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Festival

A Smorgasbord Of 21st Century Piano Moods And Grooves At Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
April 5, 2013

A Smorgasbord of 21st Century Piano Moods and Grooves at Newport Jazz Festival® August 2-4, 2013 NEWPORT, RI: The Newport Jazz Festival has been one of the greatest showcases for jazz pianists in the past six decades, including Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, John Lewis, Mary Lou Williams, Dave Brubeck and more. This year’s cross-section of keyboard titans is no exception. Bringing their piano magic to Newport are Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Eddie Palmieri, Bill Charlap, Michel Camilo, Robert Glasper, Hiromi ...

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Recording

World Music's Badi Assad Back In The U.s. With A Modern Vocal Brazilian/flamenco Guitar Release With Lush Arrangements & English Versions

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
April 4, 2013

São Paulo, Brazil: Badi Assad is one of the most innovative, passionate and talented artists of her generation and listed by Rolling Stone as a top guitarist from Brazil. She transcends traditional styles of her native Brazilian music with a mixture of pop, jazz and ethnic sounds from around the world. As a result, the singer, guitarist and songwriter is successfully forging an exhilarating genre of music that quite literally defies categorization. 'Between Love and Luck' is her first CD ...

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Recording

Guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko Releases "Surreal"

Source: Roman Miroshnichenko
April 5, 2013

Surreal, the latest album by Russian jazz fusion guitarist, and Independent Music Award winner, Roman Miroshnichenko is now on sale through online digital distribution in North America at iTunes and CDBaby. Surreal, is a global, collaborative production involving studios from four different continents: Europe, Asia, North, and South America, and some of the most preeminent musicians from Brazil, Argentina, France, the United States, and Indonesia. Artist featured include Latin Grammy winner, Daniel Figueiredo, Godfather of Fusion, Larry Coryell, Dominique Di ...

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Education

Philadelphia Jazz Project - Remember How It Started?

Source: Homer Jackson
April 4, 2013

Greetings folks, As a musician, someone introduced you to the music... to your instrument. Remember that moment? Remember that person? Remember how you felt? Now, suppose that it never happened! That's the kind of environment that increasing numbers of young people face living in within our communities. Schools are not really making that connection between musician and child possible anymore. Many communities aren't really making that connection happen either. Philadelphia Jazz Project in partnership with other organizations, including Philadelphia Parks ...

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Radio

Clarinet Marmalade This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
April 4, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers an exploration of great pre-WWII voices of jazz clarinet with the help of prominent contemporary exponents of the “old school." Evan Christopher, Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern and Ken Peplowski (pictured at right) perform with the Band and talk about their mentors and influences. 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 ...

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Performance / Tour

Evening Of Jazz For Newtown Benefit Concert on April 12th

Source: Julius Tolentino
April 4, 2013

April 12, 2013 7:30pm-9:30pm Newark Academy Auditorium 91 South Orange Avenue Livingston, NJ 07039 The Evening of Jazz has been an annual concert at Newark Academy to showcase it’s numerous jazz ensembles. This year we are dedicating our concert to the families of Sandyhook and the Greene family. We will have three world class musicians joining our award winning jazz program—Marcus Printup, trumpeter of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Steve Turre, trombonist currently with the Saturday ...

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Event

Marc Hoffman Quartet To Perform At Rock Hill, Sc Festival

Source: Marble Arch PR
April 4, 2013

Jazz pianist/vocalist returns to Rock Hill for Come See Me Festival Special 50th Year Celebration Rock Hill, SC: Jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Marc Hoffman will perform with his quartet Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at Glencairn Gardens in Rock Hill, SC as part of the 50th Annual Come See Me Festival. Joining Marc will be saxophonist Patrick Brown, bassist Tim Hartis, and drummer Brent Deaton. Hoffman is well known throughout the Southeast US, having appeared at clubs, arenas, and other venues. Marc also ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Thomas Chapin Film Success At Kickstarter.com Nets $51,552 In 45-day Campaign

Source: Stephanie J. Castillo
April 4, 2013

The Thomas Chapin Film Project will begin shooting this summer; filmmaker will complete her research and scripting, and lining up her film crew. EMMY-winning Filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is celebrating a successful finish at Kickstarter.com, an online fundraising site, that will now allow her to begin planning her shoot this summer for NIGHT BIRD SONG, her documentary film about the late jazz master Thomas Chapin. 224 backers, pledging an average of $232, put Stephanie beyond her $50,000 goal. When the ...

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