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A Celebration of Ella
Tad Hershorn of the Institute Of Jazz Studies notifies us that IJS will hold a two-day symposium March 24 and 25 to celebrate the life and 100th anniversary of the birth of Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996). Hershorn will be among those honoring Ms. Fitzgerald along with longtime IJS leader Dan Morgenstern and a contingent of other experts ...
Maryland Events Highlight Women Jazz Artists: Concerts And Panel Discussion Celebrate Women's History Month
From its earliest days, women have played key roles in jazz. Vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday are legendary singers who exhibited a high level of musicianship. They mastered the technique of their instrument (the voice), learned their music thoroughly and were skilled improvisers like any other band member. Many more talented women have ...
Jazz At Lincoln Center To Screen Acclaimed Thomas Chapin Film on Friday, March 10th
Jazz at Lincoln Center will screen the award-winning music documentary Night Bird Song: The Incandescent Life of Thomas Chapin on Friday, March 10th. The free showing will be at 7 p.m. at the Irene Diamond Education Center at the Frederick P. Rose Hall on Broadway at 60th Street, 5th floor (Columbus Circle). Seating is limited to ...
Jazzahead! April 27-30, 2017 - American Jazz Industry Significance
Jazz was born in America. This true American art form has been embraced with open arms by our brothers and sisters in Europe, Japan and around the world! The music has grown, evolved and developed a great presence in our lives. Jazzahead! 2017 held April 27-30 in Bremen, Germany, spearheads the movement forward, following a successful ...
Roger Waters Eyes "The Wall" Protest Concert On U.S. - Mexico Border
Roger Waters is considering staging a performance of Pink Floyd's 1979 classic “The Wall" on the US-Mexico border as a protest against the immigration policies of US President Donald Trump. Waters has previously used the album as a protest tool, famously performing the work in Berlin in 1990 to commemorate the end of the Berlin wall ...
First Michael Brecker Saxophone Competition Announced
Internationally acclaimed saxophonist, Eli Degibri, announced his intention to establish The Michael Brecker Saxophone Competition last month at the Nearness of You Concert, a biennial event held at Lincoln Center to raise money for cancer research in honor of the late Michael Brecker. In front of an audience consisting of President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary ...
Ron Boustead's CD Release Concert For "Unlikely Valentine," Wed., February 22nd At The E Spot Lounge, Studio City
Vocalist and lyricist Ron Boustead will perform a CD release concert for his new CD Unlikely Valentine on Wednesday, February 22nd at the E Spot Lounge at Vitello’s in Studio City, one show at 8pm. Boustead will be accompanied by the stellar band featured on Unlikely Valentine, including pianists and co-arrangers Bill Cunliffe and Mitchel Forman, ...
Acclaimed Pianist/Composer Josh Nelson’s "Discovery Project” Featured On NPR's Jazz Night In America, Airing Nationwide Beginning February 23
Pianist Josh Nelson will be featured in NPR’s Jazz Night in America as they head to La La Land to get the real story of what it really takes to be a jazz musician in the City of Angels. Jazz Night in America is a nationally syndicated weekly radio show and a weekly concert video webcast ...
The Dechamplain Trio Performs “10 Flavours Of Jazz” on Feb. 25 Return To Pittsfield
Jazz comes in many flavors, and Berkshires Jazz, Inc. will be exploring ten of them in a special program on Feb. 25, in conjunction with Pittsfield’s annual 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival. In “Ten Flavours of Jazz" (at Flavours of Malaysia, 8pm), the Matt DeChamplain Trio will present ten different instrumental and vocal stylings, the latter featuring ...
Donald Harrison Headlines Thailand International Jazz Conference 2017
It's a thrilling, eclectic, annual three-day, multi-faceted jazz event in a tropical atmosphere that gets underway this week in Thailand. Combos of all kinds, big bands, you name it. It's an extraordinary cultural and beautiful, warm atmosphere. Hundreds of jazz lovers and musicians from a variety of countries eagerly congregate each day at various stages at ...
