Dave Brubeck

NEW YORK , May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ultimate year-round jazz festival of Legacy Recordings continues to set a new industry standard with three new Complete Album Collections from the Columbia and RCA archives by the greatest names in modern jazz: CHARLES MINGUS - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA & RCA ALBUMS COLLECTION ( Columbia /Legacy) – 7 titles, 10 CDs. THE THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA STUDIO ALBUMS COLLECTION ( Columbia /Legacy) – 6 titles, 6 CDs. WEATHER REPORT – THE COLUMBIA ALBUMS 1971-1975 ( Columbia /Legacy) – 6 titles, 7 CDs. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20060130/LEGACYLOGO ) Newly assembled and affordably priced, this latest wave of jazz titles in the Complete Album Collections box set series will be available at the PopMarket.com website –  http://complete.popmarket.com – as well as at all general retail starting July 30th through Columbia / Legacy , a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT . Read More

As a 14-year-old eighth-grader at the Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley, budding pianist Taylor Eigsti had his first chance to compose for an orchestra. Read More

Learn about composer Sarah Kirkland Snider at the Princeton Symphony Orchestra's "Behind the Music."Read More

Vernon Reid has a busy 2012 on tap, with a new jazz-rock collaboration as a part of Spectrum Road to be issued next month and then a reunion project planned with Living Colour. Read More

The first—of many we trust—International Jazz Day shined brightly with a concert at the United Nations in New York City. There were other concerts the world over. Read More

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New York City, NY (PRWEB) April 29, 2012 International Jazz Day to be observed on 30 April Panel discussion and film screening to focus on "Unlearning intolerance" The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), under the auspices of the Committee on Information of the UN General Assembly and in association with the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, will organize a special event to celebrate the first International Jazz Day on 30 April 2012. Read More

Hymns For The Rest of Us , producer and writer Phil Madeira set out to create a recording that would gather a variety of artists, celebrating and expressing their collective belief in the importance of faith. Read More

The Committee on Information of the United Nations General Assembly, in association with the United Nations Academic Impact and the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, will organize a special event to celebrate the first International Jazz Day on 30 April 2012. Read More

During my years of labor at KGO-TV in San Francisco, I never passed the parking lot a block away at Turk and Hyde without regretting the injustice of a world that puts more value on the storage of automobiles than on preserving historical landmarks. Read More