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DC Jazz Festival Receives NEA Jazz Masters Live Grant
The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announced that it has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters Live grant for the fifth year. The DCJF was one of 12 non-profits selected to receive a total of $135,000 in funding. NEA Jazz Masters Live grants help bring legendary musicians, writers, producers and scholars ...
APAP JazzConnect Session: NEA Jazz Masters & Jazz Futures: Paying It Forward @ Hilton New York: January 9
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters features jazz—its leaders, masters and music—at annual performing arts industry conference in New York City. Topic NEA Jazz Masters & Jazz Futures: Paying It Forward Where Hilton New York Mercury Ballroom New York, NY 212-586-7000 When Mon, January ...
APAP | NYC 2012 Hosts JazzConnect: January 6-10
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters features jazz—its leaders, masters and music—at annual performing arts industry conference in New York City. Friday Jan. 6, 2012 9 AM-Noon PRE-CONFERENCE FORUM: FREE Building Jazz Culture—Local to Global Hilton, Sutton South How do you build and support a thriving cultural community? What are ...
“What We Do” at the Louis Armstrong House Museum
What do they do at the Louis Armstrong House? A Who's Who of the Jazz world were introduced to Louis Armstrong singing “That's My Home" in the first moments of a video about “What We Do." At this first Louis Armstrong House Museum Gala on December 6th, 2011 the first “Louie," went to a 92-year-old, jazz ...
Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival: Sept. 2-3, 2011
by R.J. DeLuke
Curacao North Sea Jazz FestivalWorld Trade CenterCuracaoSept. 2-3, 2011 The island of Curacao, in the Caribbean Sea, is an exotic place of sun and fun, and maybe the last place to expect a jazz festival. Then again, why not? Jazz music is all over the world, and festivals are global. ...
Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1
The explosive transformation of Miles Davis' “second great Quintet" with Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) is laid bare on Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1. Culled from original state-owned television and radio sources in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden, the ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2011, 4-7 de agosto
by Joan A. Cararach
Newport Jazz FestivalDel 4 al 7 de agosto, 2011Newport, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos Prólogo: como Moisés en Fort Adams (y cantando con Pete Seeger) Un carrito de golf se detiene en la entrada del túnel que lleva del llamado escenario Quad al Harbor Stage. Chubasqueros y paraguas se detienen ante ...
George Wein’s Foundation Already Set for Newport Festivals in 2012
By Dan Kassell As impresario and swing jazz pianist, George Wein is best known for creating the first Newport Folk Festival (NFF) in 1954 and Newport Jazz Festival (NJF) in 1959, supported almost entirely by jazz fans Louis and Elaine Lorillard and, at that point in time, nonprofit entities. In a telephone interview, just before this ...
Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival: June 25-26, 2011
by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz FestivalSaratoga Performing Arts CenterSaratoga Springs, NYJune 25-26, 2011This year's Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, the 34th edition of the upstate New York event, featured a great touch when famed jazz impresario George Wein was awarded a star on the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Walk of Fame. Wein created the ...
George Wein & Newport All-Stars Perform at Blue Note, Saratoga, Montreal & More
George Wein & the Newport All-Stars featuring Ken Peplowski, Lew Tabackin, Howard Alden, George Mraz & Lewis Nash Perform at Blue Note Jazz Festival June 13㬋, 10:30 pm George Wein & the Newport All-Stars Continue Performances in Saratoga, NY; Montreal, Quebec; and Rockport, MA NEW YORK, NY—George Wein isn't producing a jazz festival in New York ...
