JAZZ NEWS - KANSAS CITY, MO.

Community, Business Leader Ralph Reid Named Interim CEO for American Jazz Museum  “We are incredibly fortunate Ralph has agreed to serve,” said AJM Board Chair Trey Runnion. “Beyond his clear business and leadership attributes, he is very supportive and committed to Kansas City and our cultural assets. Ralph is certainly a team builder, and his knowledge of AJM and our operating environment will provide us significant advantages during this time of transition.” Read the press release » Charlie Parker Celebration Bop Lives: Panel Discussion Thursday, August 20, 6 pm AJM Atrium, Free Moderated by American Jazz Museum Education Manager Bill McKemy, this panel discussion will explore the significance of Bird’s influence on musical and scholarly output in today’s environment. Panelists include: Scott DeVeaux, Professor of Critical and Comparative Studies, University of Virginia. Author of The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History and co-author of Jazz with Gary Giddins. Clay Jenkins, Trumpet Player, Recording Artist, Jazz Studies faculty member at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and 2015 Charlie Parker Celebration Artist in Residence. Chuck Haddix, Director of the Marr Sound Archive, University of Missouri Kansas City and author of Bird: the Life and Music of Charlie Parker and Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop. RSVP Kansas City's 18th & Vine Jazz and Blues Festival Headliners have been announced. Don't miss this year's great lineup! Dwele Conrad Herwig Popa Chubby and The Family Stone $5 early bird tickets are available through September 7. Buy Tickets! Buy tickets at Ticketmaster or call 816-474-6262 today! KC Jazz Alive presents A Kansas City Charlie Parker Celebration August 20-29, 2015 As a partner of KC Jazz ALIVE, American Jazz Museum is joining fourteen other venues and organizations in creating a Kansas City-wide celebration of Charlie Parker and his influence and contributions to the larger jazz community. During the month of August we will celebrate his birth and life through performances and education.  Visit American​Jazz​Museum.org or KC​Jazz​Alive.org for more information August 2015 Blue Room Calendar Have a Blue Room Pale Ale in the Blue Room! North Coast Brewing is proud to support Jazz education and makes a donation to the American Jazz Museum for every pint of Blue Room Pale Ale that's sold. Buy Tickets at Ticketmaster or Call 816-474-6262. The Blue Room opens at 5 p.m. on Mon, Thurs., and Fri. and 7 p.m. on Sat. Bookmark Club.AmericanJazzMuseum.org for more! Jammin' at the Gem: 2015-2016 Season Season Lineup! Early Bird Discounts Available through October 19! The 2015-2016 Jammin' at the Gem concert series season is another great line up of talent! Julian Vaughn Dec. 12, 2015, 8 pm Kim Waters Feb. 13, 2016, 8 pm Patti Austin Mar. 26, 2016, 8 pm The Bad Plus Joshua Redman Apr. 16, 2016, 8 pm The McFadden Brothers and Ida McBeth May 14, 2016, 8 pm Download our App!  The American Jazz Museum app is now available in the App Store and on Google Play! Download the American Jazz Museum App for your iPhone or Android today for easy access to our events calendar, the Blue Room schedule, and our box office!   Want to learn more or get more involved with the Museum? Visit AmericanJazzMuseum.org for more information about our performances, exhibitions, education, and research. Check out our membership program or join us for an upcoming Take Five Tour! Copyright © 2015 American Jazz Museum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in to receive regular updates and news from the American Jazz Museum. Please be sure to add us to your safe sender list. Thank you for being involved! Our mailing address is: American Jazz Museum 1616 East 18th Street Kansas City, MO 64108 Add us to your address book

JAZZ EVENT/NEWS - NYC METROPOLITAN AREA - 88.3 WBGO.ORG

WBGO 88.3FM | WBGO.org Home | Listen to WBGO | Listen to WBGO HD2 | Download the WBGO App | Events |News | Blog | Program Schedule | Become a Member | Host Profiles Jamie Cullum rocks the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival 2015. Photo by Ayano Hisa. Newport Jazz Festival 2015: WBGO was there! Another summer, another amazing installment of the Newport Jazz Festival. If you couldn't attend the festival, or didn't follow our live updates over the weekend, WBGO is here for you. Just visitWBGO.org/Newport to see and hear all the interviews, features, photos, and retrospectives on the weekend from our correspondents in the field! A tremendous thank you to all of those who travelled with us to Newport this year -- it was an amazing weekend, and it wouldn't have been the same without you! As ever, visit WBGO.org/events to stay in the know about upcoming WBGO events. Take a look at our Jazz On The Mountain trip to Mohonk coming up this winter!  WBGO Programming Here's what's coming up on WBGO 88.3 FM... Click here to go to the WBGO.org blog for a full rundown of the next few days of WBGO's on-air schedule! To keep up with WBGO, follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Jazz Night In AmericaA nationally syndicated show from the WBGO studios in partnership with NPR and Jazz At Lincoln Center Radio broadcast Sundays at 6pm and Wednesday at 6:30pm on WBGO 88.3FM and WBGO.org Tonight on the show, it's a celebration of Albert "Tootie" Heath as the jazz vet turns eighty years old! Warm up for tonight's 6:30pm broadcast with this archive... To Miles, From Wayne | Listen Now In the late 1960s, saxophonist Wayne Shorter wrote a series of pieces for trumpeter Miles Davis and orchestra. They were never recorded — until they were played at the Detroit Jazz Festival. Learn more about Jazz Night in America. Mike Davis SportsJam with Doug DoyleWednesdays at 7:30pm on WBGO 88.3FM and WBGO.org Tonight on the show, the guest is Laurin Mincy, one of the best high school basketball players in NJ history. Get ready for the new SportsJam tonight at 7:30 pm with this episode... Mike Davis and Play9 | Listen NowUSGA Executive Director Mike Davis chats with host Doug Doyle about the Play9 event at the new Skyway Golf Course in Jersey City. Doug also takes to the course for some fun with USGA Museum Curator Mike Trostel and Golf.com's Coleman McDowell. Learn more about SportsJam. Jon Batiste The CheckoutTuesdays at 6:30pm on WBGO 88.3FM and WBGO.org Jon Batiste, Ashley Kahn on Miles At Newport | Listen now Simon Rentner talks with pianist Jon Batiste and writer Ashley Kahn about the 60th anniversary of trumpeter Miles Davis's first performance at the Newport Jazz Festival.  Visit The Checkout online to subscribe to the podcast and learn more about the series. Sayon Soeun  Conversations with Allan Wolper Tuesdays at 7:30pm on WBGO 88.3FM and WBGO.org Sayon Soeun and Janet Gardner | Listen Now Sayon Soeun, once a child soldier kidnapped by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government -- which killed over two million people -- details his return trip to his homeland to search for his family. The trip is chronicled in the documentary Lost Child: Sayon's Journey, directed by Janet Gardner. Soeun also discloses the prejudice he encountered in the United States.  Learn more about Conversations with Allan Wolper. WBGO Travel & Events Carlos Henriquez See What Your Member Card Can Do Members Discounts: Lehman Center for the Performing Arts Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Carlos Henriquez: Back in the Bronx Saturday, September 12, 8pm | Lehman Center for the Performing Arts One of the first truly bilingual musicians, equally virtuosic with the language of jazz and the Afro-Latin tradition, Carlos Henriquez – the Bronx-born, Nuyorican veteran bassist of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra – is a force to be reckoned with. By age 14, Henriquez was performing with Latin jazz greats Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, and Celia Cruz, and as a member of the first ever top-placing Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival and Competition jazz band, Henriquez’ roots with Jazz at Lincoln Center run deep. To kick off the new season, the Bronx native brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis back to the Bronx with a one-night-only performance at Lehman College, where his compositions and most notable arrangements will be front and center. WBGO members will receive a 25 percent discount when purchasing tickets for this performance and using code WBGO25. The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York, 10468. For tickets and more information, click here. *****  Do you have a business that would like to participate in WBGO's members discount program? Contact Josh Rosenfeld atjrosenfeld@wbgo.org or at 973-624-8880 ext 232. The Mountain House at Mohonk Jazz On The Mountain At Mohonk January 15-18, 2016 | New Paltz, NY  For our sixth consecutive year, WBGO is pleased to extend to you an invitation to Jazz on the Mountain at the historic Mohonk Mountain House, January 15-18, 2016 in the scenic Catskills. Celebrating 17 years at Mohonk, WBGO’s Michael Bourne will host this stellar program – a four-day musical extravaganza over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Whether you are planning a family outing, a romantic retreat, a weekend with friends or a self-exploration getaway, the Mountain House has activities for all! The WBGO package includes: bountiful breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets – or dinner as a traditional served meal, afternoon tea and cookies and all associated gratuities. Guests receive amenities such as wireless internet access, ice-skating, skiing, snowshoeing, snow tubing and use of the indoor heated swimming pool and comprehensive fitness center. Visit WBGO.org/events for more information! Slick Rick WBGO Summer Events Highlights Tonight, WBGO will be at the Roy Ayers show at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. The beloved vocalist and vibraphonist, known as the Godfather of Neo-Soul, performs at 7pm. Thursday, catch a free Slick Rick show at NJPAC this Thursday night at 5pm to see the iconic rap legend at the Sounds Of The City series! On Saturday, the Montclair Jazz Festival features headliners José James, the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet, the Christian McBride Big Band, and more. Produced by Jazz House Kids, this day-long free celebration of music is packed with events for the whole family -- and it's MC'd by Jazz Night In America's Christian McBride. Our own Gary Walker of Morning Jazz renown will be hosting the festival, so you have a chance to meet him and say hi! Next week, Alicia Olatuja headlines and Mid-Day Jazz's Rhonda Hamilton hosts Monday Nights with WBGO at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz At Lincoln Center. Jose Alberto is at Sounds Of The City at NJPAC in Newark on Thursday, and then it's a weekend of celebration as the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival runs from Friday the 21st to Sunday the 23rd! Visit WBGO.org for information on the full run of WBGO summer events! WBGO Support Travel to Cuba for the Havana Jazz Festival Tour!  December 15th-22nd, 2015 Following the success of the fabulous tours to Italy, Brazil and France, Shop Wine and Dine is extremely proud to continue on this tradition of exceptional travel experiences by inviting you to participate in the exciting multi-sensorial 32nd annual Havana Jazz Festival! During this much sought-after eight-day tour to Cuba designed exclusively for your group, you will learn about a deeply-rooted culture, be greeted warmly by the Cuban people eager to interact with US visitors, meet musicians and composers, visit artists’ studios, dine at the best restaurants and Paladares in Havana and of course have access to the best and most innovative music venues during the jazz festival including the world-renowned The Tropicana! Havana will be sizzling with infectious rhythms and sounds as every evening we will explore its bustling night life with the Habaneros as our gracious hosts! Space will be limited. Learn more here! To book the tour, email Annamaria@shopwineanddine.com or call 973-467-4418! WBGO is a publicly-supported, cultural institution that champions jazz, an American art form, and presents news to a worldwide audience through radio, other technologies and events. Become a member today!

JAZZ EVENT/NEWS - NYC

Visitors Center Renovations As usual, there's never a dull moment here at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and we want make sure that all of our friends and family are kept up to date on the most recent developments. As many of you know, we will be renovating our exhibit space, and will be closed for the summer months starting July 28th and reopening on October 1st. However, our regularly scheduled programming is continuing at its regular pace. In August, we'll be joining forces with our friends at Jazz At Lincoln Center. There will be a Benny Goodman Listening Party on the 18th and a continuation of our South African series on the 28th - see our website for details. September will bring the debut of a new series of programs that will continue throughout the rest of the year, as well as the premiere of a new exhibit on Latin Jazz. The exhibit opens at the Bronx Museum of Art on September 14th, and there will also be a free concert to kick things off. Again, details will be posted on our museum calendar at www.jmih.org Stay tuned! August 2015 Events Schedule Tuesday, August 18th Benny Goodman Listening Party 7:00-8:30 pm Location: Jazz at Lincoln Center (3 Columbus Circle, 5th floor of the Time Warner Building) Host: Loren Schoenberg Presented in collaboration with Jazz At Lincoln Center FREE TO THE PUBLIC   Join the Facebook event here.  Tuesday, August 25th Roots of South African Jazz 7:00-8:30 pm Location: Jazz at Lincoln Center (3 Columbus Circle, 5th floor of the Time Warner Building) Host: Seton Hawkins  Presented in collaboration with Jazz At Lincoln Center FREE TO THE PUBLIC Join the Facebook event here.  FROM OUR FRIENDS AT WOODLAWN CEMETERY    Take a ride on the Bronx Trolley and visit the Jazz Greats in the Bronx! Beginning at the time of the Harlem Renaissance, The Woodlawn Cemetery emerged as the chosen burial ground for many entertainers, specifically those associated with the New York Jazz Scene.  For over a century, musicians, writers and singers chose to be buried in a place where they could be at rest among the "jazz family." The Woodlawn Conservancy-led tour will cover jazz history from its early beginnings and feature Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, King Oliver, and many others' final resting places.    Register for   August 23rd  through the Conservancy website:  woodlawncemetey.org by emailing contact@woodlawncemetery.org  on Twitter    or on Facebook