New Zealand Jazz/Blues

Auckland City — Massey University's Albany campus will be jumping on Sunday at the Jazz Concert of the Year.

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Wellington City — Stirring sounds are set to resonate for jazz players young and old at the upcoming New Zealand School of Music Jazz Festival.

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Journey Home, the CD recorded by Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz Orchestra, has won the Tui for Best Jazz Album of the Year for 2012 in the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.

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Tauranga — New Gold seats have been released for sale for the 50th National Jazz Festival Birthday Bash in Tauranga on Easter Sunday.

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Christchurch — One of Germany’s best known jazz musicians is coming to Christchurch to perform at the New Zealand International Jazz & Blues Festival from April 11 to 15.

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Prepare to be transported! With inspiration from as far afield as the deserts of North Africa to the Amazon basin and beyond, Mundi takes you on an unforgettable journey.

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Acclaimed pianist, composer and Massey University jazz lecturer Phil Broadhurst's new album Delayed Reaction is a family affair.

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Tauranga — Four Grammy award winners, a legendary German Jazz artist, a retrospective exhibition and a special birthday bash celebration concert are the highlights of the 50th National Jazz Festival in Tauranga in April 2012.

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Tauranga — Grammy award winning jazz singer Patti Austin has been confirmed as the third headline act to play at the special 50th Birthday Bash of the National Jazz Festival in Tauranga.

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Queenstown — Queenstown is set for five glorious days of grooving as the 2011 Queenstown JazzFest launches this evening.

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Christchurch — One of New Zealand’s top jazz singers will be channelling the “First Lady of Song’’ when she performs a tribute concert to the late Ella Fitzgerald next month.

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Christchurch — Music lovers in need of a jazz “fix’’ will get just that when some of the best jazz and blues talent in New Zealand descends on Christchurch in early November.

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Queenstown — The organisers of the Queenstown Jazzfest 2011 is broadening its horizons with this year’s programme, with some new additions widening the festival’s focus while still leaving plenty of room for the jazz traditionalist.

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Auckland City — Jazz superstar Nathan Haines will be opening Taste of New Zealand – the biggest non-rugby event of the year with his unique jazz stylings.

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Three international jazz stars, who have backed the likes of Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, James Taylor, Natalie Cole, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Gary Burton and Toots Thielemans between them, will star in two New Zealand concerts this weekend.

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Rotorua — Rotorua Museum will resonate with the soulful and smooth playing style of jazz pianist David Alexander on Thursday [14 July] at 7pm as part of its Concert at the Museum Series.

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Auckland — Darren Watson (www.darrenwatson.com) has been selected by The Auckland Blues Club (http://www.aucklandbluesclub.co.nz) as its representative at The Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, Tennessee, USA (www.blues.org).

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Queenstown — It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing...the major programmed concert event for the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival (June 24 – 3 July) is all about world class jazz.

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Tauranga — Resonator by Wellington drummer and composer Reuben Bradley has taken out the New Zealand Music Awards Tui for Best Jazz Album of 2010/11.

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Tauranga — Tauranga Girls’ College Big Band has won the New Orleans Trophy for Best Big Band at the Port of Tauranga National Youth Jazz Band Competition held in Tauranga as part of the National Jazz Festival.

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Queenstown — Free jazz music will be brought to the masses at a range of exciting events during this year’s ASB Queenstown JazzFest (21-25 October).

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An Aussie invasion is coming Queenstown’s way in October as top jazz acts from Down Under head across the Tasman to dazzle crowds at the ASB Queenstown JazzFest (21-25 October).

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