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Jazz Bridge First Thursdays Neighborhood Concert Series In Collingswood Presents The Elliott Levin Quartet
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Bruce Klauber
Jazz Bridge presents The Elliott Levin Quartet in concert at the Collingswood Community Center East Collings Avenue in Collingswood, on Thursday, January 2, as a part of their First Thursdays Neighborhood Concerts Series. Showtime is 7:30 p..m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 856-858-8914, 215-517-8337 or visit jazzbridge.org. Saxophonist/flutist/poet Elliott Levin, classically trained at the University of Oregon and via private studies with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Michael Guera, has become one of ...
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Wayne Wallace’s Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin Earns Grammy Nomination For “Best Latin Jazz Album”
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
World-renowned trombonist, composer, arranger, and producer Wayne Wallace has earned a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Latin Jazz Album” for his CD Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin his seventh CD on the Patois label. The CD, which topped the radio charts and earned rave reviews and a place on numerous top CDs of the year lists, displays all the thrilling interplay, melodic invention, and blazing improvisational flights that distinguish his music. Every tune reflects the flow of rhythmic currents between Caribbean ...
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"Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60" Tour Celebrates Iconic Newport Jazz Festival
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
“Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60” Tour Celebrates Iconic Newport Jazz Festival across the Nation NEWPORT, RI – In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the world- renowned Newport Jazz Festival (August 1-3, 2014), clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, vocalist/pianist Karrin Allyson, bassists Larry Grenadier and Ben Allison, pianist Peter Martin, guitarist Mark Whitfield, trumpeter Randy Brecker, and drummer Clarence Penn embark on the 17-city “Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60” Tour, February 8 – March 30, 2014, with more dates during June, July ...
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Global Soul Vocalist Offiong Bassey's Luminous Rise
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
The singer-songwriter-poet’s self-titled debut album to get a boost from an official release Boston, MA: On her own - without the muscle of a promotional or publicity campaign - Nigerian-American singer-songwriter-poet Offiong Bassey let her captivating self-titled debut album trickle out earlier this year, which surprised by debuting on the CMJ New World Music chart at #2 and vaulted up to #4 on the SoulTracks album chart. Last month, the Boston Globe ran a full-page color feature that helped Bassey ...
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Gennett Records This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to a ragtag recording studio in rural Richmond, Indiana that between 1922 and 1928 became a focal point for a hot jazz revolution. Gennett Records was the first record company to record significant black artists like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, as well as white jazz pioneers Bix Beiderbecke and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and ...
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Benefit for Haiyan Typhoon Victims at Shapeshifter Lab on December 21st
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Phillip Woolever
A very special holiday gift of giving is scheduled for December 21st by some very interesting and charitable New York musicians in a uniquely dynamic benefit performance. A diverse assembly consisting of some of New York City’s most creative musicians has joined forces to provide humanitarian aid to victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the devastated Philippines. The benefit concert has been scheduled for December 21st at Shapeshifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn. The show features The Pookestra with director/arranger Carolin ...
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Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83
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Michael Ricci
Jim Hall, a jazz guitarist who for more than 50 years was admired by critics, aficionados and especially his fellow musicians for his impeccable technique and the warmth and subtlety of his playing, died on Tuesday at his home in Greenwich Village. He was 83. The cause was heart failure, his wife, Jane, said. The list of important musicians with whom Mr. Hall worked was enough to earn him a place in jazz history. It includes the pianist Bill Evans, ...
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Jazz guitarist Jim Hall dies
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Michael Ricci
NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Hall, one of the leading jazz guitarists of the modern era, whose subtle technique, lyrical sound and introspective approach strongly influenced younger proteges such as Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell, died early Tuesday at age 83, his wife said. Hall died in his sleep after a short illness at his Greenwich Village apartment in Manhattan, said Jane Hall, his wife of 48 years who described her husband as “truly beloved by everybody who ever met ...
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