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The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
Record Store Day Announced 2020 Date: Record Store Day will take place on April 18 this year. The news came earlier this week via Record Store Day's social media. Record Store Day is the annual internationally celebrated day of vinyl records dedicated to supporting local independent record stores. Last year's jazz releases included records by Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Herbie Hancock, Louis Armstrong and many more. 
New Charlie Parker Box Set Highlights Jazz Icon's Savoy Bebop Sessions: Craft Recordings is releasing a new set titled The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection, which spotlights Charlie Parker’s groundbreaking bebop sessions for the legendary jazz label, spanning 1944-1948. This deluxe, four-LP box set - also available digitally - features newly restored and remastered audio, faithfully reproduced artwork from the original 10-inch albums, plus a booklet containing vintage photos, rare ephemera and new liner notes from Grammy-winning journalist and author Neil Tesser. These historic recordings are reissued as part of this year’s celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Parker’s birth and feature such greats as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis, Bud Powell and Max Roach, among others. The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection is due out on February 27. 
Blues Foundation Announced 41st Blues Music Award Nominees: The Blues Foundation has announced the list of 41st Blues Music Awards (BMA) nominees, and you can check out the full list here. The BMAs are generally recognized as the highest honor given to blues musicians and are awarded by vote of Blues Foundation members. The ceremony is scheduled to be held on May 7 at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Memphis, Tennessee. 
Lakecia Benjamin Celebrates Alice and John Coltrane in Upcoming Album: Saxophonist/bandleader Lakecia Benjamin celebrates the legacy of Alice and John Coltrane on her upcoming album Pursuance: The Coltranes. The album finds her leading a cross-generational ensemble of over 40 jazz musicians, including Ron Carter, Gary Bartz, Regina Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Meshell Ndegeocello, Steve Wilson, Marc Cary, Keyon Harrold, Marcus Strickland, Brandee Younger and Jazzmeia Horn, among many others. Pursuance: The Coltranes is co-produced by Reggie Workman and due out March 27 via Ropeadope. 
Oded Tzur to Release ECM Album Debut: Tel Aviv-born tenor saxophonist/composer Oded Tzur, one of the most strikingly original musicians to have emerged from Israel's creative jazz scene in recent years, is set to release his ECM debut album. Here Be Dragons finds him leading a quartet and bringing the sense of pitch fluidity and microtonal shading of Indian classical music into a jazz context. Three of the tracks on this album, including the title tracks, were composed by Tzur himself, and the LP was produced by ECM label head Manfred Eicher. 
Arturo O'Farrill Revisits Lalo Schifrin's Visionary "Gillespiana Suite" @ New York's Symphony Space: Pianist/composer Arturo O'Farrill and his 16-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will perform Lalo Schifrin's tango-inspired "Gillespiana Suite" for the first time in its entirety in over 25 years on January 17 and 18 at New York's Symphony Space. "Gillespiana Suite" was written by Schifrin in the early days of his career for trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie and his orchestra. The event is part of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance's 18th anniversary live performance season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAybAXQIo-o