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Catherine Russell: A Swing-Jazz Singer Emerges

Source: John Kelman
April 15, 2012

By Daniel Kassell Catherine Russell Singers Over Manhattan The Allen Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center New York City, NY March 30, 2012 At the start of singer Catherine Russell's Jazz at Lincoln Center performance, MC Todd Barkan (Dizzy's Jazz Club Manager), roused the crowd with, “Thank you for all you bring to music," and introduced the evening's Singer Over Manhattan. Combining jazz club intimacy with educational dialogue and a little Big Band—packed ...

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Performance / Tour

Rachel Mac Farlane Sings with Ron Jones Big Band Saturday April 21, at 7PM Upstairs at Vitello's Jazz & Supper Club

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2012

Rachel MacFarlane sings with Ron Jones Big Band Saturday April 21, at 7pm Upstairs at Vitello's Jazz & Supper Club in Studio City, Hollywood ICON Rachael MacFarlane is not just the younger sister of Fox's billion dollar animation brain: Seth MacFarlane, she is one of the most accomplished voice-over actresses in Hollywood today. Currently she provides the voices for a multitude of animated characters including Hayley from American Dad; Mindy and Eris From the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy; ...

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Book / Magazine

Viking Announces Acquisition Of Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock's Memoir

Source: Muse Media
April 14, 2012

Viking is pleased to announce the acquisition of the memoir of jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Clare Ferraro, President of Viking, acquired world rights from Robert Barnett of Williams & Connolly. Viking plans to publish in the fall of 2014, with Rick Kot as editor. Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. In an illustrious career that has spanned over five decades and earned him 14 Grammy® Awards (including the 2007 Album Of The Year for River: The Joni ...

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Event

Donald Harrison Brings Big Easy To Big Apple @ WBGO Kids Concert

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
April 14, 2012

WBGO’S Award-Winning Kids Jazz Concert Series Continues with Donald Harrison Saturday, April 14, 12:30 pm Cicely Tyson School Performing Arts Center, East Orange NEWARK, NJ: Children and their families are invited to listen, learn and discover jazz at WBGO’s award-winning, free Kids Jazz Concert Series, featuring saxophonist Donald Harrison on Saturday, April 14, at 12:30 pm at Cicely Tyson School Performing Arts Center, 35 Winans Street, East Orange, NJ. The concert series brings jazz culture and dynamic performances to young ...

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Event

Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival (re)creates Small's With Concert/event Series In May

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
April 14, 2012

2012 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Re-creates Small’s Paradise Featuring Concerts, Jam Sessions and Educational Events Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Runs May 7 – 13, 2012 All Tickets Just $10 or Free! The prestige of the past. The pulse of the present. HARLEM, NY: In 1925, businessman Ed Small opened a Harlem basement club called Small’s Paradise at 2294 Seventh Avenue. It was one of the incubators of modern music, and it had everything: from the experimental bebop, and Charleston-dancing waiters, ...

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TV / Film

Finding Carlton - Jazz Documentary - Next Screening April 23rd

Source: Susheel Kurien
April 14, 2012

Finding Carlton - Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India will screen in PROVIDENCE, RI on Monday, April 23rd. BROWN UNIVERSITY, WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES JOUKOWSKY FORUM, 155 5:00PM, APRIL 23 The screening is sponsored by the The Office for Institutional Diversity at Brown University and will feature a discussion with the Filmmaker after the screening Please contact The Office for Institutional Diversity at Brown University Finding Carlton – Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India. tells the universal ...

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Award / Grant

Gico Music’s Gina Carey Wins The Deserts 2012 Jazz Music Award

Source: Lisa Falls
April 14, 2012

Gina Carey is presented with the 2012 Jazz Music award for the Rising Stars of the Desert Music Video Contest. On Wednesday April 11, 2012, Gico Music recording artist Gina Carey won the Rising Stars of the Desert 2012 Music Video Competition and was awarded the Marker Broadcasting 2012 Jazz Music artist Award. This prestigious award was presented to Gina Carey at the Marker Broadcasting’s Inaugural in the Fantasy Springs Casino Lit Lounge in Indio California. This was the first ...

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Recording

Texas Legend Billy Joe Shaver Releases 'Live at Billy Bob's Texas,' First Newly Recorded Performances in Nearly Two Decades

Source: conqueroo
April 14, 2012

Twenty-two track package features CD and DVD; includes two new previously unreleased songs WACO, Texas — Country songwriting icon and honky tonk hero Billy Joe Shaver and his Heart of Texas Band offer the best from his catalog of legendary songs in concert from the stage of the world's largest honky tonk. Shaver's Live at Billy Bob's Texas, slated to be released July 17, 2012 on Smith Music Group is his first album in five years. The fully loaded special ...

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