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Gift of Jazz: Holiday Discount Tickets Offered for 2012 Newport Jazz Festival
$50.00 Tickets Available at Convention & Visitors Bureau: December 1-January 1 NEWPORT, RI, November 30, 2011—If you're looking for the perfect holiday surprise or a special treat for yourself, give the gift of jazz and present family and friends with tickets to the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival®. George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation and ...
Russell Garcia, Renowned Composer / Arranger / Conductor, Dies in New Zealand at 95
April 12, 1916—November 20, 2011 NEW YORK, NY: Russell Garcia, the composer, conductor and arranger renowned for his stellar collaborations with Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Frances Faye, Mel Tormé, Frank Sinatra and numerous others as well as film scores for George Pal's “The Time Machine" and “Atlantis: The ...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Grant to Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.
Percussionist Dafnis Prieto Commissioned to Write New Composition to Debut at 2012 Newport Jazz Festival NEWPORT, RI, November 16, 2011—The Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. has been awarded a 29-month Arts Program grant in the amount of $50, 000 from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) to support presentations by DDCF grantees at the Newport Jazz Festival® during ...
Russ Garcia Unable to Travel to U.S., but 95th Birthday Concerts Go On!
LIVING LEGEND RUSSELL GARCIA TO BE HONORED AT 95th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION/CONCERTS Due to Doctor's Order, Garcia Will Celebrate in New Zealand While Vocalists Shaynee Rainbolt and Terese Genecco Host Tributes at Yoshi's Oakland on November 1 and at Iridium Jazz Club in New York on November 6 New York Tribute ...
Lenora Zenzalai Helm's New CD: "I Love Myself When I'm Laughing..." Available Now
Lenora Zenzalai Helm Releases New CD I Love Myself When I'm Laughing ...And Then Again When I'm Looking Mean and Impressive NEW YORK, NY: There comes a point in an artist's life when she hits her stride: when all of the musical, artistic and emotional elements align themselves perfectly in that artist's orbit; making her shine ...
Donald Harrison's NOLA Jazz Programs First Recipient - Hailun Piano Partnerships
HAILUN PIANOS LAUNCHES ANNUAL NATIONWIDE “PIANO PARTNERSHIPS" Saxophonist Donald Harrison's jazz programs in New Orleans to be the first recipient of superbly crafted pianos on November 15, 2011 NEW ORLEANS: Basilios Strmec, CEO of Hailun USA, a piano company based in Ningbo, China, announces the launching of an annual nationwide program of Piano Partnerships with jazz ...
Jazz Treasures, 10/17: Honorees Randy Weston, Charenee Wade, Robert O'Meally
LIVING JAZZ LEGEND RANDY WESTON TO BE HONORED! Honorary Co-Chairs Marty Markowitz, Danny Simmons And Others To Honor Renowned Pianist And Composer. “When Randy Weston plays / a combination of strength and gentleness / virility and velvet emerges from the keys in an ebb and flow of sound / seemingly as natural as the waves of ...
Jazzmobile Presents First Annual Jazzy Awards Celebration, October 10, 7:00 pm
Jazzmobile Presents First Annual Jazzy Awards Celebration: In Honor of Dr. Billy Taylor's 90th Birthday Monday, October 10, 7:00 pm, Hudson Theatre Special Performances by Dianne Reeves, Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath, Wycliffe Gordon and the Jazzmobile Big Band Evening Also Honors George Wein and JPMorgan Chase Foundation NEW YORK: Jazzmobile, Inc., the ...
Danny Melnick Joins Team of Newport Festivals Foundation Producers
NEWPORT, RI: George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. and Producer of the Newport Jazz Festival, today announced the addition of Danny Melnick to the Foundation's team of veteran concert and event producers. Melnick, who worked for Wein's Festival Productions, Inc. (FPI) from 1990 and again from 1998, returns to the Festival family as ...
Birthday Memorial Celebration For Dr. Frank Foster 9/23, 6 PM, Abyssinian Church
Join Family and Friends at the BIRTHDAY MEMORIAL CELEBRATION for DR. FRANK FOSTER Friday, September 23, 6:00 pm The Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem Jimmy Heath, Carmen Bradford, Cecil Bridgewater, Frank Wess, Harold Mabern, Jr. and others to Pay Tribute to the Renowned Saxophonist/Composer/Arranger/Bandleader/Educator in Service Officiated by Dr. Calvin O. ...
