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19th Annual Evening with Friends of Charlie Parker October 1

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 28, 2007

Veritas's Annual Evening with Friends of Charlie Parker brings together the most respected names in music to celebrate the memory of Charlie “Bird" Parker. The event was the inspiration of the late Doris Parker, and fellow Veritas Foundation members the late Max Roach, the late Milt Jackson and their friend the late Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Heath and Congressman Charles B. Rangel. They believed if an organization like Veritas had been available to Bird, his life may not have been cut ...

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Toronto Art Orchestra: New Jazz Group

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2007

The Toronto Art Orchestra is an eclectic new jazz orchestra based in Toronto Canada featuring the works of some of the great jazz orchestra composers of our time, such as Gil Evans, Maria Schneider, Greg Runions, Bruce Cassidy and Timothy Booth.

The band features some of Toronto's finest musicians--led by Timothy Booth with Mark Inneo, Marcus Ali, Dave Caldwell, Scott Marshall, John MacMurchy, Joel Green, Russ Little, John McCleod, Dan Fortin, Steve Cole, Phil Gray, D'Arcy Myronuk Watch

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Watermelon Slim and the Workers to Perform Benefit Show for the Detroit Blues Society on October 19

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2007

Memphis Smoke and the Detroit Blues Society are proud to announce that they will be hosting a benefit show on Friday, October 19th featuring multiple Blues Music Award Nominee and Intrepid Artists performer, Watermelon Slim and the Workers.

The show will begin at 9 pm and is a benefit for the Detroit Blues Society and its many programs, including the Kids Affected By Cancer Guitar Program with Music Mentors, Gilda's Club, Latino Family Services, and Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Slim ...

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David Fiuczynski's KiF Oct. 16 at the Regatta Bar, Cambridge, MA

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2007

David Fiuczynski's KiF Tue Oct 16 at the Regatta Bar, 7:30pm Cambridge, MA

“David Fiuczynski's KiF": As if it wasn't enough that the man known as “Fuze" plays a double-neck guitar with one “normal" neck and one without frets - now he also employs a quarter-tone axe (dividing each note into four “microtones") expanding on his fresh palette of other-worldly sounds. With KiF, Chinese melodies, Arabic calls to prayer, Indian invocations and legato ripping coexist seamlessly ...

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Willie King Partners with the Alabama Blues Project

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2007

The Alabama Blues Project (ABP) is partering with internationally renowned bluesman Willie King to present a six-week long Blues in the Schools Artist Residency at Aliceville Middle School in Pickens County, Alabama. Pickens County native Willie King has twice won the Living Blues Magazine “Blues Artist of the Year" award and is the recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA) Fellowsip award. His annual Freedom Creek Festival, held at his home in Old Memphis, Pickens County, on ...

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First Thursday Jazz in Collingswood, NJ

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2007

It's the Fifth Season of the First Thursday Jazz Concerts by Jazz Bridge and the town of Collingswood!

Appearing at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 Collings Ave, in Collingswood, NJ, starting in October:

October 4th: Saxophonist Sam Reed--Sam Reed was the house leader for the famous Uptown Theater shows in the 1960s. Working with Cannonball Adderly, Nancy Wilson, Ramsey Lewis, Art Blakey, and Jimmy Smith, Reed is a local legend!

November 1st: Pianist Skip Wilkins--Skip has two new CDs out ...

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Alabama Blues Project Featuring Debbie Bond and Caroline Shines Sept. 29

Source: All About Jazz
September 26, 2007

Saturday, September 29, The Alabama Kids' Club at the Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham will be hosting two interactive performances by the Alabama Blues Project featuring blues women Debbie Bond and Caroline Shines at 10am & 11:30am.

These educational performances are open to the public. This program is a mixture of performance, lecture, and participation, through which participants are introduced to the historical and cultural significance of blues music, from its West African roots, through slavery times and Reconstruction, to ...

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Big Bang Big Band at Swing 46 on Tuesday Nights!

Source: All About Jazz
September 25, 2007

This band is a blast to dance to! Tom Abbott leads the 10-piece big band in playing arrangements of Basie, Henderson and Ellington tunes. Classic swing played by enthusiastic young pros with a passion for the big band style. Check out recent live audio and video clips at bigbangbigband.com, and come see us this and every Tuesday at Swing 46, where $12 gets you a whole night of live dance music, with no food or drink minimums! Swing 46

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