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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 ...

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Gerry Mulligan Tribute Concert Presented by Juilliard Jazz on February 29

February 6, 2012

GERRY MULLIGAN TRIBUTE CONCERT PRESENTED BY JUILLIARD JAZZ FEATURES GUEST ARTIST, SAXOPHONIST GARY SMULYAN AND THE JUILLIARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY JAMES BURTON III WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29 AT 8 PM IN JUILLIARD'S PETER JAY SHARP THEATER SPECIAL EVENING CELEBRATES THE CREATION OF THE GERRY & FRANCA MULLIGAN SCHOLARSHIP; FIRST RECIPIENT IS JUILLIARD SAXOPHONIST JORDAN PETTAY ONE ...

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Jambalaya Brass Band to Perform for Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Party at B.B. King Blues Club

February 2, 2012

New York, NY—Jambalaya Brass Band, NYC's ultimate New Orleans party band, will be performing four sets at the Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Party at Lucille's in the world famous B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on Tuesday, February 21, 2012, starting at 7:00 PM. At Lucille's, along with tunes from their successful CD It's a Jungle ...

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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 ...

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Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates Iconic Artists and Composers in Weekly Jazz and Classical Music Series

January 31, 2012

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Audiences are invited to experience music and art together at Woodmere Art Museum in historic Chestnut Hill. Woodmere's popular Friday Night Jazz and Classic Sundays series return every weekend for two months beginning February 10. Performed in the Museum's grand Kuch Gallery, visitors can tour FORCE OF NATURE—Elaine Kurtz: A Retrospective and Elemental: Nature ...

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Ted Cohen Gets Google, Merlin, Amazon and Universal Music in the Same Room @ #midem

January 31, 2012

The panel “How To Work With The Fab Four" moderated by Ted Cohen served as the centrepiece of Midem's Visionary Monday afternoon session. The panel comprised Charles Caldas, CEO of Merlin; Zahavah Levine, director of content partnerships for Android at Google; Craig Pape, director of music content acquisition at Amazon; and Rob Wells, president of Universal ...

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U2 Manager Calls Google "Monopoly", Spotify "Promotional Medium" #midem

January 30, 2012

From Cannes by Stuart Dredge for Midem content partner Music Ally. Find them at musically.com and @musically. Google's role in the recent campaign against the proposed SOPA anti-piracy legislation in the US came in for a sustained attack by U2's manager Paul McGuinness this morning, at the Midem conference in Cannes. “Why are they not trying ...

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Does Midem Still Matter? The Facelift Finally Begins...

January 30, 2012

You may be here this year. But what about next year, and the year after that? This is now an obvious problem for Midem organizers, who finally got the memo that legacy doesn't pay the bills. Which is why a complete facelift is now underway, with SXSW and even upstarts like the SF MusicTech Summit informing ...

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Tough Showbiz Lessons from Billie to Beyoncé

January 29, 2012

In an age where pop stars and divas face unrelenting scrutiny, a look back to one of our strongest, most independent female singers is due. While performing an old vaudeville song throughout her career, a typically protective Billie Holiday would sing, “ I'm going to do just as I want to anyway / And don't care ...