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The Jazz Improvisation workshop in Italy combines a week of rigorous
jazz studies with an exploration of the foods, wines, and sights that Italy has to offer. The workshop is perfect for
instrumentalists and vocalists with different backgrounds who want to learn and become better musicians. You won't
want to miss out on this spectacular 6-day / 7-night immersion ...
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"Preferisco lavorare come parte di un ensemble piuttosto che pormi di fronte al gruppo --diceva Judy Silvano nel 2002 a Down Beat--Da quando ho iniziato a esibirmi nei primi anni ottanta ho avuto difficoltà a percepire i cantanti come una razza diversa dagli strumentisti." Una peculiarità che ritroviamo in Lessons Learned con Judi parte integrante di ...
read moreJudi Silvano is a vocalist, singer and artist who has been around for some time, long enough to look back over her life and create this set of songs which reflect on her experiences and accumulated knowledge. Her music here contains elements of jazz, rock and other genres with a heavy reliance on guitars, both the ...
read moreYilian Cañizares and Omar Sosa
Aguas
Ota Records
2018
Pianist/composer Omar Sosa has established himself as a pioneer at the edge of Cubano-Caribbean music. Sosa teams with violinist/vocalist Yilian Cañizares for a breezy and sensual stroll through 11 original, for lack of a better term, world music compositions that are as ...
Red Hook Jazz Festival 2016
Urban Meadow Community Garden
Red Hook, Brooklyn
June 12 & 19, 2016
This ninth edition of the Red Hook Jazz Festival appeared to draw its biggest crowd yet. Not that it's a large- capacity event, but perhaps a setting close to the water's ...
The legendary cosmic jazz of Sun Ra Arkestra—under the direction of their longtime, nonagenarian alto saxophonist, Marshall Allen—headlines the second annual Beacon Jazz Festival. Sponsored by Birches Associates and once more celebrating this quintessential American music, alongside the distilleries, craft vendors, culture and natural splendor of the Hudson Valley, the second Beacon Jazz Festival will take ...
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“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its
bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any
musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York ...
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From July 18th to August 28th, in the heart of Times Square, the New York Jazz Workshop's 8th summer series will feature
the whos who of jazz music with Alan Ferber , Amina Figarova, Ari Hoenig,
Chris Washburne, Dan Weiss, Dave Liebman, Dave Scott, Fay Victor, Frank Kimbrough, Jacob Sacks, Jocelyn Medina, John O’Gallagher, Kenny Wessel, ...
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In this installment of Take Five we hear from Executive Director Rob Saffer of the Creative Music Foundation, an organization founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman. CMS has brought together leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities through their CMS workshops.
About the Creative Music Studio Fall ...
“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins,
like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill...
The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of
small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical
event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York Times
“The lineup seems ...
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