San Diego-based Label, Pacific Coast Jazz to Participate in 33rd Annual International Association of Jazz Education Conference in New York

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SAN DIEGO, CA (PRWEB) January 8, 2006

San Diego-based record label, Pacific Coast Jazz (PCJ), will participate in the 33rd annual International Association for Jazz Education conference (IAJE) in New York City this month. The label?s president, Donna Nichols, as well as two of the label?s artists, Bradley Leighton and Sherri Roberts, will be on hand at the Pacific Coast Jazz exhibitor?s booth. The conference, which will be held January 11 through January 14 in the heart Manhattan, is recognized as the largest gathering of the global jazz community and will attract over 7,000 educators, musicians, record executives, exhibitors and enthusiasts during the event. The Hilton New York and the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers will be the headquarters hotels for the conference.

At the Pacific Coast Jazz booth, number 283, flutist and jazz recording artist Bradley Leighton will be offering an education exhibition, demonstrating and showcasing his sub-contra bass flute to children and educators. ?The flute is over 80 inches long and is actually made of PVC pipe,? says Leighton. Leighton also will be signing autographs and promoting the release of his newest record for the PCJ label, Back to the Funk (January 17, 2006), which was produced by Allan Phillips. Leighton?s label mate, jazz vocalist Sherri Roberts, also will be at the booth to sign autographs and promote her new recording, The Sky Could Send You (February, 2006), produced by bassist Harvie S.

Pacific Coast Jazz, founded in 2003, is an independent jazz label that also offers artist management services. Nichols, the label?s founder and president, was formerly a successful communications executive in the biotech industry. ?When I started the label, I made a decision to follow my passion for music and combine that with my marketing and management expertise,? she says. This year, Pacific Coast Jazz is pursuing the acquisition of new artists. ?We are on a path for slow but steady growth, so that we can continue to give a lot of individual attention to each of our artists,? says Nichols. ?We are looking for serious artists in both the traditional jazz and contemporary jazz genres. Our team has the talent and the contacts to handle the promotional demands for both of these markets successfully.? She adds that she is looking forward to the networking opportunities at the IAJE conference. ?This is a fantastic event in the jazz community and a great opportunity to meet artists and other industry execs as well as the fans. We look forward to it every year and hope that people will stop by our booth to say hello.? Pacific Coast Jazz is distributed in the U.S. by Big Daddy Music and in the United Kingdom by The Woods.

The IAJE is considered the leading authority and primary voice for the promotion of jazz through education and outreach. Their mission is to assure the continued worldwide growth and development of jazz and jazz education. This year?s annual conference offers a full schedule of concerts, exhibits, clinics and workshops as well as networking opportunities. Evening concerts will feature such artists as the Ravi Coltrane Quartet, The Count Basie Orchestra, Mingus Big Band and performances by Chick Corea and the Corea, DeJohnette, Gomez Trio.

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For more information on Pacific Coast Jazz, please visit: http://www.pacificcoastjazz.com. For interviews with Donna Nichols or Pacific Coast Jazz, please contact: MEDIA ARTS, 760-877-0619.

For more information on Bradley Leighton, please visit http://www.fluteguy.com, where audio and press clips are available. For bookings or interviews with Bradley Leighton, contact: Pacific Coast Jazz, 619-405-3900.

For more information on Sherri Roberts, please visit: http://www.sherri-roberts.com, where photos and an electronic press kit are available. For interviews with Sherri Roberts, please contact: Jazz Promo Services, 845-986-1677.

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JazzBoston Launched?New Website Goes Live?Jazz Week in Boston Announced for April 2007

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) October 16, 2006

JazzBoston Inc. today announced its official launch as a non-profit organization and the debut of its website, http://www.jazzboston.org.

The 501(c)(3) organization, with representation from every corner of Boston?s diverse jazz community, will also bring a major new event to the city next year: Jazz Week, a celebration of jazz in all styles, which will be held in venues throughout the city from April 21 to April 29, 2007. The event is scheduled to coincide with the Smithsonian?s Jazz Appreciation Month and culminate on Duke Ellington?s birthday.

Jazz Week is one of several initiatives planned by JazzBoston to further its mission of supporting the long-term growth of the entire Boston jazz scene. Starting with a vibrant scene ? live jazz was presented in hundreds of locations in metropolitan Boston last year ? JazzBoston aims to build and serve audiences for jazz music, expand performance opportunities for jazz musicians, and raise Boston?s profile as a jazz city.

The city?s leading schools, artists, venues, media, and cultural organizations, and the City of Boston are all represented on JazzBoston?s Board of Directors and Advisory Council.

The organization?s distinguished Artistic Advisors include Danilo P

The Best Female Solo Artists of 2009

These girls are not in any particular order, they all hold the gold medal for having an outstanding voice. They have the ability to make their show a spectacular one, with the ranges of vocals and energy that they put in. To listen to them sing you would say they are just good singers and it is easy for them to just get out and sing, this is not the case they work harder than most of us and are dedicated to their fans and entertaing the whole world.

They spend most of their time in studios be it filming or recording studios, and most of their spare time training vocals and perfecting dance routines and when they are not doing that they could be writing songs. Everybody looks at superstars and think of how easy they must have it with all their money, little people realise that they worked pretty dam hard for it. They are financially better off yes I agree but you can not buy time. Imagine only getting one day off a week and being restricted to what you can do or where you go for that day. Imagine getting up everyday and working from the word go until you finally get into bed that night. These girls do everything they can to keep up with the ever dynamic musical enviornment.   

     

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Leona Lewis

Leona shot to the top of the charts with her first single a cover of Kelly Clarksons “A Moment Like This” and she has not left the charts for the last two years. She was a simple girl with a voice that entered into a compitition in the U.K called the X Factor. Her voice captivated everyone, the object of this compitition is to get public vote to win a £1 million record deal. Her first song shot her straight to the top instantly, Leona then went on to tour the United States where sher also shot to number one. Bleeding Love was the biggest selling single of 2008 worldwide, she captured everyones attention the second she opened her mouth to sing. A remarkable singing voice, if you haven’t heard of her I suggest you look her up.

                 

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KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall is a Scottish female singer songwriter/ Guitarist, her voice is a husky rock and roll feel good about yourself type of voice. Her shoot to fame depended on her first single “Black Horse And A Cherry Tree”, that shot to number one nearly over night. The world was introduced the following year. She had risen to the top in Europe almost over night and became a world wide sucess in 2006. And still she pours her soul into every song. She started of as a busker on the streets of where she lived, an orphaned girl with a bursting soul, transformed into a world wide name, not without hard work of course. The amount of work she does would turn anybody off being a famous musican. Definitly one of the greatest singers of our generation.

 

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Christina Aguilera

Christina has an amazing vocal range that out shines most of Americas leading female artists. She is considered by most of the world to be the “voice of the generation” by global leading suveys, magazines and leading panalists. Her voice is amazing, she can sing in every style, swing, jazz, R&B, soul to rock. Unlike most of her rivals she sings live just as well as she does in the studio. She has dominated the charts for the last 10 years and has covered every music type imaginable, and holds all the awards for doing so. I haven’t met anybody yet that says that shes not a great singer and I dont think I ever will either.

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Beyonce

Beyonce was born in 1980 and growing up in texas all she wanted to do was sing and dance, she got her long dreamed fame she was after in the late 90′s. Here is where she was in a girl group called Destiny’s Child. While she was in this group she was always writing songs and going over dance routines, the types of things you would have to do being in any band basically. The band split up and the three girls went their seperate ways, they all formed a solo career and Beyonce was the most sucessful because of her singing ability. I guess she figured out she could do her own harmony, and sing her own songs, and so she did. Her vocal range is spectacular and you would have to hear it to believe it.

 

Shakira

Shakira is a Coloumbian singer songwriter, multi lingual muscian, record producing dancer that has been called a musical genious. Shakira had many tallents growing  up through school and she was not afraid to show them off either, she has recorded music in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic and her music is fantastic. Her voice has so many ranges from the languages she can speak, she can also sing any type of music also. She became famous through releasing her own album by her self in 1995, it wasn’t long before she became famous in Latin America and Spain. Three years later 1998 she hit the States and her fame sky rocketed from there. A great singer and a great musician too, a musical phenomenon.

                   

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys is an American R&B soul singing sonwriter/ pianist actress. She was born in Manhatton in New York, she made her first appearance on T.V on the Bill Cosby show in 1985 when she was four. She graduated from a proffessional performing arts college at the age of sixteen, she then  finished high school and went onto college where she dropped out to take her music career up full time. And are we so glad she did, her voice has a soothing soul searching vibe you expect from a soul singer but she also composes and writes all of her songs. Alicia is also a brilliant musician and her voice is the same live as it is in the studio and her live performances are spectacular to watch. Alicia Keys has sold over 30 million copies of her albums worldwide and still continues to sell out everywhere..

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Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson is the best rock chic the world has seen so far. Yes the other girls cover rock in their styles but Kelly is just far superiour to the others. Her voice is just amazing for this style of music and shes not afraid to scream into the microphone either. She bursts every song out from her toes and shes also a great guitarest too. Kelly Clarkson entered into a compitition in 2002 called American Idol pretty much the same as Leona Lewis did. She went on to win the contest and the record deal that came with winning it, a simple gril from Texas with a great voice shook the world with her rock songs. This made Kelly the biggest rock singing songwriter the world had ever seen. Her vocal range is just as good as the others but she know how to rock.

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Rihanna

Rihanna is a Brittish R&B singer, she started out singing for her brothers band as a backup singer. She dropprd out in her early twenties and went solo, she posted demos around and Sony signed her up she shot straight to fame in England and Ireland and she hasn’t looked back since. She started out with catchy disco songs that grabbed everyones attention and then went on to be a great R&B soul singer. For the last six years she has been somewhere in the charts worldwide with her new songs. Rihanna has a great range on her vocals and she really knows how to use them too.

               

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Katy Perry

Katy Perry was born by two pastor parents in California, she grew up singing gospel songs and praising the lord, a wild child in disguise. Katy rose to fame over the internet with a song called “Ur So Gay” and broke into the public domain with her smash hit ” I kissed A Girl “in 2008, not the kind of behaviiour from a pastors daughter you would expect, but that is what caught everyones attention. The world was much bigger than religion and Katy knew this.  Katy was also a great musician as well as having a great voice, she wrote all her stuff and composed all of her songs. We are still discovering Katy Perry’s vocal range with every song she releases, a great voice and a great musician.

                  

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Sara Barelles

Sara is a pop rock, soul singer songwritter who also plays the guitar and the piano. She became a worldwide name in 2007 with her smash hit “Love Song” everybody knew the song within a month. She has been working on her career all her live from singing in a church choir to the fame she has today, and earned it. She became famous in 2003 in America where she was born and raised in Califonia. She writes all her songs and composes them too. Her vocal range ranges from contralto to mezzo-sorprano and she is really easy to listen to. Her music style could almost be compared to Cherly Crow but Sara has her own way of doing it and is truely different than what we have heard before.

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