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Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival, May 10 In Washington, DC

Source: Scott Foster
May 5, 2012

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform May 10, 2012 at the 17th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Chihiro, a Universal Music recording artist and a jazz pianist/composer, kicks off the festival, performing the opening set on the festival's opening night concert, followed by Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran with Special Guest Candido and the Carmen Lundy Quartet. The festival is hosted by the great ...

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Performance / Tour

Singer Amy Cervini Announces Her Debut Performance At Joe's Pub On June 17!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 5, 2012

Singer Amy Cervini To Make Her Debut Performance at Joe's Pub on June 17 @ 7:00 PM Performing Music from Digging Me, Digging You: A Tribute to Blossom Dearie Joe's Pub is located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC, Tel 212 539 8778 Amy Cervini will be appearing with: Anat Cohen - clarinet, Nadje Noordhius - trumpet, Jeremy Udden - alto saxophone, Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone, Jennifer Wharton - bass trombone, Jesse Lewis - guitar, Carmen Staaf - piano, Matt ...

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Event

The Left Banke Plays Two Concerts In Maryland: May 5 In Rockville, May 6 In Annapolis

Source: Anne Leighton
May 3, 2012

The Left Banke will be performing two area shows early this May. On Saturday, May 5, the group performs at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, 51 Mannakee Street, in Rockville, MD, at 8 PM. Alan Merrill, who wrote “I Love Rock-n-Roll" wll be opening. Tickets are $25., and students and seniors get in for $23. The venue phone is 240-567-5301. On Sunday, May 6, the Left Banke will be at Ram's Head Onstage, 33 West Street, in Annapolis, ...

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Event

9th Annual Wine & Jazz Summer Concert Series Returns To Hollywood & Highland Center

Source: M. Craig & Associates
May 4, 2012

Hollywood's hottest jazz concert series returns this summer. Celebrating its 9th year at the Hollywood & Highland Center, the highly popular Wine, Jazz & Moonlight Summer Concert Series kick's off with Jose Rizo's Mongorama. Sponsored by kjazz 88.1 FM, the Wine, Jazz & Moonlight Concert Series takes place every Tuesday evening, June 12 - August 28 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Central Courtyard (2nd Level) at Hollywood & Highland Center. Appealing to music lovers from around the ...

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Education

Attn. String Educators - New Music For 1st Time Improvisors

Source: Bradley Sowash
May 3, 2012

Bradley Sowash has been testing out his Creative Strings Project on local Suzuki groups and now he has made them available to the public. You are invited to peruse the sounds and videos of students performances of these cool pieces here. Eye players read music. Ear players improvise. Today’s well-rounded students need instruction in both. Creative Strings is a collection of works designed to lead beginning to advanced students through their first experiences as improvisers. Each piece is composed of ...

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Performance / Tour

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Hosts New Music, New Works

Source: Dean Minderman
May 3, 2012

(St. Louis, MO) — Inspired by the Great Rivers Biennial 2012 exhibition, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM), in collaboration with the Mizzou New Music Initiative, is pleased to present New Music, New Works at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 19. The event at CAM, 3750 Washington Blvd in St. Louis' Grand Center district, is free and open to the public. The event will feature the world premiere of original compositions by University of Missouri students Grant Fonda, Joe Hills, ...

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Radio

Trumpeter Bria Skonberg This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
May 3, 2012

In his book Preservation Hall, author William Carter asks whether traditional jazz will die out with the current generation, or “re-seed itself?” This week on Riverwalk Jazz, trumpeter Bria Skonberg, one of a new generation of gifted 20-something players, visits the stage of The Landing to perform classic jazz with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. 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. ...

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Recording

Berklee College Of Music Graduate Ian Franklin To Release Debut CD "Breaking Grounds"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 3, 2012

San Francisco, CA - Singer/songwriter Ian Franklin is proud to announce the release of his debut album, 'Breaking Grounds'. This new full length album is being released on the heels of his successful 'Step By Step EP' which was released in May of 2011. This release, for the Santa Rosa native, comes as a career high at the end of a near- decade of non-stop, whirlwind and frenetic coast-to-coast musical endeavors and evolution that have both educated and matured the ...

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