CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Brian Landrus - Forward (Cadence Jazz Records) (All About Jazz)

Caliber of teacher is often a reliable gauge for quality of student. Evidence of the truth in that relational adage, reedist Brian Landrus came under the tutelage of a number of jazz luminaries over the course of his educational endeavors.

Concert to raise funds for Richvale school (Chico Enterprise-Record)

RICHVALE — Grammy Award winner Eugene Friesen, known internationally as a jazz and world music cellist, will join a world-class ensemble to perform a benefit concert for the Community Foundation of Richvale.

Jazz bands to compete at Paramount for show (St. Cloud Times)

Area school jazz bands will be duking it out at the first Battle of the Jazz Bands on Thursday at the Paramount Theatre as part of St. Cloud Area All-Star Jazz Band’s annual Hepcat Junction concert.

Jazz guitar legend Al Di Meola in latino - fusion gig (Nine O’Clock)

After his 2008 success in the Palace Hall concert, Meola returns with a new music formula, accompanied by the New World Sinfonia group. Organizers say the artist is preparing for the public a collection of his older revamped pieces in a latino- fusion- jazz manner.

Brook Theater in Bound Brook Sunday March 14 Concert Canceled (MyCentralJersey.com)

Due to the bad weather and flooding, the Joel Perry Jazz Concert at the Brook Theatre, 10 Hamilton Street, Bound Brook, NJ, scheduled for 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, March 14, 2010 has been canceled.

Events through Thursday: Kimya Dawson concert, jazz gumbo today (Pensacola News Journal)

Calendar of events in Pensacola, Escambia and Santa Rosa.

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: 18th Annual Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz and R&B Festival (All About Jazz)

18TH ANNUAL LAS VEGAS CITY OF LIGHTS JAZZ AND R&B FESTIVAL SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH 2010 THE BIGEST NAMES IN SMOOTH JAZZ Michael Schivo Presents, celebrating 45 years as Nevada’s premier Pop, Rock and Jazz concert promoter, has again teamed up with Las Vegas Events (LVE) the Las Vegas mega producers of the city’s largest tourists events, and KJLH RADIO FREE and KTWV THE WAVE IN LOS ANGELES to co …

Hillcrest taking jazz on the road (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)

While in route to Seattle students in both the concert band and jazz ensemble will stop at churches …

Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (Kansas Public Radio)

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‘A concert you won’t forget’ (Brainerd Dispatch)

The Jazz Ambassadors - the U.S. Army ’s premier touring band - will make its way back to the Brainerd lakes area.