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January and February have seen sell-out performances at the Crazy Coqs and March and April look set to continue the trend.

St. James Studio has announced its March 2014 events and performances. Details below!

St. James Studio has announced its March 2014 events and performances. Details below!

This largely unknown chapter in American history is told in BREATH OF FREEDOM, a new two-hour documentary narrated by Academy-Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Red Tails, Men of Honor) premiering tonight, February 17 at 8pm ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel.

January and February have seen sell-out performances at the Crazy Coqs and March and April look set to continue the trend.

With performances on 4 Grammy Award-winning albums, sold out concerts the world over, and sixteen recordings, Carmen Bradford is considered to be one of the greatest jazz vocalists alive today. On Sunday, March 9, this celebrated vocalist joins the Capital Jazz Orchestra as they pay tribute to “The First Lady of Song”, Ms. Ella Fitzgerald. For over sixty years, Ella set the standard for vocalists of all genres and has been influential to singers from Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, and Mel Torme' to Michael Buble', Natalie Cole, and Harry Connick, Jr. Don't miss this incredible evening as the legacy of Ella Fitzgerald is honored by one of today's greatest jazz singers.

This largely unknown chapter in American history is told in BREATH OF FREEDOM, a new two-hour documentary narrated by Academy-Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Red Tails, Men of Honor) premiering Monday, February 17 at 8pm ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel.

The Made in New York Jazz Competition has announced the winners of the first annual Made in New York Jazz Competition.

ON KENTUCKY AVENUE, a musical revue based loosely on fact and mostly fiction about the people and performers who took the stage and filled the tables at the majestic Club Harlem 'on Kentucky Avenue' in the north section of Atlantic City from the 1930s until the late 1980s, will make its NYC commercial stage debut at STAGE72/THE TRIAD, 158 West 72nd Street, on Sunday, February 2, with performances at 3pm and 7pm and Monday, February 3 at 7pm in honor of Black History Month.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its schedule for January 6-12, featuring Regina Carter, Lauren Kinhan, Cyrille Aimee, The Beegie Adair Trio, The Birdland Big Band, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced their line-up of impressive talent for the month of January 2014. Featuring: The Birdland Big Band, Lauren Kinhan, Diane Schuur, Regina Carter, Nicholas Payton & Action Affirmative, Joey DeFrancesco, Cyrille Aimee, Matt Baker, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, Birdland Jazz Party, and more!

FLUXUS: Russian Atlases, a singular exhibition that will bring FLUXUS works held by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius, Lithuania to Russia for the first time will open at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg today, September 20th.

The Harvard Department of Music and the Office for the Arts at Harvard have announced the appointment of Jason Robert Brown as Blodgett Artist-in-Residence during the spring of 2014. A celebrated American composer, Brown has been hailed as 'one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim' (Philadelphia Inquirer). He is known best as the award-winning composer and lyricist of the musical The Last 5 Years, and the Tony-award winning composer of Parade.

Northlight Theatre announces New Year's Eve with Kurt Elling. This one-night-only concert with the Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist will run at 8:00pm on December 31, 2013 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

The Crazy Coqs has announced its July 2013 lineup. Full de

Legendary jazz singer Marion Cowings, whose smooth baritone voice and considerable range has been delighting audiences all over the world for decades, will be performing the next two Today nights at clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

For Vocalist Kevin Harris Music is Life and since being diagnosed and undergoing treatment for stage 4 throat/neck cancer , Kevin decided it was time to celebrate Music and thus celebrate Life itself.

For Vocalist Kevin Harris Music is Life and since being diagnosed and undergoing treatment for stage 4 throat/neck cancer , Kevin decided it was time to celebrate Music and thus celebrate Life itself.

Legendary jazz singer Marion Cowings, whose smooth baritone voice and considerable range has been delighting audiences all over the world for decades, will be performing the next two Friday nights at clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The Crazy Coqs has announced its July 2013 lineup. Full de