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Musicians, Presenters, Venue Owners: Book Live Jazz During Jazz Week '11; We'll Promote It - Free of Charge!
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Members Connection I: Enter Drawing To Win Free Tickets to Chucho Valdes, Stan Strickland, Nancy Ostrovsky, Kat Edmonson, Ignacio Berroa
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Members Connection II: World Music/CRASHarts, Bella Luna Restaurant & Milky Way Lounge Are New JazzBoston Membership Partners
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| JazzBoston Tent in Center of Action at Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival |
Only a few places left for JazzBoston/Scullers VIP Trip to Panama Jazz Festival, Jan. 10-16; American Airlines Signs on as Partner
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| Jazz Back on Columbus Ave. at Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen |
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Write Us, Join Us, Please Pass This On...
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Musicians, Presenters, Venue Owners: Book Live Jazz During Jazz Week '11; We'll Promote It - Free of Charge!
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Jazz takes center stage throughout Greater Boston when Jazz Week returns for the fifth consecutive year next spring from April 29 to May 8. Once again JazzBoston will mount an extensive marketing campaign to put a spotlight on the great music the city's musicians, presenters, and venue owners bring to fans year-round. Using print, broadcast, and electronic media, we will promote - free of charge - every jazz-related event that's booked during this annual 10-day celebration. Press releases, brochures (50,000 of them), posters, print ads, radio and TV announcements and interviews, websites, social networks, and blogs will all be part of the effort.
With the public's attention focused on the music and the places it can be heard, this is the perfect time to consider presenting that very special project. Been thinking about teaming up with artists from other disciplines? Performing for audiences you don't normally reach, like families, seniors, or children? Or taking your project to a space you've always wanted to try? JazzBoston will do everything we can to collaborate with you and support you.
Participation in Jazz Week has grown every year as artists, presenters, and venues have extended its boundaries musically and geographically. Last year for the first time Jazz Week even had a spinoff, Jazz Week East, as East Boston produced its own celebration. That's a trend we'd love to see continue. We hope you'll start planning your Jazz Week '11 events now. Click here for more information about participating in Jazz Week '11.
JazzBoston thanks Scullers Jazz Club for its strong support of Jazz Week right from the beginning. Scullers has been a Lead Sponsor of Jazz Week every year since 2007 and just signed on for Jazz Week '11.
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Members Connection I: Enter Drawing To Win Free Tickets to Chucho Valdes, Stan Strickland, Nancy Ostrovsky, Kat Edmonson, Ignacio Berroa
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The Celebrity Series is offering JazzBoston members two pairs of free tickets to hear pianist Chucho Valdes (photo left) and the Afro-Cuban Messengers at Berklee Performance Center on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m.
The Jazz Club at the Multicultural Arts Center is offering JazzBoston members one pair of tickets to "Sound and Light: Stan Strickland & Nancy Ostrovsky," featuring the singer/reedman and artist/painter, on Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Scullers is offering three pairs of free tickets to each of these shows: Ferren-Butcher, Inc., Oct. 28, 8 p.m.; Kat Edmonson, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.; Ronnie Cuber, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.; Ignacio Berroa, Nov. 17, 8 p.m.
If you're a JazzBoston member, write to newsletter@jazzboston.org now to enter the drawing to win free tickets to any of the events listed above, and please note which shows and dates you're interested in. You must be a JazzBoston member to be eligible to win.
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Members Connection II: World Music/CRASHarts, Bella Luna Restaurant & Milky Way Lounge Are New JazzBoston Membership Partners
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JazzBoston welcomes its newest Membership Partners: World Music/CRASHarts, and Bella Luna Restaurant & Milky Way Lounge.
World Music/CRASHarts, which has presented the finest traditional and contemporary performing arts from around the world since 1990, is offering JazzBoston members a 20% discount for the following concerts: Djavan, Oct. 31, Berklee Performance Center; Pink Martini, Nov. 3, Orpheum Theatre; AfroCubism, Nov. 7, Berklee Performance Center.
Bella Luna Restaurant & Milky Way Lounge, the renowned Jamaica Plain entertainment hotspot now located at The Brewery Complex, 284 Amory St., is offering JazzBoston members a 10% discount on food during its Jazz Supper with Bill Banfield & Friends, 7 to 9 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month. The next Jazz Supper featuring guitarist Banfield takes place on Nov. 3.
JazzBoston members receive discounts at Scullers, the Regattabar, Ryles, The Regent Theatre, the Amazing Things Art Center, Chianti Tuscan Restaurant & Jazz Lounge, The Redline, the Jazz Club at the Multicultural Arts Center, the Vernissage Restaurant's "Jazz Thursdays at Vernissage," the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Thursday evening jazz series, "Jazz at the Gardner," and Boston Pops jazz concerts at Symphony Hall. For discounts at all these venues, just show your JazzBoston card at the door, or when calling for reservations, give your name and member number.
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston offers JazzBoston members a 25% discount on a wide range of seminars, workshops, and webinars geared to artists and arts organizations. To get information about a particular program or register online, email Sheri Mason, Director of Legal Services, and give her your membership number.
Click here to become a JazzBoston member now. Annual memberships begin as low as $20.
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| JazzBoston Tent in Center of Action at Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival |
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Under gorgeous skies that brought summer back for one final weekend, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival played host to thousands on Columbus Ave. on Saturday, Sept. 25, and plenty of them spent time at the busy JazzBoston tent. Staffed by volunteers and JazzBoston board members, the tent connected fans with the music in several ways.
At JazzBoston's "Meet Boston's Musicians" table, 17 artists took turns throughout the day talking about their music and signing CDs. Among the musicians were (photo left, seated at table, l to r) trumpeter and JazzBoston board member Jason Palmer, saxophonist Grace Kelly, and pianist Al Vega. WGBH jazz radio hosts Eric Jackson and Steve Schwartz sat in with the musicians for part of the afternoon, a surprise treat for passers-by who knew them only by their voices.
Other visitors stepped into the mini TV studio to answer the question, "What's your jazz?" The videos will become part of JazzBston's long-term campaign to spread the word that jazz is for everyone. Watch for them soon on the "What's Your Jazz?" page of the JazzBoston website and on JazzBoston's Facebook page and YouTube channel. Selected videos will also be used in public service announcements on cable and broadcast TV.
For a slideshow of the 2010 scene at JazzBoston's big tent, click here. You're sure to recognize some of the faces.
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Only a few places left for JazzBoston/Scullers VIP Trip to Panama Jazz Festival, Jan. 10-16; American Airlines Signs on as Partner
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There aren't many better ways to spend 6 days in January, from the 10th to the 16th, than at the Panama Jazz Festival, founded and directed by Danilo Perez - musician, educator, social activist, and JazzBoston artistic advisor and friend. And there is no better way to experience the festival than as part of the JazzBoston/Scullers VIP tour, now in its second year. JazzBoston's partnership with the Danilo Perez Foundation gives us access to concerts, clinics, and master classes day and night as well as an array of VIP events, including a reception with the U.S. Ambassador, a private tour of the Panama Canal, and a gala concert and reception at the historic Teatro Nacional. Click here for the lineup of PJF artists, including Claudia Acuna, Vitin Paz, Conrad Herwig, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and more.
JazzBoston has partnered with American Airlines to provide our group with a special 10% discount for the festival, valid for travel between Jan. 3 and 23. We will also receive a special discount for rooms on the Executive Floors of the Hotel el Panama, the official hotel of PJF '11.
The VIP group is limited to 20 people, and we are almost sold out. Write to panama@jazzboston.org now if you would like more information.
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| Jazz Back on Columbus Ave. at Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen |
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For years, club and restaurant owner Darryl Settles hosted live music, including plenty of jazz, at Bob's Southern Bistro at 604 Columbus Ave. That changed when new owners took over the space a few years back, but with the recent opening of Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen, the music is back.
Settles has live jazz scheduled for Thursday nights from 8 p.m. to midnight, and Fridays and Saturdays from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., with the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month featuring Urbane Project, an ensemble of faculty members from Berklee College of Music.
"We are excited to be part of Boston's jazz scene and its lively community," Settles told JazzBoston. "We strive to be a spot where musicians can come on a regular basis and feel wanted and admired."
Jazz lovers sampling the new spot's "regional American cuisine" won't have to look far to feel the jazz vibe: prominently displayed inside are a variety of pieces of jazz-related art, including photos of jazz greats by Lou Jones.
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It's bass giants time over the next few weeks as Berklee and Harvard present programs celebrating the instrument's place in jazz.
On Oct. 25 at Berklee's David Friend Recital Hall, Buster Williams leads a bass master class at 4 p.m. and a jazz rhythm section clinic at 7:30 p.m., followed on Oct. 26 by a bass master class at 4 p.m. and a rhythm section with horns clinic at 7:30 p.m.
Eddie Gomez is up next with a free concert with his quintet on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at David Friend Recital Hall. Go to the Berklee events calendar for more information.
Harvard pays tribute to the late bassist Milt Hinton (photo left, above) with a variety of events Nov. 4-6.
The free events for "Walking the Bass Line: A Tribute to Milt Hinton" include a screening of the documentary "Keeping the Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton" at the Brattle Theatre, Nov. 4, 7 p.m.; "A Conversation with Cecil McBee," moderated by Harvard Jazz Bands director Tom Everett, at the New College Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 10-12 Holyoke St., Nov. 5, 3 p.m.; and an opening reception for the exhibition "Witnessing Jazz: Photographs by Milt Hinton" at the Holyoke Center Arcade Exhibition Space, 1350 Mass. Ave. The exhibit continues through Dec. 8.
On Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. at Harvard's Lowell Hall, McBee will be the special guest in a concert tribute to Hinton featuring the Harvard Jazz Bands. Tickets: $10, students and seniors $8, available through the Harvard Box Office. For more information, call the Office for the Arts at Harvard at (617)495-8676 or visit www.hcs.harvard.edu/jazz
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