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Jazz With Strings Attached at the Newport Jazz Festival

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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEWPORT, RISaxophones, trumpeters, drummers, and keyboards; those are the traditional instruments you often hear in every era of jazz, and, most likely at every jazz festival. But along the way, the stringed instruments have also made their mark. Guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass; violinists like Ray Nance and Stephane Grappelli, and bassists like Ron Carter and Scott LaFaro, have advanced the artistic boundaries of their respective instruments. The artists appearing at the 2011 Newport Jazz Festival® Presented by ...
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No Shoe-Strings Attached, Unless They're Converse

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HypeBot
No one cares what record label paid for an album. Fans are oblivious to whether EMI, Warner Music Group, or Sony Music had their hands on it. The day is coming when fans might have to care. Converse plans to build a recording studio called Rubber Tracks in New York City. Bands will be able to apply online and those regarded as enthusiastic and disadvantaged enough will be granted the opportunity to record their album, for free, in the new ...
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Strings Attached: : Larry Coryell, Joe Diorio, Jack Wilkins Live at Birdland July 14-17

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All About Jazz