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Enter the "Jonathan Saraga Quintet - First Vision" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Jonathan Saraga Quintet - First Vision“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on February 25th. Click here to enter the contest

(Becoming a fan of Jonathan Saraga at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! About Jonathan Saraga

Jonathan Saraga is a native of Manhattan, NY, and has performed around NYC for over 13 years. Having been a part of over ...

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Jazz Trio The Bad Plus Performs At Lawrence University

Source: Rick Peterson
January 26, 2013

APPLETON, WIS. — The convention-breaking jazz trio The Bad Plus makes its Lawrence University debut Friday, Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel as part of the college's 2012-13 Jazz Series. Tickets, at $15-22, are available through the Lawrence Box Office, 920-832-6749 or [email protected]. Featuring Wisconsin native Ethan Iverson, piano, and Minnesotans Reid Anderson on bass, and David King on drums, the trio performed together for the first time as teenagers once in 1990. After spending the ...

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John Coltrane House Planning Grant Underway

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2013

The Preservation Alliance has been awarded a preservation planning grant from the Heritage Philadelphia Program of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage to work with the owners of the John Coltrane House in North Philadelphia to plan a revitalization strategy for the 20th-century jazz great's former home, as well as an adjacent property. Coltrane lived in the house from 1952 to 1958, during which time he overcame personal struggles with drug abuse and transformed his life to become an ...

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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart And Joe Williams

Source: Don Mopsick
January 25, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart and Joe Williams share their music and stories with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. 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. Adophus “Doc” Cheatham (1905-1997) was a walking encyclopedia of jazz history. He rubbed shoulders ...

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"Baboon" -- Latest Album Of Enrico Sartori Tobias Delius Tristan Honsinger, On Rudi Records

Source: massimo iudicone
January 25, 2013

BABOON Enrico SARTORI Tobias DELIUS Tristan HONSINGER RRJ1012 Rudi Records Jan/2013 Enrico Sartori: alto sax, bb & alto clarinets Tobias Delius: tenor sax, bb clarinet Tristan Honsinger: cello Rudi Records catalog is proud to welcome two significant exponents of the European improvised music scene: English saxophonist Tobias Delius and the American cellist Tristan Honsinger who had both made Holland their home before moving to Germany. The trio is completed by the Italian ...

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Italian Composer/Keyboardist Cristiano Roversi Releases Third Solo Album '"Antiqua" Featuring Former Pfm And Le Orme Members

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 25, 2013

Italy - The worldwide progressive rock community is buzzing with excitement about the third CD release by Italian musician, composer, keyboardist, bass and Champan stick player Cristiano Roversi titled 'AntiQua', featuring guest appearances by Le Orme's Aldo Tagliapietra and PFM's Bernardo Lanzetti, among others! Founding member of the new progressive band Moongarden in 1994, very much a vital entity to this day, Cristiano over the years has explored a variety of musical genres in collaborative projects such as Submarine Silence, ...

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Source: All About Jazz
January 23, 2013

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Jazzahead! Conference in Bremen Germany: April 25-28, 2013

Source: All About Jazz
January 23, 2013

jazzahead! program – a round-the-world trip in music 2013, jazzahead! welcomes bands from 19 different countries to Bremen. Increased interest in participation in the German Jazz Expo. Again, it was a tough choice: Four different juries faced a selection of 267 applications for the coveted live program that is part of the showcase festival. As with every past edition of jazzahead!, there will be one day dedicated to live performances of German bands, for the second time under the label ...

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