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Contest

Enter "The VJE - It's About Time" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter “The Verve Jazz Ensemble- It's About Time“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 8th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of The Verve Jazz Ensemble at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About It's About Time Featuring a wide array of elegantly developed, exciting, and totally swinging jazz, the Verve Jazz Ensemble has burst onto the ...

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Festival

Motown Celebrates Its Musical Legends In The 2013 Detroit Jazz Fest

Source: Steve Bryant
June 8, 2013

On April 23, 2013, the Producers of the world-renowned Detroit Jazz Festival announced what promises to be another outstanding lineup of nationally and internationally renowned artists in addition to the generations of Detroit players who put the city on the map as one of the historically significant centers for the music. Artistic Director Chris Collins showed that his first smash year at the helm was no fluke as he revealed the list of stars who will be appearing in Downtown ...

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Recording

UK Prog Legends Nektar To Release Highly Anticipated New Studio Album "Time Machine" – June 18 , 2013

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 8, 2013

Los Angeles, CA – Prog legends Nektar return with their triumphant 13th album 'Time Machine' on June 18, 2013 on Purple Pyramid Records – the first album of new material in over 4 years – that band leader and founding member Roye Albrighton is calling “The best album Nektar has ever made!” 'Time Machine' showcases a new depth of songwriting, melodic complexity and musical exploration that hearkens back to early Nektar releases such as 'Remember The Future' and 'A Tab ...

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Performance / Tour

Rondi Charleston And Her All Star Band Perform On June 12th At Catalina Jazz Club - Only Los Angeles Area Performance

Source: GoMedia PR
June 7, 2013

* * * PRINT THIS PAGE & PRESENT AT SHOW TO REDEEM FOR A FREE COCKTAIL WITH TICKET PURCHASE * * * Critically lauded vocalist, songwriter and lyricist Rondi Charleston brings her All Star Band to Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles for one show only, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Charleston is performing in support of her March release on Motema Music, Signs of Life. The CD, some two months on the Jazz Week Radio Chart, has ...

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Performance / Tour

John McLaughlin To Tour The U.S. June 11-23 Including Bonnaroo And A 3-Night Stint At The Blue Note In New York

Source: Abstract Logix
June 7, 2013

Los Angeles, CA: World-renowned guitarist John McLaughlin, is set to begin his first U.S. tour in three years. The tour begins on June 11th in Durham, NC and will hit Asheville, DC, Bethlehem, Boston and a 3-night stand in New York City at the Blue Note before ending in Toronto on June 23rd. McLaughlin and his legendary 4th Dimension band will also make a special appearance at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 14th. “Since I last ...

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Recording

"San Francisco," 2nd CD By Bay Area Drummer Brian Andres & The Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, Due July 16

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
June 7, 2013

Drummer Brian Andres’s new album with the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, San Francisco, not only takes its title from the band’s home base. The CD, to be released July 16 by the leader’s Bacalao Records imprint, also makes a persuasive case for the assertion that San Francisco has its own distinctive Latin jazz sound (the classic “San Francisco Tiene Su Propio Son” is included on the disc). “There’s so much talent in the Bay Area, I wanted to represent the guys ...

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Recording

Vocalist Kathy Sanborn Turns Up The Heat With Sultry Night

Source: Kathy Sanborn
June 6, 2013

Sultry Night, the steamy and seductive new jazz album from singer, pianist, and composer Kathy Sanborn, releases July 2nd, 2013 through the Pacific Coast Jazz label. Sultry Night will be available for purchase from popular digital outlets such as iTunes. The CD version of Sultry Night debuts September 3rd, 2013. Sultry Night includes songs honoring jazz vocal legend Anita O’Day and popular screen actor Cary Grant. Sultry Night also includes the song, “Angels Cry,” which was penned by Sanborn in ...

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Radio

Dick Hyman, Stephanie Nakasian On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: William Carter
June 6, 2013

The historic Filoli Estate and Gardens south of San Francisco is the setting for this week’s Riverwalk Jazz broadcast, “Sweet Ballads and Red Hot Pianos." Piano legend Dick Hyman and jazz vocalist Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for an outdoor concert including a set of songs by composer Walter Donaldson. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can ...

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