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For Americana Recording Artist, Julie Christensen, Cathartic Journey Prompts Album -- Weeds Like Us -- While New Leonard Cohen Biography Marks Her Role In Legendary Career
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KJPR Publicity and Artist Relations
Julie Christensen'S “WEEDS LIKE US” CD Candidly Reveals a Cathartic Journey of Loss and Survival Bringing “Great Plains Soul” to Acclaimed Career of Americana Singer-Songwriter While Release of New Leonard Cohen Biography Documents Christensen's Pivotal, Musical Role in Legendary Career Los Angeles, CA: It is a busy season for Julie Christensen, whose critically-acclaimed recordings, and longtime backing vocals for Leonard Cohen, confirm her standing as a quintessential “Americana” artist who matters. Now, her body of work has taken a decidedly ...
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Penang Island Jazz Festial To Host Guitar Legend Martin Taylor
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Ian Patterson
The Penang Island Jazz Festival—one of the most eagerly awaited events in the Asian jazz calendar— is back for its 9th edition from the 29th November to the 2nd December. On the 1st and 2nd December the main stage in the tropical, beachfront grounds of the Bayview Hotel will play host to eight international acts of great stylistic diversity that share one common denominator – an independent, creative approach to music making. American beat box sensation Butterscotch, whose vocal improvisations ...
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Cinema Documentary About Maja Ratkje Seeking Support
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IJ.Biermann
"Voice - Sculpting Sound with Maja S K Ratkje" is a cinematic feature documentary about the charismatic Norwegian composer, performer, innovator, multimedia artist and cult figure in various music genres, who also speaks up regularly about environmental issues. “Voice" is not only the portrait of a singular musician and artist, but the film will explore and pay homage to sound and to the nature of the human voice in all its facets, and will question deep-seated perceptions about our individual ...
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"Gershwin Cabaret" With Dick Hyman This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
George Gershwin’s bold and innovative compositions embraced high and low culture—and just about everything in between. Gershwin enjoyed giving parties in the living room of his Manhattan penthouse, sitting at the piano entertaining his friends. With a nod to that intimate setting, jazz piano master Dick Hyman joins host David Holt in the studio with “A Gershwin Cabaret for the Holidays." Hyman talks about Gershwin’s music, demonstrates musical examples at the piano, presents favorite performances with The Jim Cullum Jazz ...
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Drum! Gets Down To The Odd Time Sound Of Matt Cameron With Reunited Soundgarden
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., — As 2012 rolls to an end, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines, is groovin’ full-speed ahead. So, it’s no surprise that DRUM! Magazine’s December Issue features Matt Cameron, discussing his odd time grooves with the reunited Sound Garden on King Animal. No Stranger To Odd Time From Soundgarden’s hit “Black Hole Sun” to the 15/8 in a section of the new cut, “By Crooked Steps,” Cameron demonstrates musicianship and command of meter. Throughout the ...
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George Wein Performs At Feinstein's / Named Honoree At Lahm
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Jazz Impresario George Wein Celebrates Performance at Feinstein’s on December 2 and Honor by Louis Armstrong Museum on December 4 NEW YORK, NY, November 27, 2012 – December kicks off in grand style for George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. The jazz impresario brings a stellar group of musicians/friends – Howard Alden, Bob Wilber, Anat Cohen, Jon-Erik Kellso, Jay Leonhart and Chuck Riggs – to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street, on Sunday, ...
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Pianist Father John D'Amico Trio In Media Pa, Wed. Dec. 19th!
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Jim Miller
Jazz Bridge in Media presents pianist Father John D’Amico, appearing at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County –145 West Rose Tree Road in Media - on Wednesday December 19th. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. Composer/lyricist/pianist Father John D’Amico has been a Philadelphia area favorite for over 40 years. Indeed, it seems there isn’t a venue he hasn’t played or a musician he hasn’t backed. And some of ...
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Sonoma Valley Jazz Society 25th Annivesary 2013 Jazzalicious Calendar Concert
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Sonoma Valley Jazz Society
Some of you may have seen the 2003 comedy film, Calendar Girls, based on the true story of a group of middle-aged British women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for leukemia research. I thought it would be a fantastic idea to create a calendar of semi-clad jazz musicians – we think it might be a first in jazz. So we convinced 13 of our finest Bay Area musicians to pose for each month of 2013. (Saxophonist Madaline ...
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