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Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet Named Tops -- Twice
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Keith Michaud
University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet this week garnered top honors—twice—from a national jazz magazine. DownBeat magazine in its 36th annual Student Music Awards poll named two separate Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintets the best in the category that covers undergraduate college jazz groups. It is the first time two different Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintets have won the honor in the same year, and the sixth and seventh times overall in the Brubeck Institute’s 12-year history that the magazine ...
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Eclectic Second Release By Netherland's Mr Averell Features Lene Lovich, Mike Garson, John, Ellis, Members Of Van Der Graaf Generator And Others
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
The Netherlands – Avant-Garde music aficionados across the globe are excited about the forthcoming second album by Dutch visual sound artist René van Commenée under the guise Mr Averell titled 'Gridlock'. Van Commenée is known in The Netherlands for his music (sound) art objects, theatrical performances and soundtracks for theatre, fireworks spectacles and film. Over the years he has worked with many acknowledged musicians around the world and became well-known by fans of Van der Graaf Generator through his percussion ...
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Jazz Ballads This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it's “Gentle Giants: The Beauty of The Jazz Ballad." 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 also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Jazz musicians, far better known as performers than composers, have turned their talents to writing jazz ballads—guitarist Django Reinhardt, baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan ...
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Playboy Jazz Festival Presents The New Jump Blues Band, Featuring Antonio Fargas, In Free Community Concert Sunday, May 5th, At Beverly Hills Civic Center
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Nina Gordon Public Relations
Jump, Jive and Swing... PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE NEW JUMP BLUES BAND, FEATURING ANTONIO FARGAS, IN FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT SUNDAY, MAY 5TH, AT BEVERLY HILLS CIVIC CENTER. Beverly Hills High School Jazz Band To Open Show Get ready to jump, jive and swing… when the New Jump Blues Band, one of the most exuberant foot-stomping musical groups to jump off the national stage, comes to Beverly Hills for a free community concert presented by the Playboy Jazz Festival this ...
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The Jazzschool Announces May 2013 Concerts
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Jazzschool
THE JAZZSCHOOL ANNOUNCES MAY 2013 CONCERTS TICKETS ON SALE AT JAZZSCHOOL.ORG BERKELEY, CA: The Jazzschool continues its acclaimed concert series in the heart of the Berkeley Downtown Arts District. All events take place in the historic Kress Building at 2087 Addison Street, near Shattuck, unless noted otherwise. 4th ANNUAL JAZZSCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL INVITATIONAL at the Freight & Salvage Friday May 3, 8pm FREE The Jazzschool’s 4th Annual High School Invitational showcases outstanding high school jazz programs from around ...
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Project/Object On Tour, USA And Europe With Historic Lineup: Zappa/Mothers Alums Ike Willis, Ray White, Tom Fowler, Ed Mann & Denny Walley
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Keith James
Asheville, NC - Frank Zappa, one of the twentieth century’s most important composers, continues to have an effect on modern music. His list of ex-band members is a who’s who of incredible musicians. For twenty years Project/Object has been on a mission to bring Zappa’s multi-dimensional music and onstage madness to the masses, by faithfully recreating the live Zappa experience with his alumni. Over the years Project/Object has performed with over a dozen of Zappa's most popular band members. Touring ...
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New Album From Blackmore's Night "Dancer And The Moon"
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Anne Leighton
Blackmore's Night is releasing their brand new album, Dancer and The Moon, on June 11th in North America on Frontiers Records. Dancer and The Moon will be released in 2 editions—as a CD and a digipak deluxe edition with a bonus DVD that includes music videos of “Dancer And The Moon" and of “The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over The Sea)," plus an extensive interview with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night. Anticipated by the digital release of the first single ...
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R. E. M.’s Green Revolution; 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Available May 14 From Rhino
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1888 Media
25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Of The Band’s Major-Label Breakthrough Includes Original Album Remastered And Live Disc Spotlighting The Penultimate Show Of 1989 World Tour; Available May 14 From Rhino Green Remastered Will Also Be Available On 180-Gram Vinyl The Same Day R.E.M. achieved global success with the 1988 release of GREEN, the Athens, Georgia quartet’s sixth studio album and first for Warner Bros. Records, which would be the band’s label home for the rest of their recording career. While R.E.M. ...
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