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Best Place To See Jazz In Vegas

Source: Barbara
December 26, 2010

Jazz joints come and go in Vegas. There are casino rooms and clubs that offer jazz, but there's so much gaming going on, it's hard to enjoy live jazz as an art form. The sound of the slots and people excited by their winnings take away from the experience of enjoying the music. Even most smaller venues and bars have gaming, and musicians & jazz fans alike agree it's not the best jazz environment. Now comes The Freakin' Frog (Freakin' ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz Monsters Invade Las Vegas

Source: other-now.
November 30, 2010

Jazz monsters spotted at the Freakin' Frog... For all the hype about Vegas headliners, the neon names everyone knows, the town is truly overrun with less-well known, fabulous players and voices most often seen as tuxedoed sidemen and slinky backup singers. Real monsters; many renowned worldwide for musical skills you seldom see shining, upstage in the shadows. It almost seems as if Las Vegas takes that great talent for granted. Often as not, their great passion (while not at the ...

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