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News: Radio

Live from Blue Lake with Geri Allen: April 10th, 10 P.M.

April 8, 2008

The Detroit jazz record label Mack Avenue invites you to tune in for “Live From Blue Lake," five live jazz performances from the studios of Blue Lake Public Radio, starting this Thursday, April 10th at 10 p.m. when Detroit jazz great Geri Allen (geriallen.com) performs solo from Blodgett Recital Hall, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Then ...

News: Event

Detroit Blues Society to Host Fundraiser on May 25th

April 2, 2008

Detroit Blues Society announces that due to declining economic conditions in the Metro Detroit area, they will be hosting a fundraiser to help bolster their coffers and to help them achieve their membership goals for 2008. This fundraiser will help, in large measure, to allow them in the continuing efforts toward presenting their unique musical programming ...

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News: Festival

2008 Detroit International Jazz Festival to Pay Tribute to John Coltrane

March 29, 2008

Philly/Detroit Summit to mark “A Love Supreme" Last year it was Detroit and Chicago. This year it's Detroit and Philly. The 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival will be celebrating the City of Brotherly Love throughout the Labor Day weekend, with Philadelphia-born bassist Christian McBride as the festival's artist-in-residence, a gaggle of artists from both cities, ...

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News: Event

Bassist Christian McBride to Conduct a Bass/Rhythm Section Workshop

March 28, 2008

Bass Instincts: A Bass/Rhythm Section Workshop Renaissance High School 6565 Outer Drive Detroit, MI 48235 Open to students and professional musicians. This event is free but reservations are a must: 313-447-1248 Please respond by April 25. This event is sponsored in part ...

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News: Performance / Tour

University of Michigan Jazz Showcase Concert

March 24, 2008

The University of Michigan Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation will present its annual Jazz Showcase Concert on Sunday March 30th at 8pm in Stamps Auditorium at the Walgreen Center on North Campus. Featured performers on this concert will include Profs. Geri Allen and Dennis Wilson as well as the Creative Arts Orchestra, UM Jazz Trombone ...

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News: Music Industry

Alma Smith: The Countess of Swing

March 14, 2008

Alma Smith has been a professional musician for more than fifty years. The youngest of nine children, Alma was born in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in the North End area of Detroit. Alma's fascination with music started early. Her mother had played piano as a youngster and she encouraged Alma to continue. “My brother played very ...

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News: Music Industry

Metro Times Article Talks About JazzStage Productions

March 12, 2008

It's one of those deep-of-winter snowstorms. There may be a chill in the air, but Longview Sound studio in Rochester Hills -- where three-quarters of the team behind the Internet show called Detroit Jazz Stage are working -- proves to be an extremely warm and welcoming environment. The studio is owned and operated by Mark Byerly, ...

News: Event

RWB and RBB Cook up an Alphabet Soup of Blues at the Kingfish Restaurant & Tiki Bar, Bay City, MI, March 14

March 10, 2008

The Rusty Wright Blues (RWB) band will start things cooking when they take the stage of the Kingfish Restaurant & Tiki Bar, Bay City, MI, March 14. Heating the evening's activities up even more, Ronnie Baker Brooks (RBB) will then bring things to a rocking-rolling boil, in what promises to be an alphabet soup of Blues ...

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News: Event

An Interstate Swing Band Rivalry in Detroit

February 16, 2008

DETROIT - What happens when you put two of the country's best big bands and 500 dancers, many in vintage attire, in Michigan's finest dance hall? The Battle of the Bands IV, Detroit's fourth swing band competition since World War II, will take place on February 23, 2008, featuring Paul King & the Rhythm Society Orchestra ...

News: Event

Rusty Wright Band Announces Upcoming Gigs, February 4-March 27

February 4, 2008

Feb 04, 2008 - Rusty Wright is an incendiary guitarist and from his first note the stage practically sizzles with high octane energy as he throws down a six-string gauntlet and challenges his band to ever greater heights as tasty guitar, sax, Hammond B3 and vocal riffs volley back and forth across the stage. BluesBunny.com, a ...