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News: Event

3rd Annual Jazz Masters Concert: A Benefit for Kansas City Youth Jazz

April 20, 2010

The 3rd Annual Jazz Masters Concert Fundraiser is Sunday, May 2, 2010 from 7:00 to 9:30 PM at The Madrid Theatre, 3810 Main Street in Kansas City. The event is a benefit for Kansas City Youth Jazz. About Kansas City Youth Jazz In January 2001, Kansas City Youth Jazz program began with one band and a ...

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News: Music Industry

Jazz Great Kirk Whalum Named CEO of Stax Museum & Stax Music Academy in Memphis

April 20, 2010

MEMPHIS, TN - After an international search for a new CEO of the Soulsville Foundation (which operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Stax Music Academy, and The Soulsville Charter School) to replace interim CEO Deanie Parker, former Director of Publicity and Artist Relations for Stax Records, the foundation board announced today that renowned musician, ...

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News: Education

Swing Central 2010 Finishes with Unprecedented Momentum for Fostering the Growth of Jazz Through High-Quality Mentorship

April 20, 2010

Dillard Center for the Arts from Ft. Lauderdale Takes Home the First Place Faircloth Award Savannah, Georgia -- On Friday, April 2nd, the 2010 edition of the Savannah Music Festival's (SMF) SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop, dubbed the “Pro Bowl of high school jazz bands" by the South ...

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News: Event

Chick Webb Jazz Combo Competition at Artscape: Prize $1,000

April 20, 2010

ARTSCAPE HONORS THE LEGACY OF CHICK WEBB WITH ANNUAL JAZZ COMPETITION CHICK WEBB JAZZ COMBO COMPETITION APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, MAY 14 Calling all top bands to compete for the third annual Chick Webb Jazz Combo Competition, presented by MECU. The competition honors the legendary musical career of jazz pioneer William Henry Webb. Local and regional ...

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News: Award / Grant

Jeff Beck Grammy Museum Performance - April 22nd

April 20, 2010

To celebrate the release of Emotion & Commotion, Jeff Beck will be performing live from the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, April 22, at 7:30 PM. The event will be webcast live on KLOS.com, and the radio broadcast of the event will air on KLOS FM at 10 PM. Watch the webcast on ...

News: Performance / Tour

A Mischievous Convergence of Past and Present Jazz

April 20, 2010

Erimaj, a band led by Jamire Williams, the young jazz drummer from Houston, features a lot of information being knocked around. There are rising and falling vamps and solos; a bit of rock and pastoral-sounding, post-Pat Metheny guitar harmony; some careful falsetto R&B; and, from Mr. Williams, fluid narrative improvising, as well as beats like fragmented ...

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News: Interview

Robert Hunter Q&A on Collaboration with Jim Lauderdale

April 20, 2010

TWO OF THE FINEST SONGWRITERS ALIVE WEAVE MUSIC TOGETHER Jim Lauderdale Two-time Grammy Award winner, singer, songwriter and Americana music icon Jim Lauderdale will release his new album Patchwork River on May 11 through Thirty Tigers. He co-wrote the album with longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, whom Lauderdale has praised as “one of the greatest ...

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News: Recording

Drummer Mike Reed Completes People, Places and Things Trilogy with "Stories and Negotiations" (482 Music) Feat. Jeb Bishop, Art Hoyle, Julian Priester, Ira Sullivan

April 20, 2010

Mike Reed's People, Places & Things Latest Recording, Stories and Negotiations featuring Art Hoyle, Julian Priester & Ira Sullivan Stories & Negotiations is Third Installment In A Trilogy of Recordings Devoted to the Remarkable Period of 1954-1960 Chicago Jazz, And Its Relation to Chicago Jazz Today Release Date: April 20, 2010

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News: Recording

Ran Blake at 75

April 20, 2010

Maverick pianist Ran Blake celebrates his 75th Birthday today. Since his 1961 collaboration with Jeanne Lee on RCA, Ran Blake has released 35 albums on such labels as ESP, Soul Note, Arista and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album on the Tompkins Square label, All That Is Tied, received 4 stars in Downbeat and earned top honors in ...

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News: Technology

Google Photographers Go Beyond Where No Photographers Have Gone Before: Inside Businesses

April 20, 2010

Google is now accepting applications from businesses to be among the first places the company sends photographers to take panoramic photographs of the insides of buildings. Street view? You aint seen nothing yet. We reported in February on rumors that this project was in the works. The company says the photographs will be taken by professionals ...