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Barack Obama Selects the Dead for Inaugural Ball

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

Just a week after confirming their first tour in five years, the reunited Greatfull Dead are booked to rock the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. on January 20th.

A DJ will open up its a long, strange trip! [Barack Obama] picked us specifically, so it was quite an honor. There was a short list and we made the cut. As for the most important question can the band jam at the ball? Its pretty tight, about an hour set. ...

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NAMM Chief Joe Lamond is Upbeat About Music Equipment Sales

Source: Michael Ricci
January 15, 2009

Starting today, the Anaheim Convention Center becomes ground zero for guitar geeks. It's the annual four-day trade show of the music products industry, and hotshot musicians from around the country will be there to check out the latest guitars, amps, electronic keyboards and digital recording gear.

Guitar sales remain strong, up about 1% in spite of the economy. Our surveys show that 82% of people who dont play an instrument wish they did. The way music fits into our society, ...

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Armen Nalbandian New Ensemble at 'Day One' Inauguration Celebration

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

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Valentine Nights with Bill Charlap & Freddy Cole - Jazz at Lincoln Center

Source: All About Jazz
January 13, 2009

Valentine Nights featuring Bill Charlap & Freddy Cole in The Allen Room February 13-14, 2009 Who/What: Jazz at Lincoln Center brings pianist Bill Charlap and his trio to The Allen Room to deliver a very special Valentine, enhanced with the romantic backdrop of Manhattans skyline. The experience is made complete by the lush vocals of Freddy Cole and the soulful sounds of tenor saxophonist Houston Person. When: February 13-14, 2009, 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Where: The Allen Room, Frederick ...

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The Knitting Factory Finale in Fotos

Source: Michael Ricci
January 12, 2009

Megafun performed the first set on the main stage on the final night of the Knitting Factory in Manhattan.

The Knitting Factory has been celebrating noise and eclecticism since it opened on East Houston Street in 1987, and in its earlier days the club gained a wide reputation as a defining stage of downtown music, that clamorous and unclassifiable New York amalgam of jazz, punk, art-rock and experimental new music.

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Motown Stars Mark 50th Anniversary in Detroit

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

A variety of Motown alumni returned to Hitsville USA today (Jan. 12) -- in Studio A, which the Four Tops' Abdul “Duke" Fakir referred to as “hallowed ground" -- to officially kick off a year-long celebration of the famed label's 50th anniversary.

Fakir was joined by other Detroit-based Motown artists, including Bobby Rogers of the Miracles, Rosalind Ashford of Martha & the Vandellas and Rare Earth's Gil Bridges, Funk Brothers Uriel Jones, Ivy Joe Hunter and Dennis Coffey, producer/arrangers Paul ...

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Musicians Will Honor Whisky Founder Elmer Valentine

Source: Michael Ricci
January 11, 2009

Man behind the Whisky and Roxy will have a street named for him. Elmer Valentine, founder of the Whisky a Go-Go and co-founder of the Roxy nightclubs on the Sunset Strip, will be memorialized.

On Jan. 26 some of the musicians whose careers he boosted will join in and a street in West Hollywood renamed in his honor. Valentine died last month at age 85.

Johnny Rivers, John Mayall and J.J. Cale are among performers who will play ...

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Diane Nalini Performing at Toronto Launch Party for International Year of Astronomy on January 10

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2009

Toronto, ON -- 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, and Mayor David Miller has declared Jan. 10 the official kick-off day for the International Year of Astronomy in Toronto . The Treehouse Group is getting involved by throwing a party at the Gladstone Hotel. We'll be looking at the points of intersection between astronomy and other pursuits like video art, sculpture, music, and journalism. Randall Rosenfeld, a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, will be bringing his ...

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