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Thailand International Jazz Conference (TIJC) 2020 Musters Most World-Class Jazz Artists In 12 Years
The 12th Thailand International Jazz Conference, or TIJC 2020, is just around the corner. This year’s event will be even better than before. Held under the theme of “Jazz for All”, it will feature the largest gathering of world-class jazz artists, from January 31 to February 2, 2020, at the College of Music, Mahidol University’s Salaya Campus. Among the world’s leading jazz artists to join the TIJC 2020 is Ozmosys, the foremost jazz project led by world-renowned drummer Omar Hakim ...
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Samantha Sidley Releases Stirring Solo Vocal Cover Of Childhood Favorite 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' Ahead Of February Residency At New York's The Green Room 42
Los Angeles-based queer jazz vocalist Samantha Sidley will arrive in NYC for a three-night residency at The Green Room 42 supper club, just west of Broadway. To celebrate the occasion, Sidley has recorded a stirring vocal-only performance of one of her favorite childhood songs, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow," the signature song from the iconic film, “The Wizard of Oz". Scroll down to hear Sidley's cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and to view the video for “I Can't Listen" from ...
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How To Create or Update Your All About Jazz Musician Page
Home to over 112,000 musician pages and representing the largest database of its kind on the internet, All About Jazz is uniquely positioned to support jazz professionals worldwide. In an effort to help our musician community maximize the benefits of our growing platform, we've published a how-to guide outlining our various services. The document below explains how to establish a presence at All About Jazz by claiming & updating a musician page or creating one from scratch. A musician page ...
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Fahir Atakoğlu: The 'Music Of Hope Tour' At Merkin Hall - March 12 - All-Star Band And String Section!
Fahir Atakoğlu: The Music of Hope Tour 2020. The Music of Hope Tour is dedicated to all of the refugees in the world. Personnel Fahir Atakoğlu: piano Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez: drums Armando Gola; bass Bob Franceschini: saxophone Letizia Gambi: vocalist Estrella Acosta: vocalist Plus a 16 Piece String Orchestra! Conductor Saadi Zain March 12. One Night Only! Merkin Hall 129 W 67th St ...
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Jazz Promo Services Begins Its 20th Year Of Serving The Jazz Community
Ever since it was formed in 2001, Jazz Promo Services has been an important force in publicizing the music, events and news of the jazz world. Among the pioneers and innovators in utilizing E-mails for publicity (he can contact virtually anyone in the jazz and music industry), Jim Eigo works with hundreds of clients each year as a publicist, producer and enthusiastic spokesman, creating short, medium and long-range career development strategies. He is unparalleled in informing the jazz world about ...
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Groundup Music Festival Reveals Artist Brunches, Cocktails And Workshops
Acclaimed by the New York Times as one of the “Top 10 Definitive Moments of the Decade in Jazz Music,” the GroundUP Music Festival returns to the oceanside North Beach Bandshell in sunny Miami Beach, Florida, February 14-16, 2020. Hosted by three-time Grammy award-winning collective Snarky Puppy, GroundUP has announced the schedule for their intimate cocktails and brunches with the artists including a rare Snarky Puppy acoustic set, an unplugged collaboration between female powerhouses Lila Downs and Flor de Toloache, ...
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Saxophonist-Composer Benjamin Boone Collaborates With Accra-Based Ghana Jazz Collective On New Album "Joy," Due March 20
Saxophonist-composer Benjamin Boone’s “The Poetry of Jazz," a visionary collaboration with U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, was praised in leading musical and literary publications, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and voted the #3 Best Album of 2018 in DownBeat’s 83rd annual Readers Poll. Boone documents an equally compelling collaboration, this time from his year as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, on his newest project “Joy," set for a March 20th release on Origin Records. This album, the fifth ...
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Women In Jazz: New Book celebrates the women of music, shares their journeys and gives them voice.
Containing interviews and first-hand accounts, Women In Jazz is witness to the generosity, profundity and positivity with which women have responded and the energy they have put into their lives in overcoming challenges. The book tells the stories of the women in their own, unchanged words. It allows their voices to be heard and tackles head-on some issues which need to be discussed such as misogyny and there are some hilarious anecdotes, some poignant moments but above all a positivity ...
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Prize: Ragmala: A Garland Of Ragas by Adam Rudolph
World music pioneer Adam Rudolph and his groundbreaking Go: Organic Orchestra join forces with Brooklyn Raga Massive to create the monumental new album, Ragmala – A Garland of Ragas (Meta Records). Ragmala bridges generations, cultures and traditions in a deep-rooted, forward-looking sound born of 21st-century innovation and hybrid voices. Epic in scale and ambition, the project features 40 world-class musicians including Gnawa master musician Hassan Hakmoun, legendary drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake, forward-thinking cornetist Graham Haynes, and tradition-blurring flutist...
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