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Capital Public Radio Interviews Tony Adamo
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
By Gary Vercelli, Capital Public Radio Jazz Music Director (Sacramento, CA) Jazz and the spoken word have always had a symbiotic relationship. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti pioneered the beat poet landscape of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. But what of modern day offerings in this genre? Tony Adamo has been described as a beatnik who arrived sixty years late, but if you ask him, he’s just a raconteur who describes his environment in a unique manner. Adamo celebrates ...
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Free Nelson MandoomJazz Presents New Full-Length Album, Awakening Of A Capital, On RareNoiseRecords
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hubtone PR
Hot on the heels of their debut Double EP The Shape Of DoomJazz To Come / Saxophone Giganticus Scottish doom-jazz trio Free Nelson MandoomJazz are back with their first full-length album, Awakening Of A Capital. In the time that has passed since the release of their first double EP on RareNoiseRecords, Free Nelson MandoomJazz have gone from strength to strength, touring across central Europe during the summer and capping it off by performing at the Match & Fuse London Festival ...
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SFJAZZ Center Reaches Capital Campaign Goal $64 Million & SFJAZZ Collective Receives $3 Million Gift
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Marshall Lamm
SFJAZZ today announced that the organization has reached the $64 million goal of The World Is Listening campaign for the SFJAZZ Center. The campaign funds created the award- winning SFJAZZ Center that opened on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21, 2013 and has become a globally recognized bellwether of art, music, culture, and community in San Francisco’s Civic Center performing arts district. The achievement of the goal is made all the more extraordinary as an anonymous donor stepped forward ...
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Jazz St. Louis Announces $10 Million Capital Campaign for New Jazz Center
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All About Jazz
St. Louis, MO: From Scott Joplin’s playing of Ragtime in 1895 to Miles Davis playing Be-Bop in 1944 and to the dozens of other jazz greats who hail from the Gateway City, St. Louis has played an important and pivotal role in the history of jazz. Today, Jazz St. Louis—one of the best known and longest running not-for-profit jazz organizations in the country—announced its $10 million capital campaign supporting a new state-of-the-art live performance and jazz education center, jazz lounge ...
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Jazz Band Master Class And Capital City Voices At Twins
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The Phillips Agency
Jazz Band Masterclass & Capital City Voices: The Region’s Up-and-Coming Jazz Artists Appear in Concert at Twins Jazz On Thursday November 14, jazz lovers can enjoy outstanding jazz compositions performed by three different ensembles under the direction of two of the region’s best known artist/educators: saxophonist/composer Jeff Antoniuk and pianist Wayne Wilentz. The featured musicians and vocalists hail from all parts of the Washington, D.C. region. Jazz Band Masterclass will perform some well-loved standards as well as some newer and ...
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Concord Music Group Sold to Wood Creek Capital
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HypeBot
Concord Music, one of the largest independent label groups in the U.S., has been bought by Wood Creek Capital Management, a division of MassMutual Financial Group. The acquisition is being made on behalf of funds which Wood Creek advises, and an individual investor group that includes members of Concord's senior management and industry veterans Steve Smith and Scott Pascucci. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Glen Barros will remain Concord's President & CEO. Concord Group labels include Concord Records, ...
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DC Jazz Festival And Capitalbop Announce This Year's D.C. Jazz Loft Series
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Meghan Ziobro
National Stars and Top-Shelf Local Bands Merge for Innovative Shows and a Daylong Jazz Loft MegaFest WASHINGTON, DC: The D.C. Jazz Loft Series, a collaboration between the DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) and CapitalBop, will return to the Festival this year with performances from some of the nation’s most influential, boundary-pushing artists. Part of the Festival’s Jazz in the ‘Hoods program presented by Events DC, the three-day series is expanding to include a final, daylong Jazz Loft MegaFest on June 9. ...
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Jazz Is Bustin' Out All Over The Nation's Capital
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Meghan Ziobro
DC Jazz Festival Announces 2012 All-Star Lineup June 1-10 WASHINGTON, April 2, 2012 – The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announced its signature programs for 2012, which include: Jazz Meets the Classics at the Kennedy Center; Jazz in the 'Hoods presented by Events DC; Jazz 'n' Families Fun Days at The Phillips Collection; Jazz at the Hamilton presented by The Washington Post; and Jazz at the Howard. The Festival will take place June 1-10. Jazz Meets the Classics, co-presented by ...
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Jazz is Bustin' Out All Over the Nation's Capital
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Chris M. Slawecki
The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announced its signature programs for 2012, which include: Jazz Meets the Classics at the Kennedy Center; Jazz in the 'Hoods presented by Events DC; Jazz ‘n' Families Fun Days at The Phillips Collection; Jazz at the Hamilton presented by The Washington Post; and Jazz at the Howard. The Festival will take place June 1-10. Jazz Meets the Classics, co-presented by the Kennedy Center on June 4th, will feature an all-star lineup performing unique and ...
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Musical Capitalism
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HypeBot
With the music industry suffering huge defeat in the onset of the digital age, the tendency to be all embracing of the latest glimmer of hope has become commonplace. To call foul of new developments often results in accusations of living in the past. However, for those who do wish to plough headlong into any reshaping of the music industry, it is important to fully understand the consequences of giving weight to the movement. CALIFORNIA STREAMING It seemed such a ...
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