When word spread throughout the New York City music community last month that Golub was on his death bed, New Yorkers bought concert tickets to the January 21 all-star ...

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