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News: Performance / Tour

Mike Baggetta Quartet CD Release Concert at Cornelia Street Cafe

Mike Baggetta Quartet CD Release Concert at Cornelia Street Cafe

Come celebrate the release of Small Spaces - the debut recording from the Mike Baggetta Quartet - on Fresh Sound New Talent Records. Copies of the CD will be available. Mike Baggetta - Guitar Jason Rigby - Saxophone Eivind Opsvik - Bass George Schuller - Drums Sunday April 26th

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News: Social Gathering

MODA Entertainment Announces Ellington on Ellington At Borders Honoring Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday

MODA Entertainment Announces Ellington on Ellington At Borders Honoring Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday

Borders Columbus Circle (in the Time Warner Center) in association with Legacy Recordings, ICON Collectibles and MODA Entertainment, is proud to present Ellington on Ellington on April 29th at 7PM in honor of Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday. Ellington's grandchildren Paul and Mercedes Ellington will speak and host a Q & A about the legendary musician and ...

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News: Event

Salute to an Andre Previn Artist of Many Talents

Salute to an Andre Previn Artist of Many Talents

Some composers write music for anonymous performers, while others, like Andr Previn, prefer to tailor works to a particular muse. Mr. Previn, who has written pieces for musicians like the pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, has also been inspired by the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who was one of the commissioners of his Trio ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, Rough, Side by Side with Smooth

Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, Rough, Side by Side with Smooth

Standing shoulder to shoulder on the stage of Birdland on Wednesday evening, Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, two luminaries of Brazilian bossa nova, engaged in an intimate musical dialogue between the smooth and the rough. Smoothness was embodied by Mr. Santiago, nicknamed the Nat King Cole of Brazil, who has recorded since the mid-1970s and was ...

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News: Recording

Ute Lemper's New Album of Original Songs Releases May 5th

Ute Lemper's New Album of Original Songs Releases May 5th

Award-winning international singer-songwriter Ute Lemper releases her new album of original songs, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, on May 5, 2009. The first compilation of songs written by Lemper herself, the album draws from her personal experiences and global background and is her most personal album to date. Lemper’s interest in historical and current events, politics and ...

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News: Event

Duke Ellington Day! Catch the Original 1939 a Train

Duke Ellington Day! Catch the Original 1939 a Train

CELEBRATION: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has declared April 29 Duke Ellington Day in honor of the 110th anniversary of the jazz legends birth. To commemorate his life, The Islands Of The Bahamas are sponsoring a special run of the last surviving 1939 A Train, made famous by Duke Ellingtons signature tune Take the A Train. WHAT: ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Lincoln Center Announces Midsummer Night Swing: July 7-25, 2009

Lincoln Center Announces Midsummer Night Swing: July 7-25, 2009

Tickets are on sale now for Lincoln Center's 21st Anniversary season of Midsummer Night Swing (every Tuesday through Saturday, July 7-25). Because of continuing redevelopment projects, this program will take place again this year in Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park, W. 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. There is a larger stage and bigger dance floor ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Folk Goddess Judy Collins Descends from Her Lofty Pedestal

Judy Collins in a six-week engagement at Caf Carlyle. It wasnt always so. But nowadays a Judy Collins concert is a seamless flow of music and storytelling. Alternating between the guitar and the piano, Ms. Collins offers a version of a personal musical history that is too complicated and rich to be covered in a single ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Maria Neckam Live at the Austrian Cultural Forum NY

Maria Neckam Live at the Austrian Cultural Forum NY

Singer Maria Neckam will appear tonight at the Austrian Cultural Forum NY Maria Neckam - voice and songs, Lars Dietrich - alto sax, Samir Zarif - tenor sax, Aaron Goldberg - piano, Zack Lober - bass, Colin Stranahan - drums 11 East 52nd Street Thursday, April 23, 7pm Free Admission. ...

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Article: Live Review

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere

Read "Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere" reviewed by Eric Benson

by Eric Benson

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseWorld PremiereThe Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln CenterNew York, NYApril 15, 2009 The Jazz Wars are over. Now what? A new documentary asks. Since the early 1980s, jazz has been engaged in its own nonviolent, low-intensity civil war. Decentralized and ...


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