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All About Rudy! Binge-Worthy Content—Early August Edition
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- All About Rudy Royston! Read our interview then read our review of Rudy's latest record PaNOptic. Rudy joins Bill Frisell on his new release Valentine. Need a pick-me-up? Watch Bill, Rudy and Thomas Morgan play What The World Needs Now Is Love outside a Brooklyn home in July.
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- Announcing our latest jazz super fan: Ms. Jazz & Cocktails herself, Claiborne Ray. And with sadness, we announce the recent passing of our very first super fan, Sal Capozucca.
- 20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Ladies and Gentleman, meet #7, vocalist Johnaye Kendrick.
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Celebrate 20 years of Whaling City Sound by entering to win one of WCS's latest releases! Five winners can choose from any recent releases including John Stein's Watershed, Tim Ray's Excursions and Adventures, Dave Liebman's Earth Expansions or Jim Robitaille's Space Cycles. ENTER HERE.

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