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Enter the "Gordon Grdina and Mark Helias - No Difference" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Songlines Recordings “Gordon Grdina and Mark Helias - No Difference“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on January 21st. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Gordon Grdina at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Songlines Recordings About No Difference Vancouver-based guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina has been involved in many ...
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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Nearly 50 Free Performances For The Winter/spring 2014 Season
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Plus Two Events at Museum of Fine Arts and Residencies with World-Renowned Performers January 16 – May 30, 2014 Highlights include Sun Ra Centennial Concerts; World Premieres of Charles Mingus’ Half-Mast Inhibition and Gunther Schuller’s From Here to There; A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall; Jazz and the Struggle for Freedom and Equality; residency by Dave Holland; and In the Mix one-hour concerts by exceptional student ensembles New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation Departments announce nearly 50 ...
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Jennifer Milligan And Eileen Howard Return To Columbus For Wild Women Swing The Blues
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Eileen Howard
Two veteran Columbus singers return to home base from France and New York for a concert at the historic Garden Theater located at 1187 North High St, Columbus, Ohio. The concert of sassy blues and torchy ballads is billed as “a celebration of life, love and female mood swings”, and will be in The Green Room venue at the theater on Friday, January 3, from 8-10 pm. This will be the debut of the concert which will then be repeated ...
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Hot Tone Music To Release CDs By Bassist Mimi Jones, Saxophonist Camille Thurman, Drummer Shirazette Tinnin On Feb. 4
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The simultaneous release on February 4 of new Hot Tone Music CDs by Mimi Jones (Balance), saxophonist Camille Thurman (Origins), and drummer Shirazette Tinnin (Humility: Purity of My Soul) places the label at the forefront of bringing recognition to the increasing prominence of world-class female musicians in the jazz arena. “Hot Tone Music was created to give chances to those who may have been overlooked and denied the necessary support and knowledge to develop,” says bassist Jones, who founded the ...
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Jazz Bridge Neighborhood "Jazz At The Library" Series In Willingboro, NJ Presents Michael Pracher
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Bruce Klauber
The Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Jazz at the Library Concert Series at the Willingboro Library Willingboro Way in Willingboro Township, NJ – presents saxophonist Michael Pracher on Thursday, January 16. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., tickets aret $10, $5 for students and are only available at the door. For info: 215-517-8337. A native of Belleville, IL and a graduate of University of the Arts, Michael Pracher, who has also worked extensively as an educator at U of A, University of Pennsylvania and ...
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Jazz Bridge Second Wednesdays Concert Series In Center City Presents "Bootsie" Barnes
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Bruce Klauber
The Jazz Bridge second Wednesdays, Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia—presents saxophonist Bootsie Barnes on Wednesday, January 8. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 215-517-8337. Robert “Bootsie” Barnes embodies the spirit and the tradition—past, present and future—of everything that was and is Philadelphia jazz. There likely isn’t a jazz giant who this multi award-winning tenor saxophonist has ...
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Jazz Bridge Third Wednesday Concert Series In Media Presents Tom Adams
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Bruce Klauber
The Jazz Bridge third Wednesdays, Neighborhood Concerts Series in Media at the Unitarian Universalist Church—145 West Rose Tree Road in Media—presents pianist Tom Adams and his trio on Wednesday, January 15. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 215-517-8337. Tom Adams, who has worked with everyone from Anita O’Day and Bette Midler to Mel Torme’ and Coolio, is a wonderfully inventive, sensitive and swinging pianist who often recalls the ...
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The Mike Kaplan Nonet Salutes Cedar Walton, Sun 12/29 4-7pm, Trumpets Jazz Club
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Mike Kaplan
The Mike Kaplan Nonet will celebrate Cedar Walton's musical legacy by performing new large group arrangements (for six horns & rhythm section) of some of his unique and memorable compositions. Many will be familiar to jazz connoisseurs.... and some are not as well known, but certainly deserving of wider recognition. The legendary pianist/composer (who also played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, JJ Johnson, the Jazztet and many other greats) passed on earlier this year at the age of 79. There ...
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