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Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Application Deadline: Monday, April 16, 2012 at 5:00 pm (EST)

March 22, 2012

Phase 1: Intensive August 7-11, 2012 UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Phase 2: Readings, April-June, 2013 The Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI) will bring together up to 35 jazz composers, working in jazz, improvised, and creative music, whose work demonstrates excellent musicianship, originality, and potential for future growth in orchestral composition, to explore composition for ...

News: Performance / Tour

ICTUS Records Nights @ The Stone (NYC) April 1-14

March 21, 2012

The Italian Invasion & Other Stories Created in 1976, ICTUS Records has been one of the first and most celebrated labels completely dedicated to Improvised Music, New Jazz and Contemporary Classic Music. Founded by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli, it became known as “The creative label for creative music." Closed down in 1984, ICTUS was reborn ...

News: Festival

13th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival

March 19, 2012

13th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival-Jazz: A Music of the Spirit, March 30 until April 30, 2012 presented by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium. This music series is New York City's longest continuously running grassroots festival dedicated to jazz. More than 500 artists will be performing in 40 events at venues from Coney Island to Williamsburg ...

Article: Live Review

Monty Alexander: New York, February 20-March 4, 2012

by Bob Kenselaar
March 19, 2012

Monty Alexander: 50 Years in Music & 50 Years of Jamaica The Blue Note New York, NY February 20-March 4, 2012Monty Alexander set out an ambitious agenda in trying to showcase all the many facets of his 50-year career in music during this two-week stint at the Blue Note. ...

News: Recording

Alon Yavnai takes Big Band sound global with "Shir Ahava" CD + NY and Boston concert debuts

March 17, 2012

Jazz Pianist/Composer Takes Big Band Sound Global with Influences from North Africa, Cape Verde, Middle East and Peru Credits Include Grammy CDs with Paquito D'Rivera and Yo-Yo Ma NEW YORK CD Release Concert Sunday MARCH 25TH at BIRDLAND Special Guests: Paquito D'Rivera & Malika Zarra BOSTON CD Release Concert Thursday APRIL 19TH at Scullers Israel-born, Brooklyn-based ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio at Iridium in NYC, March 21

March 16, 2012

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City on March 21, 2012. The dazzling jazz pianist is celebrating the major-label release of her DVD, “Live In New York" (Universal Music) with this return engagement at Iridium, where the DVD was taped in 2011. Iridium Jazz Club is at 1650 Broadway ...

Article: From Far and Wide

Goodbye, Cecil's

by David A. Orthmann
March 14, 2012

In the hallway around the corner from the bandstand at Cecil's Jazz Club, hangs a poster for Slugs' Saloon. Through most of the 1960s, until its end in 1972, Slugs' was one of the most important jazz clubs in New York City. Unlike many of the upscale establishments that appeared in its wake, it was a ...

News: Recording

Amy Cervini Announces Residency & Canadian Tour Following a Sold-Out Engagement at The 55 Bar

March 14, 2012

Singer Amy Cervini Announces Residency & Canadian Tour Following a Sold-Out Engagement at The 55 Bar in NYC Cervini's Homage to Hip Jazz Pixie Blossom Dearie, Digging Me, Digging You Receiving Unanimous Critical Acclaim Amy Cervini—whom The New York Times describes as “a thoughtful and broad-minded jazz singer" for her free-spirited, genre-blind approach—recently celebrated her new ...

News: Technology

Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfege’s "Million Free Download Campaign" Nets Over 25,000 Downloads In The First Month

March 14, 2012

New York, NY: Ghana-born Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège's Million Download Campaign has accomplished astonishing results in the first month of its existence. A global outreach initiative designed to broaden the band's movement of empowerment, the Million Download Campaign's mission is to offer a million free downloads of songs and remixes from Derrick N. Ashong & ...

News: TV / Film

Jazz It Up: BMCC Tribeca PAC Presents Screening of Sing Me a Song of Jazz: New Discoveries

March 14, 2012

New York, NY: Next month, we jazz it up with the continuation of our “Scenes through the Cinema Lens" series with the film retrospective Sing Me a Song of Jazz: New Discoverieson Tuesday, April 10 at 7:30PM. The retrospective takes the audience on a musical journey into the past to celebrate some legendary jazz performers. The ...