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Duke Performances Presents The Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet In Durham, North Carolina October 12- 13, 2012

October 9, 2012

By Larry Reni Thomas The Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet, featuring Ambrose on trumpet; Walter Smith III, tenor saxophone; Sam Harris, piano; Harish Raghavan, bass; and Justin Brown, drums, will be appearing at the Casbah in Durham, North Carolina, October 12 and 13, 2012. The much-anticipated and talk-about concerts, sponsored by Duke Performances, gives the area’s legion of ...

News: Radio

Premiere: Audio Documentary: Thelonious Monk: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM, October 7th

September 27, 2012

Listen to WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, October 7, 2012, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Thelonious Monk Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Thelonious Monk’s music and the premiere of an audio documentary called “Thelonious Monk: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual.” It features commentary and ...

News: Recording

New CD Of Original Progressive Jazz From Michael Pelz-Sherman

September 13, 2012

Michael Pelz-Sherman has released a new new CD of original progressive jazz from North Carolina, featuring original compositions and extended free improvisations. From Michael Pelz-Sherman: Goes Without Saying presents two very different, yet complimentary sides of my creative musical work as a jazz composer and improvising keyboardist. The first six tracks are progressive jazz compositions, carefully ...

News: Performance / Tour

Preview: The Triangle North Carolina 2012-13 Jazz Season

September 3, 2012

By Larry Reni Thomas The busy, expanding, thoroughly-satisfying jazz scene in what is called the “Triangle” area of the Piedmont section of North Carolina just keeps getting better and better. Who needs the New York or the D.C. jazz scene when everybody seems to be coming this way? The area can boast of several venues that ...

News: Radio

Premiere: Audio Documentary: John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM

August 28, 2012

Listen to WCOM-FM,Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina for the premiere, the first airing of the audio documentary “John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual," September 23, 2012, during The John Coltrane Birthday Special, on Sunday Night Jazz with Larry Reni Thomas, from 9pm-12m. The recently completed profile includes music and commentary from The University of North ...

News: Performance / Tour

North Carolina Symphony Celebrates The Music Of Ray Charles, Sept. 28-29

August 22, 2012

RALEIGH, NC: The North Carolina Symphony honors an American original with its season-opening Pops Series concert, “The Music of Ray Charles,” at downtown Raleigh’s Meymandi Concert Hall, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28-29, 8:00 p.m. Charles’s protégé, friend and fellow Georgia native Ellis Hall joins the orchestra and Symphony Resident Conductor William Henry Curry for an evening ...

News: Event

Poncho Sanchez And Stanley Clarke / George Duke At High Point Festival Park

August 7, 2012

The Friends of John Coltrane will present the 2nd Annual John Coltrane International Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday, September 1, 2012. The Premiere Jazz Event of the Triad will feature the reunion of two venerable jazz artists with Stanley Clarke, George Duke and the Clarke/Duke Project; a giant of Latin Jazz, Poncho Sanchez and Shemekia ...

News: Event

John Coltrane vs. The Jazz Critics, 1961-1966, Photographic & Documentary Exhibit

July 2, 2012

Yalik's Modern Art presents a documentary exhibit recounting former High Point resident John Coltrane's uneasy relationship with jazz critics during the tumultuous Civil Rights period. The exhibit titled, John Coltrane vs. the Jazz Critics: 1961-1966, coincides with the 2012 John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival, Saturday, September 1st. Through an examination of photographs, letters, record ...

News: Performance / Tour

Tribute To Django Reinhardt At North Carolina Symphony's "Night In Paris," July 7

June 22, 2012

The North Carolina Symphony whisks its audience away to the City of Love in a Summerfest finale to remember. Conductor Mischa Santora, vocalists Robb Asklof and Kersten Rodau, guitarist Robert Bell and accordionist Patrick Harison all join the orchestra for a colorful concert event, “A Night in Paris.” The final performance in the 2012 Rex Healthcare ...

News: Performance / Tour

Pianist/Vocalist Marc Hoffman To Perform At Ethos

June 5, 2012

June 5, 2012: Jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Marc Hoffman will perform this Friday, June 8th with his duo and Saturday, June 9th as a soloist at Ethos Southern Bistro & Martini Bar in downtown Salisbury. Marc will be joined on upright bass by Victor Sams. Hoffman and his duo, trio, and quartet are well known in the Charlotte ...