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Blue Note Jazz Fest 2013: Roy Haynes, Andy Bey, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and more

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
June 12, 2013

Blue Note Jazz Festival PRODUCED BY JILL NEWMAN PRODUCTIONS Blue Note Jazz Festival PAUL MOONEY BB King Blues Club & Grill Produced By Jill Newman Productions in Assoc. with PM7 Entertainment June 16, 2013 237 W 42nd St. NY, NY 10036 Show 8pm - Doors 6pm Tickets $35.00 in advance, $40.00 day of show Mr. Paul Mooney was born in Louisiana and grew up in Oakland, California. As ...

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Event

Emmanuel Baptist Church Jazz Vespers Returns For The Summer With The Camille Thurman Quartet

Source: Emmanuel Baptist Church Jazz Vespers
June 12, 2013

BROOKLYN, NY: Emmanuel Baptist Church has returned with the summer edition of its Jazz Vespers featuring the Camille Thurman Quartet, who will add their own unique stamp to the growing roster of highly talented artists to perform at series since it began years ago. It will take place in its standing home at the historic Emmanuel Baptist Church, 279 Lafayette Avenue, located in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 2013 at 3:00 PM. The recurrent ...

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Roberto Fonseca, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Daniel Humair, Michel Portal & Vincent Peirani perform at Souillac Jazz Festival this July

Source: Erica Meltzer
June 12, 2013

The new jazz generation converges with its Afro-American roots this year at the Souillac Jazz Festival in southwest France, to be held from 15 to 21 July. SIX EVENING CONCERTS 16 July The Trio d'en bas will stage an entertaining and unusual spectacle in the Grottes de Lacave. 18 July The drummer Daniel Humair will lead his “Sweet & Sour” Quartet (double-bassist Jérôme Regard, saxophonist Emile Parisien [winner of the Jazz Academy’s 2012 Django Reinhardt prize] and accordionist Vincent Peirani ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Archie Shepp's Kickstarter For New "Attica Blues" Project

Source: Pushan Bhowmick
June 12, 2013

Archie Shepp launches a Kickstarter campaign to finalize funding on a new Attica Blues Band live album recording. Forty years after his masterpiece Attica Blues, recorded with a big band of 39 musicians and in which he highlights social injustices faced by African Americans, Shepp returns with a brand new big band composed of 26 musicians (young and experienced) from France and the United States to transmit his values to the new generation. The new big band will record a ...

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Festival

Valby Summer Jazz Festival Reinvents Jazz In Copenhagen This July

Source: Benjamin Koppel
June 12, 2013

In 2012, many stars such as Randy Brecker, Jim Hall and Lee Konitz gave lustre to Valby Summer Jazz. This year the festival once again strives to reinvent and introduce jazz music to new audiences in meetings between great jazz masters and some of the best classical acts, DJ’s, pop vocalists and crooners. Benjamin Koppel presents his independent sub-festival to the mother festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival from July 5‐14. In 2012 the leading online jazz magazine All About Jazz praised ...

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Recording

The Doors Launch Interactive iPad App, Exclusively On The App Store

Source: 1888 Media
June 11, 2013

LOS ANGELES – The Doors are once again poised to break on through with a first-of- its-kind iPad app, THE DOORS, available exclusively on the App Store. Released on May 6, 2013, by Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment, the app brings the band’s story to life with an unprecedented immersive experience that delves deeply into every aspect of The Doors’ iconic career with interactive content, unpublished band images and artwork, rare videos, music, and much more. THE DOORS APP was ...

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Looking For...

Roger Aldridge's Collaboration Project Is Open For Submissions

Source: Roger Aldridge
June 11, 2013

Roger Aldridge is hosting a collaboration project through Talenthouse. To participate in the project musicians and ensembles listen to a selection of his original music (link is in the project description), find a piece that you especially like, contact Roger for a copy of the music, and submit a recording of it expressing your vision of the piece to Talenthouse between now and August 20. Voting for the submissions takes place August 21-28. Afterwards, Roger will make his selection of ...

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