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Harlem Stage Presents Eternal Spirit: Vijay Iyer & Friends Celebrate the Music of Andrew Hill on March 1-2, 2024

Harlem Stage Presents Eternal Spirit: Vijay Iyer & Friends Celebrate the Music of Andrew Hill on March 1-2, 2024

Source: Michael Ricci

Friday, March 1, 2024 7:30 PM 9:30 PM Additional Performances March 2, 2024—7:30PM Harlem Stage 150 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 (212) 281-9240 Seating: Reserved Seating Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker, and multicultural gateway,” composer and pianist Vijay Iyer is one of the leading music-makers of his generation. Iyer returns, following his Harlem Stage commissioned work, Holding It Down, to guest curate and perform in ...

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Leonid & Friends: Chicago

Leonid & Friends: Chicago

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

The first time I heard Leonid & Friends, I thought for a second they were syncing to Chicago's recordings from the early 1970s. Turns out Leonid & Friends is a Russian-Ukrainian cover band with impeccable ears and talent. Leonid is Leonid Vorobyev (third from left), a Moscow producer, bassist, transcriber and arranger. In concert, the tentet recreates American hits perfectly, but they're probably best known for their precise Chicago covers. What sets them apart is that they work hard to ...

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Recording

Peter Lemer & Friends - "Jet Yellow" CD, WAV FLAC & MP3 From Art Of Life Records

Peter Lemer & Friends - "Jet Yellow" CD, WAV FLAC & MP3 From Art Of Life Records

Source: Art of Life Records

Art of Life Records is proud to present, Jet Yellow, by British keyboardist and composer Peter Lemer. “Jet Yellow" was recorded on May 11th & 12th, 1977 at Britannia Row Studios in London, England and mixed by Nick Griffiths. The album includes six original compositions by Peter Lemer and one song by Francis Moze, “O'Bouche", and features Peter Lemer on keyboards, Francis Moze on fretless electric bass, Laurie Allan on drums and the late great guitarist Allan Holdsworth on the ...

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Abelita Mateus & Friends: "Mixed Feelings" CD Release Performance On October 2 At Dizzy's Club!

Abelita Mateus & Friends: "Mixed Feelings" CD Release Performance On October 2  At Dizzy's Club!

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations

October 2. ONE NIGHT ONLY! Featuring Guitarist Romero Lubambo, Bassist Peter Slavov, Diego Urcola on Trumpet and more! Abelita Mateus & Friends Dizzy's Club- October 2nd Broadway at 60th St., 5th Floor, NYC 7:30pm & 9:30pm / cover $35- students $20 Phone: 212-258-9595 Abelita Mateus: piano, vocals Peter Slavov: bass Diego Urcola: trumpet Matt Marantz: tenor saxophonist Alex Kautz: drums ...

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Jazz this week: Garfield, Ligertwood & Friends, "A Jazz Heaven," and more

Jazz this week: Garfield, Ligertwood & Friends, "A Jazz Heaven," and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week's calendar of jazz and creative music performances in and around town features the returns of several notable St. Louis expat musicians as well as shows paying tribute to both local and all-time jazz greats. Let's go to the highlights... Thursday, August 27 Tonight, guitarist Tom Byrne and singer Erika Johnson will perform at Evangeline's; and the Tavern of Fine Arts presents their monthly “Experimental Arts Open Improv Night" with live improvised music. Friday, August 28 Keyboardist David Garfield ...

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Jim Miller & Friends At Rowan Planetarium On April 8

Jim Miller & Friends At Rowan Planetarium On April 8

Source: Dennis Dougherty

The Rowan University College of Performing Arts Faculty Spotlight Series presents noted drummer Jim Miller and friends for a free concert event, which doubles as a live recording session, in the university’s Edelman Planetarium on Wednesday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m. The program includes six of Miller’s original compositions as part of an event that is being recorded for Miller's next CD. The musicians joining Miller include saxophonist E.J. Yellen (from Miller's days with the Philadelphia-area fusion unit REVERIE), renowned ...

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Bernard Purdie & Friends Hit The Stage At The Philadelphia Clef Club Of Jazz & Performing Arts

Bernard Purdie & Friends Hit The Stage At The Philadelphia Clef Club Of Jazz & Performing Arts

Source: Vena Jefferson

The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz on the Avenue of the Arts is back and bigger and better than ever for Spring/Summer 2014 with Two Amazing Summer Concert Performances with Bernard Purdie and Joey DeFrancesco. Philadelphia, PA: PCC of Jazz is revving up for the 2014 Spring/Summer Season with two incredible concert performances featuring First, Bernard Purdie,world-renown drummer and one of the most influential musicians and bandleaders of our time will play a special two-night engagement and a one-day drum ...

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Recording

Singer Jackie Ryan Returns; "Listen Here" Also Features John Clayton & Friends

Singer Jackie Ryan Returns; "Listen Here" Also Features John Clayton & Friends

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations

Jackie Ryan teams with Grammy Award winner John Clayton to deliver a tour de force through a myriad of jazz idioms ─ from blues & gospel flavored jazz gems, to luscious love songs, a soaring Spanish ballad, a Gershwin classic, pulsating samba rhythms ─ and culminates with the title track: a duet with three-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton. Listen Here is at once both a testimony and a tribute ─ a testimony to this artist’s love of exploration, and a ...

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Lenore Raphael & Friends In New Jazz Concert Series In NYC

Lenore Raphael & Friends In New Jazz Concert Series In NYC

Source: Lenore Raphael

Renowned jazz pianist/Steinway Artist Lenore Raphael is heading up a new jazz series on Manhattan's West Side. Having had a full house at a concert in May, a series was the best way to constantly feature great jazz by world-class artists at affordable prices. Co-produced by “West 64th Street Jazz" and The New York Society for Ethical Culture, the first of the series on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, will feature Ms. Raphael on piano with the wonderful guitarist Howard Alden to ...

Event

Fred Frith & Friends Play Gravity

Fred Frith & Friends Play Gravity

Source: Dominique Leone

FRED FRITH & Friends play GRAVITY Saturday, Aug. 25 @ SLIM'S 333 11th St, San Francisco, CA (415) 255-0333 Doors 8:00 pm, Music 9:00 pm PRICE: $20 (Dinner and admission: $44.95) Imagine a world where dance, rock, punk and DIY music, experimental classical, prog and free improvisation mix like rogue strains of cultural DNA. Think of an environment where anything is game for musical consumption, and musicians and listeners cross paths in ...

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