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Festival

Jazz Is Bustin' Out All Over The Nation's Capital

Source: Meghan Ziobro
May 18, 2012

DC Jazz Festival Announces 2012 All-Star Lineup June 1-10 WASHINGTON, April 2, 2012 – The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announced its signature programs for 2012, which include: Jazz Meets the Classics at the Kennedy Center; Jazz in the 'Hoods presented by Events DC; Jazz 'n' Families Fun Days at The Phillips Collection; Jazz at the Hamilton presented by The Washington Post; and Jazz at the Howard. The Festival will take place June 1-10. Jazz Meets the Classics, co-presented by ...

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Performance / Tour

Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open Season Finale with Dave Liebman & Scott Colley and May 19th!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 18, 2012

CONNECTION WORKS PRESENTS The Season Finale of BROOKLYN JAZZ WIDE OPEN @ The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Concert Hall The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is located at 58 Seventh Ave (at Lincoln Place), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, Tel 718 622 3300, reduced admission! FINAL Concert of the 2011-2012 season Saturday, May 19 @ 8:00 PM (two sets) WORKS with special guests DAVE LIEBMAN & SCOTT COLLEY Dave Liebman - saxophones Michel Gentile ...

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Event

Jambalaya Brass Band To Perform For Crawfish For Cancer’s 4th Annual Crawfish Broil

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
May 18, 2012

New York, NY: Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live at the Crawfish for Cancer’s 4th Annual Crawfish Broil for the benefit of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) at the 79th St. Boat Basin Café in NYC on Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. At the Crawfish Broil benefit, along with tunes from their successful CD It’s a Jungle Out There, Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing other original and traditional favorites. The band’s foundation will ...

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Radio

Hot Club Of San Francisco On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
May 17, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, acouistic guitarist Paul Mehling and the Hot Club of San Francisco join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the great Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. 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. Think of 20th century guitar greats—Charlie Christian, B. B. King, Bucky Pizzarelli and Les Paul—they all have one thing in common. Each one of ...

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Recording

Algo Jazz By Nonsoft Now Available Worldwide

Source: Nonsoft
May 17, 2012

Shortly after its release, Algo Jazz by Nonsoft is now available from outlets worldwide including Amazon, CD Baby, iTunes, Rhapsody, and eMusic. Algo Jazz is the debut album by Nonsoft, who were formerly creating video games before turning their attention to music. The album features 18 tracks of varied styles and instrumentation, all of which were algorithmically-composed and recorded by a computer. Songs range from the smooth jazz piano of “The Best Days", to the Latin guitar of “On the ...

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Radio

WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category At NYABJ Awards

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
May 17, 2012

WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category at NY Association of Black Journalists Awards NEWARK, NJ: Jazz station WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 swept the Radio Category with First Place honors in General News, Public Affairs and Arts & Entertainment at the 2012 New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 15, at The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in New York. NYABJ recognizes the best in Print, New Media, Radio, Magazine and Television ...

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Interview

Artist Interview: Adedeji, From West Africa To The World

Source: Lauren Rogers
May 17, 2012

Q: When would you say triggered your passion for music? How old were you at the time? A: My passion for music was triggered as far as I could remember; I was probably 5-years-old then. I seriously cannot remember how or when it started but I was teaching my sister and brother how to sing in different parts at that age so when i joined the choir, the only thing I could remember was I did not do audition like ...

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Event

Grammy Award-winning Composer Terence Blanchard And Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Michael Cristofer To Premiere New Opera At Opera Theatre Of St. Louis

Source: Muse Media
May 16, 2012

Five-Time Grammy Award-Winning Composer Terence Blanchard and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Michael Cristofer to Premiere New Opera at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis “Champion,” a co-commission with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Jazz St. Louis, will receive world premiere June 15-30, 2013 St. Louis, MO: Continuing their individual traditions of commissioning music that showcases the talents of the world’s best contemporary composers, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Jazz St. Louis have joined forces in the development of a new ...

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