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Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko (WD-41) Launch Crowdfunding Drive

February 9, 2011

The Beyond Jazz duo of Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko aka WD-41 have launched a crowdfunding effort at Chipin.com to raise money to help with their tour of Italy in July and to support a very unique film festival in Pauda Italy. If you enjoy the more outside the box forms of music and films and ...

Pamela Rose Celebrates Women's History Month with 2 San Francisco Shows

February 9, 2011

In honor of Women's History Month, jazz and blues vocalist Pamela Rose brings her internationally acclaimed multimedia show, Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era, to two San Francisco venues next month. The theatrical concert celebrates the lives, times, and music of the rarely mentioned women songwriters who helped create the American ...

Boston's Beehive Jazz Club - Four Days of Luv'n to Celebrate Valentine's Day

February 8, 2011

L.A. Artist Beat: Theo Bleckmann at the Broad Stage

February 7, 2011

THEO BLECKMANN: BERLIN TO LAS VEGAS The Edye at the Broad Stage, Santa Monica, CA Saturday, February 12, 7:30pm Theo Bleckmann: voice with Paul Romero: piano and The Bauhaus String Quartet: Elizabeth Hedman: violin Daphne Chen: violin Michael Lieberman: viola Paula Fehrenbach: cello Arrangements by Fumio ...

Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal Added to Tibet House US Benefit

February 1, 2011

MARCH 3, 2011 AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NEW YORK; TICKETS ON SALE NOW Tibet House US is thrilled to announce that The Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal have joined the bill of their 21st Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on March 3, 2011. The Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal will join an esteemed line-up of ...

Harmonic Earthquakes and "Sonic" Notes from the Underground: Improvisation and Tremors of Transatlantic Discontent, a talk by Sarita McCoy Gregory, Vassar College

February 1, 2011

This talk examines the musical festival documented in 2004 called Banlieue Bleues, which featured African American musicians from the AACM tradition. In scientific parlance, harmonic earthquakes are seismic pre-tremors that predict major earthquakes. Because the media tend to focus on the seemingly “spontaneous" events of “riots" or urban “protests," what is often missed are the tremors ...

Rhonda Thomas performs at Atlanta's The Quad at Spring 4th on Sat., Feb. 5th

January 28, 2011

Please join Rhonda Thomas at her CD release party on Saturday February 5th promptly at 7pm @ The Quad on Spring Street. Her band will perform in celebration of Listen. This show will be full of surprises, incredible musicianship and great fun! Come and share this moment with Rhonda! Spring4th Center 728 Spring Street ...

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

January 27, 2011

A book reading and signing with Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Randy Weston's life story as told to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston's childhood in the Brooklyn neighborhood where his parents imbued him with pride in his African heritage, his introduction to jazz, and his early ...

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: The jazz composer, moving music off the paper

January 27, 2011

A book reading and signing with Graham Collier “Jazz happens in real time, once."  This mantra has provided the inspiration for my music and my beliefs about jazz, which are at the core of  the jazz composer. The work of the three icons of jazz composition—Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans—is dealt with at length, ...

CD Release Party

January 26, 2011

The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, a popular early jazz, swing and blues band throw a party celebrating the release of their greatly anticipated third CD Permanent Magic sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery. CD release party, live music performance and swing dance. The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn are an early jazz, swing and blues band composed of acoustic ...