Harmony

Rochester International Jazz Festival Wraps Up 9 Days Of Harmony With Record-setting Attendance Of 210,000

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
June 30, 2022

Save the Date for the 20th Anniversary Edition June 23 to July 1, 2023 The 19th Edition CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, one of the largest jazz festivals in the world, four times postponed because of the pandemic, wrapped up nine days of harmony and 325 shows June 25 with an all-time record-setting attendance of 210,000. With 11 free headliner shows on two outdoor stages, a record 130 free shows and packed Club Pass shows nightly in 11 venues, jazz ...
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Pianist Roberta Piket Showcases The Composing Talents Of Husband/Collaborator Billy Mintz On "Domestic Harmony: Picket Plays Mintz," Due Dec. 6

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
October 23, 2019

Pianist Roberta Piket presents a truly intimate musical offering with the December 6 release of Domestic Harmony: Piket Plays Mintz on her own Thirteenth Note Records. A solo piano performance (her third, following 2012’s Solo and 2015’s Solo Volume 2), the album assays ten intriguing compositions by Billy Mintz, the highly regarded drummer who regularly collaborates with Piket— and who is also her husband. The intimacy on display throughout Domestic Harmony is authentic: it was intended for an audience of ...
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Kenny Werner “Effortless Mastery Of Melody, Harmony & Rhythm” Instructional Video Released By JazzHeaven.com

Source: Falk Willis
March 2, 2015

Kenny Werner is a rare musician who is known as much for his teachings and wisdom as for his piano playing and composing. He has played with Joe Lovano, Betty Buckley, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, Toots Thielemans, Randy Brecker, and many more. Kenny has been the leader of his own bands since the late 1970s and written for jazz orchestras and classical orchestras around the world. He is the author of the landmark book Effortless Mastery (over 90,000 copies sold)—now ...
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Joyful Noise: The Columbus Jazz Orchestra with the Harmony Project, May 18-19

Source: Michael Ricci
May 1, 2012

Columbus, OH The Jazz Arts Group's Inside Track series presents its season finale, “Raise Me Up!," May 18-19 at the Lincoln Theatre featuring the Columbus Jazz Orchestra and the Harmony Project for a convergence of uplifting, joyous, and highly engaging music. The Harmony Project is more than just a choir. It is a diverse collective of individuals with a dazzling array of abilities, life stories and dreams, each with a desire to serve. A stupendous, toe-tapping, model for our community, ...
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Insider's Picks: R&B Harmony

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 27, 2012

In the late 1940s, jazz and R&B wound up like the Parent Trap twins. Two different music forms separated when fans “divorced" and went their separate ways—some preferring to sit and listen intently to jazz while others went with a big-beat sound more suitable for dancing. In the years that followed, jazz and R&B developed two separate but parallel fan bases. Jazz fans tended to look down their noses at R&B, viewing it as monotonous, disposable music crafted for jukeboxes to ...
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Exegesis - The Harmony of the Anomaly (2011)

Source: Something Else!
September 14, 2011

Electronic and eclectic, Exegesis represents one of the latest attempts to marry technology to the spirit of jazz. With mathematical jazz compositions, sampling and software applied to an improvisational spirit, Exegesis comes off as a jazzier King Crimson, and the musicians used on here are likewise of the highest order. Exegesis boasts of core players Nick Demopoulos on guitar, Danton Boller on bass and Tomas Fujiwara on drums. Add the red-hot jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato supplying vocals to a couple ...
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Exegesis Jazz Trio Releases New Album "Harmony of the Anomaly"

Source: AMT Public Relations
September 13, 2011

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 title suggests, the album showcases the group's own unique blend of heterogeneous soundscapes including electronic jazz, live samplers, interactive music software, and complex compositions. With the help of Gretchen Parlato's smooth vocals and guest drummers Greg Gonzalez, Mark Guiliana, Robert Perkins, and Mark Ferber,The Harmony of the Anomaly boasts a well-pedigreed collection of ...
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Musicians for Harmony to Commemorate 10th Anniversary of 9/11 with "Concert for Peace"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
July 22, 2011

NYC Event at Merkin Hall to Feature Old Friends and New: Juilliard String Quartet, Kinan Azmeh with City Band, Kojiro Umezaki and Bassam Saba with New York Arabic Orchestra M4H Founder Allegra Klein Embraces Life in Iraq Musicians For Harmony will commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11th with its most significant 'Concert For Peace' to date, featuring a powerful line-up of some of the world's finest international artists joining together to promote cross-cultural exchange and dialogue through music. This ...
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Leila Adu finds Harmony with the Voiceless In "Ode To the Unknown Factory Worker" Album Release

Source: 4961 Polemics
January 10, 2011

Leila Adu celebrates global CD release on Rai Trade/Tracce, the Italian National Radio label New York, NY—Leila Adu reemerges to the international music scene on January 18th with her powerful new album “Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker." The 11 song CD is a raw musical travelogue of uncertainty and triumph in the exciting nomadic life of the popular New Zealand/Ghanaian singer-composer-multi-instrumentalist. Touring the globe solo and with band throughout 2009-2010 in support of her Steve Albini produced “Dark Joan" ...
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Harmony in Harlem Jazz Fellowship for Non-Jazz Educators

Source: Michael Ricci
May 24, 2010

Fellowship Synopsis

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is endeavored to host three (3) fellows who are educators currently teaching in colleges or universities that do not offer jazz studies, during a well-planned twelve-day residency filled with jazz programs, access to key individuals and popular presenting institutions, an intimate reception, and live performances. Each fellow will travel to and reside in New York City during their fellowship term. In exchange for this fellowship opportunity, each fellow will document their experience ...
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