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Event

Summer Jazz Series Set In Newport Beach, California

Source: Larry Taylor
May 24, 2013

Sunset Jazz at Newport, featuring straight- ahead jazz performed by top jazz performers, begins July 10 and will continue through ll nights, concluding Sept. 18. All this at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel on the Pacific in Southern California. The concerts take place in the hotel's outside Rose Garden with guests seated at tables. Each Wednesday consists of two sets, 6 and 7:30. Both one-hour sessions are included in the ticket price. Food and beverages will be available. The series ...

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Performance / Tour

Marc Hoffman Premiere At Pops At The Post

Source: Marble Arch PR
May 24, 2013

Salisbury Symphony Orchestra to perform Marc Hoffman work Salisbury, NC: The Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and Music Director David Hagy will include a new piece by NC composer Marc Hoffman on their annual Pops at the Post Concert. The concert will take place beside the Salisbury Post in downtown Salisbury on Saturday, June 1st, beginning at 7.30 PM. After the first concert celebrating the newspaper’s centennial in 2005, the Post began sponsoring this community tradition. Hoffman's new work is a medley ...

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Recording

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra Announces Self-Titled Summer Album Release To Feature Guest Collaborators Victor Wooten And Howard Levy

Source: Crissa Requate
May 23, 2013

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra are no strangers to pushing musical genre boundaries and on July 9th, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra will release a self-titled album of cerebral tunes that further blur the lines of jazz. Each member of Jonathan Scales Fourchestra contributes a distinctive voice to the ensemble. Wielding steel pans, Jonathan Scales incorporates a contemporary jazz attitude into arrangements that tap into funk, rock, jam, and Latin sensibilities. Drummer/ percussionist Phill Bronson grounds the trio’s compositions with an agile, metronome-like sensitivity ...

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Festival

Atlanta Jazz Festival Gearing Up For Major Concerts On Memorial Day Weekend

Source: Karen Hatchett
May 23, 2013

Atlanta, GA: “Music lovers are in for some incredible performances at the Atlanta Jazz Festival over Memorial Day Weekend, says Camille Russell Love, Director of the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs. “We will kick off the weekend with an evening under the stars at Chastain Park Amphitheatre featuring BWB and special guest Chrisette Michele on May 24. We’re hosting a Late Night Jazz Concert with Dionne Farris & Russell Gunn on May 26. And from May 25-27 we’re ...

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Recording

Music Therapy: Duboc Delivers A Revealing “Smile”

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
May 23, 2013

Jazz singer-songwriter teams with Jeff Lorber for a deeply personal album about the demise of her marriage Los Angeles, CA: Thinking that everything had fallen apart, the tears streamed down Carol Duboc’s face as she wrote the lyrics to “Smile,” the title track to the soulful jazz vocalist’s stunning sixth album that was released Tuesday (May 21) by Gold Note Music. She gazed at her young daughter’s smile and found hope. Hope infuses the painfully honest and courageously candid collection ...

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Performance / Tour

Marc Hoffman Returns To Childress Vineyard

Source: Marble Arch PR
May 22, 2013

NC jazz pianist/vocalist/composer on “Music in the Vineyards” series CHARLOTTE, NC: Virillion Music recording artist Marc Hoffman will perform Saturday, June 1st from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m at Childress Vineyards in Lexington, NC as part of the “Music In the Vineyards” series. Hoffman, a NC native will include original instrumental and vocal jazz in his performance, as well as standards and pop. “I’m really excited to be back for another performance on the “Music in the Vineyards” series,” Hoffman ...

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Website

All About Jazz Needs You: Editors Wanted

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2013

We are still looking for volunteer writers and musician page administrators. If you're interested, please complete this form. Thanks! —Michael Ricci Join the All About Jazz team and play a part in serving jazz. Since 1995, All About Jazz has grown from a grassroots organization to the world's largest jazz music website, all thanks to a team of volunteers whose collective mission is to give back to the music that's meant so much to them. Help us build our staff, ...

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Radio

One Hour With Ray Manzarek Of The Doors

Source: Susan Marie
May 20, 2013

Two years ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ray Manzarek from The Doors. In this one hour live interview, Ray and I talk about The Doors, play live music, tap into his jazz and blues influences, various keyboards and methods and educate the public about his work as an author. Ray speaks of Dorothy, his grandchildren, his life with The Doors, of Jim and Pam and of his own future. Upbeat and lively, Ray and I were laughing ...

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