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DownBeat’s 73rd Annual Critics Poll: One for the Record Books
You see before you what we believe is the largest and most comprehensive Critics Poll in the history of jazz. DownBeat…
International Women In Jazz and Midtown Arts Common will present its second annual jazz festival April 4–6 at Saint Peter’s Church in New York. Celia Cruz, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee will be honored with displays of their photographs and music. Sarah McLawler, Marian McPartland and Carline Ray will also be honored and participate in a panel discussion.
The festival will include a live jazz jam with college students and other musicians, a business management panel discussion, “What Is Jazz?” workshop for youth, concerts featuring bands led by women musicians and concerts Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Some of the artists scheduled to play include McPartland, Joan Cartwright and Jazz Hotline, McLawler, Jan Leder Quartet, Pauline Jean Quartet, Catherine Russell and Carline Ray Quartet.
More info: internationalwomeninjazz.com
James Brandon Lewis earned honors for Artist of the Year and Tenor Saxophonist of the Year. Three of his recordings placed in the Albums of the Year category.
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