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Al Lover
Through the years he has released a number of studio albums and beat-tapes, remixed the likes of Osees and Night Beats, been resident DJ for the Levitation and Desert Daze festivals and collaborated with the likes of Goat, Anton Newcombe, Cairo Liberation Front and White Fence. Now, Lover returns with his latest studio album, ‘Cosmic Joke’ – a series of synthesized philosophical meditations on modern life, in all its tragicomic absurdity.
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Jazz Vinyl Lover? Sign Up For "Vinyl Me, Please" Classics Club
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AGW Group
It’s been the worst kept semi-secret on Vinyl Me, Please these last two months: we’ve launched a new side subscription called Vinyl Me, Please Classics. Every month, current members of the main Vinyl Me, Please club, can sign up to receive an album in the classic genres of jazz, blues or soul. Want a crate-digger soul classic? Want to have a jazz brunch? Then this is the subscription service for you. Every month, we send you the Classics selection, pressed ...
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Alto Saxophonist Richie Cole To Release New CD, "Latin Lover," October 20
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Alto saxophonist Richie Cole has covered a lot of stylistic ground since he left the Berklee School of Music in 1969 to join the Buddy Rich Band at age 21. Long known as a torchbearer for bebop, Cole started referring to his style of playing as “Alto Madness” in the 1970s, and that has been his motto ever since. In the course of a prolific career fast approaching the half-century mark, Cole has included Latin jazz tunes on many recordings, ...
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Bay Area jazz lover, expert Herb Wong dies
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Michael Ricci
MENLO PARK — Well-known jazz expert Herb Wong died at home early Sunday morning, leaving behind a legacy filled with writings and interviews covering the world of jazz over much of the 20th century. He was 88. “He had so many roles in the community," said Paul Fingerote, a friend and colleague for 35 years who was working on a book with the Bay Area jazz legend. “He was a true Renaissance man, plus he was a unique guy." Wong ...
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Jazzed: DJ, promoter and music lover Matthew Feldman's next dream is a nightclub in S. Philly
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Michael Ricci
THE BUILDING on the corner of McKean and Colorado has stood vacant for more than 25 years--and looks it. The doors are secured by a heavy, padlocked chain. The windows are boarded shut. Even the liquor-license application notice, the one sign of progress visible from the outside, has faded from the familiar, safety-cone orange to a sickly yellow. Stepping inside, most people would see only the evidence of a quarter-century of disuse--a layer of dust on every surface, holes in ...
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Vandana Vishwas's "Meera - The Lover" Releases October 11th
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rock paper scissors, inc.
Devotion Embodied in Song: A Musical Story of Mystic, Heretic and Pious Indian Poetess Meera Bai
It all started when adolescent Meera Bai witnessed a marriage procession and asked “Who will be my bridegroom?" Her nanny playfully showed her a miniature idol of Krishna and said 'Him!' Thus began this Indian girl's lifelong fascination. What started as an innocent childhood fantasy, led to her fervent love of Lord Krishna. Meera's obsession became the defining factor in her life, causing her ...
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Sirena Riley's "The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet"
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All About Jazz
"...performances that enchant, surprise and ineffably capture the imagination. Riley's lyrics and Donald's music seem to flow together in a single flood of invention..." --Jazzwise Magazine
Sirena Riley started her first night in London by opening a 'Time Out' magazine and going to the first jazz open mic session she could find. Australian pianist and composer, Tom Donald was the house pianist. They were introduced over a spine-tingling, room-silencing performance of Duke Ellington's Solitude that startled even the performers. After ...
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Music Lover? Note This Festival
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DeBlaze & Associates
Interaction. Improvisation. Collaboration.
“Now (the U.S. Bank Saint Louis Jazz Festival) has some increasingly serious competition from the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival..." - Terry Perkins, Jazz Times
“Madly creative, Pizzarelli's extraordinary musical talents are matched by a wry humor, a quick wit and easygoing manner." - Los Angeles Times
Presenters: University of Missouri-St. Louis in association with Contemporary Productions What: 2009 Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival Who: John Pizzarelli Quartet, Jon Faddis, Lou Marini, Peter Erskine, UM-St. ...
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Jazz Lover Starts His Own Online Radio Station
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All About Jazz
When Tony Frank isn't working the door at The Shelter Cocktail Lounge or playing a mean trumpet at the Armitage Wine Lounge and Caf, he runs tucsonjazzradio.org, an Internet radio station dedicated to exposing local and national jazz talent to the online world. Frank, 37, has been a serious fan of jazz music since stumbling across his friend's father's vinyl collection -- with its Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck albums -- as a teen in Detroit. He first got the ...
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