Results for "North Carolina"

Marc Hoffman Joins "Tickling The Ivories" Concert

September 7, 2010

Jazz recording artist will perform during an evening of piano music (WEST JEFFERSON, NC)—Composer/pianist Marc Hoffman will perform all-original jazz pieces during the Ashe County Arts Council's “Tickling The Ivories" concert of piano music in the Ashe County Civic Center in West Jefferson, Saturday, September 11, beginning at 7.30 PM. Hoffman will perform “Curioso" from his ...

New Jazz CD: Marc Hoffman Releases "Curioso"

July 12, 2010

July 12, 2010 (CHARLOTTE, NC)--Virillion Music recording artist Marc Hoffman has announced the release of Curioso, an all-original jazz CD that features Hoffman on keyboard and vocals, Tim Gordon (Mr. Groove) on sax, Grammy nominee John Sharp on guitar, Terry Peoples and Nathan Scott on bass, and Gray Fallin (The Brubakers), Mike Lanier and Ryan Scott ...

Pianist and Songwriter Cyrus Chestnut to Headline Billy Taylor Jazz Festival

April 12, 2010

Greenville, NC -- Again this year the East Carolina University School of Music Jazz Studies Program brings a world-class jazz performer to Greenville for the Billy Taylor Jazz Festival on April 22-23. Critically-acclaimed pianist and songwriter Cyrus Chestnut headlines this year's event at the Murphy Center on ECU's campus on Friday, April 23, backed by the ...

Lake Norman Orchestra to Perform "Homeland" by Marc Hoffman

February 28, 2010

(SALISBURY, NC) - The Lake Norman Orchestra, under the direction of Eduardo Cedeno, will perform “Homeland," an original piece by Salisbury, NC, composer Marc Hoffman, on Saturday, March 13, in the Mack Gray Auditorium in Statesville, NC. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. According to Hoffman, “Homeland" expresses his feelings about growing up in Salisbury. ...

David Sanborn and John Pizzarelli at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa - January 29 through January 31

January 19, 2010

A legendary resort hosts the legends of jazz ASHEVILLE, NC -- The eighteenth annual “All That Jazz" weekend at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa will bring legendary jazz artists to Asheville, North Carolina for two days of concerts and jazz themed special events. Jazz legends David Sanborn and The John Pizzarelli Quartet will headline ...

New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising over Just in Time

November 24, 2009

Improvising Over Just In Time The melody of this 1956 standard tune is, you could say, spare. The basic motive is composed of two notes a half step apart that are repeated in quarter notes up to 15 times in each section. To say that Anthony Wonsey's solo over the chord changes to this tune is ...

George Duke to Perform Benefit Concert for Bob Moog Foundation and Miuseum of Making Music

October 18, 2009

Jazz, Funk and R&B Legend George Duke and Quartet To Perform Benefit Concert for the Bob Moog Foundation and the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7 PM, George Duke--whose very name is synonymous with funk, R&B, pop, soul and jazz and who is heralded as a world class ...

Actual Proof Featured on the Alternatemode Website

August 26, 2009

Actual Proof's "Paradigm Shift" Now Available on CD Baby

August 21, 2009

Actual Proof's full-length debut CD is now available for download on CDBaby. Individual tracks, the entire album, or a hardcopy of the album can be ordered through the site. About Actual Proof Actual Proof is a unique jazz-fusion/funk quartet that utilizes mallet percussion (xylophone, vibraphone, marimba), keyboards, electric bass, electronic and acoustic drums. The group's music ...

Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Reni Thomas at Durham County (NC) Library's Summer Jazz Jam

May 23, 2009

By Larry Reni Thomas Durham County Library presents SUMMER JAZZ JAM, Sunday, June 28, 2009, 2-6 pm, at the East Regional Library, 211 Lick Creek Lane, Durham, North Carolina. The event, “Express Yourself at The Library," will celebrate summer reading and will include a jazz jam session led by guitarist Scott Sawyer, vocalist Bobby Hinton, drummer ...