Results for "Michael Ricci"

Stars of Broadway and Jazz Sing and Swing for Haiti

March 16, 2010

One Night Only Benefit to be Held March 28, 2010 South Orange, NJ (March 8, 2010): In response to the devastating January 12, earthquake, a star-studded line-up of Broadway actors and jazz musicians will take the stage at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) in South Orange, New Jersey on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at ...

Interview: George Avakian (Part 1)

March 16, 2010

Today is George Avakian's birthday. For more than 70 years, George has shaped how jazz was recorded and regarded. As a pop and jazz LP producer starting in the mid-1940s, George was a visionary at a time when several recording technologies and formats were emerging and competing. In the first decade of the LP era, his ...

Cape May Jazz Festival Aril 16-18, 2010

March 16, 2010

At the 33rd Cape May Jazz Festival--April 16-18, 2010--presented by Bank of America and New Jersey Department of Travel and Tourism, every ballad tells a story you'll want to hear, and the blues takes you from from heartache to joy. Hard-bop to mellow sax, high-pitch to expressive-soul trumpet, Latin piano to kickin' keyboard, Cape May Jazz ...

Sizzling Hot Jazz Musical "The Wild Party" Makes St. Louis Premiere

March 16, 2010

New Line Theatre, “the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre," continues its nineteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the St. Louis premiere of Andrew Lippa's rowdy, raunchy, jazz musical THE WILD PARTY, running April 22-May 15, 2010, at the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of ...

24th International Folk Music Festival

March 16, 2010

Cort Guitar Workers Solidarity Concert Thursday, March 18

March 16, 2010

This is an important event that all musicians and humans with any sort of conscience should be concerned about. The Cort workers in Korea make most of the guitars in the world and were treated unfairly and poorly and then laid off when they tried to complain and unionize. Please plan on attending and help stop ...

Boston Jazz Club Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with Celtic Band

March 16, 2010

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day in America's most Irish city, the Beehive Jazz Club in Boston is hosting its third annual Irish celebration on Wednesday, March 17, from 5:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m, featuring Celtic band Tri. Tri consists of award-winning bagpiper Matthew Phelps, fiddler Doug Lamey and guitarist Cliff McCann. They'll be joined by step ...

Jazz Festivals Worldwide - March 2010

March 16, 2010

Here is a list of the worldwide jazz fests (with links to their websites) for the month of March 2010... Festival Jazz Terrassa - 6 to 28Barcelona, SpainJazz a l'Auditori - TBAEl Vendrell, Tarragona, SpainMuzEnergo - 12 to 21Dubna, RussiaGrenoble Jazz Festival - 16 to April 3

Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) Coming in April 2010

March 16, 2010

Okay...get ready! With the month of April 2010 comes the 9th annual Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) festivities courtesy of The Smithsonian Institute and the sponsors/partners for “JAM" You can find out more at the designated website below (image on left is the JAM 2010 Poster by Leroy Neiman): smithsonianjazz.org/jam Here is the calendar of events at ...

Seamlessly Wedding Cuban Rhythm to American Jazz

March 16, 2010

Bobby Carcasses is a singer, trumpeter, pianist, conguero and connector in Cuban jazz. As a bandleader, big-band sideman and a founder of the first jazz festival in Cuba, in 1980, he's spent his career attending to the equal relationship between the guaguanco-rumba-guaracha spectrum and the swing-jazz-blues spectrum. That relationship might sound natural, but it's also a ...