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Education

Modern Guitar Harmony Launches New Website For Harmonic Explorations On Guitar

Source: Marcel Springorum
June 12, 2025

Modern Guitar Harmony is proud to announce the launch of its newly redesigned educational website, ModernGuitarHarmony.com, a premier destination for guitarists seeking to deepen their understanding of advanced harmony, improvisation, and modern composition techniques. The updated platform offers a rich and growing library of eBooks, courses, and mentorship programs, featuring content from world-renowned guitarists such as Ben Monder, John Stowell, Gilbert Isbin, and others. Designed for serious musicians, the site caters to intermediate-to-advanced players who want to move beyond basic ...

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Music Industry

Jazz-con Partners With All About Jazz To Present The Jazz Forward Awards At The Inaugural Jazz-con: 2025!

Source: Nu Jazz Publicity
June 11, 2025

Jazz-Con, the new global music-business conference dedicated to the future of jazz, announced today that it will partner with All About Jazz—the premier online jazz resource since 1995—to present the Jazz Forward Awards during the inaugural Jazz-Con 2025 (September 15-16, virtual). Founded by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz has spent three decades championing the music, expanding its platform to spotlight the people and organizations moving jazz forward. The Jazz Forward Award recognizes those trailblazers: businesses, nonprofits, educators, and entrepreneurs who ...

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Festival

The Sicilia Jazz Festival Set For June 22 to July 6 with Cecile McLorin, Eliane Elias, Victor Wooten, Jazzmeia Horn, John Pizzarelli and more

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2025

The Sicilia Jazz Festival 2025, now in its fifth edition, reaffirms its status as a major cultural event, showcasing an impressive lineup of 85 concerts: eight orchestral productions, 61 performances in the Village area, 14 regional concerts, and two in community-based venues. The festival engages 385 musicians, features five world premieres with artists like Village People, Nina Zilli, Piero Pelù, Jazzmeia Horn, and Victor Wooten, and presents three national exclusives with John Pizzarelli, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Eliane Elias. Representing ...

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Recording

Mandingo Kora Master Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko Joins Trumpeter/Producer Volker Goetze On 'Sargal,' Out Now On Motema Music

Source: GoMedia PR
June 9, 2025

This June, New York-based trumpeter/producer Volker Goetze and Senegalese kora master/innovator Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko are set to release Sargal, a duo album with guest features by the world-renowned percussionist Mino Cinélu, famed for his work with Miles Davis and Weather Report. Recorded in jjny: Paris at the Goethe-Institut in 2021, Sargal documents the first explorations of a powerful new musical partnership. As a producer and trumpeter, Volker Goetze first came to world music fame in 2008 when his recordings ...

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Festival

The Columbia Pike Blues Festival Brings D.C. Community Together on June 14th, 2025

Source: 9th Floor Music
June 8, 2025

Now in its 28th year, The Columbia Pike Blues Festival (June 14, 2025 from 1:00pm-8:30pm) is an electrifying summer celebration that brings music, community, and culture together in the heart of Arlington’s most vibrant corridor. This festival is the largest blues festival in the D.C. metro area. Presented by the Columbia Pike Partnership in partnership with Arlington Arts, the festival shines a spotlight on the phenomenal musical talent of Washington D.C. while honoring the rich diversity and lively spirit of ...

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Recording

Sharon Riley Rexach Joins Maritzaida In Reviving A Puerto Rican Legacy With Radio Bohemia Volumen I

Source: Aaron Weibe
June 7, 2025

Traducción al español a continuación... Puerto Rican vocalist Maritzaida is proud to announce the upcoming release of Radio Bohemia Volumen I: La Música de Sylvia Rexach y Tutti Umpierre, arriving on all digital platforms July 11, 2025. Inspired by the original 1953 radio broadcasts of legendary composer Sylvia Rexach and pioneering guitarist Tutti Umpierre, the album brings to life the sound and soul of Puerto Rico’s música bohemia—with a special appearance by Sharon Riley Rexach, Sylvia’s daughter, who served as ...

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Music Industry

Eliot King Smith Teams Up With Audrey Martells (Chic) To Bring To Life The Story Of Josephine Baker

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 6, 2025

In the 1920s, faced with the grinding poverty and segregation of East St. Louis, Josephine Baker took her dancing and musical talents first to New York, and then, at 19, arrived in Paris to perform with the Folies Bergère. Entranced by her reception and treatment by French society, she rose to stardom almost immediately at the Folies. She starred in multiple films, and scored a big hit song that summed up her reverence for the freedom she experienced as a ...

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Performance / Tour

Tix On Sale For Upcoming Shows At New Jersey Performing Arts Center Including Stanley Jordan, Arturo Sandoval, And More

Source: AMT Public Relations
June 5, 2025

Announcing Preliminary Fall Season of Jazz at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) including Stanley Jordan Playing Jimi Hendrix, Arturo Sandoval, and more—sponsored in part by TD Bank Tickets Go on Sale Friday, May 30, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. NJPAC One Center Street Newark, NJ 07102 Sat 11.08 @ 7:30 P.M. Omar Sosa Quarteto Americanos Omar Sosa – piano Sheldon Brown – saxophone/clarinet/flute Ernesto Mazar Kindelán – bass Josh Jones – drums It’s Latin ...

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