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Festival

6th Annual Blues For Food Fest Saturday September 1 Magnuson Park

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 31, 2012

BLUES FOR FOOD FEST 2012: Sixth annual Labor Day weekend event celebrates community, food and music. Saturday, September 1, 12 noon-9:00 pm at Magnuson Park Amphitheatre & P-Patch, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle 98115 Proceeds support P-Patch Trust and Washington Blues Society WHAT IS BLUES FOR FOOD FEST? - An all-ages all-day celebration of good friends, good food and good music, featuring some of the finest blues bands in the Northwest. - A community party ...

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Performance / Tour

This Week At The Cornelia Street Cafe: July 31- August 7

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
July 31, 2012

The Cornelia Street Café, which celebrated its 35th Anniversary this July, is a true New York City landmark, an epicurean destination, an artist's café that cultivates and inspires, and one of the few remaining Greenwich Village bastions for creative music, spoken word, art, theatre, cabaret and much more The Cornelia Street Cafe is Proud to Announce “Spotlight On New Talent" A NEW monthly series, dedicated to showcasing some of the most brilliant up-and-coming jazz musicians This Week at The Cafe, ...

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Book / Magazine

Jazz Composition and Arranging In The Digital Age

Source: Alyssa Bender
July 31, 2012

Jazz Composition and Arranging In the Digital Age is a comprehensive and practical instructional book and reference guide on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. In this book, veteran composers and arrangers Richard Sussman and Michael Abene combine their extensive years of experience as musicians and instructors to demonstrate how advances in music technology and software may be integrated with traditional compositional concepts to form a new and more efficient paradigm for ...

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Music Industry

Tune Shop Instructor Selected To Conn Selmer Artist Roster

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
July 31, 2012

Chris Burnett departs studio instruction after teaching weekly lessons since 2001. Tune Shop, Inc. today announced the departure of Chris Burnett from its weekly studio teacher roster after eleven years of providing private woodwind lessons at the store. Mr. Burnett will remain associated with the Tune Shop, Inc. in his role as an official Selmer (Paris) Saxophone artist and Conn-Selmer Performing Artist and Clinician. Tune Shop, Inc. is an authorized full service Conn-Selmer dealer. Mr. Burnett departs studio instruction after ...

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Performance / Tour

Farah Siraj Presents World Premier Of The Arabian Jazz Project In New York on August 4th

Source: Michael Ricci
July 30, 2012

Dubbed “the Norah Jones of the Middle East,” Jordanian virtuoso Farah Siraj launches her latest project in New York, The Arabian Jazz Project, in collaboration with award-winning pianist and arranger, Victor Gutierrez. Siraj leads an ethnically diverse quintet based in New York. With Farah Siraj from Jordan, Victor Gutierrez from Spain, Matt Geraghty from the United States, George Mel from Georgia and Kinan Idnawi from Syria, the project is a cultural melting pot where Middle Eastern rhythms and melodies blend ...

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Career

Chris Burnett Now Official Selmer Saxophone Artist

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
July 30, 2012

Burnett Publishing and the Tune Shop, Inc. music store have officially announced the departure of Chris Burnett from the music store's weekly studio teacher roster after eleven years of providing private woodwind lessons at the store. Mr. Burnett will remain actively associated with the Tune Shop, Inc. in his role as an official Selmer (Paris) Saxophone artist and Conn-Selmer Performing Artist and Clinician. Tune Shop, Inc. is an authorized full service Conn-Selmer dealer. Mr. Burnett departs studio instruction after having ...

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Performance / Tour

The Blue Room On Historic 18th And Vine Line Up For July 30th- August 4th

Source: C. L. Burnett, American Jazz Museum
July 30, 2012

Kansas City, Mo: The Blue Room, one of the Down Beat Magazine’s top ranked jazz clubs, has another week of great performances lined up. The Blue Monday Jam on the 30th featuring TJ Martley closes out July. Martley is a jazz pianist who is considered one of the best young pianists in Kansas City. Bring your instrument and help send July out with a bang. Thursday August 2nd will feature Langston and The Prototype. Lee Langston is the lead singer ...

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Recording

Tracey Whitney's New Album - I Am Singing...Songs I Love

Source: Creativity in Music
July 30, 2012

I Am Singing...Songs I Love On her stunning sophomore album, Tracey Whitney pays joyful homage to a diverse mix of musicians who have inspired her own singing and songwriting. Rounded out by three original tracks, “I Am Singing…Songs I Love” (a nod at her cover of the Stevie Wonder classic, “Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am Singing”) features the Los Angeles/Albuquerque- based singer’s stirring renditions of classic yet lesser-covered songs by artists like Michael Franks, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. At ...

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