Philadelphia Celebrates Inaugural Jazz Fest
A newly formed nonprofit will present the first inaugural Philly Jazz Fest in September, led by Cape May Jazz Festival founders Woody Woodland and Carol Stone.
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A newly formed nonprofit will present the first inaugural Philly Jazz Fest in September, led by Cape May Jazz Festival founders Woody Woodland and Carol Stone.
Read More…The drummer is the president as he’s the loudest one in the group. The bassist is the judiciary as he addresses the harmony and the rhythm, and the piano and rhythm section is the legislature represents all of the notes and all of the keys. They all work together by listening to one another.” These […]
Read More…This issue of JAZZed marks a major milestone for our friends at the Jazz Education Network (JEN), as we have proudly partnered with them to help launch the first annual JEN Conference at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. This undertaking took an extraordinary amount of effort by the all-volunteerboard, and much of the […]
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