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News: Event

Golden Anniversary Of Jazz At MIT To Feature New Work By Chick Corea

August 24, 2012

2012-2013 50th Anniversary Season to Celebrate Pomeroy, Corea and others The 2012-2013 season marks the 50th anniversary of formal jazz performance and study at MIT, where jazz has thrived since 1963. This academic year’s special performances and events celebrating MIT’s jazz golden anniversary will culminate on April 27, 2013 with a Gala Concert in Kresge Auditorium ...

News: Event

Mickey Bass & The New York Powerhouse Ensemble at Scullers Jazz Club on August 29, 2012

August 19, 2012

There is a new CD, out on the “Early Bird" Record label; “The Mickey Bass New York Powerhouse Ensemble - 'Live' at The Jazz Corner of The World." The band featured on this CD is the same one that opened the JVC Jazz Festival in 2002, playing at the Schoenberg, and at Gracie Mansion.They received standing ...

Article: Profile

Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shape

by Chris Rich
August 12, 2012

Pianist Matthew Shipp is very keenly attuned to the details and nuances of what has to be the most forlorn and anemic environment imaginable for anything a sensible person would call business. Think of it as the sort of business ecosystem that resembles the least habitable places on earth, say a fumarole at the bottom of ...

News: Event

New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department Presents Over Forty Free Performances For 2012-2013 Season

August 2, 2012

Plus Master Classes with World-Renowned Performers September 19, 2012 – May 15, 2013 Highlights include a Bob Brookmeyer Memorial Concert, The NEC Jazz Orchestra in concert featuring the music of Miguel Zenón, Randy Weston with The NEC Jazz Orchestra, Faculty Recitals by jazz masters Dominique Eade, Ken Schaphorst, and Fred Hersch, the Pierce Series - 26 ...

News: Event

The Possibilities Are Endless: Celebrating 40 Years Of Contemporary Improvisation At New England Conservatory

August 2, 2012

Concerts in Boston and New York Featuring Distinguished Faculty, Alumni and Students of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation Department August 3, 2012 – April 8, 2013 The possibilities are endless at New England Conservatory, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of its groundbreaking Contemporary Improvisation department with a year-long series of concerts and events in Boston and New York ...

News: Technology

Design 4 Music gives Jeff Platz an Impressive Makeover

July 12, 2012

Design 4 Music works closely with All About Jazz to help make it the ultra helpful jazz locus that it is. They have to be one of the few web shops mainly focused on making a solid web presence for a notably disadvantaged sub idiom, free jazz, and they do it beautifully. The recent launch of ...

News: Book / Magazine

New Boston Book Looks Back On A Sparkling Jazz Scene

July 11, 2012

Nat Pierce, Joe Gordon, and Charlie Mariano started their careers in Boston. It’s where Nat Hentoff worked as a deejay, George Wein planned the Newport Jazz Festival, and Lawrence Berk started the Berklee School of Music. Richard Vacca writes about all of them and more in The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937–1962, the ...

News: Radio

WGBH FM Boston Cuts Prestigious Jazz Programs Featuring Eric Jackson And Steve Schwartz

June 21, 2012

Local and National Jazz Communities Express Outrage Boston, MA: WGBH FM a long-time key provider of highly respected jazz programming in Boston, today notified jazz hosts Eric Jackson and Steve Schwartz that their shows would be discontinued as they currently exist, beginning July 1, 2012. Schwartz's Friday night show which has aired for 27 years will ...

News: Event

Tune into the River Concert with Miranda Russell on Friday, June 22, 2012

June 9, 2012

Please join us for a Benefit Concert celebrating: Kerry Mackin’s Retirement & Ipswich River Watershed Associations 35th Anniversary. Friday, June 22, 2012 – 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 Performing Arts Center Governor's Academy, Byfield MA Miranda Russell, perhaps best known for running Russell Orchard on the way to Crane ...

News: Festival

Jive Brings Electro Swing to Boston

May 31, 2012

By Timothy J. O'Keefe First Friday of Each Month An Tua Nua 835 Beacon St Boston, MA When Brother Cleve, mixologist and procurer of craft cocktails, walked into the Boston Shaker for some supplies, he was taken aback by the music. After all, it had been a bit of challenge to ...