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  • On Memorial Weekend, May 28th and May 29th James Scott of Jam Network Tv Promotions is having a 2-day VIP event, ‘A Night on the Waterfront’. Jam Network Tv Promotions is presenting a jazz explosion at the Waterfront Center on 1100 McCarter Highway in Newark NJ. After a year of COVID lockdown, RT Williams Productions, The Full Time Dramä Queen Studios, Gregory Burrus Productions and Life Luxe Jazz, and will sponsor a night to remember with music, food, and dancing. The exclusive line up includes, 3 PM George Gee Swing Orchestra, a 15 piece band known all over the world, along with 7 PM Nat Adderley Jr, one of the most talented pianists alive as well as featuring former WNBA superstar and singer Kym Hampton. There is a VIP Platinum Package available that will also include comedy from 6 of the funniest HBO and Comedy Central’s top acts. Dinner includes twin lobsters tails and a bottle of top shelf Champagne. After dinner you can dance the night away with the top two Dj’s in the tri-state area DJ Hakim Bell and Chuck Chillout from WBLS. Come on out and enjoy yourself! We'll treat you right! For tickets please visit Eventbrite.com ‘A Night on the Waterfront’ A Night of Jazz and Entertainment. https://bit.ly/3vX30k9 For more information please call 646-300-2428 or email
  • 6th Annual Solo Jazz Piano Festival Friday 4/22/22 8- 10 pm & Saturday 4/23/22 10 am- 10 pm FOR ALL MUSIC LOVERS, not just pianists, interested in both the practical and spiritual aspects of jazz and improvised music. Together we will hear six brilliant pianists perform & discuss their relationship to music, to the jazz lineage, to structure and to freedom. Featuring Sullivan Fortner, Benny Green, Arcoiris Sanoval, Xavier Davis, Roela Oloro & Andrew Wilcox. The piano is both a work of art & a tool for personal expression, an instrument that gives access to simultaneous harmonic, melodic and rhythmical vocabularies. The VJC invites you to participate in a festival that showcases the myriad ways people who have invested their lives in the piano relate with the instrument and with the sounds that spring forth – with reverence, discipline and joy. Artist biographies & full schedule of concerts,masterclasses,panels,& interviews: https://vtjazz.org/2022-spf-bios/ https://vtjazz.org/calendar/spf-2022/ This year each concert has an in-person audience & a livestream component. You may purchase in-person tickets above &/or donate to the livestream below. Please give generously and support live music. Tickets are valued at $80 for the weekend, $20 per concert, and $40 for Saturday’s daytime educational offerings. Your contribution goes directly to sustaining the Vermont Jazz Center’s mission of providing access to top quality jazz music to all, & fair employment to jazz musicians. https://vtjazz.org/2021-safety-protocols-for-in-person-activities/ Vermont Jazz Center 72 Cotton Mill Hill #222 Brattleboro VT 05301 (802)254 9088 gingervjc@gmail.com www.vtjazz.org
  • It’s Summer, that special time when New York City opens its vast array of parks and outdoor spaces to the sound of music. Jazzmobile returns with its 58th annual Summerfest series, which takes over a myriad of stages throughout the city’s five boroughs with a dancing and diverse assemblage of nearly 30 jazz stars and emerging talents from July 6 to August 31. The much-anticipated return of Jazzmobile presents audiences with another year of Free top-notch musical performances that parallel New York City’s dynamic diversity – from straight-ahead, Latin, post-bop, blues, swing and beyond. To see the full schedule, please visit www.jazzmobile.com.
  • Hope From Home: A United Night to Save Sight Sunday, March 6, 2022 7 pm ET | 6 pm CT | 5 pm MT | 4 pm PT Join the Foundation Fighting Blindness at Home from Home: A United Night to Save Sight on Sunday, March 6th with celebrity emcee and entertainer Wayne Brady! Experience a virtual party packed with comedy, inspiration, and special musical performances, all while supporting the Foundation Fighting Blindness’ mission from the comfort of your own home. This event features world class entertainment, a silent and live auction, and the opportunity to interact and move between different party rooms with activities including tastings, music, games, sports, and a kid’s room. It’s an evening you won’t want to miss! Since its founding in 1971, the Foundation has been committed to finding treatments and cures for blinding retinal diseases. The Foundation currently funds 84 research projects at the field’s most prominent laboratories and research clinics. There are currently more than 40 clinical trials underway. The proceeds raised from Hope from Home will help the Foundation invest in research projects conducted by the world’s top researchers who have achieved remarkable success that will forever change the lives of people affected by blinding retinal diseases. https://give.FightingBlindness.org/HopeFromHome For more information, please contact 800-683-5555 or events@FightingBlindness.org.
  • It’s Summer, that special time when New York City opens its vast array of parks and outdoor spaces to the sound of music. Jazzmobile returns with its 58th annual Summerfest series, which takes over a myriad of stages throughout the city’s five boroughs with a dancing and diverse assemblage of nearly 30 jazz stars and emerging talents from July 6 to August 31. The much-anticipated return of Jazzmobile presents audiences with another year of Free top-notch musical performances that parallel New York City’s dynamic diversity – from straight-ahead, Latin, post-bop, blues, swing and beyond. To see the full schedule, please visit www.jazzmobile.com.
  • It’s Summer, that special time when New York City opens its vast array of parks and outdoor spaces to the sound of music. Jazzmobile returns with its 58th annual Summerfest series, which takes over a myriad of stages throughout the city’s five boroughs with a dancing and diverse assemblage of nearly 30 jazz stars and emerging talents from July 6 to August 31. The much-anticipated return of Jazzmobile presents audiences with another year of Free top-notch musical performances that parallel New York City’s dynamic diversity – from straight-ahead, Latin, post-bop, blues, swing and beyond. To see the full schedule, please visit www.jazzmobile.com.
  • It’s Summer, that special time when New York City opens its vast array of parks and outdoor spaces to the sound of music. Jazzmobile returns with its 58th annual Summerfest series, which takes over a myriad of stages throughout the city’s five boroughs with a dancing and diverse assemblage of nearly 30 jazz stars and emerging talents from July 6 to August 31. The much-anticipated return of Jazzmobile presents audiences with another year of Free top-notch musical performances that parallel New York City’s dynamic diversity – from straight-ahead, Latin, post-bop, blues, swing and beyond. To see the full schedule, please visit www.jazzmobile.com.
  • Dave Wilson: Tenor and Soprano Saxophone Kirk Reese: Piano Blake Meister: Acoustic Bass Frank Russo: Drums Dave Wilson is a leading jazz saxophonist, recording artist, bandleader, composer, and educator in the Central PA/ Delaware Valley area, with a highly active venue and festival schedule as both a leader of his own contemporary jazz groups and as a sideman. The Dave Wilson Quartet is a Contemporary Jazz group whose aim is to further and bring to fruition the music and vision of Dave Wilson, the artist. Defying categorization, the music is "what sounds good, is what is true to our artistic vision, and can communicate with the audience on a deep level...it's jazz". Wilson has worked with pianists Mark Soskin, Jim Ridl, Phil Markowitz, Bobby Avey, Kirk Reese; bassists Tony Marino, Blake Meister, drummers Adam Nussbaum, Bill Goodwin, Frank Russo. He has also shared the stage with the likes of Tim Warfield, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Lou Soloff (BS & T), the late Steve Marcus, Conrad Herwig, Gary Smulyan, Steve Smith (from Journey), among others. The Dave Wilson Quartet’s fourth release There Was Never (ZOHO), featured an all-star lineup of Bobby Avey-Piano, Tony Marino-Bass, Alex Ritz-Drums (members of the Dave Liebman Group), for 6 weeks in 2016 was in the top 50 of the nation-wide Jazz Weekly Jazz Radio Countdown, reaching a high of #18 in the nation, received 3 stars in the February 2016 issue of Downbeat Magazine, and was placed in nomination for a Grammy. One Night at Chris’ (Dave Wilson Music) is the fifth release of The Dave Wilson Quartet, recorded live at the famous Chris’ Jazz Cafe ‘in Philadelphia and released in the summer of 2019. Featuring Dave on Tenor and Soprano Saxophones and his working band of Kirk Reese – Piano (East Coast Legend); Tony Marino - Acoustic Bass; Dan Monaghan – Drums (Legendary Philadelphia drummer). From writer Bill Milkowski. “The crackling intensity of One Night at Chris’ is a testament to what can happen on the bandstand on any given night. And this was a particularly good night indeed.” Achieving “Chartbound” status (top 50 nationwide), on jazz radio, and garnering positive reviews, One Night at Chris is perhaps Dave’s greatest work, yet! The album made the WRTI-FM, Philadelphia Jazz Radio Station “Jazz Album of the Week”, the week of August 26th, 2019. We have a new live recording coming out this spring, featuring, among other selections, several contemporary renditions of John Coltrane recordings, titled Stretching Supreme. Showtime is 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT/11 pm GMT Streaming cost is $10 Donations are welcomed. The link will be revealed to you 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through June 1
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