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Contest

Enter the "Pat Metheny - The Orchestrion Project" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Nonesuch Records “Pat Metheny - The Orchestrion Project“ CD giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on April 29th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Pat Metheny at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Nonesuch Records About The Orchestrion Project In 2010, 20-time Grammy Award winner Pat Metheny took his musical exploration to a ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Support the Jazz Orchestra Of Philadelphia at indiegogo.com

Source: Deena Adler
March 29, 2013

The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, with Terell Stafford as Artistic Director, will be launched at City Hall Courtyard at noon on April 30th for International Jazz Day with an announcement followed by a performance. Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, comprised of 16 excellent, Philadelphia based musicians, has an artistic vision that will honor, preserve and continue the rich jazz legacy of Philadelphia while adding vibrancy to the City's jazz scene. After a few local performances, there will be a Grand Gala ...

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Performance / Tour

Tony Miceli & Diane Monroe In Media Pa Wednesday April 17th!

Source: Jim Miller
March 29, 2013

Appearing at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County—145 West Rose Tree Road in Media—on Wednesday, April 17th is jazz vibraphonist Tony Miceli with violinist Diane Monroe. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Jazz has produced but a few world class vibraphonists through the years. Tony Miceli, whose playing has been compared to Milt Jackson and Gary Burton, is one. Now in his third decade as ...

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Performance / Tour

Guitarist Greg Matthews In Olde City Phila. Thurs. April 18th!

Source: Jim Miller
March 29, 2013

Appearing at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House—4th and Arch Street in Philadelphia—on Thursday, April 18th is jazz guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Greg Matthews. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Matthews, who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in guitar performance and composition from the University of the Arts, has been playing guitar—and singing, composing and producing—since the age of 18 at locales that have included the Kimmel Center, Chris’ Jazz ...

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Event

Dave Douglas Quintet Celebrates The Release Of "Time Travel," 50th Birthday At Jazz Standard March 28-31

Source: Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Music
March 28, 2013

The year 2013 marks trumpeter Dave Douglas's 50th birthday year and he will celebrate it this week at the Jazz Standard March 28th-31st with his new quintet featuring saxophonist Jon Irabagon, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the bassist Linda Oh and the drummer Rudy Royston. “The strength of the quintet," Douglas argues, “is a testament to the health of the current jazz scene. “It’s turning into a really rich environment of growth and inspiration in the music." Douglas' label Greenleaf Music ...

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Recording

Lisa Hilton "Getaway" Release With Larry Grenadier and Nasheet Waits

Source: Lisa Hilton
March 28, 2013

 Pianist/composer Lisa Hilton is one of the most distinctive and individualistic voices in jazz today. Her new album, Getaway (Ruby Slippers, #1016), is her fifteenth as a bandleader. Here she's joined in a powerful trio effort featuring her current all-star bandmates, bassist Larry Grenadier (Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny) and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason Moran's Bandwagon, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Andrew Hill). This new album is a bold and exciting change of pace, Hilton bolstering her signature imagistic, lush, ...

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Radio

A Trio Of New Orleans Jazz Pioneers This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
March 28, 2013

In the early 1960s cornetist Jim Cullum was a young man in his 20s. He made a pilgrimage to New Orleans to explore the roots of jazz, meet jazz greats and sit in on jam sessions. This week on our show, Cullum recalls a jam session with cornetist Johnny Wiggs and Mardi Gras parades when he played with drummer Paul Barbarin and his father Jim Sr. in clarinetist Pete Fountain’s Half Fast Marching Band. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers ...

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Recording

Joe Locke To Release Lay Down My Heart (Blues & Ballads, Volume 1) On May 14

Source: GoMedia PR
March 28, 2013

Vibraphonist's Third Release for Motéma Music Further Illustrates the Depth and Breadth of his Talent Lay Down My Heart, the third release from the prolific vibraphonist Joe Locke since his signing to Motéma Music in 2012, marks a complete and deliberate contrast from his two previous releases: the small-group outing Signing, his critically lauded 2012 label debut with The Joe Locke Geoffrey Keezer Group, and the large- scale Wish Upon A Star, which was recorded with Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra and ...

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