ISRAEL: LIVE FROM TEL AVIV GUY MINTUS TRIO & SPECIAL GUESTS PRESENT "GERSHWIN GLOBAL"

LIVE FROM TEL AVIV GUY MINTUS TRIO & SPECIAL GUESTS PRESENT "GERSHWIN GLOBAL" Proceeds to Benefit The Jazz Foundation of America's COVID-19 MUSICIANS' EMERGENCY FUND

Pianist-vocalist-composer-educator Guy Mintus’ Trio will perform a special concert, “Live From Tel Aviv: Guy Mintus Presents Gershwin Global” this Sunday, July 19, to benefit the Jazz Foundation of America’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund.  The free concert will stream internationally on Guy's Facebook page 2:30 p.m. ET in the U.S. And 9:30 p.m. Israel Standard Time (and 8:30 p.m. Central Europe Standard Time).

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The all-Gershwin event, which is supported by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York, will feature Mintus and his working unit of bassist Omri Hadani and drummer Yonatan Rosen. Their special guests will include Ravid Kahlani (vocals), Yonatan Voltzok (trombone), Ilan Salem (flute), Alexander Levin (saxophone), Ariel Bart (harmonica), Nitzan Birnbaum (percussion), and Hillel Salem (trumpet). Not yet 30, Mintus splits his time between Tel Aviv and New York City. His unique, freewheeling style borrows from both jazz and classical traditions, interweaving influences ranging from Harlem stride and the Great American Songbook to flamenco and Jewish folk melodies. Guy Mintus states, “Israeli jazz musicians are very much indebted to the founders of the Black American art form called Jazz. Personally, when I came to study and live in New York seven years ago, the jazz community embraced and nurtured me. I know many of my compatriots have experienced the same thing and in these troubled times, it feels necessary to express our solidarity from afar. I'm honored to support the Jazz Foundation of America, which has given back to the source of this music for over 30 years, and it feels fitting to feature the music of the American Jewish composer, so heavily associated with New York, and who wrote the first jazz/blues opera for which it is mandatory that it's performed by Black artists.”

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USA: Esperanza Spalding & Fred Hersch Release EP to Benefit Jazz Foundation's Covid 19 Musicians' Emergency Fund

ESPERANZA SPALDING & FRED HERSCH LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD EP Proceeds To Benefit THE JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA's COVID 19 MUSICIANS' EMERGENCY FUND The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating effect on the jazz community, leaving countless musicians to face an uncertain future. Four-time Grammy Award-winning visionary vocalist, bassist and songwriter Esperanza Spalding and fifteen-time Grammy nominee, iconic pianist/ composer Fred Hersch have committed to do their part to help fellow musicians in need with the limited release of Esperanza Spalding & Fred Hersch: Live at the Village Vanguard - Rough Mix EP, a five-song EP captured during the duo’s 2018 run at the iconic New York City nightclub. The EP is a live rough mix with no edits. The EP will be offered exclusively for download through Bandcamp, with all proceeds benefitting the Jazz Foundation of America's Covid 19 Musicians' Emergency Fund. Released today the scintillating performance will be available only through the month of June for a minimum of $17, with additional donations encouraged on a pay-what-you-wish basis.  LISTEN // BUY NOW Live at the Village Vanguard provides a rare opportunity for listeners to enjoy this singular and thrilling collaboration. Spalding and Hersch have convened for only a handful of NYC performances since their first meeting in 2013. In that limited time the pair has developed a wholly unique approach, not only in the annals of piano-voice duets but in their own already distinctive practices. “This recording feels like you’ve got the best seat in the house for a very live experience,” Hersch says. “I think there’s a lot of joy and beauty in this music that Fred and I made,” adds Spalding. “Beyond collecting money for musicians in need, sharing the beauty in our hearts can have a healing effect as well.” LISTEN // BUY NOW The five pieces included on Live at the Village Vanguard span a vast spectrum of repertoire, from original compositions to a Brazilian classic to familiar standards. A determined original in her own music, Spalding rarely sings standards, and her approach here is unique to her partnership with Hersch. Her improvisation on the Gershwins’ “But Not For Me” becomes a witty, poetic extemporization on the lyric itself. Neal Hefti and Bobby Troup’s chauvinistic ditty “Girl Talk” comes under barbed scrutiny from not only a feminist but also an eco-conscious perspective. Hersch’s “Dream of Monk” has been a staple of the duo’s sets since the beginning. “Some Other Time” is a Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne song, less well known than the Leonard Bernstein classic. The set closes with Egberto Gismonti’s “Loro,” launched by Spalding’s unconventional scatting, which she eventually uses to engage in a nimble dance with Hersch’s jaunty piano. “Playing with Fred feels like we’re in a sandbox,” Spalding says. “He takes his devotion to the music as serious as life and death, but once we start playing, it’s just fun.” “I don’t think anybody’s heard Esperanza sing like this,” Hersch says, returning the compliments. “She’s fearless, and is one of the smartest people I know.” About The Jazz Foundation For 31 years, the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) has been keeping jazz, blues, roots, and R&B alive by helping the musicians who have played the soundtrack to our lives. With compassion and discretion, JFA makes it possible to pay someone's rent and keep them from eviction or homelessness when illness, accident, or old age prevents them from working. Our social work services and Musicians' Emergency Fund provide housing assistance, pro bono medical care, disaster relief, and financial support to musicians and their families in times of crisis. In the past year, the JFA provide assistance in more than 9,000 cases. Through our Jazz and Blues in the Schools and Gig Fund performance programs, we create purpose and dignified employment for hundreds of musicians every month and bring free concerts to thousands of underserved audience members at public schools, hospitals, nursing homes, museums, parks, libraries and community centers across the country. Whatever the need is, we don't just fix the problem, we heal it with love.  ‌  ‌  ‌

USA: Parkinson’s Global Project - “Dream” (Blue Canoe Records 2020)

"Dream" is a CD album with 90% of album proceeds going to fund much needed Parkinson's education and research. Led by Karl Sterling (creator of the Parkinson's Global Project & Regeneration Training) this album will be used to influence and draw awareness to Parkinson's disease at large. It is produced by Jimmy Haslip, Scott Kinsey, Jeff Richman and features many notable musicians.


“Dream”

A personal message from Karl Sterling

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AFTER THREE DECADES of working as a musician (drummer) as my primary job, I decided to enter the health and wellness industry in an effort to help people live an improved quality of life. This has led to an extremely rewarding career that I could never have imagined. For the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and educate people living with Parkinson’s disease all over the world. While there are many good programs to help people with Parkinson’s, much more research needs to be conducted.

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The Parkinson’s Global Project ® is a non-profit corporation dedicated to funding education and research and helping to change lives for those living with Parkinson’s. Your purchase of this music helps us to help people around the world. In fact, 90% of your purchase goes to funding much needed education and research.

The musicians on this project are dear friends and amazingly talented. I am beyond grateful for their friendship and support. The songs on this project were chosen with great care and with the intention of sending a message of positivity and hope.

 

UK: Give a Gig Week

Give a Gig Week
One week. One hundred gigs. Give a Gig Week 2018 is nearly here.
Take part, or get down to a gig near you.

With a lineup including Craig David, Newton Faulkner, Pixie Lott, The Wombats, FEMME, over a hundred choirs, young people from Youth Music projects nationwide, and every genre from jazz to grime to heavy metal – Give a Gig Week will celebrate music in all its beauty and diversity.
And the best part: the money we raise together from Give a Gig Week will help Youth Music invest in life-changing music-making projects for tens of thousands of children and young people in challenging circumstances around the country.

Brass Funkey's @ Ronnie Scotts - 18 March

Jocee @ Ronnie Scott's - 25 March,

Ollie Howell @ 606 Club - 19 March,

National Youth Jazz Orchestra @ 229 The Venue - 21 March,

https://www.youthmusic.org.uk/giveagig

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ITALY/MEXICO: Marco Lo Russo Humanitarian Project to help kids in Puerto Vallarta Mexic

➡ Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/lorussofisa Proyecto benéfico para los niños de Los Fridos en Puerto Vallarta Mexico Marco Lo Russo Music Center y La Boquita. https://www.losfridos.org Made in Italy tour concert Mexico 2018. Gennaio 2018 Teatro Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico More info for beneficenza charity and fundraising: ➡ ITA https://www.marcolorusso.com/music-ce... ➡ ENG https://www.marcolorusso.com/en/music... ➡ web site https://www.marcolorusso.com ➡ SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/marco-lo-russo ➡ Twitter https://twitter.com/LoRussoFisa ➡ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LoRussoMarco ➡ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/marco_lo_ru... Marco Lo Russo Music ➡ ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/it/artist/ma... ➡ Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/a... ➡ Rouge Sound Production http://www.rougesoundproduction.com ➡ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RougeSoundPr... Ass. Marco Lo Russo Music Center ➡ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lorusso.musi... ➡ News Music Center https://www.marcolorusso.com/en/music... Official Marco Lo Russo fans club USA - UK ➡ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/marcolorusso...

USA/PUERTO RICO: Free video from the historic "Salsa Meets Jazz" Benefit for Puerto Rico

Free video from the historic "Salsa Meets Jazz" Benefit for Puerto Rico

An assembly of Jazz and Salsa greats got together to revive the great and much-missed tradition of the Monday night "Salsa Meets Jazz" series that ran for decades at the old Village Gate in New York's Greenwich Village. Paquito D'Rivera...Randy Brecker...Candido...salsa greats Larry Harlow, Gerardo Contino and Eddie Montalvo...David Amram...Antoinette Montague...Valerie Capers…the poets Felipe Luciano and Mariposa...and Bobby Sanabria and his multi-Grammy nominated 19 piece Multiverse Big Band were just some of the all-stat contributors.             You missed it - tickets for the benefit sold out fast at $100 a piece - but seven clips from the show are available for free viewing here: Videos:https://www.jazzonthetube.com/salsa-meets-jazz-for-puerto-rico/ Ken McCarthy  Jazz on the Tube

ITALY/MEXICO: Made in Italy tour concert Mexico 2018 by Marco Lo Russo

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Made in Italy tour concert Mexico 2018 by Marco Lo Russo

The concerts tour, with the project Made in Italy by Marco Lo Russo Rouge, arrives in Mexico from December 28, 2017 to January 25, 2018 with the aim of promoting the artistic and musical Italian-overseas and achieve a charity project. The Made in Italy concert tour, which officially debuted in 2015 during the Italian Culture Week in Havana, Cuba, curated by the Italian Embassy in Cuba, has enjoyed a lot of success over the years, so much so that it has always been sold out in the various countries that touched: USA, Canada, Africa and severalEuropean countries. Now Mexico, not new at the performances of contemporary Italian accordionist and composer Marco Lo Russo, who has already performed there like accordionist, in recital, for the prestigiousInternational Festival Ibérica Contemporánea 2013: https://youtu.be/85POVF268u8

The Made in Italy Tour Concert Mexico 2018 by Marco Lo Russo, includes several concerts: from the Puerto Vallarta Theater, to the Italian Institute of Culture of Mexico City, from Querétaro to Guadalajara. In addition to the concerts there are the Masterclasses held by Marco Lo Russo and the pianist, keyboardist and arranger Giulio Vinci who, with the Mexican duo La Boquita, composes the band of Marco Lo Russo for the Made in Italy Tour Concert Mexico 2018. The repertoire of the concerts will range from pop to classical Italian music, all rearranged in electroacoustic with a mix of world music, jazz and soft EDM that characterizes the original sound of Italian accordionist, composer and producer Marco Lo Russo. Unfailing is the execution of the Ave Maria dedicated to Pope Francis, recently composed by Marco Lo Russo and presented as a world premiere on August 15, 2017 at the Night Krakow Sacred in Poland.

Marco Lo Russo is also linked to Mexico for a solidarity project for the OEPV, Esquela de Puerto Vallarta. InDecember 2017, the charity fundraising will be closed, promoted by the Marco Lo Russo Music Center association, in favor of the OEPV, which supports children and young people, with musical training programs, in difficult family situations of life. Marco Lo Russo, after a free training experience for youngsters in 2013, was impressed by this needy reality and for this reason, the Made in Italy project is also the soundtrack of the charity project in favor of Esquela de Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. For those wishing to join find all the information at this link: https://www.marcolorusso.com/en/event/fundraising-donation-to-mexico

The label Rouge Sound Production, a music production workshop directed by Marco Lo Russo and coordinated by Giulio Vinci, is preparing for the release of some EPs with the re-interpretation, in an electro-acoustic key, of Italian music like Caruso by Lucio Dalla sung in Italian and Spanish. This is the video trailerhttps://youtu.be/AX7DvwLtEZov

Felices fiestas navideñas!

More info photo, doc and video: https://www.marcolorusso.com/en/made-in-italy-tour-concert-mexico-2018

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USA; PLEASE HELP SAVE OUR BLUES, ROOTS & JAZZ MUSICIANS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

PLEASE HELP SAVE OUR BLUES, ROOTS & JAZZ MUSICIANS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS   The Jazz Foundation brought over 1000 musicians & their families back after Katrina, by rehousing, donating top shelf instruments and creating paying gigs for hundreds.  They were there for hundreds affected by Superstorm Sandy, and rebuilt the homes of the musicians who lost everything in last year's devastating floods in Baton Rouge. They have started connecting with dozens of jazz, blues, and roots musicians in Harvey's wake, they will help them rebuild as they always do, repairing homes, replacing belongings and treasured instruments and even replacing work. Our success to save these musicians depends on you. Your donation will provide miracles like basic necessities, clothing, bedding, instrument replacement, home cleaning and decontamination, rent/mortgage payments, car repairs, home reconstruction and financial support. Texas brought us some the the greatest music that America has given to the world. Help the Jazz Foundation and rebuild the life of someone whose music was there for you during your times of need.  jazzfoundation.org/donate www.jazzfoundation.org Saving blues, jazz, American roots music... one musician at a time

USA: “A Tribute to Janet Lawson” Monday, May 15th 7-10pm Minnie Petrie Synagogue at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion NYC

“A Tribute to Janet Lawson”
Monday, May 15th
7-10pm
Minnie Petrie Synagogue
at Hebrew Union College
Jewish Institute of Religion
1 West Fourth Street
NYC 10012 www.huc.edu Donations Accepted
Photo I.D. will be required for admittance; bags may be searched. 
Click Below To Attend If you would like to help Janet with her medical expenses, please Click HERE

Friends, current and former students, and many of the incredible musicians she has collaborated with over the years will gather on Monday, May 15th 2017 from 7 to 10pm at the extraordinary Minnie Petrie Synagogue at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1 West 4th St. (near Broadway) in New York City, to offer a loving, healing tribute to Janet in celebration of her incredible impact on so many artists and students of jazz.

Engaged in a health crisis, Janet is leaving NYC to live with family in Baltimore.

 

Jazz greats who will perform that evening include singers Sheila Jordan, Bob Dorough, Janis Siegel,  Stephanie Nakasian w/Veronica Swift, Michelle Bradley, Carol Fredette, Roseanna Vitro, Suzanne Pittson, Eve Zanni w/Santi Debriano, Carolina Gonzalez-Mama, Arta Jekabsone, Valentina Marino, Jean Rohe, The New School Vocal Jazz Faculity and instrumentalists Billy Harper,  Bill O’Connell, Peter Bernstein, Mike Richmond, Jeff Brown, Jimmy Madison, Roger Rosenberg, Ratzo Harris, John DiMartino, Jeff Pittson, Art Fristoe, Tim Ruiz and Carman Moore.

Also expect many special guests and former students. 

Born in Baltimore to a family of professional musicians, Grammy®-nominated jazz vocalist Janet Lawson, who is profiled in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, All Music Guide To Jazz, Leslie Gourse's Louis’ Children, and Scott Yanow's The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide, made her singing debut at the age of three and in her teens performed with big bands. After moving to New York, she began her studies with distinguished composer/arranger Hall Overton and made her debut appearance at the Village Vanguard with the Art Farmer Quartet. Throughout her career she has appeared with, among other jazz greats, Duke Ellington, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Newman, Barney Kessel, Milt Hinton, Ron Carter, Barry Harris, Dave Liebman, David and Lida Baker, Rufus Reid, Clark Terry, Billy Higgins, Cedar Walton, and Bob Dorough.
Special Thanks to Toni Ballard, Carolina Gonzalez-Mama, JW Peine
and The Jazz Church of Houston 

Janet with former students Anita Mieze and Ruta Kanteruka below poster of Janet with Billy Hart for Latvia’s Saulkrasti Jazz Camp 

www.janetlawsonscats.com

USA: Jazz for Peace™ to perform landmark event at Washington DC's Lincoln Memorial for AMP! Program will feature The Rick DellaRatta Trio in performance and lecture.

Jazz for Peace™ to perform landmark event at Washington DC's Lincoln Memorial for AMP!
Program will feature The Rick DellaRatta Trio in performance and lecture.
 
www.AMPeace.org

WASHINGTON - March 31, 2017 - PRLog -- Jazz for Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta will perform in concert and lecture at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, April 30, 2017 in celebration of the 15th Anniversary of their historic concert at the United Nations and the unique way jazz brings people together; promoting peace through dialogue and respect; and to raise awareness for The American Museum of Peace (AMP). The Concert & Lecture will begin at 3pm and also include performances by the George Washington University Jazz Orchestra, a twentyone-piece ensemble. For additional information please contact: Jeanne Boardman at 610-636-9456  email: jboardman@AMPeace.org

The American Museum of Peace (AMP) honors the intention for peace that has been central to the vision of America from the beginning, and celebrates the high ideals of America's peacemakers, their commitment to life, to liberty of conscience, to freedom and justice; those peacemakers who lived and worked to fulfill and extend the best that has come before us and the promise of America's founding. The American Museum of Peace (AMP) is an educational non-profit museum in-the-making. Incorporated and based in Washington DC, AMP honors the values, vision and efforts of those who have sought to fulfill and extend universal principles of peace in their own lives and to subsequent generations. AMP is committed to offering exhibits and programs that celebrate those who have lived and worked for peace, encouraging visitors to explore the attitudes and attributes that contribute to peace that each might commit to doing what one can to live in ways that foster peace. http://www.ampeace.org

Jazz for Peace founder Rick DellaRatta is now considered by many to be one of the finest Singer/Pianists performing today and one of only a handful of Jazz Artists who can make a successful musical presentation to a large audience without having to abandon the true art form of Jazz. His recent Africa/ India tour won the Hark Award for outstanding Documentary Project and was included on The Foundation Center's list of top musician philanthropists with Bono, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, and Sting. Rick and his group JAZZ FOR PEACE™ have been quoted in numerous publications ranging from USA's LasVegas.com to Africa's The New Ghanian as "one of the most significant cultural events of our time!"

With over 850 Grants Awarded, Jazz for Peace™ is now the premier name in cultural philanthropy. FOR COMPLETE FUNDING DETAILS WATCH THIS AMAZING VIDEO: