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SWING46–Another Legendary Staple of Times Square Nightlife, is Raising GoFundMe Pandemic Money Through a 12-Hour March 14 YouTube Telethon
NEW YORK-- A live-streamed fund-raising concert set for Sunday, March 14, will be raising urgently needed money for Times Square and New York big band venue SWING46 in hopes of helping [...]
Ralph Peterson Jr., Drummer Who Re-Enlivened Hard Bop, Dead At 58
Ralph Peterson Jr., performing in 2012 at Symphony Space in New York. Dave Kaufman Ralph Peterson Jr., a drummer, bandleader, composer and educator whose lunging propulsion and volatile combustion [...]
Tulane University jazz archive gets new name and expanded mission
Golden Eagles Black Masking Indians, 1980. Photographer: Michael Smith. Allison Miner Collection, Tulane University Special Collections. Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) is pleased to announce an expanded mission and [...]
Downtown venue offers free weekly jazz, blues concerts in Colorado Springs
Jazz fans, this is your year. And you have Evan Hooton, owner of The Gold Room, to thank. Last April, he started doing somewhat regular jazz shows at his [...]
Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival goes virtual
The 54th annual Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, hosted by the University of Idaho’s eponymous school of music, will be delivered virtually this year, but organizers are still finding a [...]
National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment will Host a Facebook Conversation with Memphis Legend Joyce Cobb
The public is invited to join the conversation Feb 28th at 6 p.m. as the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment hosts Memphis legend Joyce [...]
Sony Music Entertainment Appoints Andrew Davis Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources Officer
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 2020 – Sony Music Entertainment (SME) today announced the appointment of Andrew Davis to the role of Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources [...]
RCA Records Unveils New Leadership Structure
Mark Pitts Appointed President, John Fleckenstein Elevated to Chief Operating Officer NEW YORK, JANUARY 14, 2021 – RCA Records today announced a new leadership structure for a new era [...]
Legendary Music Label Philadelphia International Records Celebrates 50th Anniversary In 2021
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Chappell Music, the global publishing arm of Warner Music Group, are thrilled to announce today the launch of the [...]
Pianist Christian Sands Receives Second NAACP Image Awards Nomination
Pianist Christian Sands Receives NAACP Image Awards Nomination for Be Water in Outstanding Jazz Album Category Nomination Follows Sands’ First GRAMMY® Award Nomination as a Leader for Best Instrumental Composition [...]
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Pianist Helen Sung: From Classical Outsider to Jazz Insider
Helen Sung Ayano Hisa/Jazz at Lincoln Center Ayano Hisa/Jazz at Lincoln [...]
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Lord Coe reveals how jazz obsession inspired Olympics track triumphs in Radio 2 show
Olympic athletics champion Sebastian Coe will reveal how a jazz obsession [...]
Apollo Chamber Players and Harris County Public Library Celebrate HCPL’s Centennial Year and Black History Month With Newly Commissioned Art & Music
HOUSTON, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Apollo Chamber Players partners with [...]
Remembering The Wise Words of Miss Nina Simone – Nina Simone Quotes Singer
Eunice Waymon, known to most as Nina Simone, was an exceptional [...]
Paul Towndrow – ‘Deepening The River’
Paul Towndrow – Deepening The River (Paul Towndrow’s Bandcamp. CD review by [...]
OPINION: Why Local Jazz Must Survive
Story and photos by Glenn Nelson If drummer D’Vonne Lewis isn’t [...]
West Michigan’s newest jazz & wine bar finds live music niche
GRAND RAPIDS — If there’s pent-up demand for live music — [...]
Jazz, dance and the music of Radiohead come together in ‘screendance’
Rhythmically Speaking dance company will bring a “screendance” to Zoom on [...]
‘Music Speaks’ through Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month, UW-Eau Claire’s jazz studies promoted a [...]
An introduction to the music of late legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea
Armando Anthony 'Chick' Corea, the 23 time Grammy Award-winning jazz composer/pianist [...]