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September 07, 2022
Episodic Memories of Joey DeFrancesco
A Tribute from His Jazz Band Teacher
Words seem to be shallow, and even the act of writing falls short of expressing the heartbreak I have experienced over losing a young musical genius who has been in my life since he was 11 years old. On further consideration and from a therapeutic perspective, I would like to share a few episodic memories of my association with Joey DeFrancesco…
Read MoreAugust 31, 2022
A Farewell to Monnette Sudler
A Tribute by Fellow Jazz Artist and Friend
Monnette’s music has many influences and she can play it all, including blues, folk, and rock music. But no matter what she was playing, underneath it all was a tremendous musical voice and ground, soulful, warm, swinging, funky, free, experimental, fearless, and open. And she really loved the guitar—you can feel this love when she plays…
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September 08, 2022
Official statement from Christian McBride regarding the passing of Joey DeFrancesco
A Tribute by Fellow Jazz Artist and Friend
Joey DeFrancesco was my oldest friend in music. We first met at the Settlement Music School as part of their jazz program that Mr. Lovett Hines ran, and we instantly became best friends. I was 12, he was 13. It stayed that way through our next four years together at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts [CAPA]. We were inseparable…
Read MoreJuly 21, 2022
Roger Humphries Receives the 2022 Living Legacy Jazz Award Presented by PECO
Jazz Philadelphia partnered with MAA to administer the 2022 Living Legacy Jazz Award nomination process.
Previous Living Legacy Jazz Award winners include Amina Claudine Myers, Charles Tolliver, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Odean Pope, Ron Carter, and many more!
Read MoreAugust 04, 2022
Arts Funding Opportunities Round-up: August 2022
Grants, Scholarships, and Development for non-profits and individual artists
New: The NAMM President’s Innovation Award. Last Week to Apply for This Round: The Ben & Jerry’s National Grassroots Organizing Program. Ending this Month: PECO’s new Powering the Arts Grant.
Read MoreMay 02, 2022
UArts Capital Campaign Raises $67.2 Million
Restricted funds for programs and academic disciplines, renovations of historic buildings, and scholarships are among the enhancements to the arts school
The completion of a first-ever comprehensive campaign helps to establish a tradition of philanthropy that had been lacking compared with some other local schools.
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May 06, 2021
Brandon Dennis
CORE Cooperative
“Music has been there to express the depths of my joy and pain when no words were present. Music has always been my greatest passion. Attending the CORE cooperative program will guide me in taking the necessary steps to take my greatest passion and curate that passion into a viable career.”
Read MoreApril 21, 2022
Spotlight On: Maya Belardo
CORE Cooperative
“I want my generation and younger to fall in love with jazz as I did.”
Read MoreJune 23, 2022
Spotlight on: Lora Sherrodd
CORE Cooperative
“Jazz music is an art form that stems from a place of oppression and the oppression of women is a subject that is rarely discussed within the genre. My hope is that writing this music will spark conversation about the current situation of women so that we can begin to create spaces for women in music.”
Read MoreJune 02, 2022
Spotlight On: Geraldine Oliver
CORE Cooperative
“Continuing my mission as a healer, I see using this music to help people heal. Heal their minds, hearts and spirits. Jazz is the healing force—my mantra.”
Read MoreJune 07, 2022
Spotlight on: Kenny Rosario-Pugh
CORE Cooperative
“I love playing Jazz and the unique freedom improv gives me. I also want to be an important part of helping the Jazz scene in Philly to grow.”
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July Jazz Event Round-up
Concerts & festivals you wont want to miss
Lancaster Avenue Jazz and Arts Festival, Hawthorne Park present Mid-Summer Jazz Fest, and Ledisi Sings Nina at the Mann Center.
Read MoreTwo Philadelphia debuts at Ars Nova Workshop
Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days on May 6 and “Of Shadow and Substance” on May 8
Stranger Days is the acclaimed, adventurous quartet led by a third-generation member of one of jazz’s most innovative family trees and Of Shadow and Substance” is a newly commissioned work by sound artist Lea Bertucci, with an opening set by bassist Luke Stewart.
Read MoreApril Jazz Shows at World Cafe Live
Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month
Four opportunities in April to see Jazz at WCL, starting off with the Eubanks Evans Experience on April 22.
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“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.” Dizzy Gillespie
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