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Radio

Summer Jazz BBQ This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
July 3, 2014

This week, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band swings their way through some of your favorite warm-weather tunes. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Jim and the Band light up the sky with a number Louis Armstrong recorded with his Hot Five in Chicago in 1928. “Fireworks” has multiple strains and is played in two keys, making it ...

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Recording

Laurie Antonioli Sings The Music Of Joni Mitchell On Her New Origin CD, Due August 19

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
July 2, 2014

Vocalist Laurie Antonioli delivers the most personal and soul-baring statement of her esteemed career with the release, on August 19, of Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: The Music of Joni Mitchell. The CD, her first for the Origin label, finds the acclaimed Bay Area jazz singer returning with obvious passion and inspiration to her earliest musical influence. “Joni’s music is such a part of me, it’s like a second skin,” says Antonioli. “So is jazz, of course, but this ...

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Music Industry

Southern Cross Kitchen Strikes A Chord In Conshohocken With New Music Lounge

Source: Michael Ricci
July 2, 2014

Acclaimed Bar and Restaurant To Open “The Barrel Room” Featuring Live Music Nightly July 2, 2014 – “When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you understand now why you came this way…” – Crosby, Stills & Nash. Named after one of the most iconic classic rock songs of our generation, it seems only fitting that Southern Cross Kitchen (SCK) has revealed plans to open the largest music venue in Conshohocken. “The Barrel Room,” which will be located ...

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Performance / Tour

Peter Epstein Will Tour In Support Of New Songlines Release, Polarities

Source: GoMedia PR
July 1, 2014

Saxophonist Will Perform on East and West Coasts from July through September Reno-based saxophonist Peter Epstein, whose new Songlines CD, Polarities, has garnered such strong reviews as “it's music of a higher order that's filled with endless surprises...expanding and contracting in fascinating ways" (allaboutjazz.com) and “it's a controlled burn...Epstein never loses the lyricism that defines his style"(Improvised blog), will tour throughout the US in the late summer/early fall. Epstein's slate of performances will begin in NYC on July 29, with ...

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Recording

Paquito D'Rivera's "Jazz Meets The Classics" Out On Aug. 5th!

Source: Bret Sjerven
July 1, 2014

Legendary Cuban born woodwind master Paquito D'Rivera will release his new classical meets jazz fusion recording on his own Paquito Records on August 5th! The border between classical and jazz music has always been a fluid one, with composers from each camp finding inspiration on both sides of the divide. It wasn’t long ago that Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok were studying the exciting, extemporaneous new music of jazz musicians. Of course, many jazz musicians were just as ...

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Performance / Tour

Trumpeter Duane Eubanks In Hawthorne Park Concert Thurs. July 24th!

Source: Jim Miller
July 1, 2014

Jazz Bridge and Friends of Hawthorne Park present Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, bandleader and recording artist Duane Eubanks and his Quartet on Thursday, July 17th (rain date, July 24th). This is the third in the four-concert Jazz in Hawthorne Park series, each featuring our area’s finest jazz artists. Hawthorne Park is at 12th and Catharine Streets, and performances run from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Further information: jazzbridge.org or hecphilly.org. Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs! Philadelphia native Duane Eubanks is ...

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Recording

Guitar Legend Carl Verheyen Releases New CD Mustang Run Feat. Simon Phillips, Chad Wackerman, Jerry Goodman And Bill Evans

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
July 1, 2014

Los Angeles, CA - Much to the excitement of guitar players and Supertramp fans worldwide, guitarist Carl Verheyen has released his new CD 'Mustang Run'. In his 40-plus years of playing the instrument, Carl Verheyen has created a wildly successful, multi-faceted career. He is a critically-acclaimed musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer and educator with 11 CDs and two live DVDs released worldwide. Carl is commonly regarded as a guitar virtuoso capable of playing any style of music with remarkable mastery ...

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Award / Grant

Stanley Clarke Invited Into Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Source: Diane Hadley Public Relations
July 1, 2014

We’re pleased to announce film composer Stanley Clarke’s invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. This year only 271 artists and executives were extended invitations to the elite 6,417 membership. All have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. “This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the ...

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