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Jazz Arts Group Awarded $200,000 Grant by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Columbus, OH - The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) to create a national model for building jazz and music audiences, entitled the Jazz Audiences Initiative. The 21-month project, which spans November 1, 2009 through July 31, 2011, will enable the Jazz Arts Group ...
AOL to Lay off a Third of Its Workforce
NEW YORK, NY - Web company AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to trim some $300 million in annual costs as part of its planned spin-off from Time Warner Inc. The struggling Web pioneer, which is slated to become an independent company focused primarily on advertiser-supported content, ...
Indelible Lines
Before the Rifftides staff gets back to business as usual, whatever that is, we're finding it difficult to let go of thoughts about Johnny Mercer. Lines from his songs won't go away -- ever. There's a dance pavilion in the rain, All shuttered down... I remember, too, a ...
A Record Store Joke
What do you call a CD that retails for more than $9.99? Answer: A return. “...Our customers have spoken loud and clear. They love their CDs and they love purchasing them from indie record stores. The only problem we're currently facing, and will continue to face in the future, is the current price point...we've inherited the ...
Interesting Developments at J@LC
Remember the halcyon days when to be considered a university, you had to have six or seven accredited colleges as well as graduate and professional divisions? In our society's more recent cavalier and clever language-mashing, it seems anything goes.It started with Hamburger University, then Dunkin' Donuts University and probably thousands' more corporate training initiatives ...
Interview: Ray Santos (Part 1)
As Latin-jazz legends go, saxophonist Ray Santos ranks high on the list. Few living Latin-jazz artists today can claim to have played in and arranged for the bands of Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. To give you an idea of what this trifecta means, it would be akin to a saxophonist playing in the Duke ...
Bruce Hornsby | 11.14 | Illinois
Words by: Maureen Gasek | Images by: Norman Kind Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14.09 :: Centre East Theatre :: Skokie, Illinois Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14 :: Illinois Bruce Hornsby walked onstage carrying a stack of requests, waived to the audience, and began to play. He ...
Shirl Wright's Roots Jazz at Night Hotel NYC This Saturday Free
This Saturday, Nov. 21 at 8pm Shirl Wright's Roots Jazz Night Life Lounge Night Hotel NYC 132 West 45th Street, NYC (Between 6th Ave. and Broadway) Shirl Wright, vocals & piano with Greg Robinson, bass Mikel Prester, alto saxophone NO COVER - 1 DRINK ...
"Silhouette" Now Available for Purchase!
Silhouette (2009) is the result of a year of composing and arranging. Original compositions, ranging from “noir jazz" to flamenco, comprise almost half the album, while the other half features tunes not usually performed on the guitar, with two highlights being Waltz for Debby (a piano piece arranged for guitar from the original recording by the ...
The Queen of Cabaret, Andrea Marcovici, Celebrates the Johnny Mercer Centennial at the Algonquin Hotel.
ANDREA MARCOVICCI the celebrated singer and actress lauded as the greatest cabaret star of her generation by The International Herald Tribune and the epitome of elegance and showbiz savvy by Variety will celebrate the 2009 Johnny Mercer Centennial with the New York premiere of her new show Skylark: Marcovicci Sings Mercer at the Oak Room of ...
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