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Jazz Musicians to Protest at Six Top NYC Jazz Clubs Tonight!
Justice for Jazz Artists" asks profitable jazz clubs to contribute to musician pensions; Launches new ad campaign, social media program and website: justiceforjazzartists.org NEW YORK, NY: The top jazz artists in the world live and work in New York Cityyet many older jazz musicians are forced to retire in poverty. Even those musicians who play in ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa Leads His Quintet For The New York Premiere of Samdhi Suite In Zankel Hall On Saturday, April 21
On Saturday, April 21 at 10:00 p.m. in Zankel Hall, jazz saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa leads his quintet in its first performance at Carnegie Hall as they perform the New York premiere of the Samdhi Suite in its complete form. Samdhi Suite is an electro-acoustic work that combines the complex melodic and rhythmic elements of Carnatic (or ...
Toots Thielemans Rarities, "Yesterday & Today" (2-CDs), Set for U.S. Release by Naxos of America & out of the Blue Records
This double CD, Yesterday & Today" (March 27 release) may well contain the best Toots Thielemans you never heard before. It's a stunning collection of both rare and great music, starting with his earliest recording as a soloist and ending with a memorable duet in the new millennium. Producer Cees Schrama, a personal friend of Toots, ...
The dB's Make Their First New Album in 30 Years
Falling off the Sky, due out Juneon Bar/None, reunites original members Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Will Rigby and Gene Holder. RALEIGH, N.C.Falling Off the Sky is the first new dB's album in a quarter-century. It's also the first in three decades to feature the band's original lineup of singer/songwriter/guitarists Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, bassist Gene ...
WBAI Broadcast Underlies Need for Pension Benefits for Jazz Artists: J4JA! Takes to the Airwaves
On Monday, December 26th, jazz vocalist Keisha St. Joan and Local 802 Recording Vice President John O'Connor appeared on the NYC radio program Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report, produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash over WBAI,99.5FM. In the segment, St. Joan, as always, is particularly eloquent regarding the injustices suffered ...
National Jazz Museum in Harlem 2012 March Schedule
This March, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz's most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. For Harlem Speaks, our flagship public program of oral histories, we have two brilliant and fresh voices on the scene: pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Ben ...
Jazz Arts Group PBJ & Jazz Season Finale with Michael Cox - March 10
Columbus, OH The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) and Bob Evans Farms present the PBJ & Jazz season finale featuring Columbus Jazz Orchestra saxophonist Michael Cox at the Lincoln Theatre ballroom on March 10, 2012. Due to popular demand, this year's season has been expanded to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 20, 2012
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 194 210 -16 0 47 1 7 2 2 2 Bruce Babad A Tribute To Paul Desmond (Primrose Lane) 176 178 -2 1 43 2 6 3 3 3 Gary Smulyan Smul's Paradise (Capri) 162 147 +15 ...
Bassist Andrea Veneziani Debuts on CD March 13 with "Oltreoceano"
Bassist Andrea Veneziani followed his musical dreams from Rome to New York in the summer of 2009, and those dreams are made manifest with the release on March 13 of his ravishing debut CD Oltreoceano ("Overseas"). A trio session with pianist Kenny Werner and drummer Ross Pederson, the disc is a striking introduction to the gifts ...
Pianist-Composer, MS. Hiroe Sekine to Release Her Second CD on March 20
Pianist-composer-arranger (and vocalist) Hiroe Sekine's second album, After the Rainfall (March 20, 2012 Release on Sekai Music), is a collection of her unique originals plus Brazilian songs, jazz standards, and a Beatles tune. The title suggests a sequel to her 2010 debut CD A-m (Rain), but Hiroe takes a new approach to this set of songs. ...

