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Win A Chance To Talk With Your Favorite Songlines Artist

Source: GoMedia PR
October 30, 2012

Specializing in cutting-edge jazz (with new music/world music influences) from New York's downtown scene and other centers of creative music, Songlines' eclectic roster includes artists such as drummer Sean Noonan, guitarist/oudist Gordon Grdina,saxophonist Michael Blake, pianist Benoit Delbecq and clarinetist Francois Houle. For the next ten days, fans of the label are invited to visit its Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/SonglinesRecordings)and, once they've “Liked" the label, to post their opinions about which of the label artists is their favorite and why. The ...

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Event

Jazz Revelation Records Presents: Ripple Effect - A Concert Celebration, November 15 In Boston

Source: Berklee Media Relations
October 30, 2012

Berklee College of Music’s student-run label Jazz Revelation Records (JRR) presents a concert featuring artists from the label’s latest album, Ripple Effect, on Thursday, November 15, at the Berklee Performance Center. Ripple Effect, JRR’s ninth release, showcases some of the college’s top young jazz players from around the world. The featured bandleaders – Daniel Rotem, Aris Valeris, Eduardo Mercuri, and Bryce Milano – hail from Israel, Greece, Brazil and the U.S. respectively. JRR artists speak the traditional language of jazz ...

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Recording

To Celebrate Record Store Day's Back To Black Friday Event, Omnivore Recordings Announces Ten-inch Vinyl Eps

Source: conqueroo
October 30, 2012

Also from Omnivore, Jellyfish’s two-CD set Stack-a-Tracks offers rare glimpse of band in an instrumental mode LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Record Store Day comes but once a year, but its Back to Black Friday event in November brings the focus back to independent record stores during the biggest shopping day of the year. And for Omnivore Recordings, it’s an important and fun event. “Everyone at Omnivore is a fan and a collector, most of us have worked at a record ...

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Education

Missouri Composer David Witter Wins 2013 Sinquefield Composition Prize

Source: Dean Minderman
October 30, 2012

Columbia, MO - The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative are pleased to announce that David Witter is the winner of the 2013 Sinquefield Composition Prize. Witter, who holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition from Mizzou, submitted his piece “Garden Music" to the competition and was selected for the prize by a panel of independent judges. The adjudicators for the 2013 competition were: Mara Gibson, director of the Community Music and Dance ...

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Event

Jazz @ The Elks

Source: Jazz @ The Elks
October 30, 2012

The Plymouth Elks Lodge #1780 in Plymouth MI has Jazz @ The Elks in a beautiful club setting on the last Tuesday of every month from 7 pm to 10 pm. On Tuesday, October 30th for the first time at Jazz @ The Elks, we are happy to welcome the Latin group, Nuevo Jazz Detroit. The artists are Duncan Jones on Keyboard, Don Lewandowski on Bass, Patrick Fitzgibbon on Vibes, Chuck Golemba on Drums and Jerry LeDuff on Congas. Come ...

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Recording

Armenian Folk with Jazz Orchestration: Once Upon a Time

Source: FlipswitchPR, LLC
October 29, 2012

Old Stories, New Retellings: Ara Sarkissian and Musaner’s Jazz Muses Inspire a Twist on Armenian Folk with Once Upon a Time “It’s about what you inherit,” declares Ara Sarkissian, the composer and classical pianist behind modern Armenian fusion experiment Musaner. The group has plunged into the caves of tradition to rescue melodies once left for dead and renew them in the airy architecture of the halls of modern jazz. On Musaner’s sophomore release, Once Upon a Time (release: October 26, ...

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Recording

Electric Cowbell Announces: Karthala 72's Debut Album - Diable Du Feu

Source: Press Junkie PR
October 29, 2012

Electric Cowbell Records Presents: Karthala 72 – Diable Du Feu The sound of a 1970′s psychedelic freakout only heavier than you ever heard it before! The new Karthala 72 full-length album (Diable du Feu!) brings some seriously dark, driving funk meets Afrobeat. There isn’t much on the group out there on the internet. We can’t even figure out exactly where they are from but tribal rhythms and hypnotic guitar echo to a time when the raw sound was king. Taking ...

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Recording

A Very Special Christmas' Album Series Celebrates 25th Anniversary Benefitting Special Olympics

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
October 29, 2012

The A Very Special Christmas holiday music series, benefiting Special Olympics, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this holiday season with the release of two new albums of holiday music advancing the Special Olympics movement and bringing joy and peace to athletes and their families around the world: A Very Special Christmas 25th Anniversary, Bringing Joy to the World: Featuring Christina Aguilera (“Oh Holy Night"), Francesca Battistelli (“December 25”), Michael Bublé (“It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”), Cheap Trick ...

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