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Aaron Parnell Brown & The Riverside Gang Come To The Black Squirrel Club In Philadelphia On Saturday April 13, 2024
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Anthony
Come see and hear one of Philly's most extraordinary artists in Jazz, Soul, and Blues—Aaron Parnell Brown & The Riverside Gang! Coming to the Black Squirrel Club on Saturday April 13th! Come enjoy some signature cocktails while taking in the architecture and decor, all while APB & The Riverside Gang take you on a musical journey! With his trailblazing, instantly memorable songs and gritty, unvarnished vocals, Aaron Parnell Brown is among the most extraordinary artists drawing from a unique blend ...
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Black Art Jazz Collective: 'Truth to Power'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Many jazz fans break out in a sweat when they see the word collective" in the name of a jazz group. One assumes the music is going to be avant-garde and free form to the point of incoherence. You'll be happy to know that that the Black Art Jazz Collective's new album Truth to Power (HighNote) is warmly stormy and soulfully engaging. This collective is a sextet that has been around since 2014 and features topnotch musicians carrying on the ...
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Sol Roots Band Performs At Flat Iron Crossroads With Guest Bobby Blackhat
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9th Floor Music
Sol Roots Band brings a powerful blend of funk, jazz, blues, rock, and more to the Tidewater Virginia area on Saturday August 12. The Sol Roots band also will add special guest, blues personality Bobby BlackHat, for their upcoming performance at the Flat Iron Crossroads summer concert series. The Sol Roots band performs a blend of New Orleans influenced funk and jazz, deep blues, energetic rock, greasy soul, and hypnotic rhythms. Sol is a fierce guitarist and soulful singer who ...
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Sol Roots Performs For Blackrock Center For The Arts Concert Series on July 8, 2023
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9th Floor Music
On Saturday July 8, the Sol Roots band brings a blend of New Orleans influenced funk, heartfelt jazz and soul, deep blues and hypnotic rhythms as part of BlackRock Center for the Arts' popular outdoor concert series! Come with friends for delicious food, cool drinks, socialize, or bring your own picnic, and enjoy an refreshing outdoor concert with award-winning funk, jazz, soul, and blues performed by the Sol Roots band! This Saturday concert will also include friends and special guests ...
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Black Olive Jazz: Myth And Mystery A Musical Journey Of Ancient And Modern Myths Debuts In New York City On November 22
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Cyber PR
Renowned Black Olive Jazz and San Francisco vocalist, Kay Kostopoulos, will be performing in New York City this November to kick off Thanksgiving week at Pangea in the East Village. Her new show: Myth, Music and Magic: A journey of biblical, historical and mythical proportions, explores heroines like Salome, Delilah, Cleopatra, and Persephone. Seductresses? Destroyers? How much of these stories were true? What’s the other story? The show features originals and jazz standards with an exotic twist, finger cymbals, and ...
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New Book 'Inside Black' investigates the depth and true meaning of black through art, culture, science and human consciousness
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All About Jazz
Inside Black is a dynamic concept initiated by visual artist and poet Leslie Browne, and executed with writer, photographer Joan Gannij, which investigates the depth and true meaning of black through art, culture, science and human consciousness. The word Black" has been loaded with associations throughout history, referring to race, class, the human shadow side, the unknown, and Black Holes. Whether it be about the darkness of night, or the stranger in ourselves, black is an invitation to open our minds. We are striving ...
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Steely Dan: Black Friday
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Adding the word black" to a day of the week began in September 1869, after Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market. Prices plunged, wealthy investors lost money and the day became known in the press as Black Friday. After the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, newspapers referred to the day in its coverage as Black Thursday. Five days later, when the largest single number of shares were traded in stock-market history, newspapers called ...
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Singapore Pianist Jeremy Monteiro Teams With Jay Anderson And Lewis Nash For 'Live At No Black Tie'
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Mouthpiece Music
Pianist Jeremy Monteiro considers himself a very fortunate man. Renowned as one of the premier jazz pianists in Singapore, he is presently entering the 45th year of a career spanning concerts, education, and music administration. He has played and recorded with many of the world’s greatest jazz artists, including James Moody, Benny Golson, Michael Brecker, Bobby McFerrin, Randy Brecker, Lee Ritenour, Herbie Mann, Paulinho DaCosta, Ernie Watts, Charlie Haden, Terumasa Hino, Al Foster, Carmen Bradford, and Toots Thielemans. In the ...
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Juewett Bostick Won For Best Jazz Musician At The Los Angeles Black Music & Film Awards
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Christine King
Juewett Bostick is a masterful composer and guitarist with a passion for jazz, fusion, and everything in between. Bostick recently won for Best Jazz Musician at The Los Angeles Black Music & Film Awards, and after hearing his new album Shades of Blu, it is well deserved. Shades of Blu is really all about making the most out of some amazingly organic performances. Shades of Blu features 17 studio tracks. It is not a concept album per se, although there ...
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Alfred Music Releases "The Musician's Lifeline" By Renowned Authors Peter Erskine And Dave Black
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Dave Black
Alfred Music, the leading publisher in music education since 1922, announces the release of The Musician's Lifeline: Advice for All Musicians, Student to Professional. Written by Peter Erskine and Dave Black, The Musician's Lifeline represents the combined experience and knowledge of the authors gained through their lives in music. In addition, it includes advice from over 150 of the best musicians the authors have the honor of knowing, with topics ranging from sight-reading, learning, listening, auditions, the music business, practice, ...
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