NJC gala to feature big band-style singer

By Jazz News on May 23, 2013

This year’s NJC Foundation Gala, to benefit the HOPE Scholarship, will provide new entertainment for those who attend the June event.

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Chris Potter Quartet On JazzSet

By Jazz on May 23, 2013

At the Village Vanguard, one flight down from the hubbub of New York City, in a tight space packed with people, we’re about to embark on a musical odyssey by sea. Our captain is saxophonist Chris Potter, who’s launching his Odyssey-inspired album The Sirens.

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freezingprocess.net : A Conversation With Jazz Trio, Acronym

By Jazz News on May 23, 2013

Welcome to Episode # 100 of the freezingprocess.net podcast!! In this episode we sat down with the members of Portland based Jazz Trio, Acronym .

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‘All That Jazz’ at Centreville High School

By Jazz News on May 23, 2013

Centreville High School will be filled with the strains of cool jazz May 31, as school’s cafeteria becomes the setting for the JazzCats Cafe.

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Jazzing the House

By Jazz News on May 23, 2013

With music institutions – especially those in less commercial genres – struggling musicians and fans have had to get social and entrepreneurial, increasingly relying on grassroots funding and informal venues.

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Urgency and Range, but Always in Control

By By NATE CHINEN on May 23, 2013

Songs from the saxophonist Noah Preminger’s new album, “Haymaker,” highlighted his show in Manhattan.

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Improv to Tune of a Teacher

By By BEN RATLIFF on May 23, 2013

Wayne Horvitz’s improvisations with the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble on Tuesday night seemed a nod to his good friend Butch Morris’s methods.

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‘Hotstix’, Blanchard on Joy of Jazz bill

By Jazz News on May 22, 2013

Sibongile Mngoma performs at the announcement of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz line-up in Sandton yesterday.

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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Sun Ra

By Jazz News on May 22, 2013

Eclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for nearly three generations.

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Data Breaker: Teebs, Thundercat, Michael Mayer, DJ Chloe, Magic Mountain High

By Jazz News on May 22, 2013

About 19 million words have been written about post-astral-jazz-hop producer Flying Lotus , including some by The Stranger ’s Charles Mudede, in this issue’s Stranger Suggests.

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Leoness Cellars to stage Summer Concert Series in style

By Jazz News on May 22, 2013

There is just something about taking a concert under the stars or by candlelight that has many jazz fans already lining up for the Friends & Wine Summer Concert Series at Leoness Cellars.

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Burt Bacharach looks back – but keeps going

By Jazz News on May 22, 2013

Burt Bacharach turned 85 this month but did almost nothing to lighten his still hectic schedule.

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Jaga Jazzist

By Jazz News on May 22, 2013

Norway ’s award-winning jazz group, Jaga Jazzist is out with an exciting new album: “Jaga Jazzist Live with Britten Sinfonia”; this is Jaga Jazzist’s sixth album release to date and is the first to feature them performing with an orchestra.

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