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Performance / Tour

Award-winning "Tapestry Rewoven" Returns To NYC For 1 Night, Tuesday, February 26th At 7pm

Source: Laurie Krauz
January 30, 2013

Laurie Krauz and the Daryl Kojak Octet return to where it all began for one very special performance on Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm at the Metropolitan Room. “Tapestry Rewoven is a thrilling jazz, blues and R&B-infused re-imagining of the Carole King classic, “Tapestry." Heralded as “brilliant," “genius" and “a hurricane of entertainment," the tribute show presents novel interpretations of the iconic original in its entirety and has been touted for being fresh, new and musically inventive - while still ...

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Recording

Etana Delivers Commanding Performance At Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival And Will Shoot New Video Off Her Long Awaited Album Better Tomorrow Out February 26

Source: Press Dept
January 30, 2013

Etana shined on the second night of the annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival held at Greenfield Stadium in Trelawny on Friday, January 25. According to the Jamaica Gleaner the “graceful Etana" delivered a “commanding performance" to the jam-packed audience inside the 25,000 capacity venue. The reggae soulstress joined the long list of star-studded names - including Dionne Warwick, Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Michael Bolton, Romain Virgo and Monica - who took the stage at this three-day extravaganza. The ...

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Performance / Tour

Tom Lawton Special Concert In Old City Phila. On Thurs. 2/21!

Source: Jim Miller
January 30, 2013

Jazz Bridge in Old City Philadelphia! presents pianist Tom Lawton, appearing at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House — 320 Arch Street in Philadelphia, 19106 — on Thursday, February 21st. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are only available at the door. Information: 215-517-8337. Tom Lawton is one of the area’s most in-demand and most inventive players, composers and teachers. Lawton studied extensively with the famed French piano legend Bernard Peiffer, and is among ...

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Performance / Tour

Marc Adler In Media PA Jazz Concert Wed. 2/20!

Source: Jim Miller
January 30, 2013

Jazz Bridge in Media, PA presents flutist Marc Adler, appearing at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County - 145 West Rose Tree Road, 19063 - on February 20th. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are only available at the door. Information: 215-517-8337. Marc Adler holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music and Music Education from University of the Arts, a Masters in Music from Temple University, and has studied privately with masters such as ...

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Event

Armen Donelian To Appear In Pittsfield, Mass. Feb. 15 For 10x10 Upstreet Winter Arts Festival

Source: Ed Bride Associates
January 30, 2013

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced its participation in Pittsfield's second annual 10x10 Upstreet Winter Arts Festival, with a special concert by the remarkable pianist and composer Armen Donelian. For the Feb. 15 concert at Baba Louie's Backroom, the Armen Donelian Trio explores the music of 10 American composers whose inspiring work spanned jazz' first century. From Jelly Roll Morton to Chick Corea, Art Tatum to Duke Ellington and others, the virtuoso pianist adds his unique interpretation to ...

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Recording

Fleetwood Mac To Reissue Landmark Album Rumours In Expanded And Deluxe Versions On January 29

Source: 1888 Media
January 30, 2013

LOS ANGELES – Fleetwood Mac, one of rock’s most enduring, beloved and successful bands, will circulate a fresh round of Rumours next year with expanded and deluxe versions of the album in celebration of it’s 35th anniversary. Rumours made the band one of the most iconic bands of the 1970s and garnered wide critical praise, earned the Grammy® for Album of the Year, and has now sold more than 40 million copies worldwide since its 1977 debut. In celebration of ...

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Radio

NPR Music and WBGO Present The Checkout – Live at Berklee with Jaleel Shaw

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
January 30, 2013

The Checkout – Live at Berklee, which brings critically acclaimed, New York-based Berklee alumni back to their alma mater for concerts in the Red Room at Cafe 939, continues on Thursday, February 7 with rising alto and soprano saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, a 2000 Berklee graduate. Shaw will be performing with alumnus pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Boris Kozlov, and drummer Johnathan Blake. Presented by NPR Music and WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, the shows will be webcast live worldwide in high definition ...

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Recording

New Album From Iceland; Latin Faculty – Latínudeildin

Source: JJ Soul Band
January 30, 2013

LATIN FACULTY – LATÍNUDEILDIN (2012): CD-1: English lyrics by JJ Soul, Portuguese lyrics by Jussanam da Silva and two instrumental songs. CD-2 includes the same songs with Icelandic lyrics written by various authors. Nine vocalists perform on the album, veterans like Gudrún Gunnars, Eivor Pálsdóttir and Thor Breidfjörd and younger generation jazz-singers like Marína Ósk and Erla Stefáns. The musicians include Jóhann Ásmundsson (of Mezzoforte) on bass who also engineered and mixed the album, Einar Scheving on drums, Vignir Thor ...

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