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Loston Harris Trio at Bryant Park Tree Lighting on December 3

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
December 2, 2013

LOSTON HARRIS TRIO PERFORMS AT BRYANT PARK TREE LIGHTING DECEMBER 3 - TUESDAY JOINS ALL-STAR LINEUP OF PERFORMERS Celebrate and Give Back at the Tree Lighting Show Featuring Loston Harris The Loston Harris Trio will be featured at this year's Bryant Park Tree Lighting Show, which will present an array of personalities, musicians, and excitement. Throughout the evening, you can enjoy music performances by the Loston Harris Trio, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Carly Rose Sonenclar of The X Factor, Young ...

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Enter the "Mario Pavone - Arc Trio" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Playscape Recordings “Mario Pavone - Arc Trio“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 30th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Mario Pavone at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Playscape Recordings About Arc Trio

Arc Trio is veteran bassist/composer Mario Pavone's first live recording featuring Pavone on bass, pianist ...

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Cava Menzies & Nick Phillips Present Moment To Moment - A Mesmerizing Album Of Jazz Ballads

Source: Antje Hübner
November 30, 2013

New York, NY - Ballads reign on Moment To Moment on the extraordinarily self-possessed new album by pianist Cava Menzies and trumpeter Nick Phillips. But this recording is much more than just a “ballads album.” Many artists have produced albums filled with love songs and torch tunes at slow tempos; theyʼre designed to pull at the heartstrings, or turn up the nostalgia, or to highlight the introspective phrasemaking that ballads allow. But very few succeed at also doing what this ...

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Durham Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation Of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” For The Walltown Children's Theatre In Durham, NC

Source: Inque Public Relations
November 30, 2013

Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” Holiday-Themed Program Runs at the Walltown Children’s Theater In Durham, North Carolina Weekend of Thursday December 12 – Sunday December 15 Young people and adults alike in Durham, North Carolina, will soon be touched by the mastery and magic of Lenora Zenzalai Helm when they tap into the bliss of her musical score for “Indigo Blue: A Reimagining of ‘The Pied Piper’.”  Helm, the first ...

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Another Great New Year's Eve at Bimhuis

Source: Phillip Woolever
November 29, 2013

In Amsterdam, the party is often the city itself, and that holds especially true on New Year’s Eve. For jazz fans, the local institution Bimhuis is consistently the finest fiesta in town. A mix of excellent entertainment, followed by early morning DJs, dancing and dining has established Bimhuis as one of Amsterdam’s premiere holiday destinations. This year’s gala opens with a dynamic quartet featuring Benjamin Herman on sax, Peter Beets on piano, bassist Ruud Jacobs and drummer Han Bennink, a ...

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Guitarist Allen Weber Making Jazz Fusion Accessible

Source: Allen Weber
November 28, 2013

Jacksonville FL – Sine the early 1970's when Miles Davis put out his album Bitch's Brew, John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra released their hard fusion, Chick Corea released his jazz fusion saying the word “Jazz” makes most people shiver in fright. They have been afraid of the term “Jazz”. Their eyes glaze over, and they think the music is “over their heads”, “too sophisticated”, “you can't dance to it”. With the debut release by Allen Weber with his Hot Shock ...

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Lizz Wright And Savion Glover Light Up Ellington At Christmas

Source: Christine Saunders
November 28, 2013

AN ELLIGINTON CHRISTMAS: THE ELLINGTON NUTCRACKER A joyful holiday salute to the Duke’s “Nutcracker Suite” and “Sacred Music,” featuring tap master Savion Glover and the Dance Theater of Harlem School 48 member Arts High Advanced Choir will perform with the David Berger Jazz Orchestra Sunday, December 8th, 4:00pm NJPAC’s Prudential Hall NJPAC is proud to welcome Newark’s own virtuosic tap dancer Savion Glover for a special holiday presentation featuring the music of Duke Ellington on Sunday, December 8 ...

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Where The Cerebral And The Visceral Meet... Fortunes And Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2 by Mike Davis

Source: Mike Davis
November 28, 2013

The latest album from Tmpf Records features Mike Davis on double bass, Jacob Duncan on alto saxophone and Jason Tiemann on drums. All songs were spontaneously composed by the trio utilizing two compositional concepts created by Davis. The first he calls “Fortunes," and the second he calls “Hat-tricks." “Fortunes" is a spontaneous compositional concept based on immediate and undiscussed interpretations of evocative song titles. Mike first explored this idea in his band Conundrum around 1999/2000. This band was comprised of ...

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