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Jazz Arts Group's PBJ & Jazz Series To Feature Master Blues Guitarist Sean Carney
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH - International Blues Challenge (IBC) winner and Albert King Best Guitarist Award-winner Sean Carney returns to the Lincoln Theatre on January 11, 2014 for a blues-rockin’ PBJ & Jazz concert presented by the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) and Bob Evans Farms. Due to popular demand, this year’s season will continue to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. A one-man ambassador for the blues, Columbus, OH native Sean Carney has ...
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Allen Weber Signs Digital Distribution Agreement With The Jazz Box
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Allen Weber
Jacksonville FL — Hot of the heels of the Allen Weber Hot Shock album making it’s 88.5 fm radio debut on a jazz show hosted by Kenny MacKenzie, local Jacksonville musician and leader of Hot Shock Band, Allen Weber has just signed a digital distribution agreement with Canadian distributor TheJazzBox.ca who specializes in all genres of jazz. “I was contacted by Timothy Booth owner of TheJazzBox.ca who told me he was given my info by one of his industry sources,”, ...
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The Toughest High School Jazz Competition Goes National
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GNUStar - Talent Services Division
Orlando, FL - “It’s the only talent competition of its kind in North America,” Jeff Rupert, Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) said Monday. Five* of the nation’s best high school age Jazz musicians will come to Orlando in March, 2014, to perform with the UCF All-Star High School Jazztet, that will open for the headliners on the opening night of the UCF Orlando Jazz Festival 2014. Most state and national high school Jazz competitions ...
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Pyeng Threadgill and Brandon Terzic team for The Blues Sessions residency at Barbes
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Matthew Paneth
If the American Blues tradition has been overly saturated by endless retellings of the same songs by the same artists, it is not so much a declaration of a lull in creativity and innovation as much as it is a sign of how powerful the roots are. It is the well spring from which all current popular styles of music hold allegiance to in one degree or another. Brandon Terzic along with Pyeng Threadgill has taken this to heart and ...
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The Most Popular Version Of "Santa Baby" For Over A Decade; Hint: It Was Never Marilyn
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Cynthia "c." Basinet
CBS just aired Cynthia Basinet's “sultry, seductive" version of “Santa Baby" for the second year in a row in their NCIS LA. Her vocal styling has had reviewers comparing the latest “Santa Baby" offerings to this rendition for over a decade, unbeknownst to fans believing it to be Marilyn. Los Angeles - CBS just aired Cynthia Basinet's version of “Santa Baby" for the second year in a row in their NCIS LA Holiday episode starring LL Cool J, preceding the ...
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Pianist and Educator Jimmy Amadie Passes Away at Age 76 After Long Battle with Cancer
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Michael Ricci
Jimmy Amadie, the celebrated Philadelphia pianist and educator known for his contributions in improvisational jazz theory, passed away on December 10, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA. He was 76. His death comes after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007. Amadie was known not only for his supreme musicality, but also for his unrelenting fighting spirit. As a rising jazz pianist in the late 1950s, Amadie toured with the Woody Herman Band, accompanied Mel Torme, and played with some of jazz’s ...
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Interview: Slack-Key Guitarist Jim "Kimo" West On New Christmas CD
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Eric Taylor
Q: You have a new Christmas album. You released “Kimo's Hawaiian Slack-Key Christmas" in 2008. How would you say this CD differs? A: “Ki Ho'alu Christmastime" is my second holiday CD. I recorded it back in January 2013 while the spirit of the season was still intact. Just before Christmas I had been playing around with some slack-key arrangements of “The Christmas Song" and “Sleigh Ride," and since my schedule was pretty open, I went ahead and recorded those and ...
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Canadian Singer/Songwriter James Bruce Moore Dedicates Album To Late Wife
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Eric Taylor
It’s no surprise that one of the songs on “Lisbeth," the first album from Canadian singer/songwriter James Bruce Moore, is entitled “Stars of Silver.” After all, a number of tracks on the CD are about light – the light that emanates from life, and the light that fades when life passes away. In Moore’s case, it’s from his late wife, whom the album is named after and dedicated to. But there is a light that shines from the sweetness of ...
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