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News: Performance / Tour

Battle of the Bands PBC Semi Finals

February 23, 2012

Battle Of The Bands Palm Beach County Semi-Finals Takes Place Tomorrow Only the best (rated Superior) Middle and High School Jazz Bands, will compete in the semi-finals of the Battle of the Bands Palm Beach County. Four winning schools receive $1,000 each and go on to the finals. The event is sponsored by the Swing and ...

News: Radio

Great Jazz Vocalist Performs Worldwide On WLRN's South Fla. Arts Beat

January 31, 2012

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Featuring Wendy Pedersen One of South Florida's treasured musicians, Wendy Pedersen is a mainstay of the local music scene. A graduate of The University of Miami's Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program, she has won numerous ...

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Live Jazz On WLRN.org featuring Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion

January 14, 2012

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, January 13th, 2012 Featuring SAMMY FIGUEROA and his LATIN JAZZ EXPLOSION This New York born (Bronx), Miami resident is one of the world's leading percussionists. He has performed and recorded with legends in Pop, Rock, Latin, Jazz, Brazilian and ...

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Fiery, New Latin Jazz Band Debuts On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat

September 7, 2011

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, September 9th, 2011 1:00pm Eastern Featuring WORLD MUSIC 5 Formed in 2002, Negroni's Trio, led by pianist Jose with his son, Nomar, on drums (who studied at the Berklee College of Music) has burned ...

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The Story of Jabbo Smith This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

June 9, 2011

Jabbo Smith had a short but important recording career in the late 1920s when he became the first trumpeter to seriously challenge Louis Armstrong with a virtuosity years ahead of its time. On this week's Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band revives their favorite Jabbo Smith compositions, we'll hear scenes of Jabbo's life from his ...

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Timba Jazz On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 5/27/11

May 25, 2011

Please tune in for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, May 27, 2011 With TIEMPO LIBRE Performing tunes from their new CD, My Secret Radio (Sony Masterworks), Tiempo Libre returns to SFAB after three years of touring, recording and performing with such artists ...

News: Interview

Face of the Bass: The Atlas of Jazz

May 10, 2011

The great Milt Hinton often said that the bass is the “Atlas of jazz" because its role in the jazz band is to “carry the other instruments on its shoulders." “Bass" is often misspelled as “base" but the meaning is very similar in music, that of “foundation." In early jazz bands, bassists played the bass fiddle, ...

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Hot Afro-Cuban Jazz Performance On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, NPR In SE Florida

March 31, 2011

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, April 1st, 2011 With PAN CON BISTEC Featuring BOBBY RAMIREZ Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Bobby Ramirez has grown as a musician expressing his roots in Afro-Cuban rhythm, Latin music and American Jazz. His musical talents have blossomed ...

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News: Festival

Jimmy Buffett the Face of This Year's Jazz Fest? Really?

March 16, 2011

I'm late to this news, but ... a young Jimmy Buffett is the face of this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival poster? Really? Really? Who's next, Bon Jovi? I'm no Jimmy Buffett hater, although I believe the guy is vastly overrated. At the start of his career, he turned in some interesting, idiosyncratic singer-songwriter ...

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Power Swing Band Live on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, March 4th

March 3, 2011

Tune in for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, March 4th, 2011 Featuring EVER SO KLEVER Led by guitarist/vocalist Rich Plaza, Ever So Klever has grown into a ferocious band. Utilizing various musical genres (Jazz, Blues, Ska, Swing, Rockabilly and Funk among others), they now number nine very talented ...