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Ben Allison & Don Byron to perform together for the 1st time!

December 31, 2002

BROOKLYN, NY - Possible Fireworks, BRIC Studio's monthly jazz series, presents award-winning bassist and composer Ben Allison on Tuesday, January 7 at 7:30pm in a no-rehearsal set with a one-time-only band of his choice, including renowned clarinetist Don Byron and other guest performers to be announced. BRIC Studio, BRIC's intimate performance space, is located on the ...

Saxophonist Rob Scheps Receives Composition Fellowships

December 31, 2002

Saxophonist Rob Scheps ( Gil Evans Band,Al Grey, George Russell) has been awarded three separate fellowships in Music composition for 2003. The fellowships will take the form of multi -week residencies at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington ; The Hambidge Center for the Arts in Rabun Gap,Georgia where he is the recipient of the Nellie Mae ...

Charles Gayle and Jeff Arnal at Tonic

December 30, 2002

Charles Gayle (tenor saxophone, piano) Jeff Arnal (percussion) A mercurial and musical force of nature, saxophonist & pianist Charles Gayle plays a visionary music forged by spiritual exploration and sonic discovery. Gayle is one of the purest free jazz practitioners around whose improvisations are filled with soulful lyricism and speech like screams. Tonight he ...

Denise Jokinen Passed Away On Christmas Eve

December 30, 2002

Denise Jokinen was well known by many jazz musicians whom she met when she was a Jazz reporter at the Newport Jazz Festival or just when attending their performances. A memorial ceremony will take place on January 5th at Riverside Memorial Church on west 76th street in Manhattan at 3PM. She leaves her son Allen Jokinen, ...

AllAboutJazz.com Update #67 - AAJ's Cyberstore and More!

December 30, 2002

Toshiko Akiyoshi & Maria Schneider Each Premiere New Works January 31 & February 1

December 29, 2002

Dee Dee Bridgewater Italian Tour Dedicated to the Kurt Weill's Music

December 27, 2002

Leading New York City Jazz Musicians Come Together to Protest a War with Iraq

December 24, 2002

Dave Douglas, William Parker, Michael Blake and Quantum, in coalition with International ANSWER, will perform to benefit the peace movement on January 8th at Theater for the New City. Profits from the concert will be used to help fund the January 18th anti-war rally in Washington D.C., which is expected to draw over 250,000 people from ...

Oakwood Post Office Renamed After Nat King Cole

December 23, 2002

Post Office Dedication The official dedication of the Nat King Cole Post Office at 265 South Western Avenue, in Los Angeles was held on December 7th, 2002. This ceremony had all the making of a Hollywood movie, as Postmaster James Smith, U.S. Postal Service District Manager William Almarez, Councilman Tom LaBonge(4th District), Congressman Xavier Becerra (United ...

Smooth Jazz Singer/Songwriter Tony Adamo On The Web

December 23, 2002