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Festival

The Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
September 22, 2014

Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival October 16-18, 2014 Mulberry Mountain, Ozark, Arkansas Autumn has come to the Arkansas River Valley and the Ozark Mountains and the Eighth Annual Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival (AKA: The Yonder Mountain String Bands Harvest Music Festival) is fully slated with its final lineup and stage schedule. Since 2006, the MMHMF has brought the best and most progressive acoustic Americana/Folk acts to the Arkansas Ozarks, giving round competition to the long-lived ...

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Event

Renowned Composer/Pianist And NEC Faculty Member Fred Hersch Presents Master Class On Tuesday, October 7 At New England Conservatory

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
September 22, 2014

“The most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so.” —-Vanity Fair Magazine Jazz pianist, composer and NEC faculty member Fred Hersch presents a masterclass for NEC students on Tuesday, October 7 at 3 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place in New England Conservatory’s Pierce Hall, 241 St. Botolph Street, Boston, MA. For more information, log on to: necmusic.edu/jazz or call 617-585-1122. Proclaimed by Vanity Fair Magazine as “the most ...

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Recording

Sarah Marie Young - Album Release Little Candy Heart

Source: Astrid van Kimmenade
September 22, 2014

The music video of the single “Lo And Behold" of Sarah Marie Young's album Little Candy Heart premieres today. The album will be released 14 October on SnipRecords as (high resolution) download. Sarah is a well known, versatile Chicago vocalist and winner of the Montreux Jazz Vocal competition (2011), judged by Quincy Jones. One year after Young’s self released album Too Many Februaries (2013) she was sought out and signed by Dutch high resolution record label SnipRecords. From this relationship ...

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Website

All About Jazz Upgrades Musician Section and Revises Toolkit

Source: All About Jazz
September 21, 2014

All About Jazz, the web's premiere jazz music destination, and home to over 65,000 musician profiles has announced the following upgrades to its musician services: Musician profile improvements include: Discographies. Musicians can now associate their discographies with their profile. Their discography page also includes an Amazon store widget to help facilitate music sales. For more about our discography feature, click here. Content groupings. The most important information now appears closer to the top. We've streamlined the process of completing a ...

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Contest

Enter the "Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites" Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
September 21, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the TUM Records “Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on October 20th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Wadada Leo Smith at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at TUM Records About The Great Lakes Suites The Great Lakes Suites is a two-CD set featuring six compositions that ...

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Music Industry

Blue Note Records Welcomes Jamie Cullum to the Family

Source: Michael Ricci
September 20, 2014

Blue Note Records Welcomes Jamie Cullum to the Family Special NYC shows September 29 to preview his upcoming album INTERLUDE Also opening for Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden Blue Note Records is proud to announce that they’ll be the new US home of British jazz star Jamie Cullum and all will have a chance to celebrate together as Blue Note welcomes the celebrated song-writer and musician to New York, where he will give a special sneak preview to his ...

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Recording

Spirojazz's "City Of Dreams" Pays Homage To Chicago With Funk, Blues, And World Music Influences

Source: Eric Taylor
September 20, 2014

Spirojazz's City of Dreams is not music to sleep on; after all, it reflects a city that doesn't sleep, so tough that one of its great men brushes snow days off. Here the dream is not just audacious but realized in all tracks. A strong Motown feeling is evoked by the rhythmic music, making a danceable disco-like offering that has both a heavy African beat overlaid with electronica, wind and strings in a blend that mixes Manu Dibango with Nana ...

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Performance / Tour

Resonance Jazz Ensemble Premieres Fearless Force Concert At SFJAZZ Center

Source: Allison Bliss
September 19, 2014

Resonance Jazz Ensemble, the Bay Area’s one-of-a-kind jazz octet premieres new works pushing the jazz envelope in their Fearless Force concert at the SF Jazz Center’s Robert A. Miner Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco on Saturday, October 18th at 8 pm. The band will introduce new compositions by band members with arrangements of jazz and rock standards by Pianist and Bandleader, Steve McQuarry. Acknowledged by jazz reviewers for “offering a rich fusion of orchestral and big band sounds, with ...

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