Jazz News

Maryland Summer Jazz Camp Returns In July

Source: The Phillips Agency
June 3, 2013

The Maryland Summer Jazz Camp returns on July 13 for its ninth season. The inspiring workshops and jams for musicians and public concerts for jazz lovers take place through July 26. Drawing adult learners and listeners from both coasts, the top-rated event hosts brilliant jazz artists on stages and in classrooms, where they encourage amateur and semi-pro students to get “out of the basement and onto the bandstand." Some students will begin or resume professional music careers; others will keep ...

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Free Summer Jazz Concerts 3rd Thursdays In South Philly!

Source: Jim Miller
June 1, 2013

Jazz Bridge is partnering with the Friends of Hawthorne Park to present Jazz at Hawthorne Park, a FREE summer concert series at 12th and Catharine Streets (in South Philadelphia) on the third Thursday of every month this summer. Bring a chair and prepare to groove with the Mike Boone/John Swana Project on June 20th, the Renaissance Quartet with Tyrone Brown on July 18th, Webb Thomas' Webb T's Fleet on August 15th, and Venissa Santi's Quartet on September 19th. These performers ...

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"Global Circulation of Jazz" International Conference set for June 27-­28, 2013 in Paris

Source: Susheel Kurien
June 1, 2013

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Thursday 27 & Friday 28 of June 2013 2:00-9:00 & 9:30 - 7:00 Salle de cinéma Free entrance An international conference entitled “Global Circulations of Jazz" will be held on June 27-­28, 2013, at the musée du quai Branly. Bringing together specialists, anthropologists, historians, musicologists, sociologists, the dissemination of jazz outside of its places of birth will be explored. We will look at this ‘other jazz’, whose history is little ...

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Enter the "Sinan Bakir - Tales & Stories" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Sinan Bakir - Tales & Stories“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 30th. Click here to enter the contest

(Becoming a fan of Sinan Bakir at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! About Tales & Stories

Following his critically acclaimed debut album On My Way (2009), with bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Mark Ferber, the new album also ...

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David Jacobs-Strain To Release New CD "Geneseo"

Source: Muse Media
May 31, 2013

NEW DAVID JACOBS-STRAIN ALBUM, GENESEO, SET FOR RELEASE JUNE 25TH “His acoustic and electric guitar work is crisp and driven, and his voice can rise to a soulful pitch or fall quietly in sync with a loping beat. His imagery-rich tales—well, it’s not hard to imagine some of them being covered by the likes of John Hammond Jr. . . . or Boz Scaggs. . .” — The Washington Post “David Jacobs-Strain sings and plays slide-driven country blues with a ...

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BluJazz Label Releases Jamie Breiwick's "Spirits"

Source: Jamie Breiwick
May 31, 2013

Artist: Jamie Breiwick Album: Sprits Label: BluJazz Release Date: May 4th, 2013 LISTEN TO SPIRITS Open the door on the album cover and you enter the Jazz Estate, a Milwaukee club that exemplifies a venue that nurtures modern straight-ahead jazz and makes money at it. This recording was made there one night, even if the program has the well-considered sense of purpose of a studio recording. The melody of the opening “Gig ...

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Jazz Near You Expands to 25 More Cities!

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2013

Jazz Near You expansion continues with the addition of these 25 U.S. cities: albany.jazznearyou.com anchorage.jazznearyou.com batonrouge.jazznearyou.com boise.jazznearyou.com chattanooga.jazznearyou.com coloradosprings.jazznearyou.com coralsprings.jazznearyou.com danbury.jazznearyou.com dayton.jazznearyou.com eugene.jazznearyou.com fresno.jazznearyou.com greenbay.jazznearyou.com harrisburg.jazznearyou.com madison.jazznearyou.com newark.jazznearyou.com portsmouth.jazznearyou.com poughkeepsie.jazznearyou.com richmond.jazznearyou.com scranton.jazznearyou.com stockton.jazznearyou.com tallahassee.jazznearyou.com toledo.jazznearyou.com trenton.jazznearyou.com tuscaloosa.jazznearyou.com wilmington.jazznearyou.com We also changed the Jazz Near You “All Cities“ page. It now sorts the U.S. cities by ...

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Jazz Near You Calendar Widget Improved!

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2013

If you have a jazz website or blog, you can add tremendous value to it by embedding the Jazz Near You calendar widget. Publishers can choose between a regional calendar, a venue calendar, a festival calendar or a musician calendar. To grab the code, go here. To see the Jazz Near You calendar widget in action, check out the Philadelphia Jazz Project website. It looks sharp! We also added two new websites to the Jazz Near You network: Lansing, MI ...

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