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12th annual Newport Beach Jazz Party

February 11, 2012

By Patricia Myers Tributes to Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson,Chet Baker, Paul Desmond and the “Four Brothers" sound made famous by Woody Herman will be among the 44 sessions of the 12th annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, Feb. 16-19 in at the Newport Beach Marriott in southern California. This year's edition has the biggest advance sale ...

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Black History Month 2012: Jazz Heritage Center Exhibit Salutes Bay Area Black Musicians

February 8, 2012

The Jazz Heritage Center will have a range of educational programs for the community, particularly youth, so that visitors of all ages will have access to the history of San Francisco jazz from its earliest origins through the booming and vibrant heyday of the Fillmore jazz era, and into the present “Rebirth of the Cool" in ...

News: Performance / Tour

Calvin Keys Celebrates His 70th Birthday

February 4, 2012

Guitarist Calvin Keys will celebrate his 70th birthday on February 6th, 2012. To mark the occasion, Calvin will play a special birthday show Feb 6th, 7-11pm, at 57th St. Gallery, 5701 Telegraph Ave., Oakland CA. Tickets are $20 at the door. Keys' very first album,'Shawn-Neeq, originally released in 1971 on Black Jazz, has just been reissued ...

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DRUM! Magazine, Tom-Tom Mag And Major Drum Companies Conduct “Hit Like A Girl” Beat Breaking Female Drum Contest

February 1, 2012

San Jose, Calif., DRUM! Magazine, Tom-Tom: A Magazine About Female Drummers, and several drum products companies have joined to launch the “Hit Like A Girl" drumming contest. This ground-breaking contest for female drummers officially begins (today) Feb. 1st. The announcement of this major female drumming event was made during NAMM 2012 and featured in an interview ...

News: Award / Grant

Healdsburg Jazz Festival Receives NEA Jazz Masters Live Grant

January 30, 2012

$10,000 grant will help support an NEA Jazz Masters concert with Sheila Jordan and Roy Haynes Healdsburg, CA.—The Healdsburg Jazz Festival has received an NEA Jazz Masters Live grant of $10,000 to help support a concert on June 10th, 2012 honoring jazz masters Sheila Jordan and Roy Haynes. The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is one of 12 ...

News: Recording

National Recording Artist and Saxophonist Brandon Primus New CD Release

January 25, 2012

Brandon Primus a former Showtime at the Apollo winning jazz saxophonist and instrumentalist has released his first music CD. Primus is a big name who has earned countless prestigious awards over his career and is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music Boston, MA. Known as the Soulful Strut Saxophonist for his signature moves on ...

News: Performance / Tour

Anna Mjoll @ Vibrato Jan 29 2012 - Almost Sold Out !

January 23, 2012

Iceland's First Lady of Jazz, Miss Anna Mjoll plays another near-guaranteed sellout at Herb Alpert's Vibrato in Bel-Air Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 8pm “The sweetest voice on the current Jazz scene. Period." —Arnaldo DeSouteiro “Lightly twisted, jazzy..." —Los Angeles Times Anna Mjoll By LA Weekly's Tom Meek Iceland's Anna Mjoll grew up in one of ...

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Los Angeles Jazz Collective Residency at Blue Whale Part IV, Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet

January 23, 2012

LAJC Residency, Part IV Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA Wednesday, January 25, 8pm Our fourth and final installment is imminent, and it's been an incredibly exciting month of great performances by so many outstanding musicians, witnessed by so many appreciative fans. All those who came to these events are to be commended ...

News: Technology

SFJAZZ Launches New Online Venue - Are You Listening? A place for the conversation of jazz in today’s culture.

January 18, 2012

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 types of conversations that are going to take place in the SFJAZZ Center itself," said ...

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Enter Music Network Rocks To India Through Percussive Partnership With IndianDrummer.com

January 14, 2012

San Jose, Calif.,—The Enter Music Network, (EMN), recently launched as the first niche, drum industry ad/marketing network, has expanded internationally through a percussive partnership with IndianDrummer.com. The addition of IndianDrummer.com, the premiere South Asian drumming web site, enables the EMN to capitalize on the far East drumming market. The alliance benefits Indian Drummer since it is ...