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Washington, DC Premiere Of Pulitzer Finalist Trumpeter/Composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Civil Rights Masterpiece Ten Freedom Summers
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Full Multi-Media Presentation of Three-Performance Work Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, D.C. Smith is 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music for Ten Freedom Summers In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Atlas Performing Arts Center presents the Washington, DC premiere of Ten Freedom Summers, trumpeter/composer/musical innovator Wadada Leo Smith’s soul-searching tribute to the Civil Rights Movement paying homage to heroes including Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and ...
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World Colors: A New Album by John Roney and Jazzlab Orchestra
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Vivo Musique Internationale
The music on this album is inspired by the travels of pianist and composer John Roney as a professional musician and the many musical worlds he has found. He has been fortunate to enjoy a wide range of musical cultures from across the globe, both as a listener and as a performer, and to experience these cultures intimately. This album is a reflection of the places he has been, the people he has met, and the music he has experienced ...
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A Behind The Scenes Look At Billy Taylor's JazzMobile!
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Patricia DeArcy
We are pleased to announce that Patricia DeArcy, Director of the documentary “The Harlem Cultural Council,” a behind the scenes look at the formation of Billy Taylor's JazzMobile as well as other Harlem Cultural Council endeavors like the DanceMobile, is in post production and taking a giant leap forward producing a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.com. After interviewing key members of the founding branch of the Harlem Cultural Council like jazz pianist Billy Taylor, Barbara Ann Teer, Ademola Olegubefola, Woody King ...
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All About Jazz Launches Rethinking Jazz Cultures - A Series Of Interviews With Jazz's Leading Thinkers
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz presents a new column under the banner Rethinking Jazz Cultures—a monthly series of interviews by Ian Patterson with some of the leading thinkers in jazz today. Though New Jazz Studies is in fact 25-years old, there is a burgeoning growth in academic jazz research on a global level. The Rethinking Jazz Cultures monthly column is inspired by the work of the three-year, pan-European Rhythm Changes project, which in a nutshell, questions jazz and national identities. What began ...
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Rockwired.com Re-launches Weekly 90 Minute Podcast Jazzed And Blue And Will Launch Bi-monthly Magazine In January 2014
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Rockwired Media LLC
Since 2005, Rockwired.com has provided exciting musical reportage with it's daily podcast Rockwired Radio Profiles and its monthly digital Rockwired Radio Profiles and it's monthly digital publication Rockwired Magazine. Now Rockwired re-embraces it's jazzier side with the relaunch of it's weekly 90 minute podcast Jazzed and Blue. The show returns on November 10, 2013 and will be available exclusively at Rockwired.com ever Sunday afterward. The podcast will be available for listening and downloading by 12:00pm (MST). For Rockwired founder Brian ...
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Guinness Cork Jazz Festival Is A Traditional October Holiday
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Phillip Woolever
The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is said to be a place where there's a song for every heart. It only takes a single visit to Cork to understand why that claim proves true. This year's edition runs from October 25th through the 28th, and promises to fulfill the guarantee of great music in a fun loving city. The traditional October Holiday weekend means the music and the party will extend from Friday through Monday and include an inspiring Irish art ...
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Legendary Yes Singer Jon Anderson To Play Florida, Iceland And Progressive Nation At Sea
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Asheville, NC - Legendary vocalist Jon Anderson, YES's singer/songwriter for 35 years along with his successful work with Vangelis, Kitaro, and Milton Nascimento, will be performing shows in Miami Beach and Clearwater, Florida, as well as Iceland and the Progressive Nation At Sea 2014 cruise. The shows promise to deliver an exciting mixture of material from Jon Anderson's prolific solo career, collaborations with Vangelis and classic YES songs, along with new compositions, highlighted by humorous and enlightening stories told by ...
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Jazz Harpist Edmar Castaneda Embarks On Six-date Irish Tour
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All About Jazz
The harp is not without precedent in jazz but it’s unlikely anyone has ever played the harp quite like Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda. Irish audiences are in for a special treat when Castaneda embarks on a six-date tour of the country between 20th and 27th October, culminating in a performance at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The harpist’s 2006 debut recording Cuartos de Colores fused folkloric elements typically associated with the arpa llanera from Venezuela and Colombia with jazz, but ...
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