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Enter the "Orrin Evans - Flip the Script" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Posi-Tone Records “Orrin Evans - Flip the Script“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on August 27th. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Orrin Evans at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at Posi-Tone Records About Flip the Script Orrin Evans turns over a new leaf and strides confidently back onto the scene ...

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'Detropia' Explores Detroit's Musical Legacy and Industries as the City Crumbles

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 27, 2012

Detropia is a film about Detroit — a city everybody knows. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score, the film plays like poetry in motion as it sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the brink of dissolution. It's by two phenomenal female filmmakers: Oscar nominated Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp, Freakonomics). Detropia is a cinematic tapestry that chronicles the lives of several Detroiters trying to survive and make sense of what is happening ...

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Blues Harmonica Icon Curtis Salgado Brings 'Soul Shot' to Sellersville, PA

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 27, 2012

Award-winning vocalist/songwriter/harmonica icon Curtis Salgado will celebrate the release of his blistering Alligator Records debut CD, Soul Shot, with a live performance at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Winner of the 2012 Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Artist Of The Year, Salgado effortlessly mixes R&B, funk and blues with a delivery that is raw and heartfelt. He moves with ease from the tenderest ballads to the most full-throated stompers. Concert information follows: Date: Wednesday, ...

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The Holmes Brothers to Perform in Schwenksville at Philly Folk Fest

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 27, 2012

The Holmes Brothers - bassist/vocalist Sherman Holmes, his brother, guitarist/vocalist Wendell Holmes, and drummer/vocalist Popsy Dixon - will give a live performance at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Schwenksville on Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19, 2012. The trio will play songs from their latest CD, Feed My Soul. Feed My Soul features the band's exhilarating, spine-tingling harmonies, boundless energy and telepathic musicianship over the course of nine originals (the most they've ever penned for an album) and four ...

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Florencia Gonzalez Big Band CD Release

Source: Florencia Gonzalez
August 13, 2012

Described by the Boston Phoenix as “recalling the best of Mingus, Monk and Gil Evans...” Florencia Gonzalez Big Band has been together since 2007; playing regularly at the Lily Pad every other Thursday, and was selected last year one of the best 5 jazz bands in Boston. Being originally from Uruguay, her music infuses jazz and classical music with tango, candombe, chacarera and many other rhythms brought from the southern region of South America, incorporating extra woodwind colors, such as ...

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PRA Records To Release Randy Crawford & Joe Sample – Live Featuring Steve Gadd On Drums And Nicklas Sample On Bass In Stores July 31st

Source: Inque Public Relations
July 27, 2012

Electrifying Performances Recorded On Tour at Various Concert Venues Throughout Europe From October – December 2008 Randy Crawford and Joe Sample have been making music together in one form or another for nearly 36 years. From their first hit together in 1979, “Street Life” (which Randy sang with Joe and The Crusaders) to “One Day I’ll Fly Away,” “When Your Life Was Low” and “Last Night at Danceland,” to their recent duo collaborations on the GRAMMY®-nominated CDs Feeling Good (2006) ...

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Gordon Grdina Fuses Arabic And Avant On August 14 Songlines Release, Her Eyes Illuminate

Source: GoMedia PR
July 27, 2012

Oudist, With His Band Haram, Interpret Popular and Folk Music by Celebrated Iraqi and Egyptian Artists of the Last Century Vancouver guitarist/oud player Gordon Grdina's music is all about call-and-response across every possible artistic pre-conception. His last record on Songlines, by his East Van Strings quartet (The Breathing of Statues, 2009), included intense, concentrated avant-garde pieces inspired by Bartok, Webern and Berg side-by-side with spacious excursions around Arabic modes. Although he's perhaps best known as a guitarist, Grdina was already ...

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"Finding Carlton" Film Screening at Brampton Jazz Festival on August 11th

Source: Susheel Kurien
July 27, 2012

FREE SCREENING - TORONTO AREA Finding Carlton - Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India, is a highly acclaimed new documentary film that is engaging audiences all over the world. Finding Carlton will screen on August 11 in the Jazz n Film series at the Brampton Global Jazz and Blues Festival. This will be the first screening of this Film in Canada. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film maker. Finding Carlton is a true labor ...

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