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The Iridium Launches Two New Series; Vernon Reid Presents Soul Guitar Sundays To Kick Off April 12 With "Captain" Kirk Douglas Of The Roots 09 April, 2015 Blue Door 1650 Offers Late-Night Sets For Only $5 Deemed a "guitar shrine" by The New York Times, and known around the world as The Home of Les Paul, The Iridium is looking to the future this Spring with the announcement of two new series that will welcome an exciting new class of musicians into the ...	The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors Perform At The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater On April 24, 2015 08 April, 2015 Berklee College of Music presents the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, in a program featuring the members' original compositions, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on April 24. The quintet is composed of students attending the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI). ...
Cassandra Wilson's New Album 'Coming Forth By Day' Out Today On Billie Holiday's 100th Birthday 08 April, 2015 Cassandra Wilson's otherworldly homage to Billie Holiday, Coming Forth By Day (Legacy Recordings) is out today, what would have been the singer's 100th birthday, and it's receiving raves from the New York Times, NPR Music, USA Today, New Yorker and more. Boston Globe says Coming Forth By Day is "the ...	Apollo Theater Announces Multi-Year Partnership With Renowned Jazz Musician Irvin Mayfield And The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra 06 April, 2015 The Apollo Theater announced its new artistic partnership with renowned jazz musician Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, which will include a range of major contemporary annual themed events and programs that will celebrate the origins of jazz, the continued innovations within the genre ...
The City Of Miami Gardens' 10th Annual Jazz In The Gardens Music Festival Breaks Records With 73,000 In Attendance 03 April, 2015 More than 73,000 attended the Jazz in the Gardens (JITG) music festival last weekend as the City of Miami Gardens celebrated the festival's 10th anniversary March 21 and 22. Approximately 42,000 festival-goers attended Saturday's show, the first sold-out day in the history of the event. A-list musical ...	Piano Wunderkind Joey Alexander Celebrates Album Debut With NYC Release Concert At Jazz At Lincoln Center On April 30, 2015 03 April, 2015 Joey Alexander - the young wunderkind pianist who has become an international sensation in the past three years and counts Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock as fans - will perform with his trio at Dizzy's Coca Cola Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday, April 30th. This is Joey's NYC release concert ...
Jazz Royalty "Open Up" "The Vault" To Help Departed Friend's Family 01 April, 2015 A few days prior to New Year's Day, the day guitarist Jeff Golub passed away at age 59, his frequent collaborators Steven Miller, Rick Braun and Bud Harner put the finishing touches on Golub's 13th solo album, "The Vault," a collection of previously unreleased songs and reimagined early career gems ...	The Jazz Network Worldwide Features The Upcoming 7th Annual Katy Jazz Festival April 24-25, 2015 In Katy, TX 01 April, 2015 The KJF (April 24 and 25, 2015) is hosted by the Katy Independent School District. The purpose for this event is to increase exposure, education, and entertainment of the jazz music medium. The event is designed to benefit participating student jazz groups, individual student musicians, jazz music educators, ...
Smithsonian Announces $2.5 Million Jazz Endowment By Leroy Neiman Foundation And Installation Of Neiman's "Big Band" Painting 31 March, 2015 April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will launch the celebration with a special announcement of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation's donation of a $2.5 million endowment towards the expansion of jazz programming. Artist LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012) was ...	Velvet Revolver Producer Sends Up Funk New Orleans Style With The Terpsichords 31 March, 2015 Guitarist and Producer Doug Grean spent decades working with some of the most famous (and temperamental) rock stars of today...co-producing Velvet Revolver's seminal album Contraband and later serving as Musical Director/Guitarist and Producer for Scott Weiland's solo projects for 15 years. "Doug ...
Distribution Deal Brightens Shashaty's "Brighter Day" 31 March, 2015 "Brighter Day," the sixth album from saxophonist ShaShaty that was released earlier this month by the newly formed A.H.I. Records, will benefit from the muscle of a new distribution deal with BFD/RED, a division of the New York-based Bob Frank Entertainment distributed by Sony's RED Distribution arm. ...	Third Annual California Jazz Foundation Fund-Raising Event Will Honor Music Hyphenates/Philanthropists Corky Hale And Mike Stoller 27 March, 2015 The California Jazz Foundation (CJF) will host its third annual "Give the Band a Hand" benefit dinner, concert and honors presentation on April 25 at the L.A. Hotel Downtown, located at 333 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles. The Foundation has announced that Mike Stoller and Corky Hale will take ...
"Traveler" Visits Barnes & Noble, Bossa Novas Onto Billboard Chart 26 March, 2015 The guitar-guided world music excursions that you hear this month in Barnes & Noble stores throughout the United States come from the recently released "Traveler," the critically-hailed fifth album from globetrotting guitarist Lawson Rollins. Debuting upon release in the Top 20 of the iTunes world music ...	Elaine Dame Announces Sip Residency & Matthew Shepard Foundation Benefit 24 March, 2015 Jazz vocalist and bandleader Elaine Dame will be holding down a Thursday night residency at SIP (aka Southport & Irving), 4000 N. Southport Ave in Chicago, throughout the month of April. The residency, which begins on Thursday, April 2 at 8PM CST, will be followed by a benefit for the Matthew Shepard ...
Award Winning Pianist-Composer, Roger Davidson Performs "Jazz For The Spirit" In Greenwich Village 24 March, 2015 Roger Davidson performed "Jazz for the Spirit", a program of jazz tunes, in Greenwich Village providing music aficionados at the venerable Caffé Vivaldi a delightful, musical treat. "Jazz for the Spirit" showcases Davidson's gift for creating memorable mosaics, combining some of his original compositions ...	Composer And Producer Volodimyr Pigida Partners With Future Sound Production 23 March, 2015 License Composition, founded by Pigida, partners with Future Sound Production and has launched a brand new website to showcase their innovative services (https://www.licensecomposition.com/). Volodimyr Pigida - a composer, producer, musician and founder of License Composition - has launched a brand ...
Jazz Drummer Aaron Comess In Today's Wall Street Journal - CD Release Concert Set For 3/21 At Rockwood Stage 3 20 March, 2015 JAZZ DRUMMER AARON COMESS CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW CD 'AARON COMESS QUINTET' WITH A 3/21 CONCERT IN NEW YORK - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL PREVIEWED THE SHOW IN TODAY'S PAPER WALL STREET JOURNAL JAZZ SCENE by Will Friedwald 3/20/15 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-compositions-of-charlie-parker-and-the-ladybugs-sing-1426819813 ...	The Remarkable Melody Gardot Returns With A Brand New Album, Currency Of Man To Be Released June 2, 2015 19 March, 2015 International best-selling singer, songwriter and musician, Melody Gardot, is back with her 4th studio album, Currency of Man. The highly-anticipated Currency of Man is an intensely creative milestone, transcending musical distinctions of jazz, blues and R&B, to offer a stirring social and musical ...
Sheila E.'s New E Spot Lounge Plays Host To The Jetsetter Jazz Kings, Nutty On March 28 19 March, 2015 So… if you wanted to go to a cool, new lounge & hang-out owned by a noted musical celebrity, eat some great food and hear the hippest band in the world, where would you go? Obviously, Vegas, right? No, not there. Miami, Perhaps? Buzz. That is Incorrect. Ok, OK, NYC? Wrong again. You would clearly ...	"Jazz Age Libertine" (EW) Hailey Tuck Reimagines Beach Boys, Jackson 5 On New EP 'Delancey Street' 19 March, 2015 Hailey Tuck has a voice "straight out of the Jazz Age with a modern identity" (Interview) and the 24-year-old expat has reimagined the work of an eclectic line-up of artists including Fats Waller, The Zombies and Maroon 5. On her new four-song EP 'Delancey Street' out March 31 and recorded at NYC's ...