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Najee To Perform Concert And Tribute In Kansas City
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Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
The American Jazz Museum continues on Saturday, February 15th with the second concert in its “Jammin' at the Gem" performance series 2013-2014 season with two-time Grammy Award Nominee, the internationally known jazz saxophonist and flautist, Najee, who will perform work from his latest album “The Morning After". The full title, “The Morning After - A Musical Love Journey “(in short “The Morning After”) released by Shanachie Entertainment October 23, 2013, debuted #1 Contemporary Jazz Album on Billboard. As one of ...
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Lisa Young Rehearsing With Gondwana Choirs: "Tha Thin Tha"
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Zzzing Agency
For the 2014 Gondwana Choirs National Choral School in Sydney, Melbourne composer Lisa Young was commissioned as Composer in Residence to write a massed choir piece for all the Gondwana choirs to perform. The piece incorporates 'konnakol' the South Indian rhythmic vocal language, which is a sophisticated style of vocal percussion. It was premiered as the finale in the concert The Concourse, Chatswood, Australia on Saturday January 18th, 2014. This video has been shot at the general rehearsal. The Saturday ...
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The First Annual Safaricom International Jazz Festival
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All About Jazz
By John Wesley Reed Jr. It is essential to say, Jazz is a universal language. Jazz virtuosos will be enthused that Kenya will present The Safaricom International Jazz Festival, their first ever Jazz Festival on February 23, 2014. The Safaricom International Jazz Festival premier event will feature international and local artists such as Richard Bona, Rhythm Junks, Yuval Cohen, The Nile Project, Aaron Rimbui, Jacob and Kavutha Asiyo, Chris Bitok, and Eddie Grey in a weeklong ...
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Chicago Loves Bobby Broom
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All About Jazz
By Don Howze When it comes to jazz, Bobby Broom is the quintessential jazz guitarist and composer. Like Wynton Marsalis, Broom stands true to the history and culture of the founding pioneers of the jazz genre. Broom's style of performing with the same delicate strumming and interpretation made popular by legendary jazz guitarists Wes Montgomery and Les Paul, has made him one of Chicago's favorite artists. Born in Harlem, raised on New York City's Upper West Side and later becoming ...
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Euphoria Continues Chico Hamilton Legacy At Drom 3/16
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AMT Public Relations
Sunday, March 16 @ 7:15PM Sunday, April 27 @ 7:15PM Sunday, May 18 @ 7:15PM Sunday, June 22 @ 7:15PM DROM, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th St), New York City; Train F to 2nd Ave) HOW: $15/Advance $20 (includes copy of new CD). To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 New York, NY: The killer quintet EUPHORIA returns to DROM in a monthly concert series devoted to the work of NEA Jazz Master ...
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Dr. Judith Schlesinger Co-Produces "Beautiful Love" With Paulinho Garcia
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Dr. Judith Schlesinger
After a dozen years of commenting on other people's music, and the executive producing of the acclaimed 2011 Trust by the Sean Smith Quartet, All About Jazz columnist and reviewer Dr. Judith Schlesinger is once again putting her money where her mouth is. On Valentine's Day, her Shrinktunes Media, together with Paulinho Garcia's Jazzmin Records, is releasing Beautiful Love with a dinner concert at Chicago's International Theater. The CD, which is receiving uniformly glowing reviews in the United States as ...
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Audio Fidelity To Release Barry White Can't Get Enough Limited Numbered Edition 180g Vinyl On February 18, 2014
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Camarillo, CA – Much to the excitement of Barry White fans worldwide, Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing a limited numbered edition 180g vinyl LP of soul legend Barry White's critically acclaimed 1974 masterpiece 'Can't Get Enough' on February 18, 2014! 'Can't Get Enough' made Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time! This is the first time Barry White's music has been given the audiophile treatment! It's also the first time the lyrics to all ...
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What Is the Future of Jazz in New York?
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Michael Ricci
Being a jazz musician in New York City has never been easy. For most of its century-long existence, jazz has gotten by on the margins, and so have those who’ve played it. But the gloomy consensus last night in a panel discussion at the CUNY Graduate Center was that being a jazz musician in the city has never been harder. “In every decade, New York has welcomed, housed and encouraged jazz,” said Gary Giddins, a former jazz critic for The ...
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