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Look Out - The Vocal Debut From Award-Winning Jazz Pianist Jim Clayton Featuring Herlin Riley And Amina Scott - Release Date: October 3rd
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
"Clayton can swing the daylights out of anything... But he has a different, more expansive definition of Great American Songbook. It's a refreshing concept. I hope more 21st century artists follow." From the liner notes by Ricky Riccardi, 2022 Grammy Winner Blend the piano styles of Nat “King" Cole, Harry Connick, Jr. and Bob Dorough, and add the vocal sound of Bobby Troup, and voila. You've got Jim Clayton. Clayton started the 2020 lockdowns as an award-winning Canadian jazz instrumentalist. ...
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Grace Note Productions Presents Amina Claudine Myers In Concert in Manassas, VA on June 3
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Cynthia Cotton
Grace Note Productions is pleased to announce that they are sponsoring jazz pianist and vocalist, Amina Claudine Myers in Concert on Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 3 PM at the Wyndham Garden Manassas Hotel in jny: Manassas, VA. Accompanying Amina will be Alto Saxophonist Antonio Parker, Bassist James King, and Drummer Nasar Abadey. Also, to open the concert will be The Cristian Perez Trio, featuring Jazz Guitarist Cristian Perez, Flutist Yana Hristova, and Bassist Dan Brown. “Jazz is America’s only ...
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Erik Truffaz & Amina Agossi Jazz Up The Lao People's Democratic Republic
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All About Jazz
Jazz gigs are nothing like buses in Lao, as two buses never come along at the same time in the capital city, Vientiane. Nevertheless, jazz fans can look forward to the dizzying prospect of two jazz gigs on consecutive nights in the Lao National Culture Hall on the 26th and 27th of November. Swiss-French trumpeter Erik Truffaz on Wednesday 26th and French-Beninoise singer Mina Agossi on Thursday 27th will give audiences two very different takes on modern jazz. Truffaz has ...
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Jazz This Week: Jim Pugh, Jeremy Haynes, Amina Figarova, Jazz St. Louis Gala, Jeff Coffin, Chris Botti, Dan Thomas, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
There's jazz and creative music happening early and often throughout this week in St. Louis, and so to help make sure that you don't miss anything, here's a special early edition of the weekly highlights post: Tonight, trombonist Jim Pugh is in town for a free concert at at Maryville University presented by the St. Louis Low Brass Collective. Pugh is best known for his work with Woody Herman and Chick Corea, but also has been a top studio trombonist ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Amina Figarova's Jazz Journey
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
St. Louis jazz fans this year already have been able to hear the local debuts of several noteworthy musicians, and there's another one coming next week who's made a long journey, both physically and culturally, to get to where she is now. We're speaking of pianist and composer Amina Figarova, who will be in St. Louis with her sextet to perform a free concert this coming Thursday, February 21 for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University. Figarova, 46, ...
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Internationally Renowned Pianist/Composer Amina Figarova Celebrates New CD Twelve With 12-City U.S. Tour, May 3-18
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Twelve to be released May 1 on German In + Out label Tour Dates May 3-18 in New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland Heights, NYC, Albuquerque, NM; Fresno, Bakersfield, Half Moon Bay, CA; Seattle, WA; Missoula, MT; Portland, OR; Pittsburgh, PA “A skilled and imaginative composer…Born in Azerbaijan and based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Figarova brings a remarkably broad range of influences to her works, which may help explain their appeal. You can hear the influence of her classical training in the care ...
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Amina Figarova - Sketches (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico It used to be, all good jazz originated out of New Orleans, then Chicago, then New York. And a lot of it still does these days. Eventually, Western Europe became the place of origin for a lot of great jazz for several generations, now, and even Eastern Europe is the home of some mighty good jazz performers, a few of whom have been profiled here. But nowadays, you can find good jazz from the Caucasus region where Europe ...
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Internationally Renowned Jazz Pianist/Composer Amina Figarova Tours America
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
MARCH 4 - 20 with stops in Cleveland and Cincinnati, OH; Winston-Salem & Ashville, NC; Richmond, VA; NYC; Chicago, New Orleans and Victoria, B.C.
Figarova to Return in August for Performance at the Main Stage of the Newport Jazz Festival “...Above the Clouds confirms that Figarova is among the most important composers to come into jazz in the new millennium..." -- Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes November 2008 “...Amina Figarova boasts a graceful and erudite piano style, but ...read more
Composer/Pianist/Singer Amina Claudine Meyers Inteviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and songwriter willing to, at times, employ traditional song structures. Outside of the AACM, Myers has played in bands led by Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, ...
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Truth & Soul's Michael Leonhart & the Avramina 7 Joe's Pub Residency
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All About Jazz
Trumpet player, producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and singer-songwriter Michael Leonhart and his band “the Avramina 7" are pleased to announce their monthly residency at New York’s Joe’s Pub, beginning Wednesday, October 7, and continuing though the rest of 2009. Despite being the newest group on Truth & Soul Records, the band is anything but inexperienced. Michael himself, a New York native, won a GRAMMY at 17 for being most outstanding musician in a US high school, and plays trumpet for ...
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