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Book / Magazine

Release Party For The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2012

Author Gregg Akkerman will be launching the release of his new book, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press, 2012) at a combined reading/live performance in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The release marks the long-overdue biography of a vocalist best known for his eponymously titled album with intrepid saxophonist John Coltrane (Impulse!, 1963) and as the singing voice behind several scenes in Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County. “I started out just writing a book on a baritone ...

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Performance / Tour

Beat Kaestli & Clarice Assad - A Cosmopolitan Affair - June 25th @ The Metropolitan Room NYC, 9:30pm

Source: Beat Kaestli
June 8, 2012

Joined by their mutual love of music and languages, longtime friends and collaborators Beat Kaestli and Clarice Assad use their cultural differences to present a cosmopolitan affair of international standards in a humorous yet sophisticated setting. Blending styles, reaching from Bossa Nova and Jazz to French Chansons and Opera, their diverse program takes you from Rio de Janeiro to Bahia, from Jacques Prévert to Charles Bizet right back to Rodgers and Hart and charming originals. Along with percussionist extraordinaire Keita ...

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Radio

Web-based Radio Station Jet City Stream Exposes Thrilling New Seattle Talent, From Blues To Rock To Hip-hop

Source: Lauren Rogers
June 8, 2012

In the Emerald City, the slamming power pop and fuzz-bomb rock of Nirvana is now a faint echo of the past. It was only two decades ago when Seattle nearly ruled the world, when the technological advances of the Internet catapulted Microsoft into global dominance, when the town’s basketball and baseball teams thrust a refuse to lose underdog spirit into the playoffs, when grunge toppled Michael Jackson on the Billboard charts. One by one, it all fell apart. The Sonics ...

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Recording

Legendary Powerpop Band Shoes To Release First All-new Album In 18 Years

Source: conqueroo
June 8, 2012

Legendary power-pop band and indie-rock pioneers’ 15-track disc Ignition due August 14 ZION, Ill. — Shoes, the trailblazing guitar-pop combo from tiny Zion, Illinois — who in the 1970s prefigured the home-recording DIY boom of the ’90s and beyond — release their first album of new material since 1994 on August 14, 2012. Ignition switches on with 15 fresh, vital tracks from Shoes’ three founding members and songwriters: bassist-vocalist John Murphy, guitarist-vocalist Jeff Murphy, and guitarist- vocalist Gary Klebe, plus longtime ...

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Education

Money Raised For Litchfield Jazz Camp Scholarships At An Afternoon Of Jazz & Friends

Source: Lindsey Turner
June 8, 2012

Litchfield Performing Arts, the not-for-profit producer of The Litchfield Jazz Festival and its teaching arm, Litchfield Jazz Camp, held a successful fundraiser on April 29 at the home of its board president Bob Lenz and his wife Carol. The afternoon was designed to show off the talents of outstanding campers and to introduce a debuting artist at Litchfield Jazz Festival this August at the Goshen Fairgrounds. Under the direction of saxophonist/composer and Operations Director of Litchfield Jazz Camp, Albert Rivera ...

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Education

Litchfield Jazz Camp Announces Two New Courses And Select Places Still Available

Source: Lindsey Turner
June 8, 2012

Kent, CT: Litchfield Jazz Camp (est. 1997) is excited to announce new course offerings for 2012. Guitarist and Camp Teaching Artist Doug Munro will offer a College Prep Seminar during sessions three (7/22-7/27), four (7/29-8/3), and five (8/5-8/10). Doug, who is a Professor of Music at SUNY Purchase and founder of their Jazz Program, will offer an insider’s perspective on what to expect from a college-level program. This seminar will prepare students for higher education, whether at a conservatory or ...

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Recording

Rare TV Performances By Capt. Beefheart And His Magic Band "The Lost Broadcasts" To Be Released On DVD

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 8, 2012

London, UK: Don Van Vliet, (1941-2010) better known to his legions of fans as Captain Beefheart was one of the most enigmatic figures in rock music. Unashamedly an artist, rather than a pop star, he forged his own idiosyncratic furrow through popular culture, producing some of the most innovative and uncompromising music ever committed to recording tape. From the age of three he painted and sculpted, and had an obsession with animals and the natural world. As a teenager he ...

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Recording

Janet Stevenson's Debut Album, Believe In Spring

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2012

Believe in Spring by jazz vocalist Janet Stevenson is a journey through life, emotion, and most of all, great vocal jazz. Janet’s debut CD is a refreshing mix of ballads, swing, blues, and Brazilian in a style reminiscent of Shirley Horn and Carmen McRae. The track “Just in Time" will be a featured free download on allaboutjazz.com on Friday, June 8, 2012. “I have enjoyed your new CD very much…the cover, song choices, mood of the CD. are all so ...

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