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Creating A Future For Our Past
CREATING A FUTURE FOR OUR PAST...New web presence bodes well for American music preservation Aptos, CA — Visitors to greatamericansongbook.org will notice a fresh look these days, full of facts about composers, lyricists and singers who contributed to this original, precious and uniquely American treasure trove of music. The American Songbook Preservation Society is debuting a ...
Brooklyn Conservatory Of Music To Experiment With Engaging Jazz Audiences More Effectively
Brooklyn, NY: The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music has been chosen as one of six organizations across the U.S. to implement data from the Jazz Audiences Initiative (JAI) study in their everyday practices of presenting and producing jazz. Theory-to-practice experiments will begin in the fall of 2012. The Jazz Arts Group (JAG) in Columbus, Ohio commissioned the ...
Jazz Music/World Music
International Jazz Day concert at the United Nations Provides Uplifting Moments The first—of many we trust—International Jazz Day shined brightly with a concert at the United Nations in New York City. There were other concerts the world over. But in New York, a star-studded event also included poignant and uplifting words about the music from Quincy ...
The Herb Alpert Foundaiton Funds The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards 2012
New York, NY: Paul Williams, President of The ASCAP Foundation, announces that The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Awards (an annual program for jazz composers) has received a major, multi-year financial commitment from The Herb Alpert Foundation. To honor that commitment, the program, established in 2002, has been renamed the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. ...
15 Step Guide to Starting a Local Music Festival
The organizers of the JP Music Festival in Jamaica Plains, a Boston neighborhood, released a guide to how they pulled off a successful new music festival on a local level despite financial challenges. The 15 step guide reveals the approach taken by festival organizers who were recently interviewed by The Future of Music Coalition. They share ...
Philly Jazz Lovers Seek To Repair Coltrane House
Music enthusiasts in the City of Brotherly Love are looking to rekindle a love supreme for the deteriorating John Coltrane House, a preservation effort that mirrors a broader mission to reclaim and promote Philadelphia’s rich jazz heritage. Cultural officials gathered more than 100 local jazz musicians on Friday for a group photo in front of the ...
Put Some Swing In Your Spring! Celebrate Jazz Day Philly Style!
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and Philadelphia is ready to celebrate! Philadelphia has an extraordinary jazz heritage, beginning with Ethel Waters and extending to John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Stan Getz, the Heath Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Grover Washington Jr. and other music luminaries, all of whom set the stage ...
SFJAZZ Launches New Online Venue
Are You Listening? A place for the conversation of jazz in today's culture. San Francisco: Today SFJAZZ is launching Are You Listening, for the jazz community to engage with one another and to contribute their thoughts, perspectives and financial support for the music. “With Are You Listening, we want to create an online space for the ...
UNESCO and Herbie Hancock Announce The First Annual International Jazz Day
UNESCO AND HERBIE HANCOCK ANNOUNCE THE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY ON APRIL 30 FEATURING ALL-STAR CONCERTS IN PARIS, NEW ORLEANS AND NEW YORK UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock will collaborate with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz to celebrate and recognize jazz music as a universal language of freedom UNESCO ...
UNESCO Declares April 30th As International Jazz Day - Santo Domingo Celebrates Jazz
UNESCO declares April 30th as International Jazz Day The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—UNESCO— proclaimed at the 36th session of its General Conference, that April 30th of each year be known as International Jazz Day. At the 36th meeting of its General Conference, UNESCO Member States agreed to proclaim the International Jazz Day. The ...
