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Kahil El'Zabar / Billy Bang / SLF @ The Five Spot Friday, November 10

Source: All About Jazz
November 10, 2006

Friday, November 10 | 8pm KAHIL EL'ZABAR'S RITUAL TRIO with BILLY BANG with Kahil El'Zabar, drums/perc.; Billy Bang, violin; Ernest Dawkins, reeds; Yoseph Ben Israel, double-bass

+ SONIC LIBERATION FRONT with Kevin Diehl, drums/Yoruba-Cuban percussion; Chuckie Joseph, Yoruba-Cuban percussion; Rich Robinson, Yoruba-Cuban percussion; Ira Bond, Yoruba-Cuban percussion; Matt Engle, bass; Dan Scofield, alto saxophone; Todd Margasak, cornet

The Five Spot | 5 South Bank Street $12 General Admission

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Surprise Bill McHenry Show Thursday Night

Source: All About Jazz
November 9, 2006

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Jazz at Pearl's to present Enrico's Reunion Night on November 15

Source: Rocket Words
November 9, 2006

All-star musical alumni of legendary North Beach jazz venue will appear; Mal Sharpe, Jules Broussard and Ned Boynton among featured performers. When Enrico's restaurant and jazz club in San Francisco's famed North Beach district closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday night, October 31, 2006, San Francisco lost an historical treasure and a link back to the bohemian roots of this storied San Francisco neighborhood. Not only that, but the City lost ...

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Firehouse 12 To Present Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour December 15th

Source: Improvised Communications
November 8, 2006

Friday, December 15th at 8:30 and 10:00 p.m. Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour Firehouse 12 45 Crown Street in New Haven, CT Details available here

On Tuesday, December 15th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will close its 2006 Fall Jazz Series with a two-set performance by Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour. Led by in-demand New York-based drummer/composer Gerald Cleaver, this acoustic sextet features trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, saxophonists Andrew Bishop and JD Allen, pianist ...

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Memphis' Stax Museum Hosts Jazz Photography Exhibit by Bassist Milt Hinton

Source: Stax Museum of American Soul Music
November 8, 2006

Fifty Intimate Photos Portray Behind the Scenes View of Jazz World

When Billie Holiday entered the recording studio in New York City in the spring of 1959, the glass of vodka she sipped didn't help her voice the way she thought it would. The session didn't go well. In fact, it would be the last recording session of her acclaimed life, which ended tragically later that year on July 17th. What was also recorded that day was her session on ...

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Friday : Hanson/Ughi + Circadians at Zeitgeist/186

Source: All About Jazz
November 8, 2006

s u b c o n s c i o u s c a f @ ZEITGEIST / SPACE 186 186 Hampshire St. Inman Sq. Cambridge, Mass. 02139 617.876.6060 ~ ALL AGES ~ www. zeitgeist-gallery.org

Friday, 10 November 2006 8:00 - 11-ish

rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music presents

NATHAN HANSON & FEDERICO UGHI (Fantastic Merlins) opening: CIRCADIAN RHYTHM KINGS

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Marcus Miller to Play Sovereign Bank Music Series at Berklee on December 8

Source: All About Jazz
November 7, 2006

The Sovereign Bank Music Series at Berklee continues with multi-Grammy Award-winning bassist, producer, and film composer Marcus Miller, Friday, December 8, at 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston. Miller and two Berklee student groups he has shaped and rehearsed throughout the preceding week will perform music associated with Miller's extraordinary career. General admission tickets are $25; seniors $18.75. Tickets are available at the Berklee box office or through Ticketmaster at 617-931-2000 or www.ticketmaster.com. For more ...

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Jazz for Curious Listeners tonight with Eric Reed at Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church 7pm

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 7, 2006

The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/

Jazz Museum Events, Nov. 7-10

Eric Reed Nov. 7, 2006, 7pm Benny Powell Nov. 9, 2006, 6:30pm Russell Gunn Nov. 10, 2006, 7pm

The Jazz Museum in Harlem's popular free jazz course, Jazz for Curious Listeners, continues tonight with the third of Eric Reed's fall series. The topic is JAZZ AND ENTERTAINMENT. ...

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