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All About Jazz Calendar Activity Heats Up

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2012

Since the launch of our weekly concert calendar email service, event submission activity has spiked, which is good news for all. That means musicians and presenters are getting their dates out in front of jazz fans and the fans are receiving a more comprehensive calendar. Submitted events have reached nearly 1,200 in a single day and our venue and festival listings have expanded dramatically since March. To handle the increased activity, we improved our event submission form, we improved our ...

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Maryland Summer Jazz Festival Welcomes International Jazz Stars In July

Source: The Phillips Agency
May 2, 2012

The Maryland Summer Festival returns on July 14 for its eighth exciting season of workshops and jams for musicians and public concerts for jazz lovers. Events take place through July 27. Drawing adult learners and listeners from coast to coast, the top rated event features jazz recording and performing artists on stages and in classrooms. Events help avid adult learners can raise the bar on their singing and playing. Some are inspired to go on to professional music careers, others ...

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Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947 (#251)

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2012

This set is expected to be released late May/early June “Almost all of the recordings Hawkins made throughout a 45 year period were outstanding examples of improvisation, but among them were masterpieces by which all jazz tenor saxophone solos will forever be judged.” —John Chilton, The Song Of The Hawk The Coleman Hawkins Set You’ve Been Waiting For The saxophone was patented more than a half century before jazz developed but their affinity for each other might be nearly perfect. ...

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Rudi Records New Release: "Black Novel" By Massimo De Mattia

Source: Massimo Iudicone
May 2, 2012

Black Novel by Massimo De Mattia RRJ1008 - Rudi Records 2012 Distrib. Goodfellas Massimo De Mattia: flutes Luigi Vitale: vibraphone, marimba Denis Biason: guitars Alessandro Turchet: double bass Bruno Cesselli: piano Liner Notes by Flavio Massarutto There is something unique about Massimo De Mattia in the world of Italian jazz and improvisational music. After spending the 1980s learning and playing with talented peers and the saxophonist Tom Kirk, ...

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GI Blythe Launches East Coast CD Release Tour

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
May 2, 2012

New York, NY: In support of their highly successful CD, Lost in Space, GI Blythe will embark on a CD release tour of the East Coast beginning with a CD release party at Connolly’s Klub 45 in New York City on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 and closing the tour with a CD release concert at the Bearsville Theater in Bearsville, NY on May 21, 2012. In the interim, they’ll be appearing at the U Street Music Hall in Washington DC ...

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Jimbo Mathus to Release "Blue Light," a Six-Song Ep on Fat Possum's Big Legal Mess Records July 20

Source: conqueroo
May 2, 2012

Mississippi musician, veteran of Squrrel Nut Zippers and South Memphis String Band, will tour in May OXFORD, MS: The late Memphis producer Jim Dickinson once called Jimbo Mathus “the singing voice of Huck Finn." Outside the South, Mathus is likely best known as the ringleader of the defunct hyper-ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers, or as the catalyst for Buddy Guy's breakthrough Sweet Tea in 2001 and Guy's Grammy-winning Blues Singer album. This July, Mathus will soon release a six-song vinyl ...

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BJURecords To Release New CD From Pianist/composer Jeremy Siskind

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 1, 2012

BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND RECORDS To Release FINGER-SONGWRITER The Sophomore Recording From Pianist/Composer JEREMY SISKIND Available May 15 FINGER-SONGWRITER features: Jeremy Siskind (piano, compositions), Nancy Harms (vocals) and Lucas Pino (woodwinds) UPCOMING EVENTS: May 30 @ 8:00 PM - Jeremy Siskind Solo Recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, performing works by Debussy, Michael Jackson, and music from Finger-Songwriter, 881 7th Ave, NYC Every Tuesday night in June - Jeremy Siskind with special guests at The Kitano, 66 Park Ave @ ...

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Bett Butler Releases American Sampler

Source: Bett Butler
May 2, 2012

THE AWARD-WINNING SONGWRITER JOINS VIRTUOSO BASSIST/COMPOSER JOËL DILLEY IN AN INTIMATE EXPLORATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK. “What might well be the most honest, haunting and intense version of 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?' committed to CD.” —Jim Beal, San Antonio Express-News “Breathes new life into old songs with fresh arrangements and a flair for the exotic.” —KUT Radio host Jay Trachtenburg, Austin Chronicle SAN ANTONIO TX: Jazz vocalist/pianist Bett Butler―better known for her off-beat songwriting about dark subject ...

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