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Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Iridium Jazz Club, Jan. 16

Source: SF Media
January 8, 2013

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City on January 16, 2013. The concert marks the dazzling jazz pianist's return to New York following her recent tours of Europe and Japan. Highlights of the tours included the Blue Note Tokyo, Italy's Bologna Jazz Festival, Sunset-Sunside in Paris and A-Trane in Berlin. Iridium Jazz Club is at 1650 Broadway at 51st St., New York, NY. Sets are at 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM. There is ...

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Award / Grant

NEA Launches Guidelines, Webinar & Content for Music

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 8, 2013

The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to announce application guidelines are available for Grants for Arts Projects in Music: Arts Works & Challenge America Fast-Track deadlines are March, May, and August 2013. Applicants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes with at least three years of programming history in order to apply. Grant Opportunity: Art Works The NEA's Art Works grants support the creation ...

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Performance / Tour

Kobo Town in NYC as Part of Mundial Montreal showcase at The Living Room

Source: Press Junkie PR
January 8, 2013

Founded by Trinidadian-Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town takes the intricate wordplay of classic Caribbean music and runs it through a 21st Century filter. In the world of Kobo Town calypso, roots reggae, and acoustic instrumentation meet innovative production techniques, social commentary and indie rock attitude. Kobo Town’s second album Jumbie in the Jukebox will be released in May, 2013 by Stonetree and Cumbancha. On Saturday, January 12 Kobo Town will be performing in New York as part of the ...

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Recording

The African Folk Soul of Bongos Ikwue

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 8, 2013

The 1970’s were an extremely fertile era for music. In America, progressive soul and funk broke new ground while London spawned the punk rock scene and Kingston, Jamaica gave the world roots reggae. In Nigeria, an extraordinarily diverse and dynamic cultural scene yielded not only Fela’s Afrobeat and juju’s peak with Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey but also myriad rock and funk groups such as BLO and The Funkees. One of the most popular singers on the Nigeria scene at ...

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Recording

Jon Sheckler's Debut Album, "Cable Street"

Source: Jon Sheckler
January 8, 2013

As the first jazz record released by the Seattle based company, Critical Sun Recordings, “Cable Street" is a bold, fresh and energynic take on jazz in today's world. Featuring nine original compositions from award-winning drummer and composer Jon Sheckler, “Cable Street" covers the full spectrum of the modern jazz world, from the hard swinging pop-bop “Same Old Smae Old," to the high energy drum and bass inspired “Pensive Matters," to the mysterious and open “Cormac's Dream." Free jazz, bebop, blues, ...

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Event

Kobo Town @ Mundial Montreal Showcase

Source: Press Junkie PR
January 7, 2013

KOBO TOWN @ The Living Room Saturday, January 12, 2013 154 Ludlow St New York, NY 10002 10:40 pm / FREE “Merging calypso, roots reggae, acoustic performance, dub studio techniques and Trinidadian/Jamaican cultures, Kobo Town is a unique, stylistic, trans-national composite of rhythm, poetry and activist journalism. Kobo Town resurrects, reinvigorates and redefines calypso for the new millennium.” —Exclaim! Founded by Trinidadian-Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town takes the intricate wordplay of ...

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Performance / Tour

New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Nearly 60 Free Performances For The Spring 2013 Season

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
January 7, 2013

Highlights include Miguel Zenon's Multi-Media Masterpiece: Identities Are Changeable: Tales From The Diaspora Randy Weston with the NEC Jazz Orchestra Faculty Recitalby Fred Hersch and Tanya Kalmanovitch In The Mix - 36 one-hour concerts by exceptional student ensembles – and many more New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation Departments announce nearly 60 free concerts for the Spring 2013 season. Highlights include the third-ever performance of MacArthur Fellow and NEC faculty member Miguel Zenón’s multi-media masterpiece Identities ...

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Recording

Duncan Millar To Release New Album "Fresh Air" 12th Feb

Source: Jiminy Cee
January 7, 2013

Contemporary-Smooth Jazz pianist and composer Duncan Millar will release a new album called Fresh Air on 12th Feb 2013. This is his first album since previous albums Dream Your Dream and Good To Go on Instinct Records, and Comin Thru on Passion Jazz Records, UK, tracks from which receive continuing air-play and earned him a prestigious UK MOBO nomination as Best Jazz Act. Duncan returns with ten new enticing tracks. Filled out by a full band including some of London's ...

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