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Festival

Caramoor International Music Festival Presents The 2012 Jazz Festival, June 28-29

Source: Fiona Zwieb
July 3, 2012

Caramoor International Music Festival’s annual weekend-long Jazz Festival has become a premiere destination for jazz music for artists and fans alike. The 2012 Jazz Festival – July 28 and 29 – welcomes some of the industry’s brightest talents and celebrated chart-toppers, demonstrating the breadth and diversity of the state of jazz. On Saturday, the festival kicks off with Hard Bop icons Billy Harper and The Cookers and continues with a solo set of lyrical jazz by pianist Kenny Barron, followed ...

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Performance / Tour

The Blue Room On Historic 18th And Vine All-Star Week Line Up

Source: C. L. Burnett, American Jazz Museum
July 3, 2012

Kansas City, Mo: To celebrate the All-Star game coming to Kansas City the Blue Room is adding extra shows throughout the extravaganza. The All-Star performances kick off on Thursday July 5th with the Kansas City All-Star Funk Band, Esquire. Friday July 6th the Kansas City All-Star Blues Band will feature Everette DeVan. DeVan has been a pivotal force on the local Kansas City jazz scene and his talents have allowed him to gain international recognition as well. One of the ...

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Festival

Jazzhouse Presents 21st Century Jazz During Copenhagen Jazz Festival

Source: Rasmus Steffensen
July 3, 2012

Copenhagen Jazz Festival will kick off on Friday, July 6th, to fill all of Denmark’s capital with jazz music for 10 days. The newly reopened Jazzhouse located in the heart of the city, in Niels Hemmingsens Gade, will obviously also play a crucial part in the festival. Here you will find a full programme of international acts under the theme ”21st Century Jazz”. “21st Century Jazz” invites you to experience the sound of the international jazz scene here and now ...

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Website

Let's create the most comprehensive jazz venue listing online!

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2012

As we prepare for the Jazz Near You (website and app) launch in September, we're looking for readers to help us complete our jazz venue directory region by region. If you own a venue, or present at a venue, make sure it is listed. Also, if you are a fan and catch lives shows regularly, please add your favorite venue if it is not listed. We have nearly 8,000 venues in our database, but it's far from complete. Your help ...

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Website

Soundcloud and Bandcamp links added to All About Jazz Musician Profile

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2012

We'd like to thank bassist Douglas Johnson for his suggestion to add Bandcamp and Soundcloud link opportunities from a musician profile. If you're a musician and have a Bandcamp or Soundcloud page, you can link to them from your profile by entering them on your musician profile submission form. e.g. The Bandcamp and Soundcloud icons will then appear on your profile page directly under your bio. e.g. If you are a musician and you have a suggestion on how we ...

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Music Industry

Don't Look Back: Lawrence University Composer Pens Tribute To Baseball Legend Satchel Paige

Source: Rick Peterson
July 2, 2012

APPLETON, WIS. — On the mound, pitching legend Leroy “Satchel" Paige could make a baseball “sing." Lawrence University's award-winning composer and baseball lover Fred Sturm has combined his two passions in a musical tribute to the Hall of Famer. The Baseball Music Project is releasing “Don't Look Back," a newly commissioned work written by Lawrence's director of jazz studies and improvisational music that pays homage to the legendary pitcher and Negro Leagues superstar and some of his most celebrated quotes. ...

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Event

George Wein & Newport All-stars Perform At Scullers July 21

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 2, 2012

George Wein’s Newport All-Stars to Perform at Scullers Jazz Club on Saturday, July 21, at 8pm and 10pm NEW YORK, NY: legendary impresario George Wein at the helm, the Newport All-Stars, featuring Lew Tabackin, Anat Cohen, Howard Alden, Jay Leonhart and Lewis Nash, will present an evening of swinging jazz at Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA, on Saturday, July 21, at 8:00pm and 10:00pm. George Wein is considered to be as much a legend as his ...

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Festival

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Wraps Up 11th Edition With 9 Days Of Exceptional Music And Another Attendance Record

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
July 2, 2012

Rochester NY: The record number of fast headliner sell-outs and an earlier than ever sell-out of the Club Pass, were the first signs that the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival 11th Edition (XRIJF) was headed toward another amazing musical journey. The nine-day Festival, held June 22-30, presented more than 300 concerts at 18 venues, and drew more than 187,000 people from 30-plus states and 15 countries. Jazz Street was a sea of smiles as people made it their destination night ...

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