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Performance / Tour

The Grandmothers Of Invention Featuring Legendary Zappa Alumni Don Preston & Napoleon Murphy Brock To Embark On 'one Size Fits All And More' Us Tour

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 15, 2013

Los Angeles, CA - Having just completed a month long European tour of performances in the CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, HOLLAND, SWITZERLAND, the GrandMothers Of Invention, featuring legendary Frank Zappa Alumni Napoleon Murphy Brock and special guest artist Don Preston, once again will tour America. This time around the ensemble will be performing the ONE SIZE FITS ALL album in its entirety, along with other MOI/FRANK ZAPPA favorites from BONGO FURY, OVERNITE SENSATION, ROXY & ELSEWHERE, UNCLE MEAT ...

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Radio

Artie Shaw: Portrait Of Perfection This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
June 14, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum and the Band pay tribute to Artie Shaw, the only serious rival Benny Goodman had to his title as “The King of Swing." By the time he was 30, Shaw’s effortless clarinet solos, his innovative musical arrangements, and his unusual band instrumentation earned him a place in the pantheon of 20th-century jazz greats. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand ...

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Festival

Newport And The Jazz Festival: A Symbiotic Relationship

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
June 14, 2013

2013 Festival Set for August 2-4 at International Tennis Hall of Fame and Fort Adams State Park NEWPORT, RI – For one weekend every August, the idyllic setting of Newport combusts with the passion of jazz to produce the Newport Jazz Festival. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Since its beginning in 1954, the festival has delivered line-ups that both have showcased jazz history and predicted it, while the city of Newport has lent the festival an unparalleled home steeped in history ...

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Education

Dave Holland Joins Royal Academy Of Music

Source: Peter Craik
June 14, 2013

The Royal Academy of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of jazz legend Dave Holland to its illustrious roster of of teachers. Dave Holland said: “I'm very happy to have been invited by the Royal Acadamy of Music to be their International Jazz Artist in Residence for the next two years. Spending some extended time with the students of the jazz department will give me the opportunity to share with them some of my own creative ideas and also ...

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Recording

Philip May Quartet Releases New CD

Source: Philip May
June 14, 2013

SUDBURY, ON (CANADA): On June 18 2013, jazz drummer Philip May will release his new recording “Sudbury”, named after his hometown in Northern Ontario, Canada. Philip May began playing drums professionally at age fourteen and pursued his studies both at Berklee and York University. His jazz quintet Broche à Foin’s last album, “People We Have Known”, won the 2011 Best Album of the Year by a Group Award by Music and Film in Motion. This new album, “Sudbury,” his first ...

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Education

New York Jazz Academy Summer Jazz Intensives, NYC Music Camps For Adults And Teens, Now Enrolling

Source: New York Jazz Academy Publicity
June 12, 2013

MAKE THIS SUMMER YOUR HOTTEST YET NEW YORK, NY: New York City’s newest music school is offering affordable Summer Jazz Intensives to adults and teens who can make it to their exciting new space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. New York Jazz Academy, recently featured on NBC’s Today in New York, CNBC, and CBS News, is offering week-long summer jazz workshops to jazz players who want to freshen their improv or tighten their skills in a setting that’s ...

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Contest

Detroit Jazz Festival “Imported From Detroit” Announces National Jazz Competitions

Source: Detroit Jazz Festival
June 12, 2013

As part of its mission to foster and support jazz throughout the country, the Detroit Jazz Festival “Imported from Detroit” is now accepting submissions for two national jazz competitions—trumpet performance and jazz arrangement. Both competitions will be judged by prominent jazz artists and educators, with prize money totaling $5,000 and the chance to perform at the Detroit Jazz Festival on Labor Day Weekend, August 30 through September 2. The Marcus Belgrave National Jazz Trumpet Competition and JC Heard Jazz Arranging ...

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Radio

Amy Niles Named Acting President & CEO During Cephas Bowles' Leave

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
June 12, 2013

Amy Niles Named Acting President and CEO of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM NEWARK, NJ: Effective immediately, Cephas Bowles, President and CEO of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, will take a leave of absence for health reasons, it was announced today by Stephen N. Ifshin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Newark Public Radio/WBGO. It also was announced that Amy Niles, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will serve as Acting President and CEO in the interim. “Cephas has been ...

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