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Lost Jazz Shrines Bird - "Charlie Parker: Timeless Innovation"

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Tue, 05/14/2013 - 6:09am

The Lost Jazz Shrines series is dedicated to bringing legendary NYC jazz clubs back into the consciousness of the world with a thorough remembrance and celebration. In celebration of the resonant history of Birdland, we will examine the musical and stylistic legacy of Charlie Parker through three completely different lenses and cultural perspectives. This will be achieved through the efforts of three exceptional alto saxophonists.

Swingin' with the All Stars: Louis Armstrong & Baseball

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Fri, 05/10/2013 - 11:01am

Baseball was Louis Armstrong’s favorite sport and he followed it passionately. A longtime Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Louis switched to the New York Mets in the late 60s, even attending the deciding game 5 of the 1969 World Series.

National Jazz Museum in Harlem May 2013 Schedule

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Mon, 04/29/2013 - 2:31pm

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz’s most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. This May, NJMH will take a closer look into different mediums of storytelling with fresh new programming that approaches the theme from several angles ranging from conversations to performances to film to poetry slams!

Colin Stetson Streams Album on NPR, Releases New Track

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Thu, 04/25/2013 - 9:40am

The wait for the latest and final installment of Colin Stetson's New History Warfare series is over. You can go to NPR now and stream the album titled To See More Light in its entirety. NPR observes: "Not one for airy pauses, Stetson infuses his solo records with an unsettling rumble, while still making room for alternately grandiose and guttural moments that awe and unnerve."

Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Perform at Jazz Fest

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Wed, 04/24/2013 - 2:13pm

Preservation Hall Jazz Band was founded in 1961 to promote traditional New Orleans jazz in all its authenticity. Legendary players like Del McCoury Band, Steve Earle, Warren Haynes, The Edge, Charlie Musselwhite, Buddy Miller & Patty Griffin, Robert Plant, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Tao Seeger, all rooted in the formative jazz years, were its original stars.

Harlem Blues & Jazz Band 40th Anniversary Celebration on Friday

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Wed, 04/17/2013 - 10:21am

Harlem Blues & Jazz Band founder Al Vollmer was seized by the jazz bug at age sixteen while growing up in Sweden. He came to the US in 1947 and never left.  He went on to become an orthodontist and to follow his dream of meeting and getting to know some of the musicians he had only heard on recordings. He did just that and in 1973 the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band, was founded by King Oliver's trombonist/blues singer Clyde Bernhardt and Al Vollmer, dedicated to keeping the significant side-men of the Classic Jazz Period working and not forgotten.

Louis Armstrong House Museum Celebrates Int'l Jazz Day

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Tue, 04/16/2013 - 8:46am

Due to increased demand, the International Jazz Day event Louis Armstrong at Freedomland: Never Before Heard Recordings of an American Icon, a Listening Session & Lecture on April 30th has been relocated to the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center located at 10001 Northern Boulevard, Corona, NY 11368. The program presented by the Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Jazz Journalists Association was originally to be held at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona.

Kermit Ruffins Announces We Partyin' Traditional Style! Out May 28th

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Mon, 04/08/2013 - 10:58am

No one lives, breathes, and eats up New Orleans like Kermit Ruffins. The Bar-B-Q slinging trumpeter and vocalist is bringing us back to the early 20th century with the track “Treme Second Line” which premiered on Paste TODAY.

National Jazz Museum in Harlem April 2013 Schedule

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Sun, 04/07/2013 - 5:11pm

This April, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz’s most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. With International Jazz Day on April 30th our Jazz For Curious Listeners series this month focuses on international artists discussing and demonstrating jazz from around the world and culminates with an international jazz jam blowout with Jonathan Batiste on April 30th at MIST Harlem.

Louis Armstrong House Celebrates International Jazz Day with Satchmo's Never Before Heard Recordings

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Submitted by AnonymousFri, 03/29/2013 - 3:29pm

The Louis Armstrong House Museum and Jazz Journalists Association present Louis Armstrong at Freedomland: Never Before Heard Recordings of an American Icon, a listening session and lecture on April 30 celebrating International Jazz Day (sponsored by UNESCO), and the culmination of Jazz Appreciation Month (a major initiative of the Smithsonian Institution).