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12 hrs ago | Seattle Gay News

A taste of tradicion - Spanish Harlem Orchestra keeps the salsa simmering

For all of its appeal and success with contemporary audiences, SHO's success is actually rooted in the past.

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Related Topix: Big-Band, Salsa, Ray Barretto

16 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Novel T's summer jazz festival in Pine Bluff

Any jazz lover happening to drive through the Little Rock area between the 1st and the 8th of June will be a lucky person.

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Related Topix: Pine Bluff, AR, Big-Band, Theater, Arts

Thu May 23, 2013

Ruidoso News

Fly me to the moon: Dave Alexander's Sinatra Tribute kicks off the summer with tremendous Night Club

Dave Alexander and his 16-piece jazz band consisting of four saxophones, four trumpets, three trombones, piano, bass, drums and a guitar will perform at the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts May 25.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Big-Band, Asleep at the Wheel, Country, Celebrities, Frank Sinatra, Jazz, Texas

Patch.com

Memorial Day Concerts, Parades, Wreath-Laying Ceremonies, Rolling Thunder

Memorial Day 2013-the unofficial kick-off for summer-is Monday, May 27, but concerts, fireworks and other events last all of Memorial Day weekend throughout DC and Northern Virginia.

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Related Topix: Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, The National, Entertainment, Big-Band, Television, Arlington, VA

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

City school's alumni group slates hall of fame induction

Graduates of Reading Southern Junior High/Middle School are invited to the Southern Alumni Association's reunion May 31.

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Related Topix: Wyomissing, PA, Big-Band, Robesonia, PA, Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, Speakers

Wed May 22, 2013

All About Jazz

Bill Holman

Bill Holman is a man with many milestones. Known primarily for years of unique and complex arrangements, Holman's continuing and long-running career as a composer and saxophonist reaches another milestone this month when he will be awarded the title of NEA Jazz Master.

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Charlie Barnet, Jazz, Stan Kenton, Inventions, Science / Technology, Big-Band

Ventura County Star

Musician shares talents with seniors in Ojai

Dean Adams, director of the Ventura Jazz Orchestra, plays a song as part of the Friday night jazz hour for residents of Los Robles Care Center in Ojai.

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Related Topix: Ojai, CA, Big-Band

Detroit Free Press

DSO concertmaster and principal French hornist step into spotlight

It was almost exactly a year ago that the Detroit Symphony Orchestra hired violinist Yoonshin Song as its concertmaster.

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Related Topix: Big-Band, Symphony, Arts, Detroit, MI, Oak Park, MI

Tue May 21, 2013

BroadwayWorld.com

Tickets Go on Sale 5/22 for Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing

Tickets go on sale for Lincoln Center 's Midsummer Night Swing starting Wednesday, May 22.

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Related Topix: Wynton Marsalis, Jazz, Big-Band, Symphony

Mon May 20, 2013

Sunday Herald

Jools Holland Perth Concert Hall

Rather like the swirling cameras employed by directors of BBC Two's Later, Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra is increasingly revolving around the diminutive figure in black rather than featuring him as a main player.

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Related Topix: Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Jazz, Big-Band

Sun May 19, 2013

SF Sentinel

San Francisco Symphony Announces Summer & The Symphony Concert Lineup - Updated

Two Concerts Of Video Games Live! , Battleship Potemkin Film, And Classical Concerts Are Highlights Of Summer and The Symphony With San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performs free concerts at Stern Grove Festival and in Dolores Park and presents annual Fourth of July concert with fireworks at Shoreline Amphitheatre; Orchestra to perform at America's ... (more)

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Related Topix: Empty Clip Studios, Symphony, Arts, Video Games, Big-Band, Classical, San Francisco Symphony, Battleship, Activision, Magic Pockets, San Francisco, CA

Sat May 18, 2013

BroadwayWorld.com

Concord's Capitol Center Jazz Orchestra Pays Tribute to Count Basie Today

As part of the "A Moment in Time" Series, The Capitol Center Orchestra, under the direction of Clayton J. Poole, will pay tribute to Count Basie today, May 19th at 4:00pm. The tribute features drummer and Basie alumnus Butch Miles.

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Related Topix: Big-Band, Jazz, Count Basie, Events, The Count Basie Orchestra, Celebrities, Frank Sinatra

Thu May 16, 2013

UnionLeader.com

Count Basie tribute at Capitol Center

PAYING TRIBUTE: The late Count Basie, a jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer, led his big-band orchestra for nearly 50 years.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Count Basie, Big-Band

Tue May 14, 2013

The Jersey Journal

'Jazz Under The Stars' tickets are currently on sale

An outdoor concert event, "Jazz Under the Stars," will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 14, in the courtyard at Manville High School.

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Related Topix: Big-Band

Mon May 13, 2013

KGUN

'The poster child for blight': Tucson icon crumbles

Broken. Boarded up. A blight! Hundreds of thousands drive by it every week, so why hasn't the city done anything about the eyesore that is the Spanish Trail Motel? It's an historic site marked with decades of memories followed by years of neglect.

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Related Topix: Big-Band, South Tucson, AZ

Sunday Herald

Review: Tectonics, City Halls, Glasgow

By any measure, what happened at Glasgow's City Halls over the weekend was an astonishing event, with a sizeable thirsty audience lapping up experimental music that ranged from a residency by a remarkable octogenarian American to improvisation by some of our own top names in modern rock and embraced a clutch of premieres of fine new music for the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Big-Band

Sun May 12, 2013

Post and Courier

Redux to host jazz talk on a Porgy and Bessa

In anticipation of the upcoming big band concert featuring a new arrangement of “Porgy and Bess,” Jazz Artists of Charleston is presenting its third JAC Talk on Thursday at Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St.

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Related Topix: Theater, Porgy and Bess, Charleston, SC, Big-Band

Fri May 10, 2013

Inside Bay Area

Pacific Mambo Orchestra, a rising Bay Area big band

Think of the Pacific Mambo Orchestra as party insurance. Booking this 19-piece Latin band offers a guarantee that an event will attain the heat necessary for a dance floor conflagration.

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Related Topix: Big-Band, The Big Band, Jazz, San Jose, CA

Bellingham Herald

Yaniv Attar chosen as new director of Whatcom Symphony Orchestra

When I attended the Mayor's Arts Awards ceremony a few weeks ago, a member of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra told me that the new director for the symphony had just been chosen, and this particular musician was thrilled.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Big-Band, Alabama

Thu May 09, 2013

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Reggae, Jamestown Day and Glenn Miller Orchestra | Fun Things to Do

It's May and entertainment options are sprouting like the crabgrass in your lawn.

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Related Topix: The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Jazz, Big-Band, Entertainment