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Neil Burns Trio Featuring Steve Davis Kicks Off Monthly Jazz Series In Enniskillen

Source: All About Jazz
September 11, 2014

Marlbank.net (Ireland’s only daily jazz website) in association with Harnessing Creativity and Jazzeys presents The Neil Burns Trio featuring drummer Steve Davis, Friday 12 September at Jazzeys, Darling Street, Enniskillen. Performing at the first of a new monthly Further Into Jazz Club Night, Further into Jazz shines the spotlight on a music under-exposed locally through the lens and ideas of a new jazz generation. On the first running of this exciting new night, Further into Jazz is proud to present ...

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Bandzoogle Announces Partnership with All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 10, 2014

Bandzoogle, the leading website platform for bands and musicians, and All About Jazz, the web’s premiere jazz music destination have announced a strategic partnership. All About Jazz, home to over 65,000 musician profiles, will promote Bandzoogle to their community as the preferred website building platform and integrated hub for a musician’s online DIY strategy. All About Jazz musician members can take advantage of Bandzoogle’s best-in-class customer service and design, as well as the ability to manage their mailing lists and ...

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The September Concert: The Heart Of Jazz For 9/11- Now In Its 10th Year

Source: Susan Brink
September 10, 2014

The September Concert: The Heart of Jazz for 9/11- now in its 10th Year. On Thursday, September 11, 40 of NYC’s top jazz artists will meet at Somethin' Jazz Club, 212 E 52nd St. NYC from 7pm - 1am, to play their take on various facets of that wretched day & its aftermath. They’ll be playing it all “through their horn," offering ongoing community and the healing nature of jazz as a gift to our fellow New Yorkers. There is ...

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Free Improv Pioneer Evan Parker To Give Master Class At NEC

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
September 10, 2014

Thursday, September 18 at 3 p.m. As Part of Nearly 100 Free Events for 2014-2015 NEC Season A pioneer of free improvisation, Evan Parker is considered one of the most influential saxophonists in the post-Coltrane era. Since the late 1960s he has remained a dynamic and innovative voice who has expanded the range of his instrument and the expressive possibilities of improvised music. Parker comes to New England Conservatory at 3 p.m. on Thursday, September 18 to give a workshop ...

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Interview

Jazz "Messengers" Spread The Word At 2014 Jazz In The Valley

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
September 10, 2014

By Charley Rosen On a glorious summer day in August, the fifth and final set of the 14th Annual Jazz in the Valley Festival was thrilling, nostalgic, even historic; transporting the seven musicians and hundreds of enraptured witnesses into Jazz Heaven. Six of the jazzmen had been members of various editions of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messenger, and they were all world-class artists. Calling themselves “The Message, ” the lineup had Javon Jackson playing tenor sax, Gary Bartz on either soprano ...

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Obituary

Gerald Wilson dies at 96; multifaceted jazz musician

Source: Michael Ricci
September 9, 2014

Gerald Wilson, a bandleader, trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from the swing era of the 1930s to the diverse jazz sounds of the 21st century, has died. He was 96. Wilson, who had been in declining health, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, two weeks after contracting pneumonia, said his son, jazz guitarist Anthony Wilson. In a lifetime that spanned a substantial portion of the history of jazz, Wilson's combination of articulate composition skills ...

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Recording

Arch Stanton Quartet To Release Egypt-inspired Second Album On Oct. 25 In Albany

Source: Roger Noyes
September 8, 2014

Arch Stanton Quartet to Release Egypt-Inspired Second Album on Oct. 25 in Albany ALBANY, NY: The Arch Stanton Quartet will release a nine-song second album of original music, Blues For Soli, on October 25 at the Parish Public House in downtown Albany (formerly Red Square, at 388 Broadway). The performance starts at 9 p.m. A $10 cover charge includes a free copy of the new CD for all attendees. The newly opened Parish Public House now serves Louisiana food, and ...

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Contest

Enter the "Rotem Sivan - For Emotional Use Only" Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Fresh Sound New Talent “Rotem Sivan - For Emotional Use Only“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on October 6th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Rotem Sivan at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Fresh Sound New Talent About For Emotional Use Only One of the most exciting young jazz performers on the ...

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