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Performance / Tour

Fiddlehead Theatre And The ACLU Present Ragtime Sept. 28 - Oct. 7, 2012

Source: Joanne Barrett
September 28, 2012

Boston, MA: Fiddlehead Theatre Company, in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union, with the support of Mayor Thomas M. Menino, City of Boston, proudly announce an exciting new production of the Tony Award- winning musical RAGTIME. The production runs September 28-October 7, 2012 at Boston’s Historic Strand Theatre, and aims to celebrate the work of the ACLU, and in particular keep issues of personal liberty at the forefront of people’s minds during the upcoming elections. “I am delighted that ...

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Recording

Newport Jazz Festival Gala Recording Powered By Artistshare Coming Soon

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
September 28, 2012

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. Invites Jazz Fans to Play Role in the Future of Jazz Through Newport Jazz Festival Gala Recording 2012 Project Powered by ArtistShare First-ever CD Produced by Newport Jazz Festival Features Dianne Reeves, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Anat Cohen, Steve Wilson, Lewis Nash, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Lionel Loueke, Edmar Castañeda, Ingrid Jensen and Peter Martin NEWPORT, RI: George Wein and the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. invite jazz fans to take a front row seat for the future of ...

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Festival

Stephanie Jordan Jazz Ensemble Performs Day One Of Cutting Edge’s NOLA Downtown Music & Arts Festival

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
September 28, 2012

NEW ORLEANS – The 20th Annual Cutting Edge CE announces that Showcasing on Friday at 6:20pm in Lafayette Square is internationally acclaimed New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan at the NOLA DOWNTOWN Music & Arts Festival which takes place in Lafayette Square at Historic Gallier Hall, 545 St. Charles Avenue in the heart of New Orleans’ Downtown Development District on Friday from 3:00 pm-8:00 pm and Saturday from 11:00 am-8:00 pm, September 28-29, 2012. While Jordan has performed on stages ...

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Event

The Jazzschool Presents Sheila Jordan Tribute At The Freight, Berkeley, 12/3

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 28, 2012

In just three years, the Jazzschool’s annual Mark Murphy Vocal Scholarship fundraisers have become established as a highlight of the fall concert season. They provide an opportunity for Bay Area vocal jazz royalty to come together in celebration of their art and their mentors. On Monday, December 3, the Jazzschool will present its 4th annual vocal scholarship fundraiser at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. Whereas in past years the focus was firmly on Murphy, his music, and his influence ...

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Recording

Trumpeter/composer Allen Vizzutti To Release "Ritzville" Oct. 16

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 28, 2012

Trumpet virtuoso Allen Vizzutti has enjoyed a prolific career as performer and educator in both the jazz and classical fields since his early days with Woody Herman’s big band and his notable four-year tenure with Chick Corea. The release of Vizzutti’s superb new CD Ritzville, on October 16, is an especially welcome event because the in-demand trumpeter/composer has recorded all too infrequently as a leader. Ritzville brings the focus back to his primary passion of “performing music I love with ...

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TV / Film

Jazz Film Uncovers Washington, D.C. Jazz Treasures

Source: The Phillips Agency
September 27, 2012

Stefan Immler has taken Washington’s love for jazz to new heights with his seminal documentary Oxygen for the Ears: Living Jazz. This full-length documentary, which took the German-born jazz lover more than three years to make, reveals many surprising new facts about jazz in the nation’s capital. Immler’s film will be the opener for the Third Annual Reel Independent Film Extravaganza (RIFE), October 12 at West End Cinema in Georgetown in Washington, D.C. The film tells the story of jazz ...

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Festival

Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Announces Final Lineup For Oct. 4-13 Event

Source: Ed Bride Associates
September 27, 2012

Williams College Jazz Ensemble Added to Headline Event A Signature Musical Happening of the Fall Foliage Season Pittsfield, Mass: Berkshires Jazz, Inc. has announced the final lineup for the 8th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from Oct. 4-13 in various venues in downtown Pittsfield. A signature cultural event of the Fall Foliage season in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, the music spans the spectrum of jazz, and includes: the New England Jazz Ensemble (pictured above) with guest soloists ...

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Radio

Premiere: Audio Documentary: Thelonious Monk: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM, October 7th

Source: Larry Reni Thomas
September 27, 2012

Listen to WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, October 7, 2012, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Thelonious Monk Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Thelonious Monk’s music and the premiere of an audio documentary called “Thelonious Monk: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual.” It features commentary and analysis from Jim Ketch, a trumpet player and a jazz studies professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Larry Ridley, ...

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