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Performance / Tour

Shoshana Bush And Friends-catalina Jazz Club January 3, 2013

Source: Betsyann Faiella
December 18, 2012

Young jazz storyteller Shoshana Bush will make her third appearance at Catalina Jazz Club on January 3, 2013. Titled “Shoshana Bush and Friends," this performance will be recorded live for an upcoming debut album. Showtime is at 8:30 pm, doors open at 7pm. Reserve now by calling: 323.466.2210. Shoshana will perform her own arrangements of (mainly) American Jazz and Blues standards with her band, which includes Isamu McGregor on piano, guitarist Larry Koons, George Young on alto sax and flute, ...

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Recording

Proper To Issue Deluxe Edition Of Bap Kennedy's "The Sailor's Revenge" With 11 Retrospective Bonus Tracks

Source: conqueroo
December 17, 2012

With package to be released via Proper American on January 8, Kennedy will perform dates in New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Boston. “Kennedy distills his love of Hank Williams and Van Morrison, his self-preserving humor, and his endearingly stoic bar-room philosophies into stunningly beautiful songs.” —MOJO LONDON, U.K. — Bap Kennedy’s critically hailed The Sailor’s Revenge album, released in June 2012, will be reissued by Proper American on January 8, 2013 as The Sailor’s Revenge Deluxe Limited Edition. Kennedy ...

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Recording

Singer Jackie Ryan Returns; "Listen Here" Also Features John Clayton & Friends

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
December 17, 2012

Jackie Ryan teams with Grammy Award winner John Clayton to deliver a tour de force through a myriad of jazz idioms ─ from blues & gospel flavored jazz gems, to luscious love songs, a soaring Spanish ballad, a Gershwin classic, pulsating samba rhythms ─ and culminates with the title track: a duet with three-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton. Listen Here is at once both a testimony and a tribute ─ a testimony to this artist’s love of exploration, and a ...

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Event

Dallas Singer Debra Marie Lands In Top 10 Of Uk Soul Chart

Source: Debra Marie Burris
December 17, 2012

Artist to be featured in New Year’s Eve Bash at 2 Kats Live in North Dallas Dallas, TX: Singer and songwriter Debra Marie is in pretty good company on the United Kingdom Soul Chart. Amid soul and R&B music heavies Angie Stone, Jeffrey Osbourne, Faith Evans, and Dwele, the Dallas native is holding her own on the weekly compilation. Debra Marie’s release, “Stanzas Of My Life” has continually jump each week on the UK Soul Chart (http://www.uksoulchart.com/). For the Top ...

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Recording

Concord Readies Tony Bennett's 'As Time Goes By: Great American Songbook'

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
December 16, 2012

In the post-WWII era of American popular music, Tony Bennett rapidly emerged as one of the most distinct and popular voices on the landscape, due in large part to a versatile and dynamic style that has enabled him to sing pop standards, jazz, show tunes and just about any other genre that has emerged in the span of his six-decade career. Indeed, any discussion of the Great American Songbook — however it may be defined — will inevitably lead to ...

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Recording

Cheb i Sabbah Announces New Album: OptiMystiK

Source: Press Junkie PR
December 16, 2012

Cheb i Sabbah Announces Fundraising Campaign to Help Produce New Album: OptiMystiK Cheb i Sabbah, musical adventurer, global spiritualist and producer extraordinaire is calling out to his fans and supporters to help in the production of his eighth album, OptiMystiK, his most ambitious project to date. The album will combine languages and musical cultures of twelve different countries and is loosely described by Sabbah as “New World DJ Science.” Known as one of the most creative artists in global electronica, ...

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Performance / Tour

Sierra Jazz Society Concert Series With Faculty And Students

Source: Nora Nausbaum
December 15, 2012

Sierra Jazz Society Presents our second concert in our Winter Concert series. It's Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 2 p.m. the location is Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains at 246 S. Church St., Grass Valley. Bill Douglass leads the faculty, friends and students of Sierra Jazz Society in a concert full of variety and wonderful jazz. Special guest artist, jazzharpist Motoshi Kosako will join us for this concert. Complementary coffee and snacks at the intermission and wine will be ...

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Education

Usdan Center, With Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Free 1/27 Open House; Tuition Freeze Extended Due To Hurricane

Source: Reva Cooper
December 15, 2012

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned Long Island summer arts day camp, announces that its tuition freeze, an opportunity for families to pay last year’s rates, a $100 tuition savings, has been extended due to the continuing effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York City and Long Island communities. The tuition will now be in effect through January 31, 2013. Usdan’s new programs for 2013 include a three-week session July 22-August 9. This will be ...

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