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A Holiday Gift, Delivered 50 Years After Its Creation
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
A couple of months before his death on July 6, 1971, beloved jazz trumpeter and popular entertainer Louis Armstrong made what turned out to be his final recording. It's never been heard by the public until now Armstrong turned on the reel-to-reel tape recorded in his home in the Corona section of Queens NY recorded a nostalgic spoken-word version of the classic Samuel Clement Moore poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” Nobody is certain of his motivation. As a busy, ...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2020
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Michael Ricci
Jazz up your holidays with these fine gift ideas from your friends at All About Jazz. If you have a gift idea for our guide, please post it to the comments section below. If it's sold at Amazon, we'll include it. Electronics, music (including special edition and collectible box sets), books... whatever you think will make a great gift for a jazz music lover. Audio & Video Cambridge Audio Alva TT Direct Drive Turntable BUY The Cambridge Audio Alva TT ...
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Holiday Gift Idea: New Book Features Kronos Quartet, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakatmoto, Arvo Pärt, Jon Hassell, Michael Price And The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
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All About Jazz
The Moderns vol.2 explores the world’s great avant-garde artists. BADD PRESS announces the launch of The Moderns vol. 2, the second installment of a series dedicated to the world’s great avant-garde artists. Featuring more than 200 reviews and interviews, the book introduces readers to established and emerging music leaders from around the world. “The first volume was so warmly received,” says author Kevin Press. “Since its publication at the beginning of this year, I’ve been sent music from all over ...
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Give the Gift of Music with Vinyl Me, Please
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AGW Group
With gift-giving season upon us, it's time to start thinking about what to get the loved ones in your life. Introducing Vinyl Me, Please: the record subscription club that makes the perfect gift or stocking stuffer for any music lover. All Vinyl Me, Please memberships feature a monthly record- a hand-curated album that's delivered to your doorstep every month. The monthly records are often exclusive pressings, and are extra special as they're pressed on colored and/or patterned vinyl, as well ...
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FCC Boss Wrecks Media Ownership Rules In Huge Gift To Sinclair Broadcasting
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HypeBot
While the FCC's Ajit Pai has been working hard to ignore the public outcry against the death of net neutrality, he's also been busy actively gutting media consolidation and ownership regulations solely, says Karl Bode of Techdirt, for the benefit of Sinclair broadcasting. By Karl Bode of Techdirt FCC boss Ajit Pai has been busy ignoring the public while he kills popular net neutrality rules. But he's also been working hard to weaken broadband deployment standards to obfuscate a lack of broadband competition, to gut ...
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Singer Songwriter Phillip Brandon Debuts With A Genre-Defying Musical Gift For The Planet: "The Story Begins"
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Inque Public Relations
Proud Morehouse Graduate Steps Out Making a Profound Musical Difference Springing forth following eight years of tours as “Narrator” with platinum selling rock band Trans Siberian Orchestra to a feature role in the life story of Gospel legend BeBe Winans, “Born For This: The Musical,” singer-songwriter Phillip Brandon is making good on the promise of his purposed and abundant gifts to share songs of love and optimism all his own via his powerful debut album, The Story Begins—a warm wraparound ...
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SFJAZZ Center Reaches Capital Campaign Goal $64 Million & SFJAZZ Collective Receives $3 Million Gift
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Marshall Lamm
SFJAZZ today announced that the organization has reached the $64 million goal of The World Is Listening campaign for the SFJAZZ Center. The campaign funds created the award- winning SFJAZZ Center that opened on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21, 2013 and has become a globally recognized bellwether of art, music, culture, and community in San Francisco’s Civic Center performing arts district. The achievement of the goal is made all the more extraordinary as an anonymous donor stepped forward ...
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$500,000 Gift To Fund Jazz Scholarships At Brubeck Institute
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Keith Michaud
A contemporary of Dave and Iola Brubeck who gained his own success as the vice president of public relations for Pan American World Airways has given University of the Pacific a $500,000 gift that will enable talented musicians for generations to study at the prestigious Brubeck Institute. Richard N. Barkle, who studied speech at then-College of the Pacific and graduated in 1943, established the Richard N. Barkle Endowed Scholarship before his death last summer at age 93. The gift will ...
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Despite Free Streaming, Music Remains Popular Holiday Gift [study]
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HypeBot
Despite the rising popularity of Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody and other options for streaming music, digital music downloads and CD's continue to be a popular gift choice, according to an NPD Group study. This year 12 percent of U.S. consumers reported that music would be on their holiday gift lists. Music gift buyers also intend to increase their spending on music by 18% over last year. That's the largest spending increase among all the gift categories that the survey tracks. 36% ...
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All About Jazz Launches Gift Shop for the Holidays
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz has teamed with Zazzle, makers of custom T-shirts, gifts, and posters, to create a line of All About Jazz- and Jazz Near You-branded merchandise. Just in time for the 2012 holiday season, and launched on Cyber Monday (check out our one day sale), All About Jazz offers several products ranging from T-shirts and sweatshirts (embroidered sweatshirts, polo shirts, and baseball caps coming soon!), mugs and drinkware, mobile phone cases for the iPhone 5, Galaxy S3, RAZR, an ...
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