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L.A. Music Scene Vets Turn out for Peter Case Benefit Salute

Source: Michael Ricci
May 5, 2009

A raft of stalwarts from L.A.s Americana music scene, including but not limited to those who started their careers at local clubs during the 1980s, turned up over the weekend at McCabes in Santa Monica.

During three nights of shows to salute the music of Peter Case and help him pay down the bills from his double bypass heart surgery in January.

T-Bone Burnett, Dave Alvin, Carla Olson, Stan Ridgway, Syd Straw and Phranc appeared along with such friends and ...

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A Night of Jazz at the New Black Hawk Fundraiser Event Set For May 9, 2009!

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2009

Saturday May 9, 2009 at 7:30 pm Post performance reception at 10:30 pm. The North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District is hosting a special ONE NIGHT performance event with legendary Jazz performers: Eddie Duran, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums John Handy, saxophone In addition to these musical icons, the venue will be redesigned to resemble the original Black Hawk Jazz Club--right down to the cigarette girls, cocktail tables, and wire mesh. Please ...

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On This Day 1536 Where You @

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2009

May 4, 1536: C U @ the Piazza. Francesco Lapi, a Florentine merchant, uses the @ symbol while penning a letter. Its the first recorded use of the at sign outside a monastery.

Ubiquitous in today's internet culture, the at sign most likely owes its origin to a monk with writers cramp. Before Gutenberg showed up with his printing press, forever changing human communication, the Holy Scriptures were considered among the few written works worth copying for wider distribution.

The ...

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Seeger Birthday Bash Review: Review

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2009

Pete Seeger celebrates 90th with musician pals Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris and more join in the festivities at Madison Square Garden.

For a 90th birthday, it felt more like a political revival, an old-fashioned revival meeting. And as he stood in the wings Sunday, watching a parade of folk and pop music royalty sing the songs that he made famous, Pete Seeger wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

On a rain-soaked night, more than 15,000 people turned ...

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LNAC Fundraiser on Sunday, May 10 to Benefit Music Education Program

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 4, 2009

Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center (LNAC) is hosting a special fundraising event next Sunday, May 10, to benefit a new music education program called “Orchestrating Diversity." As the name implies, “A Chocolate and Champagne Evening" will feature refreshments such as champagne, gourmet coffee and chocolate desserts, as well as music, supplied by a chamber ensemble of musicians from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; a combo supplied by Jazz St. Louis with Phil Dunlap (piano), Adam Hucke (trumpet), Andy Ament ...

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A Night of Jazz at the New Black Hawk Fundraiser Event

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2009

Saturday May 9, 2009 at 7:30 pm The North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District is hosting a special ONE NIGHT performance event with legendary Jazz performers: Eddie Duran, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums John Handy, saxophone In addition to these musical icons, the venue will be redesigned to resemble the original Black Hawk Jazz Club--right down to the cigarette girls, cocktail tables, and wire mesh. Please join us for this special one ...

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Madison Square Garden 90th Birthday Tribute to Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger on Sunday

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2009

Many of the top names in American music, including Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson and literally dozens more will be performing at the Madison Square Garden 90th birthday tribute to folk music legend Pete Seeger on Sunday.

While the show is a fund-raising benefit for Clearwater, an environmental organization dedicated to protecting the Hudson River ecosystem, it's also an opportunity to celebrate the life and work of the guy who co-wrote ...

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Taking Subway Directions, Literally, from a Song of the City

Source: Michael Ricci
May 1, 2009

“Somebody said they want us to do ‘A Train’ again,” Paul Mercer Ellington, the musical director of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, reported just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday. And why not? A full 27 minutes had passed since the orchestra’s last performance of his grandfather’s signature song, a song some Ellington fans cannot hear too often. Wednesday was, after all, the 110th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s birth, and the orchestra was ready to celebrate. But A. C. Lichtenstein, the orchestra’s ...

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