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News: Festival

Other Places: Detroit and Philly Basses

August 31, 2008

The Detroit Jazz Festival is playing this Labor Day Weekend. One reason the four-day event is subtitled “A Love Supreme: The Detroit-Philly Connection" is the powerful legacy of bassists from those cities. In a sidebar piece leading up to the festival, Mark Stryker of The Detroit Free Press writes about their importance. If it ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Chris Potter & His Underground @ Chris' Jazz Cafe

August 28, 2008

Multi-reedman/composer Chris Potter is often cited by critics, musicians, and a steadily increasing number of fans as the finest saxophonist of his generation. Potter has performed with a diverse and heady array of artists, including James Moody, Jim Hall, Marian McPartland, Dave Douglas, Larry Carlton, Steely Dan, and Dave Holland, with whom Chris has been performing ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock at the Kimmel Center

August 25, 2008

September 19, 2008 | 8pm Verizon Hall Jazz Fridays Series Keith Jarrett, piano Jack DeJohnette, drums Gary Peacock, bass “Very simply, this is jazz at its finest." --LA Times “The greatest piano trio in contemporary jazz..." --BBC Music Magazine Three pivotal proponents of the jazz standard movement, pianist ...

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News: Recording

Eric Mintel Quartet to Release New CD "Ground-Breaker"

August 21, 2008

If you were traveling on Swamp Road near Buckingham Bucks County, PA the other day and noticed four guys being photographed on the pristine grounds of Superior Turf and Landscape it wasn't a team of UFO Researchers that have come to our area, it was an Eric Mintel Quartet sighting during a photo shoot for their ...

News: Performance / Tour

Mike Lorenz Quartet @ Puck Live

July 31, 2008

Mike Lorenz will be performing at Puck in Doylestown on July 31, 2008. Lorenz is a jazz guitarist from Lehigh Valley, PA. Playing professionally since the age of 19, Mike has performed with such musicians as Rufus Reid, George Young, Bud Shank, Jim Pugh, Ravi Coltrane, Neil Wetzel, Paul Rostock and Pete Colangelo. Mike has performed ...

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News: Event

Still Black, Still Proud: African Tribute to James Brown at Kimmel Center

July 31, 2008

Kimmel Center Presents brings a welcoming respite from the dog days of summer with weekly Global Grooves world music dance parties in Perelman Theater. Global Grooves series showcases a hot lineup of international bands in the Perelman Theater, which is transformed into a nightclub with an open dance floor and cash bar. Pancontinental funk/soul ensemble Still ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Rick Braun & Richard Elliott @ The Keswick Theatre

July 30, 2008

Rick Braun & Richard Elliott KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA THURS., AUG. 21, 8:00 PM Tickets on sale now RICK BRAUN & RICHARD ELLIOT's RnR - the smooth jazz CD release of 2007 becomes the can't miss concert of 2008 as two of the world's favorite smooth jazz ...

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Article: Live Review

Tony Miceli: A Jazz Brunch at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

by Victor L. Schermer
July 29, 2008

Tony Miceli Jazz Brunch at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 20, 2008 Brunch at a good restaurant can be a pleasant way to enjoy a Sunday morning and early afternoon. Music brunches are common around Philadelphia, Bucks County, and New York City, some of which have ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller & Victor Wooten @ The Keswick Theatre on August 19, 2008

July 23, 2008

SMV: THE THUNDER TOUR KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA TUES., AUG. 19, 8 PM Tickets on sale NOW! Thunder happens when three premier bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten team up for concert dates. The Thunder Tour comes to Glenside's Keswick Theatre on Tues., Aug. 19 @ 8 ...

News: Event

Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar Ignites an Unbeatable Balkan Dance Party at the Kimmel Center

July 22, 2008

Festive gypsy brass band Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar ignites an “unbeatable Balkan dance party" (Songlines) in the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 7:30pm. Hailed as the greatest of Balkan trumpeters, Boban Markovic, the legendary native of Serbia's gypsy brass heartland, has led his 13-piece Orkestar to international acclaim, enhancing the ...