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Recording

James Morrison Releases "Snappy Too" on Aleph Records

Source: CineMedia Promotions
September 15, 2012

Snappy Too is the Follow-Up to the Gold Certified Album Snappy Doo Los Angeles, CA: Aleph Records will release James Morrison’s new recording Snappy Too on September 11, 2012. The album is the sequel to the 1990 release Snappy Doo, which featured Morrison along with three legendary artists (Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, and Jeff Hamilton) creating a seventeen-piece big band sound through the use of overdubbing. “It was tremendous fun and the album went gold,” said Morrison of Snappy Doo. ...

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Event

WBGO's Kids Jazz Concert Series Returns In October With 4 Free Concerts

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
September 15, 2012

WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM’s Award-Winning Kids Jazz Concert Series Returns in October with Four Free, Interactive Programs for Young People Fall Series Includes Concerts Featuring Maurício de Souza, Maurice Chestnut, Antonio Hart and Lakecia Benjamin NEWARK, NJ: WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM’s award-winning, free Kids Jazz Concert Series, which brings jazz culture and dynamic performances to young people in the Spring and Fall, returns with performances at four New Jersey venues on Saturdays in October. The hour-long concerts, which begin at ...

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Festival

SFJAZZ Announces SFJAZZ Center Grand Opening Festivities & Season One Artist Lineup

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
September 14, 2012

Randall Kline, the founder and Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ, today announced the SFJAZZ Center Grand Opening Festivities and Season One artist lineup. The SFJAZZ Center can now efficiently integrate its mission under one roof to present world class artists in concert throughout the year, nurture young musicians’ development and promote music education. The purpose-built and site-sensitive design accommodates both the requirements of SFJAZZ and the surrounding neighborhood. The center is nearing completion and will celebrate its Grand Opening on ...

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Website

Jazz Near You / All About Jazz Calendar-Related Upgrades

Source: All About Jazz
September 13, 2012

We made two significant improvements to the event submission process and we fixed a bug. Improvements We relaxed the CSV file upload rules. All events are now uploaded regardless of a venue match. If city and state are included, we'll determine longitude and latitude so your events will still appear in our local calendar, our weekly email blast and our phone app. We've improved the flow of submitting a single event. We now invoke an overlay window if you attempt ...

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Event

Jazz At NEC: September and October Highlights

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
September 13, 2012

Wednesday, September 19, 1:30 p.m.: Fred Hersch Master Class, Brown Hall On tour to promote his latest two-disc album Alive at the Vanguard, NEC faculty member and alum Fred Hersch will present a master class with his working trio, featuring bassist Drew Gress and drummer Eric McPherson. Thursday, September 27, 1:00 p.m., Jason Moran and Dave Holland Master Class, Keller Room MacArthur Fellow, Kennedy Center advisor and NEC faculty member Jason Moran joins NEC’s Artist in Residence, Dave Holland, for ...

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Radio

Australian Cornet Master Bob Barnard On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
September 13, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Australian cornet master Bob Barnard joins the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand. Together they play classic tunes made famous by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and other originals by Australian composers and Bob himself. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. An Appreciation By Don Mopsick Over almost two decades with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, ...

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Recording

The Art Of Dreaming, By Saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Set For September 25 North America Release

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
September 13, 2012

Saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart’s most recent CD, “The Art of Dreaming", released in Europe earlier this year, is set to debut in the United States and Canada by Naïve/Naxos on September 25, 2012. The project is called “The Art of Dreaming" because of the state of heightened awareness shared when musicians play together, which can be described as ‘”dreaming while awake”. According to Carlos Castañeda, anthropologist and author, ancient Toltec sorcerers had developed the art of staying aware while dreaming, in ...

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Recording

New CD Of Original Progressive Jazz From Michael Pelz-Sherman

Source: Michael Pelz-Sherman
September 13, 2012

Michael Pelz-Sherman has released a new new CD of original progressive jazz from North Carolina, featuring original compositions and extended free improvisations. From Michael Pelz-Sherman: Goes Without Saying presents two very different, yet complimentary sides of my creative musical work as a jazz composer and improvising keyboardist. The first six tracks are progressive jazz compositions, carefully produced in a recording studio, showcasing notated melodies, funk and rock-based grooves, modal harmonies, complex time signatures, and improvised solos. My love of the ...

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