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Whirlwind Recordings Announces 5x Customer-Voted New Vinyl Reissues: Jensen Sisters, Paul Jackson, City Of Poets (Jason Palmer & Cedric Hanriot), John Escreet & Mike Gibbs
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Emma Perry Publicity
Exciting news for vinyl fans: Whirlwind Recordings announced (in January) five brand-new reissues of celebrated back-catalog releases, available on LP for the first time. The new reissues come from a range of artists, featuring releases many customers have requested on LP for some time. The first five all ship in May 2021—look out for more reissues coming later in the year. These limited edition printings are a one-off and limited to 300 copies, making them a unique collector's item, grab ...
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Saxophonist Benjamin Boone Broadens His Explorations Of Poetry & Jazz With "The Poets Are Gathering," Due Oct. 16 From Origin Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Benjamin Boone takes his fascination with the merger of poetry and jazz to stunning new heights on The Poets Are Gathering, set for an October 16 release on Origin Records. True to its title, the album finds the saxophonist-composer assembling a large group of acclaimed American poets—11 in all, including Tyehimba Jess (Pulitzer Prize), Patricia Smith (LA Times Book Award/National Slam Poetry Champion), Juan Felipe Herrera (U.S. Poet Laureate), and Edward Hirsch (MacArthur)—intertwining their work with that of 20 musicians, ...
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Film Screening: Cuban Popular Music On Film: 1929-1960s at Nuyorican Poets Cafe (NYC)
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Richard Blondet
CUBAN POPULAR MUSIC ON FILM: 1929-1960s Views from Cuba, Mexico and The United States A film presentation from the Henry Medina Archives A sixty minute film presentation of rare and unusual Cuban music footage from Son, Rumba & Afro Cuban Jazz from 1929 to 1960's, followed by a discussion with host and audience. This film presentation covers rarely seen footage produced in Cuba, Mexico and the United States. This is a short film examination presence of the African diaspora traditions ...
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Sinan Bakir Trio at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on April 23rd
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Sinan Bakir
Jazz guitarist Sinan Bakir and his trio will be performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan's East Village on Saturday, April 23rd. Since releasing his debut album On My Way in 2009 Hartford based guitarist has been receiving rave reviews from All About Jazz, Jazz Review, Jazz Chicago, Courant and many other publications around the world. Bakir, originally from Turkey came to United States on a scholarship to study jazz almost a decade ago and since then keeping busy ...
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Irish Musicians and Poets Performing at Berklee College in Boston on January 27
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
A line-up of great Irish traditional musicians are performing at the David Friend Recital Hall at Berklee College of Music in Boston on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Berklee instructor and champion mandolin player John McGann leads an all star line-up that includes Sean Gannon, All-Ireland champion on the button accordion. Born and raised in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, Sean learned his music from his father John, who comes from Connemara, Galway. Joining McGann and Gannon ...
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Gunter Hampel Vibes-BCL-Flute & Haitian Vodou Percussions Poets Club Bowery -New York
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All About Jazz
GUNTER HAMPEL IN NEW YORK march 1-april 7th performance update upcoming live performances
march 1st 5 pm Hunter College -black box-Room HN 543 performing SOLO on vibes, bassclarinet, flute in VARIETY , free admission hunter college 68 str betw par and lexington, northside
march 13 6 pm Hunter College -lang theatre 4th floor -MOVING IMAGES by ruomi lee hampel + father&son performance + many acts from hunter college-free admission
march 17 th 1o pm bowery poets club ESP-disk presents:GUNTER HAMPEL ...
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Jazz This Week: Robert Dick, the Last Poets, New Bands at the Bistro, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Assuming you've dug out of the snow that hit St. Louis earlier this week, and are willing to venture out in the cold over the next few days to hear some jazz and creative music, here's what you'll find:Tonight, trumpeter Randy Holmes and the Hard Bop Heritage Quintet perform a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University. (And no, Jazz at Holmes has still not released a schedule for the entire semester. More on ...
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Amerique Latine CD Release Party at Busboys & Poets, Washington D.C. - Feb. 6 @ 9:00 P.M.
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All About Jazz
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 6th 9 p.m. - 11 p.m. Band members: Guitar - Alex Martin Vocals - Lena Seikaly Bass - Leonardo Lucini Perc. - Alejandro Lucini Location: Buboys & Poets 1390 V St N.W. Washington, DC 20009 Album: Nostalgia for Terra Incognita Admission: $10 What do you get when you put together a Franco-American jazz guitarist, former novelist and ...
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Hector Martignon and the Foreign Affair Thursday December 20th, 9:30 PM at Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Please Join... HECTOR MARTIGNON and the FOREIGN AFFAIR Celebrating the NOMINATION of their CD REFUGEE for a '08 GRAMMY At the NUYORICAN POETS CAFE (3rd Str, bet, B and C avs) Thursday December 20th, 9:30 PM Featuring: Fellow GRAMMY nomine BOBBY SANABRIA (dr) VINNY VALENTINO (guit) ARTURO STABLE (perc) EDWARD PEREZ (b) HECTOR MARTIGNON (p) And many great ...
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Fabian Gisler's Backyard Poets: Hatology 645
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All About Jazz
Fabian Gisler -double bass Henrik Walsdorff -alto & tenor saxophones Colin Vallon -piano John Schrder -drums Backyard Poets : Hatology 645 Fabian Gisler (double bass) was born on August 18th 1977 in Zurich. He graduated at Swiss Jazz School in Berne where he studied with Peter Frei, Reggie Johnson, Bert Joris, Rufus Reid and Andy Scherrer. Meanwhile Fabian attended workshops led by Ray Brown, George Gruntz, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano and George ...
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