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Dave Brubeck: Live From the Northwest, 1959
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last week, I pulled a new album loose from an envelope and the first thought I had was, “Goodness, do we really need another live album from the Dave Brubeck Quartet?" The track list wasn't much help selling me on giving the CD a listen, with songs like When the Saints Go Marching In and The Lonesome Road. But because I spent an afternoon with Dave at his home this time of year back in 2010 and because Lydia Liebman ...
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Requinte Trio 'The Northern Sea' With Janis Siegel, John Di Martino & Nanny Assis!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
A pianist from jny: Philadelphia, a singer from Brooklyn and a percussionist from Bahia walk into a bar... Fingers, voices and rhythm. A lingering sweetness on your lips from the night before, and a quick inhale the morning after. The richness and passion of The Northern Sea. Pianist/arranger John di Martino hails from the City Of Brotherly Love, had learned his licks with the great Lennie Tristano and is one of the most in-demand accompanists for singers. Man, got some ...
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Guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos Releases "In The North" - Out Now
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Tassos Spiliotopoulos
In the North is the third album by guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos and his first since his relocation from jny: London to jny: Stockholm. Originally from Athens, Greece, Tassos Spiliotopoulos spent the better part of twelve years living in London and establishing a solid reputation as one of the most exciting, up-and-coming guitarists in the UK Jazz scene. He worked with some of the country's most celebrated jazz musicians including Kenny Wheeler, Gary Husband, Asaf Sirkis, John Parricelli, John Etheridge and ...
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Grubb - Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats, the North American Premia Re of a Humanitarian Musical Show
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AAJ Staff
The 32nd edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal presents GRUBB Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats, the North American première of a humanitarian musical show Tickets now on sale Montreal, Monday, April 11, 2011—Twenty-two Serbians between the ages of 13 and 17 in America for the first time. A melody. Slow, bewitching, with a slight Arabic flavour. The voice of a young boy from this century, yet identical to a voice one might have heard a thousand years ...
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Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony Announce 2011/12 Season
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Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
RALEIGH, N.C.—The North Carolina Symphony's 2011/12 season promises the same masterful programming and compelling guest artists that concertgoers have come to expect of the state's premier performing arts organization. Music Director Grant Llewellyn begins his seventh NCS season with a powerful ensemble of musicians who approach the repertoire with power, passion and panache and whose affinity for great music brings out the colors, textures and moods of a copious range of works. “As always," says Llewellyn, “the fourteen weeks of ...
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All About Jazz Celebrates the North American Release of Nils Petter Molvaer's Hamada
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John Kelman
When released internationally in 2009, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's Hamada was heralded as “anything Molvær has done before," with its “stunning growth and unexpected directional shifts" making “Hamada one of Molvær's most moving and challenging records to date." (John Kelman , All About Jazz). To celebrate Thirsty Ear's North American release of Hamada on August 31, 2010, All About Jazz is providing a bevy of features: Read AAJ Contributor Paul Olson's in-depth 2006 interview with Molvær, Nils ...
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Kate Schutt Plays the Northeast This Weekend!
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All About Jazz
Kate Schutt will be touring through the Northeast this weekend, supporting her latest ArtistShare release, Telephone Game. She will be making stops in Boston, Philadelphia and Portland. The schedule is as follows:
Thursday, September 3rd - 8pm Chris' Jazz Cafe 1421 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA
Friday, September 4th - 8pm The Lily Pad 1353 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA
Saturday, September 5th - 8pm North Star Music ...
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Saxophonist TK Blue Celebrates Release of CD "Follow the North Star" May 16 & 17 @ NYC's Lenox Lounge
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MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
Who: Alto Saxophonist/Flutist TK BLUE (aka Talib Kibwe) with Trombone = Steve Turre - 5/16 & Benny Powell - 5/17 Piano = Onaje Allan Gumbs - 5/16 & James Weidman - 5/17 Essiet Okon Essiet (bass) - 5/16 & 17 Willie Martinez (drums - 5/16 & 17 Kevin Jones (percussion) - 5/16 & 17 What: Celebrating Release of new CD “Follow The North Star" (JaJa Records JJ002) When: ...
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Album of the Week: Alma Do Nordeste (Soul of the Northeast), Jovino Santos Neto
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All About Jazz
The North-American Dee Dee Bridgewater Will Be the Great Star at the 15th International Dixieland Festival of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain)
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All About Jazz
The American singer Dee Dee Bridgewater will be in charge of opening the 15th International Dixieland Festival of Tarragona, that will take place from 11th to 16th March 2008. The jazz diva will be performing at the Metropol Theatre on Tuesday 11th March 2008 at 21:30. The show Bridgewater will be offering in Tarragona is a premiere in Catalonia. Dee Dee Bridgewater -the Paris black diva, though born in the USA- is one of the tangible realities in vocal jazz ...
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