PLEASE NOTE – ARC Members Donald Harrison, Jr.; Don Aliquo (Southern Excursion Quartet); Bruce Williams use and officially endorse Vandoren products… — June, 2010 Chicago, IL– Vandoren is proud to announce the introduction of new clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces and improvements to some of our most successful ligatures. M30 Lyre The M30 Lyre is a [...]

JAZZIZ Magazine has published an extensive feature of ARC member, Dr. Lee Shaw and her latest release, Blossom (ARC-2086).  Please visit the JAZZIZ website to view and read the article online when it becomes available; or, pick up the latest issue at your favorite print publication retail outlet. Lee Shaw has laser-like musical intensity, true [...]

Check out the ARC March 2010 Headlines Also, of note in this issue for Recording Academy members … INDUSTRY NEWS | The Recording Academy The Grammy Chapter Govenor elections are still open. Please click on the link below to retrieve your Chapter’s ballots. Your Member Number and Votenet-generated password are provided for you below to access [...]

THE KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA TO PRESENT “Sweet Kansas City” Celebrating the 50 th anniversary of its recording A multi-media concert performance of Benny Carter’s Kansas City Suite along with music by Charlie Parker, Ernie Wilkins and Nat Pierce FRIDAY April 30 – 8:00 PM Folly Theater 12th and Central KCMO The Kansas City Jazz [...]

MLK Memorial Public Affairs Lecture expanded to include filmmaker Louis Massiah and jazz musicians John Blake Jr. and Adam Faulk, March 3 at SU [JOHN BLAKE, JR. ON TOUR] ——————————- Article by: Rob Enslin The Department of African American Studies, housed in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has announced an expanded lineup for [...]

ARC co-founder, Erica Lindsay just informed us in a recent email: “Also, I just got my letter of acceptance to the American Orchestra/Columbia program for Jazz Composers that Mark Taylor is going to attend as well. It will be great seeing Mark after almost twenty years.” Therefore, of the 35 composers drawn from a national [...]

ARC member Mark Taylor has been accepted into the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute at Columbia University this summer! “Some of my regular FB visitors may remember that last month I was doing a bit of hand-wringing over writing a “narrative statement of purpose” for a submission packet I was working on. Well, the application was [...]

JOHN BLAKE, Jr. Violin Motherless Child ARC 2123 Release Date:  March 02, 2010 — One of the first improvisers and composers to adapt to the modern era the groundbreaking contributions Stéphane Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith and other pioneering jazz violinists made to the legacy of an instrument primarily associated with classical and folk music, [...]

We are very pleased to announce Gene Perla‘s GO Trio is listed among the Professional performers and ensembles that will appear at the Inaugural Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference in St. Louis, MO.  Following is the list of professionals performing at the 2010 JEN Conference: The Army Blues/Pershing’s Own Ruben Alvarez Shelly Berg Wayne Bergeron [...]