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Jazz Arts Group Announces 2013-14 PBJ & Jazz Family Concert Series
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH: The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is pleased to return to the Lincoln Theatre for the 2013-2014 season of the Jazz Academy's PBJ & Jazz concert series presented by 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. The season kicks off on Saturday, October 12 featuring the keyboard wizardry of Bobby Floyd and his trio along with the vocal ...
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United Jazz Festival Livens Up Philadelphia Scene
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All About Jazz
By Victor L. Schermer The First Annual Philadelphia United Jazz Festival and Celebration was held on Septermber 21-22, 2013 at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz. Under the capable leadership of Warren Oree and Graziella Damelio of Lifeline Music Coalition, a lineup of small groups, vocalists, larger ensembles, and yes, poets and a fashion extravaganza, showed off their wares in two full afternoons and evenings of what local WRTI DJ Bob Perkins has referred to as “the GM, the good ...
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Swedish Prog Legends The Flower Kings Reveal Release Of New Album Desolation Rose
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles, CA - Swedish progressive-rock royalty The Flower Kings have had a busy year since regrouping in 2012 for the ‘Banks Of Eden’ album, and with a new creative vigor the band are following that with the fantastic new album ‘Desolation Rose’ due out in the USA on October 29, 2013. To be issued in a digi-pack, the US release will also include a bonus disc. The artwork, once again created by Silas Toball, can be viewed above and ...
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A Legend In Concert: An Afternoon With Peggy King And The All-Star Jazz Trio
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Bruce Klauber
“A Legend in Concert: An Afternoon with Peggy King and The All-Star Jazz Trio,” pairs the famed jazz songstress with the area’s most swinging jazz group, live and in concert at the Philadelphia Ethical Society –1906 Rittenhouse Square—on Sunday afternoon, December 1st. Show time is 3 p.m., tickets are $25 and are available at the door or online. Call: 215-730-1789. Hosting the event is popular jazz broadcaster, WRTI radio personality, and WRTI “Voices in Jazz” host Bob Craig. “Pretty, perky ...
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World Music Artists Indubious Set To Release Remake Of Sledgehammer Classic Peter Gabriel Song Lead Single From New Album Wake The Lion
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Ashland, OR: Oregon based roots-rock, power trio Indubious is set to release their groundbreaking new 11-song album Wake The Lion nationally on September 24th, 2013. The album features a dazzling remake of the classic Peter Gabriel song “Sledgehammer”. Wake The Lion was produced by renown electronic – dub musician GAUDI. The album features a progressive genre bending sound they have dubbed “RootsTronica”—an eclectic mix of Roots Reggae, Dancehall, Progressive Rock and Electronica, The early response to the music has been ...
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Social Network Created Jazz CD Release
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Dave Wright
Oakland, CA: Jazz Social is a unique CD recording project created entirely online via a social networking site. Initiated by guitarist Dave Wright and facilitated by the social networking site for musicians, Kompoz.com, this recording project features Dave on guitar performing his original compositions accompanied by host of musicians from around the world! Written, created and recorded online between September 2012 and May 2013, Jazz Social features eight original compositions in the “Mainstream Jazz" genre featuring standard Jazz instrumentation including ...
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Jazz Arts Group Of Columbus Announces Placement Of 2013-14 Youth Jazz Program
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH: The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is pleased to announce the placement of 48 students in its 2013-14 Youth Jazz program, part of JAG's Jazz Academy community programs. At this year's September auditions, 63 students, from 32 individual middle and high schools in 23 school districts in five counties, auditioned for placement in one of three ensembles: the Columbus Youth Jazz Workshop (CYJW); the Columbus Youth Jazz Studio Ensemble (CYJSE); and the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra (CYJO). ...
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