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"The only future is the one that nurtures the collective," raps Durham emcee Pierce Freelon at the end of the potent social tirade that comes midway through "Collective," the rollicking, horn-led funk that leads The Beast's strong debut, Silence Fiction .

Word is that Nnenna Freelon will be in a choice televised position Sunday night -- on the soundtrack to the show "Mad Men." The Durham jazz singer's recording of the standard "A Prelude to a Kiss" will reportedly play over the closing credits of this week's show.

Courtesy of Nnenna Freelon If you go When: Saturday, 8 p.m. Cost: $29.50/adults; $26/military/seniors/students Call: TicketsWest outlets As a longtime trombonist for the Spokane Jazz Orchestra, Tom Molter had the privilege of playing with world-renowned conductors, Grammy-caliber artists and the region's top talent.

Emergence [Emarcy] 1 2 Count Basie Orchestra 1 2 Would you believe that the drearily old-fashioned and frequently listless one in this brace of new and vehemently tradition-al big band jazz records isn't the Basie ghost band but rather Roy Hargrove's 19-piece orchestra? The general rule, of course, is that all discs by "ghost bands" - aggregates ...

When Tony Johnson strolled into the SeeSaw Studio on Geer Street on Monday morning, it was with the laconic gait of your typical 18-year-old. Asked what he'd been doing since graduating from Southern High School in June, he mumbled, "Living life." Dig a little deeper, though, and you discover that Johnson is an introspective, sensitive young man ...

SOUL JAZZ OF THE 60s Music of Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver Featuring: Kenny Washington, Wess Warmdaddy Anderson, Nnenna Freelon, Louis Hayes, Nicholas Payton, Terell Stafford & More! Who/What: Jazz at Lincoln Center offers the soulful and swingin sounds of an explosive era in music with Soul Jazz of the 60s.

Ask Your Mama! , Laura Karpman's multimedia concert production based on Langston Hughes' 1961 poem cycle about African-American life, music and culture, will be presented Aug.

The Roots will join the Emmy Award winning composer Laura Karpman , Jessye Norman and Nnenna Freelon for a performance inspired by Langston Hughes ' Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz at The Hollywood Bowl.

For years, composer Laura Karpman toiled in the background as a composer for films, TV and games, winning four Emmys along the way.

The unlikely trio of long-time David Bowie pianist, Mike Garson, classical vocalist Harolyn Blackwell and Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon will perform with a double quartet, a single jazz quartet and a string quartet in "Dreaming the Duke" at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 5. In a first-of-its-kind production, ...

For years, composer Laura Karpman toiled in the background as a composer for films, TV and games, winning four Emmys along the way.

Meet Erik Applegate: Erik Applegate has been called "a top-notch acoustic bass performer" , and he has appeared with the Bob Mintzer Big Band, Nnenna Freelon , Milt Jackson , Jeff Coffin , Eddie Daniels , Ingrid Jensen , George Garzone , Tom Harrell , Marlena Shaw , and others.

The Classic Center Theatre will release single show tickets for purchase for the 2009-10 Broadway Entertainment Series beginning 10 a.m. Friday at the Classic Center box office, 300 N. Thomas St.

The Classic Center Theatre will release single show tickets for purchase for the 2009-10 Broadway Entertainment Series beginning 10 a.m. Friday at the Classic Center box office, 300 N. Thomas St.

Grammy nominated vocalist, Nnenna Freelon, classical singer Harolyn Blackwell, and David Bowie pianist, Mike Garson team up for the first time in a jazz-meets-classical celebration of the music of Duke Ellington on Saturday, September 5, at 8 pm at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival.

Having started as part of a graduate thesis project for emcee Pierce Freelon, the guys in hip-hop/jazz collective The Beast decided that the music they created was just too good to let go.

Bearsville Theater in Woodstock kicks off its "Summer Jazz Concert Series" at 8 p.m. June 27 with the Julian Lage Group.

The exciting new work that made the sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall "thunder its approval" takes the stage at the Hollywood Bowl for its West Coast premiere on August 30 at 7:30 p.m. This remarkable collaboration between Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman and world-renowned soprano Jessye Norman takes audiences from Africa to the ...

Pianist/composer/writer Bill Anschell , now based in Seattle, attended Oberlin College and Wesleyan University, receiving a music degree from the latter in 1982.

"Skylark" "I Love You" Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz , May 8, 2009 - The annual recording of Piano Jazz at the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz festival fell nearly halfway between two important milestones - Marian McPartland 's 90th birthday, celebrated in March of 2008, and the 30th Anniversary of Piano Jazz , which we celebrate in 2009.