Jazz News (3312)
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With his ensemble, Viewpoint, Stix Hooper returns to the stage in a rare appearance, Friday, October 28, 2011 at Zipper Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Viewpoint is a progressive instrumental based project and is one of Hooper’s many musical endeavors. With special guest, Hubert Laws, 2011 NEA Jazz…
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Jazz musician Alex Coke has announced a workshop of his composition Wake Up Dead Man as part of the Brokkenfabriek series in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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21 Sep
Press Release - Two Guitar Virtuosos Announce West Coast Tour
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Los Angeles, CA September 21, 2011 – Chart topping jazz guitarist Richard Smith and internationally awarded, classical guitarist Francesco Buzzurro announced today their first West Coast tour to support their new recording, Un Mondo, Due Chitarre.
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15 Sep
Trumpeter/Composer Wadada Leo Smith Presents World Premiere of Civil Rights Opus “Ten Freedom Summers” with Golden Quartet and Southwest Chamber Music
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“Ten Freedom Summers” is a collaboration between Smith’s celebrated Golden Quartet featuring pianist/composer Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Susie Ibarra, and the acclaimed Southwest Chamber Music ensemble conducted by Grammy Award-winner Jeff von der Schmidt. The musicians will record the project in the days after the premiere for…
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15 Sep
West African Band BURKINA ELECTRIC Launches Nationwide Tour
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BURKINA ELECTRIC Led By Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti “…an irresistible brew of West African music and electronic.” – New York Times BURKINA ELECTRIC 2011 Tour: 9/16 + 9/17 Globalquerque Festival, Albuquerque, NM 9/21 Yoshi’s, Oakland, CA 9/23 Dore Theatre, California State University, Bakersfield, CA 9/24 Angel City Jazz Festival w/ DJ…
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14 Sep
NU JAZZ Entertainment Release New Holiday Album from 2011 NEA Jazz Master Ellis Marsalis: A New Orleans Christmas Carol
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(New York, NY) – Nu Jazz Entertainment -- a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz--announced the November 2011 release of the special holiday album, Ellis Marsalis: A New Orleans Christmas Carol, from the 2011 National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Jazz…
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“Ramsey, Taking Another Look” slated for release September 20, 2011
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13 Sep
EXEGESIS Jazz Trio Releases New Album "Harmony of the Anomaly"
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“EXEGESIS…is poised squarely at the bulging edge of the musical comfort zone.” – JazzReview.com To sample mp3s and purchase the album visit http://exegesisonline.com/exegesis_frameset_music.html. Electronic jazz ensemble, EXEGESIS, bridges the gap between modern music technology and improvisation in its latest album The Harmony of the Anomaly (Dems Dem’s Demos). As the…
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12 Sep
SFJAZZ Releases SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011 – Season 8
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SFJAZZ announces the release of the SFJAZZ Collective’s eight limited-edition set, SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011 – Season 8, of which a maximum of 5,000 copies will be produced. Available exclusively from SFJAZZ — presenter of this year’s 29th San Francisco…
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08 Sep
The “Love It Live” mantra has made Jazz Cruises into one of the world’s top jazz concert promoters on land and sea
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St. Louis, Missouri (8 September 2011): Three weeks of sold-out Caribbean cruises showcasing dozens of the biggest stars in contemporary and straight-ahead jazz established Jazz Cruises as the preeminent jazz promoter on water, but a full slate of concert sponsorships on land in 2011 has made the St. Louis-based company…
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30 Aug
Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival Closing Night - The New Gary Burton Quartet at the BPC
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Gary Burton's debut release on Mack Avenue Records, Common Ground, is Burton's first studio album since 2005, and introduces his latest band, the New Gary Burton Quartet, featuring guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Antonio Sanchez. The group performs during the closing night concert of the 2011 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival. Burton, the Grammy-winning pioneer of…
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Rise and Fall - A meditation on civilization undone, inspired both by the present and representations of the past. These mostly live loop improvisations feature fretless bass, acoustic bass guitar, and midi-following synths and effects. Sequenced compositions utilize rhythms adapted from ancient Greek poetry.
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The jam session at the Jazz Showcase has been canceled. The Velvet Lounge closed down. The Green Mill's session doesn't start until 1am. In a city where jam sessions are an endangered species, hope finds itself at an unlikely venue coming from an unlikely source.
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Bill Cosby MC Fundraiser Dizzy Gillespie Memorial Fund. The Memorial Fumd helps underwrite the costs of hospitalization, diagnostic tests, and a full range of surgical and medical care for jazz musicians who are uninsured and without the ability to pay. A stellar cast of musicians and poets together will raise money for this most important human endeavor.
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26 Aug
Gico Music, Soul Singer Gina Carey “Melodic” CD Soars To The #1 Spot On The UK Soul Charts
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On Wednesday August 24, 2011, Palm Springs, California based soul artist Gina Carey has climbed to the #1 spot of Starpoint Radios' Top 30 UK Soul Charts with her new CD release "Melodic", this has not been achieved since her first Urban Gospel release "In His Time" in 1996.
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25 Aug
Earl Klugh's Renowned Weekend of Jazz Returns to Kiawah Island
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Kiawah Island, SC (August 25, 2011) – Since 2004, GRAMMY®-winning guitarist Earl Klugh has been bringing world-renowned artists together with jazz enthusiasts for his one-of-a-kind weekend getaways at 2 Five-Star, Five-Diamond properties; The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, and The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island, South Carolina. The 2nd annual Weekend of…
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24 Aug
Basia to release a live album and embark upon a U.S. concert tour
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Blessed with an instantly identifiable voice that made her a chart-topping, platinum-selling recording artist around the globe, Basia returned to her native Poland in June to record a live album, From Newport To London: Greatest Hits Live...And More, that will be released by eOne Music on September 13th in conjunction…
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The song stylist sells out a pair of New York City shows on the eve of the release of her critically-acclaimed new album, Embraceable. Miami Beach, FL (24 August 2011): Glowing reviews have embraced the arrival of the fifth album from song stylist Nicole Henry, which was released Tuesday (August…
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23 Aug
The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2013 is officially The Greatest Party At Sea
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St. Louis, Missouri (22 August 2011): Anyone who has ever sailed upon The Smooth Jazz Cruise knows why it has earned the moniker "The Greatest Party At Sea." Beginning with the 2013 sailings - January 13-20 and January 20-27 - the week-long music theme cruise to the Caribbean featuring the…
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22 Aug
Vibraphonists Joe Locke and Ed Saindon Duo Vibraphone Berklee concert on YouTube
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Vibists Joe Locke and Ed Saindon Duo Vibraphone concert at Berklee College of Music
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