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Ruby Lee's Dishes up Blues, Jazz and Soul Food
by Gloria Krolak
Three-year-old Ruby Lee's, on the quieter north end of Hilton Head Island, SC, serves up the blues, jazz and soul food. That mix helps set the venue apart from more than 300 restaurants vying for the patronage of the resort town's 39,000 residents and some 2.5 million annual visitors. Proud matriarch and head chef ...
But Beautiful: My Life with Billie Holiday
by Lara Downes
Every Saturday morning, when I was a little girl, my sisters and I went to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for what we called “Saturday Classes": piano lessons, theory, music history--serious classical music training for serious little musicians. Saturday afternoons, when we got home, we had a ritual. We'd get out our “dress-up" from the ...
Chris Vadala & Rick Whitehead release "Eastern Standard Time" on Art Of Life Records
Following up on his debut release Out of the Shadows, Art of Life Records is pleased to present, “Eastern Standard Time", a new quartet recording by Chris Vadala and guitarist Rick Whitehead featuring Barry Hart on drums and John Previti on acoustic bass. Recorded at Bias Studios in Springfield, Virginia in January of 2015, “Eastern Standard ...
Jazz Pianist/Vocalist Marc Hoffman To Join Wavy Train For Six Performances
North Carolina musician, Marc Hoffman will play Southeast dates with band SALISBURY, NC: Composer, jazz pianist, and vocalist, Marc Hoffman will perform with NC based jam band, Wavy Train for six dates in the Southeast during the band's spring/summer Southeastern 2015 Tour. The first performance will be Friday, April 10th at Second & Green Tavern in ...
Crescendo "Jazz, the Voice of America" To be released winter of 2012
Crescendo Productions LLC with the cooperation of Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc. has announced the release date for Crescendo the story of the creation and continuing evolution of jazz. Experienced through the lives of the musicians who live and breathe it, Crescendo takes us fully into the making of this most original form of musical expression. ...
Legends Festival in South Carolina to Honor Natives and Other Jazz Greats
By Larry Reni Thomas South Carolina is the native state and former home of several distinguished jazz musicians, including the most well-known, John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, the trumpeter, composer, bandleader and co-creator of bebop, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. There are several others, like the high note trumpet master, Cat Anderson, a former member ...
Jazz Piano CD Release - Bill Howland
Bill Howland announces the release of his third solo piano CD “Seascape" (Graycat Productions). Seascape features a selection of classic jazz recordings including: “All Blues" and “Nardis", (Miles Davis); “Lullaby of Birdland", (George Shearing); “Seascape", (Johnny Mandel); “On Green Dolphin Street", (Kaper, Washington); “My Favorite Things", (Rodgers, Hammerstein); “Speak Low", (Weill, Nash) and “Like Someone ...
Bill Howland Jazz Piano CD Release
Bill Howland announces the release of his second solo piano CD Moon Rays (Graycat Productions). Moon Rays features a selection of classic jazz recordings including: Stella By Starlight, (Victor Young); Everytime We Say Goodbye, (Cole Porter); Im Old Fashioned, (Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern); The Girl From Ipanema, (Antonio Carlos Jobim); and others. The title song, Moon ...
North Meets South for Smooth Jazz Performance on Cable TV
North meets South for a musical collaboration Saturday, September 9th, at the Gullah Creations Gallery, located in the Citadel Mall in Charleston, South Carolina. Low Country Geechee charmer Abe White and Chicago-born vocalist/playwright Diane Cameron will be featured together in Atlanta, Georgia director Bob Gaye's Comcast cable television soap opera A-Town East. The segments will be ...
