Jazz News

Porchlight Music Theatre Presents "Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill"

Source: James JULIANO
January 16, 2013

Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to celebrate Black History Month, with the third production in their 2012 – 2013 season, Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, February 2 – March 10, 2013, starring Alexis Rogers as Billie Holiday and directed by Porchlight Artistic Associate Rob Lindley with music direction by Jaret Landon, at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmont Ave. Previews are Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 at 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 at 2 and 6 p.m. ...

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Marbin Releases "Last Chapter of Dreaming"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 16, 2013

MARBIN is one of the hardest-working, most promising new bands in all of progressive music: Danny Markovitch saxophones • Dani Rabin guitar • Justyn Lawrence drums • Jae Gentile bass • with special guests Paul Wertico, Steve Rodby, Jamey Haddad • Performed over 450 shows in the last 2-and-a-half years as very few or no other young bands of any genre. • They've toured the country with guitar legends Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson, and consistently wowed audiences everywhere with ...

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Recording Academy Launches "#TheWorldIsListening" Ad Campaign For The 55th GRAMMYs

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 16, 2013

The Recording Academy and TBWA\Chiat\Day have teamed for the sixth year to promote the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards with the ad campaign “#TheWorldIsListening." “#TheWorldIsListening" campaign features both established and up-and-coming artists across a variety of print, out-of-home and digital communications, as well as three TV commercials. The first commercial, “Slammed Door," tells five-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Rihanna's story. The second commercial, “The World is Listening," features artists including The Kills, Snoop Lion and Taylor Swift alongside emerging artists ...

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Vocalist Paula Johns In Cheltenham PA On Wed. Feb. 6th!

Source: Jim Miller
January 16, 2013

Appearing at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts—439 Ashbourne Road in Cheltenham—on Wednesday February 6th, is vocalist Paula Johns. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Paula Johns, a.k.a. “La Chanteuse de Jazz” comes from a musical family. Her mother is an opera singer and her father was a church organist and choir director. She originally studied acting at the Freedom Theater, but switched to studying singing at ...

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The Freddy Cole Quartet To Perform In Brooklyn!

Source: Leah Keith
January 16, 2013

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) continues its 2012-2013 Season with The Freddy Cole Quartet on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 8pm. Tickets are $36 and can be purchased by phone at 718-951-4500 (Tues-Sat, 1pm-6pm), or online. 2010 Grammy nominee Freddy Cole presents a glorious tribute to the songbooks of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and his older brother Nat “King” Cole. In addition to Freddy Cole, the quartet includes guitarist Randy Napoleon, drummer Curtis Boyd and ...

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Pianist Terry Klinefelter In Kennett Square On Wed. Feb. 6th!

Source: Jim Miller
January 16, 2013

Appearing at Kennett Flash—102 Sycamore Alley in Kennett Square—on Wednesday, February 6th, is pianist Terry Klinefelter. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Terry Klinefelter is at home with both classical music and jazz. Or as the Philadelphia Inquirer said of her, on the cosmic cusp where Mozart might mingle with Mingus. As a jazz player, she’s been compared with giants like Keith Jarrett and Steve Kuhn, and ...

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Fred Adams & The Phila. Heritage Art Ensemble In Collingswood NJ On Thurs. Feb. 7th!

Source: Jim Miller
January 16, 2013

Appearing at the Collingswood Community Center—30 East Collings Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey—on Thursday February 7th, is trumpeter Fred Adams and his Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available at the door only. Showtime is 7:30 p.m.

Originally a New Yorker, but raised in Philadelphia in the '60s, Fred Adams is an incredibly versatile, forward-looking and forward-thinking jazz trumpeter, is the director of the Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble, and has toured the world and ...

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Norwegian Guitarist Morten Molster: 1963-2013

Source: All About Jazz
January 16, 2013

By Jon Trygve Utne Morten Mølster, aged 50, died from a sudden cardiac arrest Monday this week during physical exercise. To fans of trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, he will be remembered for playing on the iconic album Khmer (ECM, 1997), but in Norway he was best known as the guitarist in The September When, in the period 1990-1996, during which time the band had great success in its native country. Mølster was also involved in many other collaborations, especially in ...

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