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Jean-Luc Ponty at The Cabot
Jean-Luc Ponty The Atlantic Years
The Cabot
Beverly, MA
August 24, 2018
A perfect match was found between the intimate setting at the Cabot's newly renovated 850 seat, former 1920's art-deco period theater in Beverly, Ma. and the soaring, melodic and mesmerizing sounds of masterful electronic jazz-rock French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. ...
Free Showcase To Feature Berkshires Musicians, August 25, 1-6pm in Pittsfield, MA
Berkshires Jazz, Inc. presents five of the most popular regional bands in the first annual Berkshire Jazz Showcase, on the
Pittsfield Common, August 25 from 1-6pm. The wide-ranging lineup for the jazz extravaganza will include: Gruppo Mondo; Andy Kelly Gypsy Jazz; the Benny Kohn Quartet; the Jason Ennis Quintet with vocalist Natalia
Bernal; and The Lucky 5.
Berkshire County ...
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Lello Molinari Quartet at Regatta Bar
Lello Molinari Quartet
Regatta Bar
Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 1, 2018
During the creation of Lello Molinari's current release Lello's Italian Job, Vol. 2(March, 2018) the renown jazz bassist was intentionally stepping back to his roots of southern Italy, specifically Naples--which he left in 1986 to study at the Berklee College of ...
The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra In Great Barrington Massachusetts on April 15
The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra (“SKLO”) will make its first and only Berkshires appearance this year on Sunday, April 15, at
Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The 7pm concert will be a big band double-header, with
the Monument Mountain Jazz Band opening for the Kenton Legacy band.
Kenton was one of the ...
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Bob Brookmeyer Celebration at New England Conservatory
NEC Jazz Orchestra
Jordan Hall
Bob Brookmeyer Celebration
Boston, MA
March 1, 2018
All of the composer-arrangers featured at the Bob Brookmeyer Celebration concert had been mentored, to some degree or other, by Bob Brookmeyer. Listening to what each of his former students said during the program and ...
JCA Orchestra At The Lily Pad in Cambridge on April 10, 2018 at 8pm
JCA ORCHESTRA in concert, Tuesday, April 10, 8PM at The LilyPad in Inman Square.
The Jazz Composers Alliance will present new music by resident composers David Harris, Darrell Katz & Bob Pilkington Donations are $15, and $10 for students and seniors.
On Tuesday, April 10, at 8PM, the 20-piece JCA Orchestra will present a program of new music ...
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Boston Celebration: The Legacy of Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer: A Celebration
Jordan Hall
Boston, MA
March 1, 2018
The on-going celebration of New England Conservatory's 150th anniversary brought well deserved attention to the Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation departments for the 2017-2018 performance season. On March 1st, at Jordan Hall, NEC presented a very special tribute ...
Curtis Brothers At Scullers
Curtis Brothers
Scullers
Boston, MA
February 1, 2018
Mentoring is one of the foundational elements of jazz culture; the elders teaching the young ones until the young ones are ready to establish their own identities and careers. This mentoring happens in a lot of ways. It happens by observing how an ...
Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band at Sculler's Jazz Club
Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band
Sculler's Jazz Club
Cambridge, MA
November 10, 2017
I walked into the lobby of the Doubletree Hotel, home of Sculler's Jazz Club, at 9:40pm to find it packed, swarming with fans of Brian Blade eager to snap up a copy of his ...
Photographer Jimmy Katz Announces Giant Step Arts, Artist-focused Non-profit Supporting Modern Jazz Innovators
“[Katz] has developed an exceptional body of work in the jazz field, covering the elder statesmen, the icons, the
mainstream and the young lions. In the process, he has developed his own style with the camera that is as identifiable as
Armstrong’s tone on trumpet or Coltrane’s sound on tenor sax.”—Michael Cuscuna, producer, Blue Note Records
For nearly 30 ...
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A four-day festival in Philadelphia featuring John Zorn, Annette Peacock, Christian McBride, the music of Alice Coltrane, and much more. October 4-7, 2018
Story of the Day
I love jazz because of Miles Davis and Vitor Assis Brasil. I was first exposed to jazz seeing I Festival Internacional de Jazz de São Paulo in 1978. I met Ron Carter at Arpoador. The best show I ever attended was Miles Davis at Canecão in Rio de Janeiro. The first jazz record I bought was Memorial Clifford Brown. My advice to new listeners..
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By Hernani Heffner
Member since: 2018
