Six Time Grammy Nominated Artist and American Idol Saxophonist Make Surprise Appearance at KSBR Birthday Bash Jazz Festival
11 June, 2012
Saddleback College Radio Station KSBR (88.5 FM) is proud to announce that Grammy nominated saxophonist Dave Koz and American Idol saxophonist Mindi Abair were among the five surprise all-stars to grace the stage at the 2012 KSBR Birthday Bash Jazz Festival and Taste of the Bash. Koz, a six time Grammy-nominated ...
| Stix Bones To Host Special Jazz Night Videotaping At New York's Renowned Metropolitan Room
07 June, 2012
Stix Bones will host a special Jazz Night at the legendary Metropolitan Room in NYC on Saturday, June 9, 2012, from 4:00 to 5:30 PM. (Just the right time for a before dinner cocktail & savory appetizer!) The internationally esteemed Metropolitan Room is one of the most critically acclaimed venues in ...
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TD Toronto Jazz Festival Free Music Series At Shops At Don Mills-June 22 Until July 1
07 June, 2012
For the third consecutive year, the TD Toronto Jazz Festival brings the pre-eminent sound of the city to the prestigious Shops at Don Mills (1090 Don Mills Road at Lawrence Ave. East) in the Town Square for a series of FREE concerts. For additional information, please visit www.shopsatdonmills.ca or ...
| Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Bring Supafunkrock To Celebrate Brooklyn On June 29, 2012
04 June, 2012
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will bring NOLA to Brooklyn this summer, headlining at the Prospect Park Bandshell on June 29 as part of Celebrate Brooklyn! 2012, Brooklyn's free, summer-long performing arts festival. This show comes as part of a massive worldwide tour for the 6-piece outfit that includes ...
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Canadian Urban Funk Singer Amanda Davids To Play NXNE And Headline A Stage At Oakville Jazz Festival
30 May, 2012
Recently returning from a successful spring 2012 UK tour Amanda Davids has unleashed her debut EP "Distinguishable inDifference" on a world stage. Sharing a stage with world renowned producer Jazzie B "Soul to Soul" in Brixton, London, Davids continues to gather attention as a new force in urban soul. ...
| Don't Miss April Hall This Saturday Night June 2nd At Regattabar In Cambridge, MA
30 May, 2012
April Hall's "Room for Two" combines the intimate setting of duet performances with masterful interpretation and stunning vocals. Each track pairs her voice with one other instrument, boldly exposing every detail of the performance and revealing a rich landscape of normally hidden musical subtlety. ...
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Jaga Jazzist At The Barbican: Perform With Britten Sinfonia + Lars Horntveth (16th June)
30 May, 2012
Jaga Jazzist are unclassifiable, a 10-piece Norwegian collective whose music rampages across boundaries, combining jazz, electronics, post-rock and more with exhilarating energy and precision. Jaga are amazing live, they make the vast majority of live acts seem creatively stagnant and lethargic in comparison. ...
| Miles Davis And Edith Piaf Take Center Stage
30 May, 2012
The United States Postal Service and France's La Poste will honor renowned music icons Miles Davis and Edith Piaf on Forever Stamps on June 12 with First-Day-Of-Issue Ceremony taking place at the Rubin Museum of Art - The Theater from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman will be ...
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Steve Smith & Vital Information Live! One Great Night (CD+DVD) 30th Anniversary Tour (May 31-June 27)
29 May, 2012
LIVE! One Great Night - a CD + DVD set to be released May 29, 2012 on the BFM Jazz label - captures Vital Information in their natural habitat: A packed club with an audience of music lovers and the band in high gear, pulling out all the stops for the entire set. The all-star lineup of keyboardist Tom ...
| Lua Hadar With Twist CD Release Performance Of Their New CD 'Like A Bridge,' On June 3, 2012
28 May, 2012
Fresh from their Yoshi's debut and a sellout at their New York CD release, vocalist Lua Hadar with her band TWIST honors the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge with their new offering, Like A Bridge. The West Coast CD Release will be at Berkeley's Jazzschool on Sunday, June 3 at 4:30pm, featuring ...
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Tony Adamo's Miles Of Blu Featuring Mike Clark & Tim Ouimette
28 May, 2012
Tony Adamo's 9 Miles of Blu single has been reissued as Miles of Blu. It features legendary drummer Mike Clark and trumpet player, music arranger, Tim Ouimette. Mike Clark is producing Adamo's new CD and Tim Ouimette is mixing and arranging the horns for all of Adamo's new music. Release date will be ...
| The Mod Men Of Nutty Are The "Mad Men" Of Music; Nutty's CD 'Jetsetter Jazz' To Be Released, June26.
25 May, 2012
Now that "Mad Men" is back on TV and Mid-Century styles and architecture are the essence of hipster chic, delve into the world of NUTTY - the band who performs Jetsetter Jazz - a cool mash-up of renowned pop/rock vocals and melodies gliding over timeless jazz tracks.
NUTTY harkens back to the ...
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Chicago-based Jazz Vocalist Milton Suggs Releases "Lyrical, Volume 1" New CD on Skiptone Music Label, July 24, 2012
23 May, 2012
In 2010 with his debut album as a leader, Things to Come, vocalist Milton Suggs established himself as an artist to be aware of and watch closely. He cements that idea with a strong showing in 2012 with the first volume in an anticipated series of albums simply and appropriately entitled, "Lyrical."
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| Pioneers For A Cure - Songs To Fight Cancer Releases 'Best Jazz Songs of 2012' on iTunes
23 May, 2012
Everyone knows someone with a cancer story or has already lost someone close to them. Pioneers For A Cure - Songs To Fight Cancer has enlisted over 100 artists to record new versions of classic public domain songs to allow their fans to support them while joining this noble battle against the world's ...
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Dr. Michael White Unveils "Panama' MP3, Album Out 6/19 Via Basin Street Records!
23 May, 2012
New Orleans Jazz luminary Dr. Michael White returns with Adventures In New Orleans Jazz, Part 2, to be released June 19. His sixth release on Basin Street Records, the secondAdventures lays much closer to its roots than the internationally spiced Part 1. White's rendition of the jazz standard "Panama" ...
| Featured This Week on The Jazz Network Worldwide, Multi-Instrumentalist, Producer Fernandez "Urban Blu" Billingslea's CD "Out Of The Blu" And A Sneak Peek Of "Awakening"
21 May, 2012
The Jazz Network Worldwide is a place that shares the musical journey's of artistic expression of many of its members. Multi-instrumentalist, Fernandez Billingslea, fondly known as 'Dez' to his associates in the music industry, has lead a very exciting musical career. After numerous musical compositions ...
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International Jazz Summer School & Music Festival, Sligo, Ireland On 24th-29th July 2012
18 May, 2012
One of the worlds most unique music festivals, Sligo Jazz Project (SJP) has announced a stellar 16-strong summer school faculty and jazz festival line up for its 2012 main event, which runs from July 24-29 in the northwest of Ireland gateway city. Most significant is the return of jazz double bass legend ...
| Jambalaya Brass Band To Perform For Crawfish For Cancer's 4th Annual Crawfish Boil
18 May, 2012
Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live at the Crawfish for Cancer's 4th Annual Crawfish Boil for the benefit of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) at the 79th St. Boat Basin Café in NYC on Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 4:00 to 5:00 PM.
At the Crawfish Boil benefit, along with ...
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Cobb Energy Centre Foundation Presents A World-Class Jazz Series - Jazz Roots: A Larry Rosen Jazz Series
18 May, 2012
There's nothing impromptu about the new Atlanta jazz series that will premiere September 21st at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
"Congratulations to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Foundation for its hard work and its success bringing JAZZ ROOTS: A Larry Rosen Jazz Series to metro Atlanta," ...
| Tony Adamo Mike Clark The Band In Manhattan
17 May, 2012
Legendary drummer Mike Clark of Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters, Woody Shaw, Wallace Roney, Joe Henderson,Chet Baker, Wayne Henderson, Tony Bennett. Assembled some of New York's finest and hipest working jazz n' funk musician's for vocalist hipspokinword artist Tony Adamo. Clark dug up these cats ...
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